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Jongleurs Lock 17 and Radfax collectively create a great new music event raising money for War Child

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11/14: Bollywood Multimedia Scavenger Hunt in San Francisco

When you think Bollywood, do you think: choreographed pelvic thrusts, PG-rated love... more

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Bar patrons almost hit by their own car

i wish there was a video for this.. patrons of a bar where almost hit by there own car... more

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Walkin' In Memphis

Memphis is totally empty on Tuesdays because it is the one day of the week that the... more

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The world's first cocaine bar

The waiter arrives at the table, lowers the tray and places an empty black CD case in... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Tuesday 18th August 2009

Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show on... more

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Tokyo's underground game bars

Shikoku, one of the four major Japanese islands, is renowned for its Buddhist temples.... more

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Bar owner sued by record industry for copyright infringement

Daisy Baker's, a bar in Troy, NY is being sued by officials from the record industry... more

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Four Great Programs to Learn to Play the Piano

Have fun learning how to play online without spending the money on a giant baby grand.

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mickey avalon @ pcl scottsdale

this is my photo compiliation of the evening - this is just 1/3rd of the pics so enjoy... more

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"Museum HR Giger Bar": An Establishment Inspired by the Bad-Ass Monster from the "Alien" Movies

Artist Han Rudi Giger (better known as H.R. Giger) who is recognized worldwide as one... more

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Why Music Is Disappearing In Britain

"You are in a pub, having a good time, and someone walks in with a guitar, drink flows, and the crowd starts singing some old number like, say, "I Fought the Law (And the Law Won)". Before the evening is out, the poor publican could be fighting the law, and the law will win again.

Live music is fast disappearing from pubs, clubs, wine bars, restaurants and other small venues, musicians claim, because of a law passed in 2003, when the Government was trying to eliminate teenage violence that they associated with badly organised music events.

Hopes were raised recently when the Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport ended a lengthy investigation into the 2003 Licensing Act by recommending that venues with a capacity of fewer than 200 people should be exempt.

In London, which has perhaps the most vibrant live music scene of all, there is the additional hazard of form 696, compiled by Scotland Yard, which some people suspect is a deliberate device for suppressing the forms of music that black and Asian teenagers enjoy – dubstep, hip hop, ragga, and the rest.

"It's in the interest of the powers-that-be to shut these people up," Jon McClure, lead singer of Reverend and the Makers, claims. "It's not about knife crime, it's about stopping certain forms of music that they don't want to be there."

Lowkey, a British-Iraqi rapper, added: "I've seen it doing the clubs. On a night when they are expecting the white audience, there will be one bouncer on the door. On the next night, when there is a black audience, there will be bouncers everywhere, metal detectors, you have to show your passport and give your address. that kind of thing. They just assume that where there is a lot of brown people, there is going to be violence."

"These issues exist, but it's quite patronising to put so much emphasis on music as a catalyst. What they should address before that is the booze culture and the culture in the record industry of exploitation that glamorises violence."

But Mr Bradshaw said that his department "has considered exemptions for small venues, but has not been able to reach agreement on exemptions that will deliver an increase in live music whilst still retaining essential protections for local residents".

"There is no direct link between size of audience or number of performers and potential for noise nuisance or disorder," he claimed.""You are in a pub, having a good time, and someone walks in with a guitar, drink... more