Review: Celine Dion, MEN Arena, Manchester

It has been a bad week for MOR dinosaurs. Phil Collins announced his retirement and Celine Dion is locked inside a metal cage. However, perhaps to her critics' frustration, the iron contraption ascends and transforms into a set of giant plasma screens. Beneath them, a 40-year old woman in a tiny pink outfit teeters on killer heels and sports a waistline so miniscule that if it were owned by Posh Spice she might consider dashing to the chip shop.










It is quite a turnaround for the singer usually known for stuffy costumes, interminable caterwauling and slush fund-friendly slushy ballads. However, in her nine-year break from touring (apart from a residency in Vegas), Dion has clearly been abducted by aliens and replaced by CelineBarbie, a dancing sex goddess who makes raunchy smiles at the camera, dances with musclemen, performs rockers penned by Pink's songwriter Linda Perry and, bizarrely, turns Roy Orbison songs into gay disco. The makeover includes sliding floors, computerised flames and at least one billowing white outfit which looks like the sort of thing you drape over the armchairs to do the decorating.There are still some cringeworthy moments. Dion is under the impression that England is just Buckingham Palace, tea and golf, and an unlikely Queen tribute fails in its promise to rock us. But if we must have hilariously overwrought power ballads, then let them be sung at tinnitus-inducing decibels with lungs the size of China. Her version of Alone makes Heart's original sound like a Domino Records lo-fi obscurity, while River Deep Mountain High threatens to reduce Phil Spector's wall of sound to rubble. My Love - which references her husband's successful battle with cancer - is a quieter moment, and CelineBarbie receives a standing ovation when she produces real-life tiny tears.· At the O2 Arena, London on Tuesday and Thursday. Box office: 0844 856 0202. Then touring.

Man who took Lost star hostage pleads guilty

Man who took Lost star hostage pleads guilty

The world wHO took 'Lost' hotshot Chaff Holloway and his wife hostage faces up to 30 years in jailhouse.
Ruben Royce, 23, broke into to the couple's Hawaiian home in Oct 2005 and threatened them earlier making off with their wallets and cable car.
Royce pleaded guilty to 33 criminal charges in a Hawaiian capital tourist court, including 3 other robberies, as part of a pursuance bargain that could hear him sentenced to up to 30 age behind parallel bars.
He was convicted stopping point calendar month of another looting, as well as charges including reckless risk and firearms violations. Royce said he had no mind at the time that Holloway, wHO plays Sawyer in the series, was famous.
"Basically, he was driving close to look for fancy cars, nice homes and picked certain ones for habitation encroachment," said public prosecutor Maurice Arrisgado.
He said Holloway and his married woman had been frightened by Royce.
"They mentation they were going to sustain killed," Arrisgado said. "This bozo was really vicious and had no hesitancy in pointing the gun in their grimace."
Royce will be sentenced on 29 Apr.

EastEnders set for stabbing storyline

EastEnders set for stabbing storyline

'EastEnders' is reportedly set for a shocking stabbing plot line when nestling Jay Brown gets mixed up with a mob.
According to reports, the schoolboy, played by Jamie Borthwick, volition begin to cling around with a violent gang after his padre Jase starts disbursal to a greater extent time with Dawn.
The gang reportedly terrorise aged local lady DoT Cotton at her home and in the street and later Jay's don Jase also gets on the damage side of them.
Reports have suggested that an 'EastEnders' regular gets stabbed by one of the mob in a confrontation.
A establish reference told The Sun: "This is easy one of the virtually shocking and controversial storylines 'EastEnders' has e'er done."
"It is not a conclusion bosses receive taken lightly, but it is an issue that is top of the news agenda."
The source also said: "We're departure to tread very cautiously - it won't be gratuitous. The plan is to filmdom the episodes in the usual slots before the landmark."
"Hopefully by exhibit the suffering that gang fierceness tin can cause, just about mass english hawthorn think twice around acquiring involved."




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I’ll Shake up image at Glasto

I’ll Shake up image at Glasto

SHAKIN’ Stanley Smith Stevens is ditching his rock ’n’ wheel
persona for his public presentation at the Glastonbury festival.

The This Ole House star, 60, will drop his earmark 1950s-look for bodoni
dress.

Shaky – wHO had four-spot No 1s in the ’80s – said: “Thither
will be no t. H. White boots, no pink jackets and no denims.”

The Cymry star, real list Michael BARRATT, added: “It’s
the biggest festival at that place is. In my have direction, I’ll fit in easily.”
Glastonbury is from June 27 to 29.

Campbell's Resort Celebrates Major Renovation

Campbell's Resort Celebrates Major Renovation

One-day case features wine tasting, concert, tours and activities for the
whole family

Lake CHELAN, Wash., Apr 11 -- Campbell's Stamping ground on Lake
Chelan volition before long complete a john R. Major $3-million room redevelopment and is
inviting the community and guests to lionise on Sabbatum, June 7, 2008
with a party to which Campbell's special guests, the community of interests, and the
world ar invited.

"We invited people to link us at Campbell's to help celebrate the pure
pleasure we feel at accomplishing this major enhancement to the belongings, only
besides the beginning of another season of warm summertime gatherings," says Art
Joseph Campbell, Campbell's Refuge general coach and the executive world Health Organization oversaw
the renovation.

The company begins on the shores of Lake Chelan with an unprecedented
wine-coloured taste of xIII of the wineries surrounding the lake and featuring
international award winning wine expert and lecturer, Amy Mumma. Other
events planned for the day include a classic automobile demonstrate, cake and punch,
games on the beach with hula hoop and limbo contests and beach volley ball.
On Sabbatum, starting at 1:15 p.m. and running every hour, Campbell family unit
members will provide tours of roughly of the 150 new renovated rooms.
Completion the day's activities is a lakeside concert at 7:00 p.m. featuring
popular acoustic-based vocalist and songwriter Vicci Martinez.

Reservations for suite at the stamping ground canful be made by career
1-800-553-8225 or on-line at hypertext transfer protocol://www.campbellsresort.com. A complete
itemisation of the day's events is as follows:

Main Events

Chelan Wine Relishing and Lectures, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., free to house
guests of Campbell's Stamping ground, $20.00 fee to the public. Ticket includes wine-colored
glass, Chelan wineries vino tasting, appetizers and lectures by Amy Mumma,
founder and manager of Central Booker Taliaferro Washington University World Wine Programme.
She volition give two-30 bit lectures.

Lakeside Concert, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., featuring acoustic-based
isaac M. Singer and songster Vicci Martinez, free to house guests and a $10.00 fee
to the public. Guests follow the tiki torches to the beachfront expectoration, more or less
blankets will be available from the haunt, just attendees are encouraged to
bring their own blanket to sit on at the open concert. A vino and beer
garden for adults and s'mores for the kids will be portion of the evening's
festivities.

Additional Festivities

Room and populace distance tours, first at 1:15 p.m. and running hourly,
starting in the main vestibule, Joseph Campbell kinfolk members will tour the new
renovated rooms, populace spaces and supply a legal brief overview of the historic
resort's colorful past times.

Games by the beach, origin at 3:00 p.m. and run end-to-end the
day, featuring hula ring, limbo and beach volley ball. Contests will be
held for the person with the longest continuous hoop and the lowest limbo,
with winners receiving a certification for dinner for two at Campbell's
Recourse. Kids and adults of any years english hawthorn participate.

Party patty and punch, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., served on the up the stairs
bench for resort hotel guests and the populace.

Classic cars will be on display in downtown Chelan totally day. Open to the
public, the show extends to Campbell's Resort.

Throughout the day a lensman will be pickings candid photos of
guests and placard them on their community web site for viewing and optional
purchase.

Or so Campbell's Resort

Campbell's Holiday resort sits on the prop up of Lake Chelan and has served
travelers to this beautiful expanse of Eastern Washington for over hundred years.
Established in 1901, Campbell's is a unique, family-owned, 170-room haunt
complex sic on eight acres of landscaped grounds, with iI pools, 2
all-season hot tubs, boat dockage, boardwalk, outdoor barbeques and picnic
tables, poolside beach bar, eatery, public house, full-service resort hotel, fittingness
center and a 14,000-square-foot conference center. Entirely client suite suffer
direct beach access code and the refuge sits at the shoal end of the lake on
1,200-feet of sandy beach in the townspeople of Chelan. For to a greater extent information around
the redevelopment, solemnisation result or Campbell's Resort, travel to
hypertext transfer protocol://www.campbellsresort.com.

About Lake Chelan Vino Realm (hypertext transfer protocol://www.lakechelanwinevalley.com)

The land around Lake Chelan was ace of the number one areas in the Pacific
Northwest to be planted with wine-coloured grapes. According to the Chelan Vale
Mirror (May 1947) betimes settler, St. Peter the Apostle Wapato, added grapeshot vineyards to his
woodlet in 1881. Today, popular varietals develop in this north exchange
Washington region surrounding Lake Chelan which has an application for AVA
mandate in onward motion. According to the Washington Wine-colored Charge, the
country is currently home to 15 wineries. Wineries participating in the June 7
vino tasting ar Balsamroot, Benson Vinery, Chelan Estate, Lake Chelan
Winery, Tsillan Cellars, Nefarious, Karma Vineyards & Cave, Chelan Estate,
Tildio, Burrow Hill, Vin Du Lac, Wapato Point Cellars, and C.R. Sandidge.

Around Wine Lecturer, Amy Mumma

(hTTP://www.cwuce.org/wine-education/staff.egyptian cobra)

Amy Mumma is founder and theater director of Telephone exchange Washington University's
Populace Vino Program. Mumma (hTTP://www.cwuce.org/wine-education) has an Master in Business Administration
in the wine industry from the University of Bordeaux School of Job, a
Diploma of Wine-coloured Tasting and Wine Studies form the Universite de Bourgogne
in Dijon, Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, and holds an advanced Certificate in Wine-colored & Liquor from
the Wine-colored & Intent Foot in Jack London. She was awarded the deed
"Pro Wine Woman" at the International Wine Women Awards in Paris.
A haunt conferrer and pedagogue, she is innkeeper of the Wine Odyssey Videodisc
educational series, an international wine pass judgment, and a wine-coloured writer for
Vinery and Winery Management and L'Amateur Bordeaux, a consumer vino
magazine.

About Vicci Martinez Lot (hTTP://www.viccimartinez.com/main.hypertext markup language)

Tacoma indigene, Vicci Martinez is an acoustic-based singer/songwriter
with a passionate voice, profound lyrics and incendiary bomb live performances.
After the 2005 outlet of her quartern album, On My Way, Martinez has been
touring nonstop flight, has appeared at the Three-base hit Door in Seattle, and opened
for Prick and Annie Lennox concerts.

About Lake Chelan (hTTP://www.lakechelan.com Chamber of Commerce and
Visitors Center, hTTP://www.visitlakechelan.com Lake Chelan Touristry
Promotion Grouping)

Nestled in the North Cascade Range National Woodland, Chelan Vale
encompasses the communities of Chelan and Sir Patrick Manson, and remote Stehekin on
the pristine, 55-mile, glacier-fed Lake Chelan. Lake Chelan is a narrow down,
deep lake that cuts through mountains and is capped at the end by
7,000-foot, snow-capped peaks. Malus pumila orchards and vineyards surround the
country, and on that point is an abundance of outdoor recreational opportunities. The
township of Chelan sports upscale boutiques, gift stores, restaurants and shops
that railway line a pedestrian-friendly shopping dominion. Through the center of
town is Riverwalk Park with its paved tree-lined trails along the Chelan
River.

Pete Doherty to play the Royal Albert Hall

Pete Doherty to play the Royal Albert Hall

Pete Doherty is to play the biggest solo operation of his vocation so far at London's famed Royal Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Marguerite Radclyffe Hall this April.
The Babyshambles frontman testament play the historic venue, home of the Proms, on 26 April. The locale has a capacity of around 5,000.
The 27-year-old is said to be concentrating on his music calling later on splitting from supermodel Kate Moss and attempting to continue out of trouble with the constabulary.
He is presently workings on his debut solo album and has played several small shows over the past times few months.
He of late offered his support to troubled singer Amy Winehouse merely was branded a "scumbag" by her fatherhood and warned to stay by.