Cadillac Records

Love is All @ Market Hotel (more by Ryan Muir)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Blip Festival
* a craft fair @ 3rd Ward
* DITC @ Knitting Factory
* The Sammies @ Mercury Lounge
* MarcRibot's Ceramic Dog @ The Stone
* Nachtmystium @ Public Assembly
* Tearing the Veil of Maya holiday party
* Don Caballero & Tombs @ Maxwell's
* Jeremy Enigk & Person L @ Gramercy Theatre
* Mercury Rev & Dean & Britta @ Highline Ballroom
* Love is All, Crystal Stilts & Cold Cave @ Bowery Ballroom
* Creaky Boards, Frank Hoier, Soft Black @ Union Pool
* City Center, Juliana Barwick & Dan Ashner @ Cake Shop
* Constantines, Tim Fite & The End of the World @ MHOW
* Nada Surf, Delta Spirit & Bear Hands @ Webster Hall

How is 'Cadillac Records'?

The NY Times says, "College Radio Maintains its Mojo".

Kermit the Frog does LCD Soundsystem. Coldplay do Joe Satriani.

Pinup Bettie Page hospitalized after heart attack.

Forrest J Ackerman, RIP

Sunny von Bülow, RIP

what else?

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Etta James

Beyonce Knowles has signed on to play blues singer Etta James in "Cadillac Records," a 1950s period film about the founder of Chicago's Chess Records and his lineup of stars.

The 10-time Grammy winner joins a cast that includes Adrien Brody as Chess Records founder Leonard Chess, Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, Cedric the Entertainer as Willie Dixon, and Columbus Short as Little Walter.

Darnell Martin ("Their Eyes Were Watching God") will direct the Sony BMG Films project from his own screenplay. Knowles will also serve as an executive producer. [Hollywood Reporter]