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Friday, March 16, 2012

Barenaked Ladies Announce Tour With Blues Traveler, Cracker and Big Head Todd

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Barenaked Ladies will be joining forces with Blues Traveler, Cracker and Big Head Todd and the Monsters for Last Summer on Earth, a package tour kicking off this July in Toledo, Ohio. The four bands will play more than 30 arenas and amphitheaters across North America through the middle of August.

"I love playing outside in the summertime," says Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson. "To travel and hang around with a bunch of bands, and get a chance to do some collaboration is part of the magic of a summer tour." The tour's ominous title is a nod to what could be a potentially dreadful economy for live music, and superstitions about the end of the world. "I'm a man of science, and therefore put zero stock in all of the disastrous predictions about the year 2012," says Robertson. "But just in case, I think everybody should come out and see one last great summer concert tour! It can't hurt, right? Here's hoping the Mayans just got tired of chiseling!"

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The itinerary for the Barenaked Ladies' Last Summer on Earth tour is as follows. More dates will be announced in the coming weeks.
July 6        Toledo, OH        Toledo Zoo Amp
July 7        Rochester, NY        Marvin Sands PAC
July 8        Dayton, OH        Fraze Pavilion
July 9        Chicago, IL        Charter One Pavilion
July 11        Vienna, VA        Wolftrap
July 12        Raleigh, NC        Raleigh Amp
July 13        Charlotte, NC        Uptown Amp
July 14        Charleston, SC        Family Circle Stadium
July 16        Alpharetta, GA        Verizon Amp
July 17        Tampa, FL        Ask Gary Amp
July 18        West Palm Beach, FL    Cruzan Amp
July 20        Houston, TX        Cynthia Woods
July 21        Austin, TX        ACL at Moody Theatre
July 22        Dallas, TX        Gexa Amp
July 24        Albuquerque, NM            Sandia Casino
July 25        Phoenix, AZ        Comerica Theatre
July 27        Los Angeles, CA        Gibson Amp
July 28        Las Vegas, NV        The Joint @ Hard Rock
July 29        San Diego, CA        Harrah’s Rincon
July 31        Saratoga, CA        Mountain Winery
Aug 2        Boise, ID        Botanical Gardens
Aug 3        Redmond, WA        Marymoor
Aug 9        Council Bluffs, IA    Harrah’s Council Bluffs
Aug 10        West Allis, WI        Wisconsin State Fairgrounds
Aug 11        Detroit, MI        DTE Amphitheatre
Aug 12        Indianapolis, IN    The Lawn @ White River State Park
Aug 14        Wantaugh, NY    Jones Beach
Aug 15        Philadelphia, PA    Penn’s Landing
Aug 17        Bethlehem, PA        Sands Event Ctr
Aug 18        Boston, MA        Bank of America Pavilion
Aug 19        Bangor, ME        Bangor Waterfront

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

'Celebrity Apprentice' Recap: Ladies and Gentlemen, Rev Your Engines

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Dee Snider, Clay Aiken and Lou Ferrigno on 'The Celebrity Apprentice.'

This season of Celebrity Apprentice may not boast the most impressive or cast of characters – sorry, but who are Dayana Mendoza and Patricia Velasquez again? – but leave it to Donald Trump to create drama out of thin air. Yes, it's week four: Let the fat-trimming begin!

Last week, Arsenio Hall and Lou Ferrigno were visibly shaken upon returning from the boardroom after Trump sent Star Trek star George Takei back to the mother ship. It was the first loss of the season for the men's team, but it most definitely wasn't their last.

In fact, the men so spectacularly failed this week that the Donald fired not one but two of them in the boardroom. And here's how it all went down.

To begin, the teams are tasked with helping introduce the all-new Buick Verano by putting together a presentation and Q&A session in front of a live audience. They will be judged on informational content, brand messaging and overall creativity. The winning team's project manager will receive $50,000 for his or her charity. Not bad for a day's work.

Meet the 2012 'Celebrity Apprentice' Contestants

When it comes time to pick project managers, the women feel they're at a disadvantage because they're just "a bunch of chicks." Why in the world would they excel at a task like this, they wonder, even though I can only assume most (if not all) of them drive, or have at least been in, a car? Way to undersell yourselves, ladies.

Despite the oh-so-obvious gender-based handicap (insert eye-roll here), they choose pop singer Debbie Gibson – and her distracting, hot pink and baby blue, straight-from-the-Eighties makeup – to lead the charge.

When the men announce their project manager, Trump is shocked to hear they're going with funnyman Adam Corolla rather than race car driver Michael Andretti. Makes perfect sense, right? Sure, why not. This show's not about winning or anything.

After sitting down with the execs, the women come up with the slogan "We Are All Buick," and they plan to emphasize the "heart" of the car by sharing their personal stories. Of course, it isn't a total breeze tying everything together: some of the women (ahem, Tia Carrere) feel left out of the decision-making process because they aren't invited to ride in the "cool kid" van.

On the flipside, the men struggle to come up with a cohesive concept. Things get off to a rocky start with the execs when Adam makes some off-color comments . . . right after the execs make it perfectly clear they don't want the presentation to be like a "beer commercial." Mo one on the team screams "class" more than Carolla, right?

After floating some odd ideas, like Lou Ferrigno's suggestion that he dress as his signature character the Hulk, Adam latches onto that totally unwanted "beer commercial" mentality and runs with it. He thinks it's a great idea to have the rest of the celebs play foul-mouthed hecklers who interrupt his presentation and take over the Q&A. All they're missing now are some dick and fart jokes to really make them shine.

When it's time for the presentations, the women parade out one at a time, telling personal stories that highlight features of the car. Singer Aubrey O'Day thinks it's a bit "gimmicky," just a platform for Debbie Gibson's comeback tour. But it's Aubrey who flubs the most when she refers to the car as the "Verona" – twice – rather than by its correct name, Verano.

Meanwhile, on the men's side, Adam appears super-nervous while leading his presentation. And he should be, because the heckler bit falls flat, especially when American Chopper's Paul Teutul Sr. dryly yells, "You suck!" before being put into a headlock and dragged off by Ferrigno. (Um, where are those dick and fart jokes when you really need them?)

Still, in the boardroom, Adam is so confident that his team will win, he tells Trump he's willing to take the fall and be fired if they don't. Guess what? The execs think the women did a better job. Maybe their "just a bunch of chicks" routine was just a ploy to throw everyone off.

Trump once again questions why Michael Andretti wasn't leading the charge on the men's side. Although Adam is willing to take all the blame, everyone seems to pig-pile on Andretti and Ferrigno, who doesn't have much to offer in terms of ideas, aside from wanting to dress up as the Hulk.

When Trump puts him on the spot, Adam refuses to pick anyone to come back before the firing squad. Normally, this would get him fired on the spot, but this time Trump decides to teach a lesson, announcing he'll be firing not one but two celebs from the men's team. Tsk, tsk.

The men once again gang up on Ferrigno, clearly hoping he'll get the boot. Trump doesn't see things their way, saying they didn't lose this particular task because of Lou. So . . .

Trump first fires Adam because he was the project manager and, let's face it, set himself up for it. (Hasn't he watched past seasons of Celebrity Apprentice? Trump likes lover,s not fighters. Wait, no – I mean fighters, not quitters!) Then he cuts Andretti loose for failing to step up and lead. It's a fat-trimming two-fer!

Last episode: It's All Just Window Dressing

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