Columbia-Legacy has announced the release of a crucial Southland document that captures a snapshot moment when bassist Mike Watt, co-founder of influential San Pedro band Minutemen, went on the road with members of Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, the Germs and others in support of Watt's first solo album, "Ball Hog or Tugboat?" Called "ring spiel tour '95," the album captures a gig at Chicago's Cabaret Metro that featured Watt and a backing band consisting of musicians from opening acts Foo Fighters and Hovercraft. Specifically, playing with Watt were Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam, Hovercraft), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), Pat Smear (Foo Fighters, Germs) and William Goldsmith (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters). For Grohl, the tour was his first since the suicide of Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain. The forthcoming archival release will arrive on Nov. 11 as a double LP, CD or digital download. Among its 50-plus collaborators were future or current members of Bikini Kill, Beastie Boys, Nirvana, the Pixies, Swell Maps, Pearl Jam, Meat Puppets, Black Flag, Queens of the Stone Age, Wilco (guitarist Nels Cline) and Sonic Youth.

Nate Parker has broken his silence over a 2001 sexual-assault trial, saying he does not feel remorse about the events in question. "I don't feel guilty," the filmmaker and star of "The Birth of a Nation" told Anderson Cooper in a "60 Minutes" interview scheduled to air Sunday. Parker was accused and acquitted of sexually assaulting a woman in 1999 while he was a student at Penn State University. Parker said it was consensual sex. "Birth" co-writer Jean Celestin was convicted; the ruling was overturned on appeal.

New York City has created a 5-million fund for women working in the fields of film and theater, becoming the first municipality in the U.S. to finance such an initiative. The fund, announced Thursday by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, will provide grants to support film and theater projects by and about women. New York also will hold workshops and a film-financing conference designed to connect women with money for their projects; conduct a screenwriting competition that culminates in a series to air on New York's Channel 25; broadcast an additional block of programming on Channel 25 devoted to women; and fund research about gender in the field of film directing. "We believe we're the first municipality in the country to take on this issue," MOME Commissioner Julie Menin said. "We think by creating these economic pathways of opportunity, that is one of the best ways we can contribute."

The first comic that cartoonist Gene Luen Yang ever bought was a two-in-one issue that featured a man made out of rocks and an intergalactic cyborg. He loved comics, especially the kind that featured space aliens. So he started making his own. He and a friend drew comics and sold them for 50 cents each. Among their earliest creations were the "Trans-Smurfers," Smurfs who transformed into robotic fruit. They also flew and fought crime.

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It was the best of times p His photographs capture the culture of rock and punk music; the beguiling moments with the Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Blondie, Dead Boys, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and many more as they made New York's CBGB club their home in the late 1970s. John Thackwray, a French and South African commercial filmmaker and photographer, has traveled the globe since 2010, and photographed over 1,200 bedrooms of young people born in the 1980s and 1990s. More than a decade ago, the European Space Agency launched an orbiter named Rosetta, bound on a circuitous voyage to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In the years since, Rosetta has been drawn in and flung along by multiple gravity assist maneuvers, visiting the Earth three times and making … A few weeks ago we suggested you follow 5 topics that cover the more basic aspects of the business of blogging. Today let's focus on something equally important: the life of a blogger. This week I attended MMA SM2 Innovation Summit in New York, which took place during Advertising Week.

In just a short while, the press screening for the opening-night film of the 2016 New York Film Festival will begin. Members of the media will see "13th," the Ava DuVernay documentary about mass incarceration that was shot stealthily over the last year or so for Netflix. The movie brings a different feel to the annual gathering, which usually opens with a high-profile awards contender like "Captain Phillips" or "Life of Pi." "13th" traces the post-slavery history of African Americans in the United States, up to and including the corporatization of the prison industry that, the film argues, has had as many devastating effects on the black community and the country's moral fabric as slavery itself. It also marks a switch for DuVernay, who in films such as "Middle of Nowhere" and "Selma," has been exploring minority discrimination from the other side of the feature-doc divide. "It's always something on my mind," DuVernay said Thursday in an interview from the set of her new movie "A Wrinkle in Time," noting earlier films and characters, such as Ralph Bordelon and Too Sweet in her OWN series "Queen Sugar," that address the human side of imprisonment.

It was the best of times p His photographs capture the culture of rock and punk music; the beguiling moments with the Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Blondie, Dead Boys, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and many more as they made New York's CBGB club their home in the late 1970s. John Thackwray, a French and South African commercial filmmaker and photographer, has traveled the globe since 2010, and photographed over 1,200 bedrooms of young people born in the 1980s and 1990s. More than a decade ago, the European Space Agency launched an orbiter named Rosetta, bound on a circuitous voyage to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In the years since, Rosetta has been drawn in and flung along by multiple gravity assist maneuvers, visiting the Earth three times and making … A few weeks ago we suggested you follow 5 topics that cover the more basic aspects of the business of blogging. Today let's focus on something equally important: the life of a blogger. This week I attended MMA SM2 Innovation Summit in New York, which took place during Advertising Week.

Now that it has been confirmed that "Grimm" will end after its sixth season, it seems like the show is determined to deliver its best season yet. One way they are going to do so is by introducing Frankenstein, a fictional character created by Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who created a monstrous creature using his unorthodox approach to science. The scoop about Frankenstein was dished out by TV Line founder Michael Ausiello. Will Frankenstein be battling Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli)?

What are some good uni level textbooks to learn the underlying fundamentals and architecture or functions of GPU based deep learning or AI development as shown In GTC Europe recently, I want to use the Dev kits like tensor flow or MS CTNK (I do prefer the CTNK because of it's scalability and flexibility) with Nvidia's GPU acceleration to develop new Cognitive Applications based on Deep learning and AI but before I do that I want to understand the underlying processes and architecture to properly understand what's going on and what I'm doing.