Games and gadgets of future past 2013 is looking like it'll be a great year for us gadget geeks out there. Don't get me wrong, 2012 wasn't bad with its releases of the I-Phone 5, PS Vita, Wii U and a bunch of cool video games. But, with the news of coming new release examples we have below, 2013 should be kinda stellar for you fun tech toy lovers. Will the public mirror the enthusiasm of the technology industry in 2013? Keep reading and get those credit cards ready - just in case you see something you might want to reserve at Best Buy. See something you like up there? Damn right you do!! So save your pennies guys, cause all these great gizmos are coming to a mall near you - soon!!
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By: Chi Chi Izundu - BBCNewsbeat Johnny Depp has signed on to star in a fifth installment of the Hollywood film franchise Pirates of the Caribbean. The 49-year-old will return as Captain Jack Sparrow, but there is no word on other cast members and no director has been attached to the Disney project. The film is expected to be released in July 2015. It's thought that Johnny is still working on Disney's The Lone Ranger, so filming isn't expected to start on the Pirates movie until 2014. The fourth film in the franchise - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - which was directed by Rob Marshall earned over 1 billion at the box office worldwide. Disney has also announced other movies release dates. The Muppets 2 will be released in March 2014. Ricky Gervais will star opposite the Muppets. The company also gave release details for George Clooney's new sci-fi epic 1952. The film will be released in December 2014 and will be directed by Brad Bird. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Angelina Jolie's Maleficent will get a summer release in 2014. The film centers around the villain from Sleeping Beauty. Captain America: The Winter Soldier will open in cinemas in April 2014 while Guardians of the Galaxy will be released as a 3D movie and will be in cinemas in August 2014. By: Todd A. Price, NOLA.com | Times-Picayune January 12, 2013 The New Orleans International Beer Festival, after two years in Mandeville, moved to Champions Square near the Superdome. When it was over, Jay Wilson, whose Birmingham-based Red Mountain Entertainment produces the event with Mandeville's Blue Deuce Entertainment, put one thing at the top of his agenda: call Hogs for the Cause and make sure the 2013 beer tasting wouldn't again be the same day as the charity barbecue cook off. This year, the New Orleans International Beer Festival will be Saturday, March 9. And this year, it won't conflict with Hogs for the Cause, the Zapp's International Beer Festival in Baton Rouge or--Wilson hopes--any other event that draws the beer drinking crowd. Like last year, the festival will feature 175 different craft beers along with seminars on cooking and pairing beer. One area will be devoted to cask ales. A special VIP section will have harder to find beers. And Wilson plans to add this year a "cider garden" "A beer fest is a beer fest," Wilson said. "We try not to make it too complicated. We like the beer to speak for itself. But we're really challenging the distributors to go to their suppliers and get them to ship in some special stuff." Tickets for the festival went on sale Friday at www.neworleansinternationalbeerfest.com. General admission tickets are $40 and VIP tickets are $75. Discounted admission is available for designated drivers. The Geek goal: universal mastery! By: Derek Killabrew - MSTv Tech Correspondent The world is full of Geeks........ You have so many to choose from,LARPers, Star Wars,Trekkies,LOTR,WOW, DDR,Anime,D&D, Cosplay, ..... But at least you are not alone, I happen to be a Geek about Green Technology. Now I don't cover my car in bumper stickers, but I love Mother Earth just as much as any environmentalist , but I express it a different way. You see, I keep up with the latest technology,gadgets, innovations,tech trends, green trends, energy, architecture,studies, you name it! And why not? I have always believed that we can advance our Technology, our society, without harming the earth. I think the solution is not for us to become off the grid "Earthship Hippies", but rather advance our technology to the point that its use causes little harm to the environment. Think Mr.Fusion from Back to the Future, Clean Energy, Smart Buildings, futuristic ECO communities, Flying Cars,Robots, whatever your idea of the future may be. The key is finding a way to get there without causing too much harm.I think the solution is Green Technology; it provides a way for us to have the coolest technology in the world without destroying it in the process. People don't like to change their habits for excess and waste so our technology must conform. Don't get me wrong, I know everything even Green Technology such as solar panels can have a negative impact on our environment, but as we advance we can produce less waste, greater efficiency , reusable materials, and down right cooler technology. So advance we must! Show Mother Earth some love, If you are a geek for green technology feel free to admit it, the world can use more of you! Cannon, Osbourne, Stern & Mandel Reprinted from: NOLA.com By: Sharon Edwards, The Times-Picayune America may soon know that St. Tammany’s got talent, as several lucky winners go to the head of the line for the upcoming talent search competition when it comes to New Orleans next month. Kim Bergeron, former director of the city of Slidell’s department of Cultural and Public Affairs, is working with the producers of NBC's America’s Got Talent and several local organizations to offer special VIP Audition Passes to the show's talent auditions to be held Feb. 15-16 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. According to Bergeron, the express line passes were first offered to winners of the Slidell’s Got Talent competition from a few years ago. Brianna Dewar, the winner, and Molly Betch, a runner-up, will receive VIP Audition Passes for the upcoming audition. A third pass will go to Jennifer Drennan, who was not eligible to participate in the Slidell competition, she said. Four more passes are available and will be awarded through two avenues, that will include a panel of judges and a people’s choice competition. Details are being worked out and soon will be announced. But, I have one hint for anyone interested in securing one of the coveted passes. Make a short video of your talent entry and be ready to upload it to an online or social media site or DVD. With a surge of contestants expected to apply, some of the entries will probably be screened online and through social media, Bergeron said. Her hopes are to get the best talent St. Tammany has to offer in front of the America’s Got Talent judges. In the meantime, anyone of any age and any talent can apply to audition Feb. 15-16 at 900 Convention Center Blvd. in New Orleans. To pre-register for an audition and for more information on AGT, visit www.agtauditions.com. By: Alex Templer: MSTv Correspondant Despite Mardi Gras just beginning, its never too late to plan for the future. And in the light of the sweltering heat of New Orleans' summer's, the major cool highlight has to be the Essence Festival. Running from July 4th to the 7th and boasting an impressive line-up, the 2013 Essence Festival will spotlight such heavyweights as Jill Scott, Maxwell, New Edition, Charlie Wilson, Keyshia Cole, LL Cool J and Brandy on the Superdome main stage. Hitting the secondary lounge stages will be artists such as Big Daddy Kane, Jody Watley and Mint Condition; with locals Mia Borders and Kourtney Heart thrown in for a "home-style" feel. The former, "Essence Music Festival"is now officially called just the Essence Festival. The name change was made to help the event better reflect its multi-diverse cultural offerings. The event will also include free empowerment seminars at the Convention Center. Guest speakers will include Rev. Al Sharpton and Rep. John Lewis; to include a gospel tribute to pastor Donnie McClurkin and Tramaine Hawkins. “The decision to rebrand the Essence Festival was a natural progression for this one-of-a-kind event, which has become a July 4th weekend tradition over the past 19 years,” said Essence Communications president Michelle Ebanks in a statement. “The Essence Festival combines music, entertainment, culture, community, empowerment and inspiration to create a completely transformative experience across four full days that you won’t find anywhere else on the planet. We feature the world’s top performers each night across eight live music and cultural stages and we bring the ‘page to the stage’ by bringing Essence magazine to life at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center during the day.” Marking 2013 as its 19th year in the Superdome, the Essence Festival began as an outcropping of Essence Magazine’s 25th anniversary. Except for 2006, every Essence Fest has been staged in New Orleans. Tickets for the 2013 Essence Festival are on sale now through Ticketmaster. By: Lucy Jones - NME Correspondant Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean' turns 30 today. Not only is it one of the highest selling singles of all time and the catapult that shot Jacko to the zenith of pop, it also changed the entertainment world. First, it was the video that drew attention to MTV and kick-started its significance in popular culture. Second, it finally broke the grip of the racists in charge who refused to play videos featuring black performers. Here are 30 other facts you might not know. 1)Memo to this decade's lazy pop moguls: 'Billie Jean' was mixed 91 times by Bruce Swedien. 91 times! 2) Walter Yetnikoff, the president of Jackson's record label CBS, threatened MTV that he'd go public with their stance on race: "I said to MTV, 'I'm pulling everything we have off the air, all our product. I’m not going to give you any more videos. And I'm going to go public and fucking tell them about the fact you don't want to play music by a black guy." 3) Michael Jackson said he came up with the idea while driving his Rolls-Royce down a motorway. He was so absorbed by the song that he didn't notice his car had caught fire. A guy passing on a motorcyclist warned him and saved his life. 4) Quincy Jones did not want 'Billie Jean' to appear on 'Thriller'. 5) Jones hated the bassline. 6) He also hated the intro. 7) "But that's the jelly!...That's what makes me want to dance,' said Jackson. And the rest is history. 8) Kind of. Jackson and Jones quarelled over the title of the song. Worried that people would confuse the name with tennis player Billie Jean King, Jones wanted to change the name to 'Not My Lover'. Jackson won that battle. 9) But he didn't get the co-producing credit he asked for. Or the subsequent royalties. 10) Jackson sang the vocals into a six-foot-long cardboard tube. 11) He performed his first moonwalk when he sang 'Billie Jean' on the TV show Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever 12) You might think 'Billie Jean' sounds similar to Hall & Oates' 'I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)'. You'd be right. Here's Daryl Hall on whether his song influenced the King of Pop. "No question about it. Michael Jackson once said directly to me that he hoped I didn't mind that he copped that groove. That's okay; it's something we all do." 13) He nailed the vocals in one take. 14) Jackson's head was set on fire by special effects explosions while filming a Pepsi-Cola commercial soundtracked by 'Billie Jean'. 15) It propelled 'Thriller' to be the best-selling album of all time partly due to winning shitloads of awards and honours. 16) Billie Jean is based on the groupies that used to hang around Jackson and his brothers when they were in The Jackson 5. Here's MJ: "Billie Jean is kind of anonymous. It represents a lot of girls. They used to call them groupies in the '60s...They would hang around backstage doors, and any band that would come to town they would have a relationship with, and I think I wrote this out of experience with my brothers when I was little. There were a lot of Billie Jeans out there. Every girl claimed that their son was related to one of my brothers." 17) However there is a theory that Billie Jean is a real person. 18) Biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli writes that a woman wrote to Jackson claiming he was the father of one of her twins (I didn't even know this was possible). 19) Apparently, after a run of letters, the woman sent a parcel that contained a gun and requested he commit suicide on a certain date after which she'd kill the baby and then herself. 20) The weirdest part? Jacko framed a picture of the stalker she'd sent to him in his home. 21) Ian Brown covered it. It's horrific. By: Alex Templer - MSTv Events writer It seems the years are passing faster as the world grows smaller, right? Just as we're getting used to one of these 365 day interludes, it comes to an end leaving nothing but a massive party and even bigger clean-up in its wake. Well, its better to go out with a blast then a whimper, right? Plus, staying home for New Year's eve just plain sucks! So, we've compiled the best list of places in Baton Rouge and New Orleans where you can rock out 2012 with friends and/or someone you love. Or, maybe you can meet and get to know someone you might like to love in 2013 while you're out! Either way, you're bound to have some fun! Pick your poison, hit the streets and play it safe out there, guys!! Happy 2013!! Baton Rouge area CLUB COOZAN: 10920 Mead Drive. 9 p.m. Music by Gumbeaux Rouge and Floyd Brown. $15 per person. CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL: 4728 Constitution Ave. Music by Carbon Copy, Chase Tyler Band and Press 1 for English. A dinner array of Cajun specialties available 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Info: (225) 925-2244 and (888) 233-9527. GLEN’S: 5110 Corporate Blvd. 9 p.m. Music by TimeWarp. Champagne and party favors at midnight. $10 per person. HILTON CAPITOL CENTER: 201 Lafayette St. New Year’s Eve Murder Mystery. $350 per couple. Includes deluxe accommodations, New Year’s Eve dinner, activities and New Year’s Day breakfast. Info @ (225) 344-5866 JUBAN’S: 3739 Perkins Road. 8 p.m. Music by Ned Fasullo and the Fabulous Big Band Orchestra. $98 per person. For reservations call (225) 346-8422. L’AUBERGE CASINO: Music by The City and The Vettes. Free. 777 L’auberge Ave. 10 p.m. ONEZIA LOUNGE: 13091 Airline Highway, Gonzales. Music by the Chris LeBlanc Band. $40 per couple, $25 single. RENAISSANCE HOTEL: 7000 Bluebonnet Blvd. 6 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Unlimited champagne and music by the Hazy Ray Band. $65 per person. Info: (225) 388-5710 SPANISH MOON: 1109 Highland Road. Music by Twin Killers. New Orleans area Banks Street bar and grill: 4401 Banks Street. 9 p.m. Music by Egg Yolk Jubilee. BLUE NILE: 532 Frenchmen St. 10 p.m. Music by Honey Island Swamp Band. $30. CHICKIE WAH WAH: 2828 Canal St. 8 p.m. Music by Jon Cleary. $25, $30. CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: 900 Camp St. 9 p.m. Music by White Panda and Earphunk. Open bar, champagne at midnight. Email geauxadmin@gmail.com for info. General admission $140, green room pass $200. HOTEL MONTELEONE: 214 Royal St. 9 p.m. Music by Lena Prima and Band. HOUSE OF BLUES: 225 Decatur St. 10 p.m. Music by Gregg Allman and Royal Southern Brotherhood. $125 general admission, $225 balcony seating. HYATT REGENCY: 601 Loyola Avenue. 9 p.m. Big Night New Orleans with entertainment by Big Sam’s Funky Nation, New Orleans Saints receiver Joseph Morgan, the Stooges Brass Band, Cowboy Mouth, Bustout Burlesque, The Saintsations, DJ Icy and DJ Mike Swift. $99, VIP $169. Tickets available at http://bignightneworleans.com/tickets.aspx.
By: Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune December 26, 2012 at 8:06 AM You can talk all you want about the sheer numbers of movies being shot in Louisiana, but the ultimate judge of a good year for Hollywood South is one in which good content is produced. 2012 was just that for the local film industry -- in fact, it was the best on record. Here's my list of the 10 Best Hollywood South Films of 2012. So what do you think? Is your favorite on the list? Sound off in the comments section below. You can also find all of my 2012 year-end lists here, which are being released incrementally this week, covering everything from the best documentary films to the best performances to the best overall films of 2012. 10 best Hollywood South Films of 2012
Bummed out on X-Box? On the fence about a PS3 or Wii U? Just want some new video games? Read this!12/17/2012 By: Doug Elfman NOLA.com December 17, 2012 at 9:41 AM If you're still wondering what to get that gamer in your life, here are some thoughts. We have a lot of ground to cover, so I'm offering a bit more guidance during the holiday gift-buying season. 1. For the third time, one of my Xbox 360s just died, giving me that old “red ring of death” light around the start button. So from now on, I’m recommending PS 3 and Wii U over Xbox 360. There are other reasons for my switching allegiances. I’ve never loved that Xbox Live charges me $60 a year to game online. PS 3 and Wii U are free to game online. But the new Wii U still doesn’t have a lot of games available, so PS 3 has a big edge. I’m giving you my Top 10 games of 2012 for more holiday gift-buying ideas. But don’t forget you can buy old masterpieces too, such as these below.
Old greats available for both Xbox 360 and PS 3: “Mass Effect Trilogy,” “Deus Ex: Human Revolution,” “L.A. Noir,” “Resident Evil 4,” “Battlefield 3,” “Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution,” “Just Cause 2,” “Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days” and “Afro Samurai.” Available only for PS 3: “God of War Saga,” “Uncharted 2,” “Uncharted 3” and “Infamous 2.” Available only for Xbox 360: “Alan Wake,” “Fable III,” and the first three “Halos.” Top games for the new PS Vita: “Uncharted: Golden Abyss” and “Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational.” Top games for 3DS: “Super Mario 3D Land,” “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D” and “Mario Kart 7.” And top games for the new Wii U: “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” and “Scribblenauts Unlimited.” |
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