Sunday, May 21, 2006

Stage: Toni Braxton - Revealed

Six-time Grammy award-winner Toni Braxton, will bring her spectacular live show - Toni Braxton: Revealed - to Las Vegas for an extended engagement in the Flamingo Showroom. Flamingo Las Vegas proudly announces an agreement in principle to make Ms. Braxton the resident headliner at Flamingo Las Vegas beginning August 3.

Toni Braxton: Revealed
will be a sexy, entertaining and intimate evening with the woman who interprets the emotional essence of a song as no other artist can. Revealed will be a full-scale musical production that draws upon Ms. Braxton's experience as an accomplished musician, singer and Broadway performer, complete with her incredible band, amazing costumes,
background singers and dancers.

"I've just come off the road doing my first tour in 10 years and I can't wait to create an exciting new show for the legendary Flamingo," says Ms. Braxton. "There is nothing like the thrill of performing nightly to a live audience with fans that have supported me throughout my career. I'm looking forward to developing the show for the Flamingo, settling into Las Vegas with my family and bringing Revealed to a whole new crowd."


Over the course of her stellar recording career, Toni has also taken Broadway by storm, with starring roles in the musicals Beauty & the Beast and Aida and made her film debut in Kingdom Come.


If you thought you knew Toni Braxton before, just wait until she's.....Revealed. The show promises an intimate look at the heart and soul of Toni Braxton, her music, her life, her loves.


Tickets for Toni Braxton: Revealed are now on sale. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., Monday-Saturday. Ticket prices are $65, $75 and $100 (including tax, plus handling fees.) To purchase tickets by phone, call 702/733.3333 or 800/221.7299.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Damn Star! Power 105 radio host Star gets fired


Radio host Star, of Power 105's The Star and Buc Wild Morning Show, was terminated Wednesday following a news conference that blasted him for broadcasting sexual remarks about a rival host's 4-year-old daughter.

In recent broadcasts, Star threatened to track down his rival's daughter, offered money to anyone who would tell him where she attended school and repeatedly described the degrading sexual acts he wanted to perform on her. He also claimed to carry a gun.

"Where does this kid go to school? I got 500 bucks for that information," Star said. "Oh, yes, I'll come for your kids."

It was the latest salvo in the ongoing feud between New York City's two biggest hip-hop stations, Power 105 (WWPR/105.1 FM) and Hot 97 (WQHT/97.1 FM). Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, once worked at Hot 97, where his rival DJ Envy, born Raashaun Casey, is employed.

Star, who calls himself The Hater, has been in trouble before. In his Hot 97 days, he enraged fans of the singer Aaliyah by spoofing the plane crash that killed her. Last year, he drew fire after calling an Indian woman as a filthy rat-eater while doing a syndicated show on several Clear Channel stations.

Star's latest comments went largely unnoticed until Wednesday, when city council member John Liu (D-Flushing) and others arranged a last-minute news conference to call for Star's dismissal from the station, which is owned by Clear Channel.

Liu played a CD recording of Star's comments, which included sexually degrading remarks and racist slurs directed at DJ Envy's wife, Gia Casey, who is of Asian descent. Casey, who stood nearby, began crying part way through the playback.

"I'm wondering what it will take for some measure to be taken," she said. "Do I have to go down to the morgue and identify my child's body before Clear Channel says, 'You know what, maybe they've gone a little too far?'"

Her husband did not attend the conference.

Shortly after the news conference Clear Channel suspended Star pending and investigation, but hours later the company released this statement: "Power 105 finds recent remarks broadcast by Troi Torain of the Star & Buc Wild Morning Show to be wholly unacceptable. As of late this afternoon, he is no longer with Power 105.1 or Clear Channel Radio. We sincerely apologize to those who may have been offended by his remarks."

Liu and his fellow councilmen have sent a letter to the Manhattan district attorney requesting an investigation into the broadcasts. They say they have also already contacted the Federal Communications Commission and police in New York and New Jersey, where the Caseys live. Liu says Casey's daughter's school has already instituted additional security measures.

"You can't broadcast threats like this," Liu says. "And these are real threats.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Music: Simply Red - Cuba! (Live)

Simply Red
Cuba! (Live)
UK Exclusive
2006
Disc 1
Disc 2

No Request No Reups
Tracklisting and pass in comments section

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Music: Joi - Tennesse Slim Is The Bomb

Please go out & purchase this cd!!!
It was worth the wait!!!
Spread the word!!!


Joi
Tennessee Slim Is The Bomb
Joilicious
2006

Friday, May 05, 2006

DVD: Buffie The Body - Larger Than Life

Buffie "The Body" Carruth has released her first DVD Larger Than Life.

Scenes include the legendary Infamous Thunder Ass Clap and the uncut video for Tony Yayo's So Seductive featuring Buffie.

Buffie gives you a chance to win a Fantasy Rub Down with her during a photo shoot.

View the trailer