Gloria Trevi's bodyguards accused of assault

A fan filed a lawsuit against Mexican singer Gloria Trevi's security team for an alleged attack that occurred during one of her concerts in Los Angeles, the TMZ website reported. The plaintiff, Elvis Navarro, is demanding $1 million for "mental and physical harm". The incident, according to documents presented in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, took place May 11 at the Nokia Theater. According to Navarro, Trevi's bodyguards beat him, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him in front of the 4,000 people attending the concert, a situation that he says was very humiliating. Navarro did not provide any details regarding how the incident started. The news of the lawsuit comes on the same day that Trevi launched her live album "Gloria en vivo" in the US in which she performs some of her best-known songs.

MJ's 'Bad' to get 25th anniversary reissue

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's seminal 1987 disc, 'Bad,' his estate, in collaboration with Epic/Legacy Recordings, will be reissuing the disc with new music and a never-before-released concert video, the label and his estate announced on Monday. The anniversary edition of 'Bad,' the first re-release of an album from Jackson's catalogue since his 2009 death, will hit stores on Sept. 18. To roll out the reissue, the label will re-release the album's first single, 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You', the first of five of the album's singles to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, as a CD single with the previously unreleased bonus track 'Don't Be Messin' 'Round (demo)' on June 5, LA Times reported. Since the single is a Wal-Mart exclusive it won't be available through digital retailers.I Just Can't Stop Loving You' will also be made available on June 26 as a replica of the 7' vinyl released back in the day and includes the original B-side, 'Baby Be Mine,' not the unreleased bonus track. Titled 'Bad 25' the deluxe package will feature three CDs, two collectible booklets, and the first-ever authorized DVD release of a concert from his record-breaking Bad tour. The DVD features the King of Pop's full performance for Britain's Prince Charles, Princess Diana and 72,000 fans at London's Wembley Stadium in 1988. The video was discovered in the singer's private collection on VHS, and is apparently the sole copy. Of the three CDs, one is a remastered version of 'Bad,' another features demos and songs recorded in Jackson's studio that didn't make the cut, as well as remixes, and the third will feature audio from the soundtrack recordings of the accompanying DVD, making it Jackson's first live album. "The era of 'Bad' represented Michael's creative 'coming of age' as a solo artist in charge of every aspect of his career-from recording to touring to endorsements to merchandising. This was the first album on which nearly all of the songs were written by Michael," John Branca and John McClain, co-executors of his estate, wrote in a statement. 'Bad 25' follows the posthumous album 'Immortal,' a 'musical tapestry' that accompanied the Cirque du Soleil production of the same name. The disc featured reworked versions of some of Jackson's classic hits, mash-ups and never-before-released outtakes.

El Avión Puertorriqueño

Estan todos los pasajeros en la sala de embarque esperando la salida del vuelo cuando de repente llega el copiloto impecablemente uniformado con anteojos oscuros y un bastón blanco tanteando el camino.. La empleada de la compañía aclara que, si bien es ciego, es el mejor copiloto que tiene la Empresa. Al poco rato llega el piloto, con el uniforme impecable, anteojos oscuros y un bastón blanco asistido por dos azafatas. La encargada de la sala aclara que, también, el piloto es ciego, pero que es el mejor piloto que tiene la Compañía y que, junto con el copiloto, hacen la dupla más experimentada. Con todos a bordo, el avión comienza a carretear, tomando cada vez más velocidad y con los pasajeros aterrorizados. El avión sigue tomando velocidad pero no despega... continua la carrera y sigue en tierra. Cada vez el final de pista esta más cerca y en una explosión de histeria general los pasajeros comienzan a gritar como poseidos! En ese momento el avión, milagrosamente, toma altura ...entonces se escucha por los altavoces del avión que el piloto le dice al copiloto... - El día que los pasajeros no griten, ¡¡¡ nos jodemos !!! Moraleja: Asi está hoy nuestro país, gobernado por ciegos que no ven, o no quieren ver, la realidad. A la espera de que el pueblo "GRITE" para levantar vuelo. Creo que si no gritamos pronto... ¡nos joderemos! Me imagino que hay en muchos paises un avión nacional manejado igual. Pues a "gritar" que para luego es tarde!

Bee Gees singer dies in England

Family members of Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb have announced his death. The famous pop artist died on Sunday after a long battle with cancer. Robin Gibb was diagnosed with cancer after suffering abdominal pains while on tour in 2010. He underwent emergency surgery for a blocked intestine in August of that year. While he recovered and returned to perform concerts, in April 2011 he was forced by health problems to cancel a tour of Brazil. Looking gaunt and frail through 2011, he had to cancel many appearances. On 20 November, it was revealed that Gibb had been battling liver cancer which had been diagnosed several months earlier. Gibb spoke for the first time of his cancer to the Mail in 2012, saying: "For more than 18 months, I had lived with an inflammation of the colon; then I was diagnosed with colon cancer, which spread to the liver. I have undergone chemotherapy, however, and the results to quote my doctor have been "spectacular." It's taken a toll, naturally, but the strange thing is that I've never felt seriously ill. I've mostly felt great. There have been many false claims around, which I'd like to dispel. I am not and have never been at death's door, nor do I have a team of alternative doctors working on my health. That's not true, although I'm not averse to healthy remedies for any illness. I feel they can go together with conventional medicine." On 4 March this year it was announced that Gibb was in remission from cancer but in April it was reported that he was fighting for his life after contracting pneumonia. On 22 April it was revealed that he had advanced colorectal cancer. Robin Gibb, along with his brothers, was one of the major figures in the history of British music. As of this time, the Bee Gees have notched up record sales of more than 200 million and are regarded as being the most successful song writing group in British popular music after Lennon and McCartney.

Soon, car that may put drivers to sleep

A leading automobile luxury brand is developing a car that will use aromatherapy and soft music to encourage drivers to take a power nap. Initially the system was developed with long-haul truck drivers in mind, but the company has revealed that it will be rolled out to its passenger car range in the future. Mercedes-Benz' "Active Comfort" system uses fragrance, lighting and soft music to help a driver to nod off quickly if they pull over to take a power nap, according to Sydney Morning Herald. Claiming that a 20 minute power nap can "enhance concentration, reactions and general performance substantially", Mercedes will install a fragrance-emitting air-conditioning system that fills the cockpit with different scents depending on what the driver is doing. Menthol to stimulate the senses and keep them alert or an orange essence when the driver pulls over for a snooze Crash statistics suggest that fatigue is the reason behind 15 per cent of all fatal car accidents and 8 per cent of all reported crashes. Therefore the system also involves changes to the car cabin to provide better noise insulation and improved fresh air flow. Noise can be tiring for drivers, while if the cabin becomes too warm, it can lead to tiredness and slower reaction times. The NSW Centre for Road Safety's 2010 Crash Statistics report has estimated that the risk of having a fatal car accident increases four fold for people driving between 10 pm and sunrise. Professor Dietrich Gronemeyer, who was involved in the development of the Active Comfort system, said that the main idea is to make the cabin a more comfortable and calming place to be. As a result features like a massage function in the seat to help ease back pain or stereo which plays song according to the need of the driver have been induced in the car. "People who feel relaxed behind the wheel, take the right sort of break in good time and are supported in their seat by innovative technology have a good chance of avoiding the back trouble which has become a 'national ailment'. Stress is a key cause of back complaints, which even afflict the majority of young people today," Gronemeyer said.

Zooey Deschanel to star as Loretta Lynn in Broadway production of 'Coal Miner's Daughter

Loretta Lynn announced on Thursday that Zooey Deschanel will be portraying the country singer in a Broadway production of "Coal Miner's Daughter." The role, tracing Lynn's dramatic rise from backwoods Kentucky to superstardom, had earned Sissy Spacek an Oscar in the hit film released in 1980. The 32-year-old joined Lynn on stage on Thursday night at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium for a duet of the song "Coal Miner's Daughter" but she had her own way of breaking the news-with an Instagram photo of herself sidling up to the country legend with the caption, "Loretta Lynn asked me to do "coal miner's daughter" on Broadway! I said YES!" Fox News reported. The actress, best known for roles in movies like 'Elf' and, more recently, her lead in the hit TV show 'New Girl,' has a parallel career in music. With singer-songwriter M. Ward, she has released three albums under the moniker 'She and Him.' Together they make sunny, throwback indie-pop, but peppered with country influences.

Music of brain hemispheres sheds light on schizophrenia

Researchers at the University of California in San Diego have suggested that careful analyses of the electrical signals of brain activity, measured using electroencephalography (EEG), may reveal important harmonic relationships in the electrical activity of brain circuits. The underlying premise is a simple one - that brain function is expressed by circuits that fire, and therefore generate oscillating EEG signals, at different frequencies. High frequency EEG activity called gamma, for example, might reflect the activity of fast-spiking cells which are often a subclass of inhibitory nerve cells containing parvalbumin. Represented musically, this would be a high pitch, i.e., toward the right side of the piano. Lower frequency EEG activity, called theta, might come from cells that fire with a lower frequency. As circuits interact with each other, one would see different "musical combinations", like the chords of music, emerging in the EEG signal. Abnormalities in the structure and function of brain circuits would be reflected in cacophonous music, chords where the musical "voices" are firing at the wrong rate (pitch), volume (amplitude), or timing. It is increasingly evident that schizophrenia is a disorder characterized by disturbances in the "music of the brain hemispheres." Their new report in the latest issue of Biological Psychiatry described relationships between low- and high-frequency EEG oscillations in the human brain produced when high frequency auditory stimuli are presented to a research subject. The researchers observed relatively slower oscillations and reduced cross-phase synchrony (for example, peak of theta coinciding with peak of gamma) in schizophrenia patients compared to healthy study participants. "The new findings highlight the importance of understanding the relationships between different circuits. It seems that cortical abnormalities in schizophrenia disturb brain function, in part, by disturbing the 'tuning' of brain circuits in relation to each other," commented Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.