Walking The Plank

The Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown, Craig Ferguson: A Late Night Revolutionary, You Can Design A Maze For 'The Shining's' Stanley Hotel, Arguments With My Mom, The Cop, A Los Angeles Philharmonic Performance Paired With Cool Live Video Projection, A Pirate Is Transforming EU Copyright Law The Daily Digg Tuesday, January 6, 2015 BREAKING IT DOWN The Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown npr.org From the mid-1960s through the early '70s, Clyde Stubblefield and John "Jabo" Starks created the grooves on many of James Brown's biggest hits, and laid the foundation for modern funk drumming in the process. FED UP WITH FAKE NIGHT Craig Ferguson: A Late Night Revolutionary digg.com Ferguson actively sought out the unrehearsed, the sponteneous, the awkward, the weird, the difficult to bear. He recognized and despised late night's deification of celebrity and took every opportunity to mock us for buying into it. If you like the kind of thing Jimmy Fallon is doing, you have Craig Ferguson to thank for it. THIS SEEMS DANGEROUS You Can Design A Maze For 'The Shining's' Stanley Hotel neatorama.com The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, has been in business over 100 years, but it became much more famous after novelist Stephen King stayed there and was inspired to write "The Shining." The current owners embrace the hotel's connection to the King story (even though the 1980 movie was not filmed there) and are planning to erect a 61,500 square foot hedge maze, consisting of 1,600 to 2,000 Alpine Currant hedge bushes, designed by …well, that could be you! DOES MOTHER REALLY KNOW BEST? Arguments With My Mom, The Cop salon.com As cases of police brutality pile up, I find myself caught between the woman who raised me and my own worldview. 'VISIONS OF AMERICA' A Los Angeles Philharmonic Performance Paired With Cool Live Video Projection digg.com The Los Angeles Philharmonic performs Edgard Varèse's "Amériques" accompanied by a powerful and immersive site-specific architectural video installation. The visual program analyzes and responds to both the sound of the music and the movements of the conductor in real time. FORCES OTHER MPS TO WALK THE PLANK A Pirate Is Transforming EU Copyright Law vocativ.com The German representative of the Swedish Pirate Party, Julia Reda has been given the responsibility of writing a new copyright law for the European Commission. "I am the Pirate in the European Parliament, representing a young worldwide movement of people who believe in using technology for the empowerment of all." Read more on Digg.com → CHRISTMAS IN JANUARY An actress performs during the 'Cabalgata de Reyes,' or the Three Wise Men parade in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. The traditional parade marks the eve of the Epiphany, a Christian holiday celebrating the story of the three wise men believed to have followed a bright star to offer gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus in Bethlehem. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014