Word: bande
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...know that karaoke supposedly accounts for 1 out of every 4 consumer dollars spent on music worldwide? And the trend is only just catching on in the U.S., thanks to the popularity of hip video-game karaoke clones like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. My home karaoke bar will go much further, naturally, offering lots more songs (and maybe beer to minors). The trick is to keep my costs low, which won't be too difficult considering that many free, or cheap, karaoke sites have recently popped up online - Quittner's Qaraoke Qorner could be a bustling home business...
...tunes are added each week, depending on what the site's 20,000 users request.) Karaoke Party's interface is the nicest I've seen, and this site, which launched in August, does something unique: its computer scores your performance based on your talent, à la Rock Band. Co-founder Mats Fors said he and his partners cut their teeth managing websites for banks, so building a karaoke site was trivial, engineering-wise. "We saw the opportunity for a good karaoke solution," he said...
...colleagues, Biden is now leashed to a teleprompter even when he is talking in a high school gym that is three-quarters empty. The exposure hound who in recent years appeared more often than any other guest on the Sunday talk shows is a virtual stranger to the small band of reporters on his plane - less accessible than even Sarah Palin is to her traveling pack of bloodhounds. And Biden keeps to a schedule that provides a minimum of off-the-cuff encounters with voters, except across a rope line. See Joe Biden's defining moments here...
...tacit assumption, in the classroom as well as outside it, is that everyone is liberal. Why is this? Perhaps because Harvard is located in the People’s Republic of Cambridge in the heart of blue Massachusetts: the sort of community whose Oktoberfest parade features a Communist marching band and an elaborate float of pigs strapped to lipstick rockets. But the Harvard student body comes from all over—even from red states. More than 25 percent of the class of 2012 hails from the traditionally more conservative Midwest and South. In fact, Harvard’s world...
...woman musicians are featured prominently,” said Susan B. Marine, director of the Women’s Center. “Women don’t get as much exposure in popular music, and it’s important not to buy into the idea that all bands are male.” Marine said the pub has been a great partner in promoting female performers, noting that it co-sponsored two similar events last year and hopes to host similar concerts each semester. “It is a great way to work together for a goal...