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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Aulnay is hoping to transform that image in a pretty remarkable way - by becoming the first city anywhere to win a Grammy Award, and one for American blues music to boot. This week, Aulnay officials announced that the town had been nominated for a Grammy by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the U.S. for the CD Chicago Blues: A Living History. The reason: town officials organized, co-produced and co-financed the 2008 recording, which features famous blues musicians like Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell and John Primer paying tribute to the historical development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Riots, a Grammy Nod for a French Town | 12/27/2009 | See Source »

When Finnish filmmaker Timo Vuorensola came up with the idea for his movie Star Wreck, a parody of Star Trek, he knew that looking for conventional distribution would be futile. An amateur, science-fiction comedy with a miniscule budget - and in Finnish, to boot - would hardly be attractive to mainstream studios. So Vuorensola took matters into his own hands: he used a Finnish social networking site to build up an online fan base who contributed to the storyline, made props and even offered their acting skills. In return for the help, Vuorensola released Star Wreck in 2005 online for free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Indie Directors Give Movies Away Free Online | 12/26/2009 | See Source »

...because he’ll break her bones) or civil-rights issues (“True Blood” vampires demand the right to enter the same bars as humans). Despite their undead status, they can be charming gentlemen and lead fulfilling lives complete with loving girlfriends to boot...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Raising the Stakes | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...waiting in the wings was Bulldog punter Tom Mante, the league’s leader who had averaged 51.3 yards per punt that day. With a long boot off Mante’s foot, Yale could push the Crimson far enough back that, with 2:25 left in the game, it would be difficult to make a winning drive...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tailback Gives Harvard Momentum | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...There is one precedent of a referee using video in soccer - and it happens to infuriate French fans, to boot. Toward the end of the 2006 World Cup final, the assistant referee peeked at a television monitor to witness a replay of French star Zinedine Zidane head-butting Italian rival Marco Materazzi to the ground. Shocked at the violence - and ignoring FIFA rules forbidding use of replays - the assistant referee signaled the offense to his unsuspecting central official, who promptly slapped Zidane with a red card. Few have faulted that sanctioning of an outrageous foul that the official never actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer: France's Sweet Cheat Thierry Henry | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

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