Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will team up as co-hosts of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The Oscar telecast will take place Sunday, March 7 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET. AdornedMagazine.com will be live blogging once again (thank you to everyone who blogged with us during the Grammys) and we want you to join us. Our editors will serve as panelists during a live online discussion where you can join in and share your thoughts on the red carpet, the awards and performances.
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The editors at AdornedMagazine.com will be live chatting during the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards show! We will be covering everything from what the stars are wearing, who should win and what we think of the performances. We will also have one of our editors tweeting from backstage at the show. So, if you want to share your opinions, hear ours and get exclusive scoop on what is happening sign up now for your reminder. Can’t wait to chat with you!

By: Sara Koonar
Sarah McLachlan and the 2010 Lilith Tour revealed the first set of artists that are confirmed for next summer’s tour today. Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu, Colbie Caillat, Ke$ha, Tegan and Sara, Miranda Lambert and Metric are among those set to join McLachlan on the road. Others include A Fine Frenzy, Indigo Girls, Emmylou Harris, Chairlift, Jill Scott, Sugarland, Brandi Carlile, Sara Bareilles, Zee Avi and The Weepies.
“Being a part of Lilith Fair was inspiring on so many levels. Besides discovering new music everyday and …

By: Sara Koonar
On November 22, Canada lost one of our most talented musicians, Haydain Neal, 39, frontman of Juno award-winning group Jacksoul. Neale died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto after a seven-month battle with lung cancer.
On Monday, December 7, Haydain Neale’s friends and peers will join on stage to celebrate the his life and music. Haydain Neale’s legendary voice had been missing from the Canadian music scene since a serious motor accident in the summer of 2007, but his strength and perseverance during his recovery was moving and inspiring. …

By: Sara Koonar
November 23rd must be a lucky day for music sales because this year’s heaviest hitters are all releasing their much anticipated albums this week.
Lady Gaga- The Fame Monster
Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster, will be hitting stores in three different versions – a standard version of the new 8-song album; a deluxe version which includes both The Fame Monster and her massively successful debut album The Fame; and a collector’s edition super-deluxe art book version, which includes both albums, fanzines, 3-D glasses, paper dolls, a puzzle, pictorials, a lock …

By: Dave Bowden
Rocker lands lead in upcoming Spider-Man musical

Tobey Maguire’s no longer the only actor wearing the webs, as producers of the upcoming Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Lights have finally found their star.
Reeve Carney, lead singer of rock band Carney, will play Peter Parker in the title role opposite Evan Rachel Wood, who is set to play love interest Mary Jane Watson, and Alan Cumming, previously cast as Spidey nemesis Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin.
Julie Taymor, who previously directed Wood in the 2007 musical film Across the …

By: Sara Koonar
Coming off her third No. 1 single, “Waking Up in Vegas,” multi-platinum Capitol singer-songwriter Katy Perry is set to put her unique signature on yet another defining signpost of global pop culture, releasing her upcoming appearance on MTV: Unplugged in CD + DVD set in one package on November 17, 2009.
Recorded live in New York on July 22, 2009, Perry presents some of her most well-known songs in a whole new way, performing unplugged re-arrangements of her hits “I Kissed A Girl” and “Waking Up In Vegas,” along …

By: Sara Koonar

The A-list
The Toronto Film Festival is known as the good luck charm for potential Oscar nominated movies, so it is only appropriate that the A-list premiere their films at TIFF. And when it comes to A-list Toronto got a taste of the very best: Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney. If the entertainment industry had royalty, these two would be King and Queen. Oprah was in town to promote her movie Precious, and George was in town to promote two flicks, Up in the Air and Men Who Stare …

By: Sara Koonar

MORE THAN A GAME, opening on October 2nd is a documentary about five talented young basketball players from Akron, Ohio in a remarkable true-life coming of age story about friendship and loyalty in the face of great adversity.
Coached by a charismatic but an inexperienced player’s father, and led by future NBA superstar LeBron James, the Fab Five’s improbable nine-year journey leads them from a decrepit inner-city gym to the doorstep of a national high school championship. Along the way, the close-knit team is repeatedly tested — both …

By: Sara Koonar

The Fame soundtrack, produced by Grammy Award nominated soundtrack album producers Brian McNelis and Skip Williamson with Eric Craig, teams seasoned songwriters and producers with the new stars of the film for fresh recordings of the original classics along with brand new songs for the movie, due in theatres September 25.
If you are not familiar with the original Fame, the movie is set in the competitive atmosphere of New York City’s prestigious School of Performing Arts, Fame captures the excitement and energy of young performers.
Writing and producing the …