The James Logan Courier

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent

Newcomer R&B artist J. Holiday, 23, is heating up the charts right now with his second single, "Bed." His debut album, Back Of My Lac, was released on Tuesday.

"Be With Me," produced by Darkchild, is actually the first single from Holiday, whose real name is Nahum Grymes. However, the song never received enough airplays, especially compared to "Bed." This is adverse, as it is one of the better songs on the entire album.

LUNCH: Spicy Chicken Salad with Cheddar, Tomatoes and Ranch Dressing, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Last day to take id pictures is next Friday, 10/12. Drop in to the Pavilion Lobby during the day - before/after school, lunch, break. All Staff - this is your day for pictures too!

Jostens will be here today at lunch in Colt Court and also tomorrow from 9-ll am in front of the school. Seniors - get your cap & gown/announcement info now (prices go up soon)!!

By Vicente Marcelo, Courier Sports Writer

The James Logan Girls Volleyball team extended their league record to 4‑0 after beating the Irvington Vikings in at home Tuesday.

The Lady Colts beat the Vikings three games to two. The Colts lost games one and four by scores of 22‑25 and 24‑26 and won games two, three and five by scores of 25‑13, 25‑18 and 15‑6. Shellyse Patolo, a sophomore, contributed with 17 kills while Lisa Nguyen had a couple of aces.

The girls excelled on both offense and defense.

Note: Free tickets to the show were provided free to The Courier by the Rocket Summer's management.

By Christine Surna Khayat, Courier Staff Writer

San Francisco’s Warfield theatre housed the Bay Area stop on the Sleeping with Giants tour, headlined by the Academy Is….

The turnout for the Sept. 19 show was surprisingly low for such notable bands, perhaps due to the scheduling of the concert in the middle of the week—a school night.

The show opened up with Sherwood, a melodic, up-beat band, with semi-indie undertones, and the lead singer's fairly deep voice. They seemed to have trouble enthusing the crowd. However, their attempts were not entirely ignored, and a few die-hard, sweaty, abnormally tall fans made their way to the front of the crowd to be noticed by the band, preventing all the average-heighted people behind them, like myself, from being able to see.

By Larry Oakes
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)

DULUTH, Minn. — She probably could have paid a few thousand dollars to settle her case and walked away, like just about everybody else has done in her situation.

But in a case that's attracted attention far from northern Minnesota, Jammie Thomas, a single mother from Brainerd, Minn., is fighting a lawsuit filed by the world's most powerful recording companies, who claim she illegally downloaded and shared copyrighted music from her computer.

"I did not download or upload any music, period," Thomas, 30, said outside the federal courthouse in Duluth, where a 12-member jury was empaneled Tuesday to hear the first trial stemming from more than 26,000 suits the industry has filed since a crackdown on file-sharers in 2003.

By Howard Cohen
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Magic" (Columbia) 4 stars
When Bruce Springsteen tears into the line, "I want a thousand guitars/I want pounding drums" in the lead track on the first E Street Band album in five years, it almost sounds like a directive to the producer.

"Magic" is a rock record, a big, proud and loud full-band album that should bear the printed legend on its cover, "Play this at full volume," like some old rock records.

Apple Computer Inc.
(MCT)

Top 10 albums on iTunes Music Store for Oct. 2:

1. "Still Feels Good," Rascal Flatts
2. "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace," Foo Fighters
3. "Graduation," Kanye West
4. "The Reminder," Feist
5. "Across the Universe (Music from the Motion Picture)," various artists
6. "Coco," Colbie Caillat
7. "Just Like You," Keyshia Cole
8. "The Shepherd's Dog," Iron & Wine
9. "The Real Thing — Words and Sounds, Vol. 3," Jill Scott
10. "Remedy," David Crowder Band

For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

From wikpedia:
Damon Runyon (October 4, 1884 – December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer.

He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. He spun humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors and gangsters; few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead to be known as "Nathan Detroit", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", and so on. These stories were written in a very distinctive vernacular style: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense (the past tense occurs only once, in the short story "The Lily of St Pierre"), and always devoid of contractions. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted.

The musical Guys and Dolls was based on two Runyon stories, "The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure"; the play Little Miss Marker grew from his short story of the same name.

Listen to some of Damon Runyon's radio shows from 1949, free from freeotrshows.com.