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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...
DIED In her job as a reporter for KATV in Little Rock, Ark., Anne Pressly traveled throughout the state interviewing the likes of former Governor turned presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, poet Maya Angelou and, by chance encounter, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was in Arkansas shopping at a hunting-equipment store. Most recently, she landed a small role as a conservative commentator in Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic. Pressly was found severely beaten in her home on Oct. 20, and she succumbed to her injuries several days later. A fund created in her name to apprehend the killer...
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES to appear as Cleopatra in Steven Soderbergh's 3-D rock musical, featuring the hit single...
Free Money. When was the last time a hotel gave you cash at check-in? The Hard Rock Hotel in Chicago is handing guests $20 in one-dollar bills in the hopes that they'll use the money charitably during their stay. The hotel suggests giving back by tipping a street musician or paying the highway tolls of 10 cars behind you. If you upgrade your room, the hotel will donate $25 to one of three local charities, including the Chicago Food Bank. Generosity must be contagious: Another Chicago hotel, Hotel Indigo, is handing guests $25 gift cards to Target...