Cantaloupe festival reaches a milestone

Steve Ranson/LVN file photo Hypnotist Susan Rosen, right, performs her powers during last year’s Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival. The Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival hits a major milestone this year.

She Blinded Me With Scientists

Brooklyn trio looks to increase its American audience Dichotomy looms so large for We Are Scientists that it’s almost a provisional member. They’re a California band that’s lived in New York for nearly a decade. The members are inveterate smartasses in interviews and between songs on stage, although their finely honed sense of humor rarely comes through in the music in any obvious way (like, say …

The Stone Roses

Vancouver’s Stars Of Boulevard are the winners of this year’s 2010 Fox Vancouver Seeds competition, held annually by Vancouver’s 99.3 The Fox FM. — cfox.com

Expansion = more room for Camel fans

Campbell County Schools has added more room for Camels fans at high school football games including a new oasis area complete with a student-made desert mural.

Concerts

5BUGS Germany: Cologne (Underground) Oct. 9, Frankfurt (Nachtleben) Oct. 12, Stuttgart (Beatclub) Oct. 15, Munich (Backstage Club) Nov. 4.

Rock and roll childhood

Rockfarm is a residential recording studio in Diamond Star Halo , the second novel by Tiffany Murray. The writer herself was brought up on the first ever residential music studio in Wales called Rockfield Studios. Musicians like Oasis, Iggy Pop, Nigel Kennedy and Simple Minds recorded there. On Rockfarm, though, it’s the fictional band Tequila that changes everything for the family in this story …

Rock and roll childhood

Rockfarm is a residential recording studio in Diamond Star Halo , the second novel by Tiffany Murray

Music preview: Eastern Conference Champions

by Mark McDermott Josh Ostrander isn’t really into teenage vampires. So it was a bit disconcerting when he and his band, Eastern Conference Champions, found themselves walking up the red carpet at the Twilight: Eclipse movie opening earlier this year.

September calendar

Dickerson Park Zoo, 1401 W. Norton Road, www.dickersonpark zoo.org or 833-1570: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Guests may stay one hour after the admission gate closes. Admission: $8 for adults; $5 for ages 3-12 and seniors ages 60 and older; free for ages 2 and younger and Friends of the Zoo members.

September calendar

Dickerson Park Zoo, 1401 W. Norton Road, www.dickersonpark zoo.org or 833-1570: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Guests may stay one hour after the admission gate closes. Admission: $8 for adults; $5 for ages 3-12 and seniors ages 60 and older; free for ages 2 and younger and Friends of the Zoo members.