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...Kiley, Death Cab, Zooey Deschanel, the Silversun Pickups, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Cold War Kids. There have also been shows by John Legend, Nas, N.E.R.D., Nick Cannon (as a DJ), Jakob Dylan, Fall Out Boy, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, Rage Against the Machine, Melissa Etheridge, Cyndi Lauper, Rufus Wainwright and Dave Navarro. Even Sugarland, one of the most popular country bands, is here. I would not be surprised if James Taylor is going from room to room singing delegates to sleep...
MUSIC MAN A talking sheep named Rufus Leaking, a hot band and a crowd of kids jumping around onstage are the key ingredients of Pancake Mountain, one of the most energetic--and certainly one of the hippest--kids' shows on the planet. The ingredients are basic, but it took Washington-based Scott Stuckey, 44, and a group of volunteers to make a hit out of them...
Pancake Mountain does not have much of an educational component to it--nor is that what Stuckey is aiming for--but it does try to get messages across. By having Rufus hold an oversize cereal box and urge kids in an exaggerated manner to get their parents to buy that exact brand, for example, the show tries to expose marketing strategies. "We want to make kids savvy by poking fun at these things," Stuckey says...
...just remember such a sense of relief, and of being a human being, when everything was shut off.' RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, musician, recalling the 2003 New York City power outage and explaining why he's encouraging the city's residents to boycott electricity on June 21 for what he calls a "blackout Sabbath...
...charismatic, confident, talented, tall, young, handsome and has lots of hair. The press release issued by his publicist describes him as "debonair with a touch of degenerate dandy." He describes his sound on his MySpace page as "Beck via Queen and Elton John and a touch of Rufus W.[ainwright]." He appears to be having fun. Did I mention the full head of hair? I'd been given an advance copy of Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika's debut album due Feb. 5, but I'd been reluctant to play it. It's pop, therefore manufactured and disposable, right? What...