| Cyndi Lauper charts fun comeback through dance
POP star Cyndi Lauper is planning a chart comeback through dance music, but isn't worried how music listeners will view her change of genre. Lauper, best known for '80s hits Girls Just Want to Have Fun, True Colours and Time After Time will release a dance album this year. Bring You to the Brink was recorded in London, Paris and Sweden, and features collaborations with dance acts Basement Jaxx, Dragonette and the Scumfrog among others. "I wanted a combination of a lot of different rhythms," Lauper explained. "A lot of times in dance music they process the vocals so much you can't connect to it, there's no warmth, you lose the humanity. "So I saw a medium I'd like to work in, but with a voice that's less processed, more human." Lauper, 54, has sold 25 million-plus albums, while Time After Time has been covered by more than 100 acts from Miles Davis to Matchbox Twenty.
Zipping along in Quebec's Laurentians
Fall slips gently into Quebec, like the sinking afternoon sun. Bugs disappear, steamy hot weather cools, crowds dwindle. Hotel rates inch downward too. Make no mistake, though, fun still runs full throttle.
Just an hour north of Montreal in the Laurentians, scream the entire 987 feet of North America's longest zip line, part of the adventure course at Acro-Nature at Ski Morin Heights. Zip lines, suspended ladders and wobbly wooden beams wind high in the trees on a four-zone, 58-station course.
College student instructors hook you up with lessons on how to use the lines, ensuring that you don't forget to latch your carabineer to the red "life line" of safety. And since the course gradually climbs, even if you're a bit squeamish about heights you probably won't notice until that last long zip line just how high up you are.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Angel Lola Luv’s Implants EXPOSED! Jim Jones Vs. Max ...
Diddy wants another assistant and he is using the internet to find his candidate – kinda. I don't know what happened to the first round of youtube boobs, but he is at it again. Stay tuned for the rumor below. First, peep the site WorkForPdiddy.com (is he going back to P.Diddy?). Also, click here for further details.
Here is the rumor. I heard that Diddy is going to be taping at all this open calls and it is all going to be turned in to a television series like American Idol or something. I don't think I can hold an umbrella long enough to be Diddy's assistant.
CHUCK D ADDRESSES THE DEF JAM RUMORS
There have been Def Jam rumors swirling around for some time as to who will replace Jay-Z as the president of the label.
As violence eases, Sarkozy vows justice for wounded police
I notice in this discussion that accusations of racism are thrown about a little too easily. It has the effect of attempting to shut down conversation, and avoiding discussion of the central problems: Moslem immigrants refusing to assimilate; Moslem immigrants actively loathing their non-Moslem hosts and countrymen; Moslem immigrants seeking the destruction of Western political and social systems and replacing them with Islamic ones. The rioting and otherwise violent "youths" are very clear about their views. The citizenry of Western Europe (certainly, for example, based on comments in this discussion) have been let down by politicians and unaccountable EU bureaucrats. Considering the far below replacement level birthrate of Western Europe and the willful blindness of her elites, I fear that things are going to get much, much worse.
Regular Greenway runners undeterred by crime
Even after Carrie Johnson learned that an escaped convict sexually assaulted a University of Georgia student on the North Oconee River Greenway last week, she won't give up her regular runs there. "Things like that aren't going to stop, and they can happen anywhere," the 22-year-old fellow student said while taking a break Monday afternoon not far from the scene of Friday's attack. "You have to be cautious and watch your back, but you still need to go out and live your life." When Gaylor "Gary" Billups allegedly attacked a 21-year-old jogger, police recorded the first sexual assault on the greenway since it opened in 2003, Athens-Clarke police Capt. Clarence Holeman said. "We haven't had any problems on the greenway, especially of this nature, but you need to be careful out there anywhere, period, "Holeman said.
Extra! UIdaho Student Found Shot to Death
His partner declares after the successfully-averted suicide, the memory of the screaming man on the ledge dancing to avoid the bullets, "Man, you sure have a lot of hostility!" I hope it isn't your sister or your mother who is evantually shot and killed by (Deputy Charles Sciortino). Sad But True
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