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Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Meet an interesting new person. Take advantage of your incredible magnetism today to win someone's heart. Your promotions have power and urgency.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is an 8 Define your desires locally. Charm your clients with an emotive presentation. Break through a barrier to exceed expectations. Your luck improves immensely.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is an 8
A lucky discovery brings sought-after information.
Friends have all kinds of great information, and new opportunities develop. Someone falls in love.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Learn what you need to from someone with experience.
Promising ideas get presented. Capture important chances in your schedule. A message of love arrives from afar.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 9
Change could be coming down the road. You have a firm hand on the reins. This could get expensive. Reassess your assets. Consider those that don't usually show up on the books.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 9
Virgin (Aug. 28-Sept. 22)
Today is a 9
Your capacity to dream is your power tool today. Make it happen. Feeling at ease and in charge of your life makes you quite attractive. Let romance find you.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7 Look past storm clouds to see the rainbow. When you put it in perspective, it's manageable. Send your energy in the right direction. A breakthrough is possible.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Ask what you can do for your community, and then act on it. Your willingness to help others is sexy. Friends are there for you, too.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 7
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 7
Take a long trip with a loved one and learn something new about yourselves. Listen closely to emotions. Don't spend more than you budget. Deepen a connection.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Put your energy into your
relationship, whether it's an
adventuresome getaway or
just a night at home around
the fire. Try on their shoes,
and enhance your listening
skills.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 9.
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Today is a 9
Bring love into your work, and gain more than expected.
Transformation is good now.
Your advances in just about any endeavor will be warmly encouraged.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
You can go for what you believe in, especially with the help of a friend. You have more support than you know. You love the results, and so do others.
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8 Hotel employee
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13 Witness
14 Black, in verse
15 — Minor
16 Depressed
17 Carvey or Delany
18 Thwart
20 Primary
22 Donna Summer hit
26 Suitor
29 Tibetan beast
30 Table scrap
31 Weapon-onry
32 Lustrous black
33 Fit of peevishness
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35 Wok, e.g.
36 Lariat
37 No longer drinking
40 KFC additive
41 Latest information
45 "The Naked Maja" painter
47 Kimono sash
49 Apollo 11's goal
50 Once, once
51 Greek consonants
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3 Uncomplicated
4 Soft, pliant leather
5 Plus
6 Pod occupant
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10 Lithium— battery
11 "CSI" evidence
19 Hostel
21 See 12-Across
23 Laughing critter
24 Rainbow
25 Director Preminiger
26 Palm starch
27 Small songbird
28 February birthstone
32 Mandible
33 Sleep-inducing visitor
35 Apiece
36 Prune
38 Moor
39 False front
42 Top-notch
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44 Oklahoma city
45 Jewel
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48 Purchase
Take That star Gary Barlow, charged with organizing the gala event, said he hopes as many as half a million people are able to see the concert from the public areas in front of the palace. It will also be broadcast on television and radio.
It follows a raucous Golden Jubilee concert in 2002 that featured a rendition of "God Save the Queen" by Queen guitarist Brian May performed in the open air on the palace roof.
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The event is a centerpiece in the queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, which have already kicked off to mark her 60 years on the throne.
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"It's going to be fun." Elton John said in a video shown to reporters at Buckingham Palace.
The lineup will include former Beatle Paul McCartney, singers Elton John and Shirley Bassey and popular boy band JLS. Longtime favorites Cliff Richard and Tom Jones will also perform.
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Concert organizers said that many more stars, including some from America and Australia, will also be on the bill, with details to be released in the coming months.
LONDON — Some of the world's biggest pop stars will perform in front of Buckingham Palace on June 4 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, palace officials said Tuesday.
Big-time music stars prepare for England
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"The whole world will be watching," he said, while acknowledging it may be hard to top May's performance at the 2002 gala.
Some 10,000 tickets will be awarded by lottery. Tickets will also include entry into the palace garden for a jubilee picnic, with food provided by the palace.
"We all remember that and we will try to come up with something newer and better," he said.
Barlow said that the Queen's grandsons Prince Harry and Prince William had suggested some performers who may be added to the list. Officials said the Queen is "content" with the musical program.
The Queen and husband Prince Philip plan to attend along with other senior members of the royal family.
He said the goal is the have music from all the decades of the Queen's reign incorporated into the program.
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Director Daniel Espinosa shocks movie company
None of that prepared executives for the first batch of footage Espinosa sent back to California from his "Safe House" set in South Africa early last year.
"They said it looked like a French movie from the 1960s," Espinosa said. "But that's what I was going for."
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LOS ANGELES — When Universal Pictures hired Daniel Espinosa to direct its rogue CIA agent thriller "Safe House," the studio knew it was rolling the dice. The Swedish filmmaker had never made an English-language feature, he hadn't worked with stars near the magnitude of "Safe House" leads Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, and he was graduating from a $4 million Nordic drug drama to an $85 million production.
Over the years, VIP became a family-owned chain, with 14 locations across Los Angeles County, the Long Beach store eventually emerging as the flagship. Now owned by Kelvin Anderson, VIP in Long Beach midwifed the careers of some of America's best-known hip-hop stars. Rapper Snoop Dogg filmed parts of three videos on the VIP roof, next to its landmark sign, which featured the cartoon image of a black man in a baseball cap walking toward an enormous vinyl record.
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Today, in the age of Internet downloads, Anderson remains in music—barely, VIP recently abandoned the space it occupied for 33 years on Pacific Coast Highway and will reopen in a space half as large next door.
Record company struggles to compete with free music
LONG BEACH, Calif. — In its heyday, World Famous VIP Records in Long Beach had a fulltime disc jockey playing music for customers, and clerks learned their clients' tastes so well they knew what to put on as soon as customers walked in the store.
Anderson, 57, said he signed a lease for only one year.
But that was years ago. Anderson's siblings have long since closed their stores.
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"There's hardly anything we have in here that you can't download free — legally or illegally," he said as he set up his new shop recently. "That's pretty much what turned our world upside down. You can't compete with free."
The music world was very different in 1972, when Anderson flew to Los Angeles two days after
graduating from high school in Brandon, Miss. He went to work in his older brother Cletus' record store in Los Angeles that afternoon. In 1978, Anderson opened the Long Beach store for his brother and bought it from him six months later.
Eventually, all but one of his 10 siblings made the same migration. They opened stores in time with the expansion of the Southern California black community: in Inglewood, Pasadena, Compton, Crenshaw and more.
This was at the beginning of intense and effervescent do-it-yourself underground music that emerged from Southern California streets. Punk rock took root in Hollywood in the late 1970s. In the late 1980s, narcocorridos — ballads about drug traffickers — were transformed into a major form of Mexican music by balladeers in Paramount, Huntington Park and other southeast L.A. County cities. VIP was rooted in the black community and thus positioned to promote gangster rap, which began in the mid-1980s in garages in Compton, then Oakland, and later spreading to Long Beach.
Kids made their own recordings using the relatively cheap E-mu Systems' SP 1200 drum machine. The machine rose to iconic status in hip-hop by enabling rappers to program beats and record lyrics cheaply and easily.
"That turned a lot of people's career and life around - that simple drum machine," Anderson said.
Anderson bought one and put a makeshift recording studio in the back of his shop. Youths hung
out there all day. One trio dubbed themselves 213 — then the Long Beach area code. The crew — Warren G, Snoop Dogg and the late Nate Dogg — recorded its first four-song demo at VIP. Anderson shipped it to numerous rap labels; all passed.
Then Warren G worked it into the music a few times at a birthday party for his stepbrother, Andre "Dr. Dre" Young, of Compton's NWA, who was by then a record producer for Death Row Records. Dr. Dre signed Snoop Dogg, and his career took off.
There were plenty of others who followed, and obscenity-laden West Coast gangster rappers scorched the rap world, then dominated by New York artists.
The West Coast rappers "told what a lot of people figured they were making up," Anderson said. New York rap "was more fiction, the things they rapped about. West Coast rappers rapped about real life"
Behind the counter at VIP, Anderson saw car stereos that shook windows as they passed. Massive boom boxes, which kids carried on their shoulders, were also a fad. He made sure he got his store's latest music onto these stereos and boxes.
"It was street promotion," Anderson said. "None of it was ever clean enough to play on radio. The major labels were not touching it at first. (But) a lot of record label people would visit and find out I'm selling a lot more of this independent artist than they are of their own artists."