WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
HOROSCOPES
Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Review your notes, and fill in the blanks. Do the research for any missing answers. Get outside to clear your head,
and take time for yourself.
Make leap year wishes.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Authorities may need persuasion, so articulate the benefits of your plan. Changes could seem abrupt to others. Confer with dreamers, and prepare for later launch.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 9
You surprise everyone. Help a partner stand up to critics.
Don't ignore facts; present your insights. Accept advice from someone who's blazed that trail.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is a 5 Enjoy this extra day! Avoid arguments (even if you think you'll win). Stop for a minute close your eyes and listen to silence. Be patient with a loved one. Go for peace.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Enjoy this extra day! Avoid arguments (even if you think you'll win). Stop for a minute close your eyes and listen to silence. Be patient with a loved one. Go for peace.
virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Virginia Beach 02-28 Today is an 8 Get ahead in your career by accessing your ambition. There's no need to travel; let your fingers do the walking. Email the people you most want to work with.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
The adventure's just beginning. You end up with something different than you expected. What will you discover? Flexibility and patience are key.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8 Obligations may force a delay. Stay in communication, and keep track of the details. Don't overspend, and postpone socializing. You can handle it. Rest up after.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 9
Today is a 9
Your partner helps you traverse the difficult parts of the day, when you're most likely to make a silly mistake or feel insecure. All you really need is love.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Press the pedal down to make things happen. Keep your hands on the wheel, but not too tightly. Look into the distance for upcoming obstacles. Zoom on by.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8 Build a solid foundation of trust. Raise walls of inspiration, and add a friendship roof to protect from bad weather. It doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Your loved ones believe in you more than you do. Trust them. They're probably right this time. Stay patient and thrify. Eat well, rest up and go outside.
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1 Syringe, for short
5 TiVo, for example
8 iPhone downloads
12 Really long time
13 Midafternoon, on a sundial
14 Crooner Jerry
15 Firm adherent to a cause
17 Ontario neighbor
18 Scabbard
19 Stocking holder
21 Apiece
22 Kill
23 Swiss mountair
26 Treasure seeker’s aid
28 Spry
31 Water vessel
33 "Golly!"
35 Oklahoma city
36 Hannah Montana portrayer Miley
38 Pismire
40 Bygone Pontiac muscle car
41 Walked (on)
43 Stomach
45 Actress Headly
47 Frightened
51 Continental coin
52 Bit
54 Have coming
55 Peculiar
56 Reedy
57 Seeks restitution
58 Pirouette pivot
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1 Chance occurrences
2 "Why not?"
3 Sweat outlet
4 Available
5 Symbol of limpness
6 By way o
7 "Lord of the —"
8 Par
9 Whooping it up
10 Ballet bend
11 Prognosticator
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16 Detail
20 Chicken — king
23 "The View" network
24 Myrna of Hollywood
25 Path-filled garden
27 Shooter ammo
29 Torched
30 Tokyo's old name
32 Strong likes
34 Fencing call
37 Bart, to Homer
39 Clump of grass
42 Station
44 Hackneyed
45 The Bee —
46 Hawaiian feast
48 Needing liniment
49 Nastase of tennis lore
50 Lairs
53 Fuss
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist and bandleader had the notion of freshness on his mind during recent swing through Los Angeles, because this new engagement comes on the heels of another residency he wrapped up last year down the Strip at the Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
The House of Blues show promises to be different because its 1,500-person capacity makes it less than half the size of the 4,000-seat Joint. Santana's also looking for a regular infusion of fresh ingredients in his new enterprise from his vast network of friends and collaborators.
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"Tomorrow is the unknown, so how do you rehearse the unknown?" Santana said. "To me, the unknown is inviting African musicians to join us, or Buddy Guy or Derek Trucks or Ben Harper, people from Phish, Warren Haynes — that's what 'Tomorrow' is bringing to the House of Blues."
He's not launching a new Subway sandwich franchise but a two-year residency at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, where beginning May 2 he'll be holding court for 80 nights a year with a reimagined show he's calling "Greatest Hits Live: Santana — Yesterday. Today & Tomorrow."
Santana's journey has taken
Santana joins House of Blues
"What we do is focus on making everything fresh," he said. "I remind people: 'Ooh — don't bring last night's leftovers! Make it fresh and new and people will feel it'"
LOS ANGELES — Just for a moment, as Carlos Santana was outlining the philosophy underlying his latest business venture, it started to sound as if he might be branching out into the food service industry.
MUSIC
him from Mexico to his musical coming-of-age in the Bay Area, where he assembled the group that combined strains of rock, Latin, African and Cuban music into a heady, percolating blend. It fit well with the extended-jam mentality that was emerging from the region with the Grateful Dead and Moby Grape but actually drew from the long traditions of the native music of other lands.
"It's all in perception," said Santana, who moved to Las Vegas in 2009 and continues to live there with his second wife, Cindy Blackman, the group's percussionist whom he wed in 2010. "You can be by yourself in a cave in the Himalayas and you can have more distractions than Las Vegas because distraction really comes from your mental obsessions, perceptions, fears, compulsions.
The global reach of Santana's music is something he sees fitting perfectly into the entertainment mix in Las Vegas, even though Sin City might seem at odds with the spirituality that's been a key part of Santana — the man and the band.
Santana seems to have no burning wish to be anywhere else at this point in his life. After an extensive, and exhaustive, tour last year of more than 100 shows, he's happy to plant himself in Vegas and prep for his new performance regimen, which calls for blocks of eight shows over various two-week periods.
Staying put will also allow him time to record, and Santana says he's got three albums in mind to work on between the House of Blues gigs. "I'd like to do two with the band — one just in Spanish for the Latino audience, and one that hopefully will be radio-friendly," he said.
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TECHNOLOGY
Beatles songs now available as ringtones
With The Beatles finally allowing some of their songs to be used as ringtones for the first time last week, the question quickly became "Which one should I download from iTunes?" (A 30-second ringtone is $1.29.)
THE LITERAL ONE: "Hello, Good-bye!" — though do try to start with the "Hello, hello, I don't know why you say goodbye" part for maximum literalness. You could also try the "Just call on me and I'll send it along" part of "From Me to You."
THE INSTRUMENTAL ONE(S): The guitar-fueled openings of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "Ticket to Ride" and "Day Tripper" are pretty hard to beat, though the piano-pounding start to "Lady Madonna" could be fun. And, of course, there are the mighty beginnings of "Come Together" and "Get Back."
THE PRETTY ONE: The opening of "Something" is so soothing, it almost makes up for whatever interruption is probably looming on the other end of the call.
OSCARS
THE FUN ONE(S): "We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine ..." or "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!" Decisions, decisions.
McClatchy Tribune
Jolie's leg-baring dress causes Internet sensation
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
There's going out on a limb, and there's your limb going out. Or you putting out your limb. Angelina jolie did, and now it's leg-endary.
Jolie put out her right leg repeatedly before and during Sunday's Academy Award presentations, and it instantly became an object for satire and sharing. Funny guy Jim Rash, one of the recipients of the best adapted screenplay Oscar, struck a Joliesque pose onstage in his tux.
Now, it has become an Internet meme — with a Twitter account: @AngiesRightLeg. As of 5 p.m. EST Monday, the account had drawn more than 19,000 followers.
One tweet: "Left leg and I talked — everything's cool. Next Oscars, she gets the slit." One writer, Rob Kutner, tweeted: "BREAKING: Fake Twitter account @ AngiesRightLeg given $9 kajillion book advance, CBS series that's already been pre-canceled."
--in which both Jolie pins were extended, revealing an unsuspected cowboy saunter. BuzzFeed ran it, too, getting more than 50,000 hits.
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Twitter reported a spike during Jolie's legfest of about 3,400 tweets per second, but that was dwarfed by Cirque du Soleil, whose aerial ballet drew traffic in excess of 18,000 per second.
Angela Jolie jope onstage at the 84th Annual Academy Awards Feb. 26. Jolie wore a dress with a high slit and didn't shy from showing off her leg.
By Monday, a new word had been created: legbombing. Al Roker and Ann Curry did a gamoff on "Today," for goodness' sake.
Visually, the leg has run away with itself. The creative aggregators at BuzzFeed ran the top 10 photographs of the actress' dextral limb. The Tumblr account oldghost ran a brilliant doctored image
Throughout the Web, photo manipulators were showing
Jolie's leg setting foot on the moon, stepping into Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, crossing the Delaware with Washington, and extending from the Statue of Liberty, among many, many other recontextualizations.