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courtesy of Nate Pruitt (San Jose Mercury News) While there aren't many young men making a name for themselves on the Bay Area jazz scene as singers, the region boasts a wealth of talented veterans, some of whom are gaining national attention, while others are still well-kept secrets. Reader?s Choice: The Top Ten Gov?t Mule Shows of 2006 (jambands.com) Our recent call for reader participation yielded a number of articles and pitches including the following piece that looks back at the year in Gov?t Mule. Please feel free to send along a top 10 or even a top 5 list of your favorite ?band/venue/studio recording/whatever moves you? that we can run in the weeks to come. Soul, Italian-Style (The Memphis Flyer) The temperature was in the mid-90s and the humidity felt just right, but when Memphis groups The Boogie Blues Band , The South Soul Rhythm Section , and The Millennium Maddness Drill Team and Drum Line performed at the Sweet Soul Music Festival during the third weekend in July, they'd spent two days traveling nearly 5,000 miles to get there. 02-22-07 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb) LAILA ALI, DREXLER JOIN ?DANCING WITH THE STARS?: Celebs for fourth season announced Wednesday. *The moves that gave former NBA star Clyde Drexler his nickname Clyde ?the Glide? will be on display in an entirely different venue ? the ballroom dance floor of ABC?s ?Dancing With the Stars.? Pop music ignores wedded bliss, misery (Chicago Tribune) A look at last week's Billboard Top 50 finds plenty of songs about relationships in general, a few about dancing; there's even one about moving to Boston. Our Other Blogs (Seattle Weekly) Use one of the buttons below to subscribe to Seattle Weekly's Reverb blog feed. Or choose from our full list of Web feeds . Brazilians clarify nudity for Carnival visitors (The Olympian) RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The mere idea that U.S. soldiers on leave from Iraq see Rio's carnival as a free-floating sex party has Brazilians outraged. Revelers begin packing Big Easy streets (AP via Yahoo! News) From costumed men on horseback riding rural roads to an "American Idol" and bead-throwing marchers, there are events in the weekend leading up to Mardi Gras to please almost anyone. If you're heading to Tennessee, get to know the other Memphis (Montgomery Adv... Before Elvis, King Cotton ruled, Memphis, Tenn., but in the last two decades the city has been reinvented and become a top travel destination. Revelers begin packing Big Easy streets (Boston Herald) NEW ORLEANS - From costumed men on horseback riding rural roads to an "American Idol" and bead-throwing marchers, there are events in the weekend leading up to Mardi Gras to please almost anyone. Cars... Newsfeed display by CaRP |