The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be held April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, the Los Angeles-based Goldenvoice promoter has announced.

Some advance tickets have already been put up for sale at www.coachella.com through a layaway program. A three-day festival pass costs $269 plus fees.

Two layaway options are available. The 50 percent down option allows festival goers to pay a 50 percent deposit of the ticket total plus all fees, with the remaining 50 percent automatically deducted from a credit card on the first week of March.

The 10 percent down option allows festival goers to pay 10 percent of the order total plus all fees as a first payment with the remaining total automatically deducted in two equal payments on the first week of each month (February and March) after the first payment month. The last day to order via layaway is Feb. 1.

All tickets ordered through the layaway plan should be received by April 10th after they’re paid in full. Even if festival goers choose to pay in full in advance, tickets won’t be delivered by Federal Express until the lay away shipping begins.

For the first time in the 11-year history of Coachella, the festival also will sell 10x30 camping spots for $55 instead of charging a camping fee per person. Festival goers with RVs may purchase 20x50 RV camping spots for $250.

Coachella, which has been named the world’s premiere outdoor festival five times in the past seven years by industry watchdog, Pollstar, was recently nominated for that honor again while the Empire Polo Club was nominated as best venue for the first time.

Goldenvoice typically announces its lineup in late January. More than 50,000 people a day typically attend Coachella.

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Christina Aguilera is already the face of Stephen Webster's celeb-favored jewelry line -- and rocks a 5-carat Webster wedding ring -- now she's also serving as the inspiration for the British jeweler's diffusion line, which will retail for $25-$70 on Aguilera's Web site starting March 2010.

"It's by Stephen Webster but it's Christina Aguilera-inspired," Webster explained to StyleList during a visit to Neiman Marcus in San Francisco. "We're making the collection now and it's really for her fan base -- for young people, not for my customers."

"It's got to fit in where Juicy Couture jewelry fits," he told us, before elaborating on the design details.

"I took some iconic things about Christina and made it into jewelry. I did a really cool big chain with big lips and the part that goes through the lips is a rose. There's a Christina charm bracelet and we did some things with her pets, some hats she's worn and something burlesque-themed," he said.

"I worked with my young team on it and they love the project. Christina's never had anything like this and the only experience we've had is the mosquito ring we did."

The mosquito ring he's referring to is a $75 piece of costume jewelry Webster created for the charity Malaria No More UK. It's a white gold-plated and faux diamond and ruby ring which was photographed numerous times on Victoria Beckham. Two shipments of 300 both sold out in a matter of hours on Asos.com this fall.

"If all of these things sort of work, I'd then think we are ready to do a collaboration," Webster revealed, referring to a deal with a fast fashion retailer along the lines of H&M.

"But you have to have a real buzz around your brand with the people who shop at H&M and Target. Otherwise, it doesn't always work with jewelry. You've got to have that frenzy."

Here's hoping his Aguilera line drums up the hype he's waiting for. We have a feeling affordable Stephen Webster jewelry at a mass retailer would do just fine... um, now. (Hint, hint.)


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Nowhere Boy: how playing John Lennon changed Aaron Johnson’s life
The star of Nowhere Boy tells how Lennon and meeting Sam Taylor-Wood carried him through one of the most intense experiences in his life

Just as I start speaking to Aaron Johnson, something eerie happens — Lennon’s voice starts to whisper out of the café speakers around me. It’s the 39th anniversary of John Lennon’s death today, and not the first spooky sign Lennon’s given, Johnson tells me later. He believes that the voice of the man that he plays in Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy also carried him through one of the most intense experiences in his life — not only because he fell deeply into the character of the teenage Lennon, defined by his relationships with strong, older women, but also because he fell in love with the director, Taylor-Wood, the recently divorced, 42-year-old artist-turned director who chose him for the part. He moved in with her and her children from the relationship with the art dealer Jay Jopling just after the film wrapped, and became her fiancé last month. Gossip hounds had a field day, just as Doctor Freud would have.

Monday, December 14

ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Wolfmother (r)
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Alicia Keys
COMEDY CENTRAL: The Colbert Report: Snoop Dogg
FOX: Lopez Tonight: 50 Cent
MTV: It's On With Alexa Chung: Robin Thicke
NBC: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien: Adam Lambert
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Chevelle
SYNDICATION: The Oprah Winfrey Show: Whitney Houston (r)

Tuesday, December 15

ABC: Live with Regis and Kelly: Fergie
ABC: The View: Snoop Dogg
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Michael McDonald
CBS: Lae Show With David Letterman: Leona Lewis
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Jason Segel & his puppet Dracula,
the Broken West
NBC: The Jay Leno Show: Nick Lachey
NBC: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien: Norah Jones
PBS: Tavis Smiley: Boyz II Men
IFC: Dinner With the Band: MEN
COMEDY CENTRAL: The Colbert Report: Alicia Keys
SYNDICATION: The Ellen DeGeneres Show: John Mayer
SYNDICATION: The Oprah Winfrey Show: Whitney Houston (r)

Wednesday, December 16

ABC: The View: Alicia Keys
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Norah Jones
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Health
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Kris Allen
NBC: The Jay Leno Show: John Mayer
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Raekwon
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Gossip
SUNDANCE: Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...: Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Jesse Winchester,
Ron Sexsmith, Sheryl Crow

Thursday, December 17

CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Matisyahu
FUEL: The Daily Habit: The Big Pink
MTV: It's On With Alexa Chung: All Time Low
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Allison Iraheta
NBC: The Today Show: Alicia Keys
NBC: The Jay Leno Show: Mary J. Blige
NBC: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien: Robin Thicke
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Boyz II Men reunion
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Kenna, Franz Ferdinand
SYNDICATION: The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Robin Thicke

Friday, December 18

ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Mary J. Blige
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Baroness
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Alicia Keys
NBC: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien: Foreigner
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Ronnie Spector
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Snoop Dogg
SUNDANCE: Sigur Ros: Heima: Sigur Ros

Saturday, December 19

NBC: Saturday Night Live: Muse

Sunday, December 20

TNT: Christmas in Washington: Mary J. Blige, Neil Diamond, Sugarland

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Ooh, yeah, A 'Step Up' movie in 3D! Can't wait to see somebody's hair fly out of the screen!
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson almost missed out on Modern Family, ABC’s breakout mockumentary that is already being heralded by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the best series of the decade. Recovering from his experience on the critically savaged and quickly canceled Do Not Disturb, Ferguson told his managers that he was finished with television and moved to New York last year to headline the Broadway musical based on Elf. Fortunately for Ferguson, his managers soft-sold him Modern Family, which the actor read five times over and fell in love with. Now, Ferguson can be seen on Wednesday nights as Mitchell Pritchett, the hilariously straight-laced former figure skater who has since settled down with his flamboyant partner — the hilarious Eric Stonestreet — and their adopted Vietnamese daughter.

Last week, Movieline caught up with Ferguson to discuss his brush with Adam Lambert, the truth behind that Julie Bowen-Sofia Vergara rivalry and the upcoming storyline about Mitchell and his old-fashioned father, played by Ed O’Neill, that brought him to tears.

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My beautiful, talented, funny bb doing an video interview for Nylon!! Watch it to hear and see accents, advice, just overall beautfulness.

Also, a congrats to Hil for the following!!

Top 200 Artists of the Decade


Top 200 Albums of the Decade


Top 25 Soundtracks of the Decade

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I like this song but Chris Brown sounds like a girl in it

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The much-anticipated duet between YouTube sensation Susan Boyle and her idol Elaine Paige was broadcast in the UK on Dec. 13, part of a special program that charted Boyle’s meteoric rise to fame.

Boyle, the 48-year-old Scottish singer who became famous after appearing on the reality show “Britain’s Got Talent,” is now also a recording sensation, having sold over a million copies Stateside of her debut CD “I Dreamed a Dream” in just two weeks.

During her stint on “Britain’s Got Talent,” Boyle mentioned that she hoped to have a career like the one enjoyed by Elaine Paige, who created the lead roles in the West End productions of Evita, Chess and Cats.

As part of the Dec. 13 broadcast on ITV1, Boyle and Paige joined voices for a rendition of Paige’s Chess hit, “I Know Him So Well.”



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I double checked Mods, it hasn't been posted. NGL, I would've loved to have seen Elaine as the original Grizabella, as much as everyone hates Cats.

January Cover of Maxim

I’m not supposed to put out any pictures or the cover or video until the “big reveal” BUT since I’m seeing the JANUARY COVER OF MAXIM with yours truly on it leaked online already, I wanted to post for you guys, too…

Photographer Miko Lim was amazing and so much fun to work with.. It was the most fun and the most comfortable I’ve ever felt on any shoot.

It comes out this week and there will be behind the scenes footage on G4 and online… I hope you guys like it! There are 8 pictures in the mag.. Here’s the cover and one of the inside shots.. I’ll put the rest up when I get the okay.

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"I usually maintain a fairly even temper about Hollywood because I couldn't do my job otherwise," Manohla Dargis told me today. But the formidable NY Times film critic has fighting words for Hollywood and how it treats women. Dargis' "fuck them" - the first of several - refers specifically to a fact she highlighted in her piece this weekend on the lack of progress in Hollywood films for and about women: Two major studios, Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers Pictures, didn't release a single movie directed by a female, even in a year of renewed prominence for women in film. One bright spot: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow (pictured above) is sweeping the early critics'awards: in the past two days alone she and her film have gotten top accolades from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the American Film Institute, The New York Film Critics Online, and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.

In a wide-ranging conversation this morning on women in Hollywood, Dargis, who has been a chief New York Times film critic (a title she shares with A.O. Scott) since 2004, had similarly strong words for Hollywood conventional wisdom and the studio system overall. "My tendency is not to talk in sweeping terms, but one thing I can say in sweeping terms is that there's a lot of sexism in the industry," she says. Here are some of the other highlights from the conversation.

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