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The 29th annual CMJ Music Marathon, the five-day convention and showcase that brought 1,300 bands to a variety of New York venues, ended in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
For many marketers, newspaper Web sites are valuable for special occasions but cheaper generic placement is better for everyday use.
Hollywood used to keep quiet about digital video, for fear of angering DVD retailers like Wal-Mart. The silence is over, and the innovations are rolling out.
As more families face economic hardships, experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including many under 13.
Congress and the White House will take up how to deal with companies so big the government must rescue them.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 21, 2009, covering October 26, 2009.
Michael Buble
Kiss
Toby Keith
Barbra Streisand
Jay-Z
2009Teel Bivins, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Ambassador to Sweden (born 1947)[â ]
Miles Teel Bivins was an American diplomat and politician. He served as a Republican member for the 31st district of the Texas Senate, and also as the 18th United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden.
2009YoshirĆ Muraki, Japanese production designer and art director(born 1924)[â ]
YoshirĆ Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. Muraki joined Toho Film studio in 1944. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the films Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his work in Yojimbo (1961). He is most well known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa, having done work on all of Kurosawa's films from Record of a Living Being (1955) onward, with the exception of Dersu Uzala (1975). He was married to Shinobu Muraki.
2009George NaÊ»ope, American singer and dancer (born 1928)[â ]
George Lanakilakeikiahialiʻi Naʻope, born in Kalihi, Hawaiʻi and raised in Hilo, was a celebrated kumu hula, master Hawaiian chanter, and leading advocate and preservationist of native Hawaiian culture worldwide. He taught hula dancing for over sixty years in Hawaiʻi, Japan, Guam, Australia, Germany, England, North America, and South America.
2009Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In (born 1922)[â ]
Troy Nuel Smith Sr. was an American businessman who founded Sonic Drive-In, a fast-food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma City that recreates the drive-in diner feel of the 1950s, complete with carhops who usually wear roller skates. By the time of Smith's death in 2009, the chain had 3,600 restaurants in 42 U.S. states.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[â ]