1,700 Animals Found In A Car

The animals included 216 budgies, 300 white mice, 150 hamsters, 30 Japanese squirrels, six cameleons and more than 1,000 terrapins.

Traffic Police made the discovery when they pulled the vehicle over for a routine car check. The officers were amazed to find the animals in stacked boxes when driver Francesco Lombardo opened the boot.

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Post Office Worker Netflix Theft

A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 3,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office.

Free Museum Day

Free Smithsonian Museum Day

Saturday marks Smithsonian Museum Day, which means all affiliated museums will have free general admission. You’ll need to click here to download and print out a free admission card, which is good for you and a guest.  To learn about Museum Day from the AJC’s Howard Pousner, click here: Local participating museums include:

Ol’Bruce Sprinstreen Blows Out The 60th Birthday Candle Today

Bruce Springsteen celebrates his 60th birthday today

For nearly four decades Bruce Springsteen has been a rock & roll working-class hero: a plainspoken visionary. He is a fervent and sincere romantic whose insights into everyday lives — especially in America’s small-town, working-class heartland — have earned comparisons to John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie.

The World Is Listening…Palomine

The band Palomine will officially release their new CD “Attention Alpha” as soon as at least one person of every country in the world has made a video message for their project.

Be the face of YOUR country and get the pre-release CD of “Attention Alpha” for free!

Hungry monkeys storm houses in Thailand

Thais are fighting a crime wave as falling tourist numbers have left monkeys so short of food they are taking whatever they can get from people’s homes, local media reported on Tuesday.

Virtual DJs Play Your Music on TV

Last week iTunes announced the comeback of the LP in digital format. Old songs get their second life in video games like Guitar Hero. And mobile apps like TheGigMap give you instant access to live gigs around the corner. Innovation in music is all around us; via digital and multimedia channels they tap into new markets.

Music industry needs to give middlemen the ax

Have you ever wondered why anyone would pay a dollar a song when they can just get the music for free? You can find thousands of CD’s through the library, download the music from a file sharing program or use a torrent site with almost no risk. Anyone can, and most students do, obtain multiple gigabytes of music in just a few days for free and without punishment. To get the same amount of music would legitimately cost thousands of dollars and be incredibly more time consuming than simply downloading any song you wanted.
So can groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reasonably expect the public to switch from a method that is both effective and cheap to a slower, more expensive technique? The sad answer for the recording industry is that the middleman has to go.

Kim Zolciak Faces Lawsuit – The Real Housewives of Atlanta

It looks like there’s more drama involved off-screen on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. RadarOnline.com has learned that Kim is being sued by her music producer, causing her to take her song “Tardy for the Party” off of iTunes on Monday afternoon.

Artists Sing a Different Note Than the Music Industry

It’s hard to rage against the machine.
However, if you’re a well-established name in the music industry, it may have just become easier. This October, a group of British musicians launched the Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC), a trade group that seeks to protect the rights and profits of artists in the digital age. Citing “unfair practices” and the challenges of a digitalized world, the FAC has begun recruiting artists in support of a campaign already headed by top names, such as Radiohead and Iron Maiden.