A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group.more
A demonstrator holds up a poster that reads in Portuguese “A World Cup in Brazil is more expensive than the last three editions.” Estadio Nacional in Brasilia was remodeled to host soccer’s Confederations Cup, but the stadium was not ready before the inauguration. The Cup is June 15.
You already know the date (May 29) and the venue (Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Arena). Blake Shelton has now revealed more details about the benefit concert to help victims of the devastating tornados that struck the Moore, Okla., area earlier this week.more
Just For Laughs, the producer of the long-running Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival plus additional fests in Toronto, Chicago and Sydney, has signed on with United Talent Agency for representation.more
The New York City Planning Commission has approved Madison Square Garden's operating permit for only another 15 years.more
The EDMbiz conference, held in Las Vegas prior to the launch of the Electronic Daisy Carnival, will host a bevy of top brass speakers this year, including WME Entertainment’s Marc Geiger, CAA’s Rob Light and Insomniac’s Pasquale Rotella.more
Venue execs: the Environmental Protection Agency wants your help to keep resources out of landfills – including wasted catering food.more
A stage manager working on Michael Jackson’s ill-fated “This Is It” concert warned an AEG executive days before the star’s death that he was in a physical and mental decline and needed help, according to an email shown to jurors Thursday in court.more
Carole King begins her performance at the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 22. King was presented with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
The former president of the Ultra Music Festival filed suit against the fest’s holding company and co-founders Russell Faibisch, Charles Faibisch and Adam Russakoff for millions of dollars when he was ousted from Ultra Enterprises in August. The defendants quickly responded with a countersuit of their own against Alejandro “Alex” Omes.more
While former boy band Blue s European tour was traveling through Germany, the act has been forced to call in the administrators to sort out its financial problems.more
Riverfest Amphitheater in Little Rock, Ark., was renamed First Security Amphitheater May 17 in a naming rights deal with First Security Bank.more
Live Nation and Forest City Ratner, the developer of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., have some competition in the race to revamp the aging Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island.more
The suspicion that the Croatian outdoor market couldn’t sustain as many as a dozen festivals is proving close to the mark as Burning Sea has been canceled and Terraneo appears to have financial problems.more
Music-related trade missions to Asia are becoming common, and at least one of them seems to have resulted in actual exchanges.more
Paul McCartney, Amway Center, Orlando, Fla., May 18, 2013more
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