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Paradigm – Elgin Fringe Festival Location: Chicago, IL Type: Theater ACTORS NEEDED for four paid performances of a one act called Paradigm, to be performed at the Elgin Fringe Festival September 18-20, 2015, in Elgin, IL. PARADIGM is a series of vignettes that explore what happens when words like relationships, marriage, fidelity and love are turned upside down. PERFORMANCES: Friday September 18 at 10 pm Saturday September 19 at 2 pm & 9:30 pm Sunday September 20 at 6 pm VENUE: Imago, 216 Prairie Street, Elgin, IL.  REHEARSALS: Saturday, August 15 and Thursday, September 17. A few potential script run throughs via phone. CASTING Two male and three female actors. SIMON: 40-50 year old sociologist DONNA: Simon’s wife, 40-50 year old psychologist LUCY: Simon’s second romantic partner, early 40′s CAL: Simon, Donna & Lucy’s son, early-mid 20’s CELIA: Cal’s wife, early-mid 20’s ERICA: Simon’s girlfriend, early-mid 20’s Celia and Erica will be played by t...

"I love my son. He mean the world to me," Cash Money honcho says in new interview Birdman expressed sadness over his ongoing feud with Lil Wayne  in a preview for an upcoming tell-all interview with Power 105.1's Angie Martinez. The Cash Money honcho said Wayne's screed against him and the label "was shocking to everybody. I never thought Mula [Wayne] would be saying nothing negative about me, ever. "So that man open his mouth and say something negative about me, that was a lot — that shit fucked my day up," Birdman continued. "I love my son. He mean the world to me. For that man to say something negative about me, that affected my life." Birdman and Lil Wayne have been going at each other since the latter took to Twitter last December  to blast his mentor and label, Cash Money, for withholding his long-awaited LP,  Tha Carter V . Wayne then sued Cash Money for $51 million , demanding he be dropped from the label and be ...

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City officials said rapper's digital appearance "posed a significant public safety risk." by Megan Geuss - Jul 27, 2015 7:30am EDT At a hip-hop festival called Craze Fest in Hammond, Indiana, just outside of Chicago, rapper Chief Rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg performed with a "hologram" of Tupac at … Tupac “hologram” merely pretty cool optical illusion Keef appeared on stage as a hologram. But his Saturday night performance only lasted one song before the police shut it down. Chief Keef, born Keith Cozart, originally planned to hold a benefit concert for his friend and a toddler who were both killed during a shooting this month. The concert was to be held at a theater in Chicago, but Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's office reportedly pressured the theater to cancel the event, according to the Chicago Tribune . The New York Times reported the mayor's office called Chief Keef "an unacceptable role model" whose music "prom...

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late music legend Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died on July 26, surrounded by her family, at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgia. She was 22. "She is finally at peace in the arms of God," the Houston family said in statement to ET. "We want to again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support during these last few months." On Jan. 31, Bobbi Kristina was found unresponsive in her bathtub , and was then taken to North Fulton Hospital in Roswell, Georgia, where she was put on a ventilator to assist her breathing. She was later placed in a medically induced coma at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital. NEWS: Stars Send Condolences and Love in Wake of Bobbi Kristina Brown's Death Nearly two months later , she was moved to a rehabilitation center, where she remained until June 24, when she was  moved to the hospice center . "Despite the great medical care at nume...

“keep your hands to yourself and don’t sneak up on niggas in the middle of soul bearing,” Earl Sweatshirt writes on Twitter. Earl Sweatshirt punched a fan who grabbed him from behind during a tour stop in Sydney, Australia last week, according to Complex . Garrett Stevenson of Trash Talk then helped get the fan off the stage. “keep your hands to yourself and don’t sneak up on niggas in the middle of soul bearing,” Earl Sweatshirt wrote on Twitter yesterday (July 25).  "I'm not a tough guy!! I don't like my personal space breached just like you. just respect niggas out here man not just me respect everybody.” Earl Sweatshirts reps gave statements to Pitchfork . "That fan is not hugging him,” one of the Odd Future member’s reps said to the publication. "He approached from behind and his arms are around Earl's face and neck.” "Earl was attacked as far as any artist performing onstage would be concerned that is ambushed from behind...

Getty/Dave Kotinsky 50 Cent's bankruptcy filing looked an awful lot like Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld's explanation of his company's failure. Let’s get the obvious comparison out of the way first. Both Dick Fuld, the former CEO of Lehman Brothers, a nd 50 Cent left some folks who had key financial relationships with them feeling very shortchanged.  Lehman Brothers and 50 Cent have something else in common, too: There were questions about whether they were really broke even though they both filed for bankruptcy.  The rapper's bankruptcy filing came at an interesting time. In the last 12 months, 50 Cent lost a pair of lawsuits that could cost him nearly $25 million. If 50 can't come up with the cash, he might have to start selling his assets off to pay his creditors — just like Lehman had to do in the wake of the financial crisis . Eight years after the crisis, the bankrupted bank continues to pay off creditors through asset sales.  ...