| Another star born from MySpace
Colbie Caillat is the queen of MySpace. There was no official coronation. But with more than 3 million views, 280,000 friends and a No. 5 song on Billboard's pop chart, Caillat (rhymes with "ballet") has to be the networking Web site's biggest success story for a newcomer.
A year ago, the 22-year-old acoustic-pop-soul singer was working the front desk at a tanning salon and living with her parents in Malibu. Now, she has a hit album and a headlining tour. It's all because her tune, "Bubbly," popped from MySpace to No. 1 on iTunes to adult-pop radio to top 40 radio.
"I'm so excited and so proud of it," she said. "I never would have thought this song; it's pretty crazy."
When Caillat set up her MySpace site, she didn't even know how to post music: "My friend had to make the page for me and show me how to upload my songs."
Last spring, she spent four months at No.
23/11: Police should stop over-reacting
The police should not repeat their over-reaction and high-handed action on Nov. 10 over the peaceful 40,000-people Bersih gathering to hand over a petition to the Yang di Pertuan Agong for electoral reforms to ensure free, fair and clean elections and should immediately dismantle the roadblocks creating massive jams in Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley since yesterday. The massive Nov. 10 traffic gridlock creating massive congestions in Kuala Lumpur and Klang Valley were largely the creation of the police and could have been avoided or ameliorated considerably with enlightened and sensitive police handling of peaceful gatherings by citizens exercising their fundamental constitutional rights to get their voices heard in a meaningful democracy. If the Police had issued a police permit for the Bersih peaceful gathering on Nov.
Moose to Host Ladies Night November 15th
The Manitoba Moose, the AHL affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks, are pleased to announce they will host their first-ever ��Ladies Night�� when the Moose host the Grand Rapids Griffins on Thursday, November 15, 2007. MTS Centre doors open at 6:30pm and the puck drops at 7:30pm. As part of this special promotion, ladies will receive $5.00 off the regular walk-up price at the MTS Centre box office, and the first 500 ladies through the MTS Centre doors will receive a free gift bag courtesy of local sponsors. Several grand prizes �C including spa, hotel, and dinner packages �C will be distributed to lucky winners at the game. Among the prizes is a Deluxe Room ��AAAAHHHH�� Package courtesy of Inn At The Forks, featuring one night��s accommodation, a Riverstone Spa couples massage, sparkling wine & strawberries, and breakfast or brunch for two at The Current Restaurant.
Trials begin on 'perfect tan in two days' pill
A PILL that gives a perfect tan in two days and may prevent skin cancer could be available within two years. A Melbourne biotech company is exploring the use of the drug CUV1647 to fight skin cancer as a way of convincing medical regulators to licence the compound. Trials of the drug will begin at Royal Melbourne Hospital from today to determine if its tanning properties protect transplant patients, who are among the most at risk of contracting skin cancer. A pill the size of a grain of rice placed under the skin stimulates the body to produce more of the pigment melanin, producing sun-blocking tan from the inside out that lasts two months. While the tanning effect of the drug has been known since it was first developed in the US in 1995, cosmetic applications have not been enough to gain a regulator approval to market the product.
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