VIDEO/DVD: Youtube Gives Users Their 15 Minutes of Fame
As of Thursday, you can subject your friends and family to 50 percent more of your baby making that cute cooing noise or your dog doing that funny dance. YouTube previously limited uploaded videos to 10 minutes, but is increasing the limit to 15 minutes--the improvement requested most often by YouTube users, according to Joshua Siegel, YouTube's product manager for upload and video management, writing on a company blog...

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Erwin Helfer, Legendary Chicago Jazz/Blues Pianist, in Performance!
IF YOU'RE IN CHICAGO, THEN YOU'RE IN FOR A TREAT! Legendary pianist, Mr. Erwin Helfer, a jazz/blues/boogie-woogie master, will appear at The Greenhouse Theater (2257 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, 773-404-7336) on Saturday, August 28, 2010. Helfer appears in conjunction with a benefit for the non-profit group, Chicago End-of-Life Care Coalition (CECC), at 6:00 pm. Tickets are $25 and are available at greenhousetheater.org. Discounted parking across the street at the Children's Memorial Hospital parking gargage...

RADIO/PODCAST: Ben Heppner to Host on Jazz.FM91
BEN HEPPNER HOSTS ON JAZZ.FM91 Toronto, Ontario (July 29th, 2010)--He's recognized worldwide as the finest dramatic tenor around today. Ben Heppner will bring those famous pipes to JAZZ.FM91, as host of his own radio show on Sunday, August 1st. Heppner is one of more than 100 station supporters who donated to the station since the Fall of 2009 for the opportunity to host their own show on JAZZ.FM91. Host Your Own Radio Show participants select their favourite music, write their own material, and record their show with the help of a JAZZ.FM91 host of their choice. Four 30-minute shows are then aired Sunday nights between 10PM and midnight...

EVENT: Jazz at First Sight: The Art of David Stone Martin - Jazz at Lincoln Center
EXHIBITION Jazz at First Sight: The Art of David Stone Martin Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a free art exhibition entitled Jazz at First Sight: The Art of David Stone Martin, featuring the record-album art of David Stone Martin (1913-1992)--whose brilliantly evocative jazz covers for the Verve label and others set the industry standard. Martin sought visual equivalents of the music contained in the sleeves he illustrated: iconic images instantly recognizable as modern jazz...