Maybe it’s the Jay-Z hip-hop soundtrack. Maybe the sleek, spangled ’20s frocks actress Carey Mulligan wears as Daisy and the opulent flannel pants and snug jackets seen on Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire look fresh to a young audience. Or perhap

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The festivals main stage will kick off with the Todd Biggins Band, who earned the opportunity by winning the a battle of the bands competition over final contestants AJ Edwards & the List, Theory 13 and Last One Out.

EarthFest will also feature an interactive family area called Kids Planet, which will feature a musical line-up specifically aimed at children under age 12 as well as environmental activities and educational displays.

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No, turns out Dempsey is a man obsessed. Not with music as you might expect but rather with stars. Astronomy, cosmology and pop science, they fascinate the musician.

His curiosity knows no bounds.

His house is littered with science books and tomes on mathematics, and on the bands last tour he could be found with his nose in a book studying for an astronomy course he was completing.

Looking back at his school subjects, a life of science could have been very much on the cards.

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Reporters peppered White House Press Secretary Jay Carney with questions Tuesday about each of the three issues.

The Associated Press news agency said Monday the U.S. Department of Justice seized two months of telephone records for many of its reporters and editors.

U.S. officials say the Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information for a 2012 AP story about a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida bomb plot.

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That’s the official plotline for local filmmaker Nina Coffaro’s “Cup of Joe,” a short animated film premiering May 5 at 7 p.m. in the School of Visual Art’s 24th Annual Dusty Film & Animation Festival.

“It’s not my first film, but this is my first film that I’m really proud of; Its a very personal film,” says the 22-year-old SVA student and Rossville native, laughing. “Im really bad at describing my own work, but its about going after what you really want in life.

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“There has been a string of turbulent rows in the Jackson home over the past few weeks and it’s all coming to a head,” a source told website CelebrityFix.

There’s some news — the Jacksons aren’t the Bradys or the Cleavers.

Paris spent her birthday with Rowe last month, and the pair have spent a lot of time together the past few weeks.

“Whilst she loves her grandmother Katherine, Paris thinks she has some extremely old-fashioned beliefs,” an insider told the gossip site, referring to the 84-year-old Jackson matriarch.

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Kim Kardashian, who wore a much-derided floral Givenchy maternity gown to the Met Ball Monday night, was cropped out of a photograph with her beau Kanye West in Vogues 77-slide online Best Dressed gallery. (West was shown in the photo.)

Its not the first time Kardashian, whos pregnant with Wests baby, has been snubbed by Vogue. Last year, editor-in-chief Anna Wintour reportedly banned Kardashian from attending the Met Ball. It all seemed to be water under the bridge after Us Weely reported that West and Kardashian celebrated Cinco de Mayo with an “intimate dinner” at Wintours New York City home on Sunday.

Even Robin Williams chimed in on Kardashians ensemble, a photo of himself in a similar getup from the 1993 comedy Mrs.

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First she was one third of Destiny’s Child, then simply Beyonce, but despite touring the globe, the star’s biggest role is now as a wife and mother.

Not only has she brought her daughter along on the British leg of her tour, she has named it the Mrs Carter Show World Tour in tribute to rapper husband Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter.

She performed at London’s 02 Arena last night and, while she admits she has found it a challenge to juggle her career and motherhood, the 31-year-old says she wants to become a mum again.

She says: “Definitely I would like to have more children. Motherh

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At this time last year, MetLife Stadium was readying itself for the arrival of the Electric Daisy Carnival, the world’s most colossal dance music party.

The Bamboozle festival, long a bastion of guitar-rock, turned its first night in Asbury Park over to dubstep deejay Skrillex.

In Atlantic City, summer bookings were dominated by spinners and club producers. The electronic music revolution had finally arrived in New Jersey.

Well, not all revolutions succeed.

This year, it will be a summer of strummers in the Garden State.

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Justin Timberlake is suiting up for a world tour this fall.

The “Mirrors” singer has announced that in addition to releasing a second half of “The 20/20 Experience,” he’s also going to embark on a tour that will last through 2014.

Timberlake hinted around the March release of “Experience” that the 10-track disc was actually only the first half of his heralded return to music. The 32-year-old has since confirmed that 10 additional tracks will arrive on Sept.

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Perhaps TLC should change the name of their southern fried look at trailer park life from Welcome to Myrtle Manor to Arrested Development.

Last week we reported on cast member Amanda Adams getting arrested for slamming her big ol jeep into a telephone pole after having too much to drink. Now we can add two more to the wrap sheet as Darlin Dog Lindsay Colbert and promoter Taylor Burt ran afoul of the law over the weekend too.

Heres a rundown of the arrests along with accompanying mug shots and even Amandas video.

Amanda Adams: Amanda took to Twitter after her arrest and stated that she learned her lesson after she blew a .20 according to her arrest report, which is two-and-a-half times the legal limit.

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Love, Robyn Rihanna Fenty told the capacity crowd gathered to see her at the Prudential Center in Newark on Sunday, was something she didnt understand. Nor did she expect her audience to understand it. We could, however, sympathize with her quest and applaud her as she went after it with toughness, dark humor and the vulnerability that has always been a major part of her popular appeal.

And so she did: She tried to resuscitate it on “Cold Case Love,” rue it on “Love the Way You Lie,” deny it on “Hate That I Love You,” celebrate it as a light in a hopeless place on “We Found Love” and sink into it like a plush chair on the drawling “Loveeeeeee Song.” Love was her preoccupation, her quest and her curse, and when she put up that protective umbrella (ella, ella), we were all invited to stand beneath its shelter.

Rihanna is a quintessential modern pop artist and, like her peers on hit radio, shes not expected to deliver serious sentiments in her songs.

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There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion Wednesday in Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich province of Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.

Authorities say a blast in another area of Quetta late Tuesday killed six people and wounded at least 30.

Baluchistan has grappled with a separatist insurgency, Islamic militancy, and sectarian violence for decades.

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Two Lanes of Freedom, McGraws twelfth studio effort and follow-up to 2012s Emotional Traffic, debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 after its release in February. The album is his first for Big Machine Records after a 20-year career with Curb Records.

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