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Sony Presents “Blue Note Jazz Festival” Announces 2018 Lineup

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Readers of my stuff on PiercingMetal know just how much I love the live music scene of our Big Apple. This bit of news focuses on a different genre completely from what I am used to and that’s why I am making sure you know the scoop about it right here on The Chronicles. Check it out.

The Press Release:
With over 100 events in five venues throughout New York City, the 2018 Sony presents Blue Note Jazz Festival will take place June 1-30, 2018. Sony Corporation is the Festival’s Official Title Sponsor and INGLOT Cosmetics of Poland is the Presenting Sponsor. Ticket information and a current schedule of events are available on the festival’s website, www.BlueNoteJazzFestival.com. Additional performances, venues, and events will be announced in the coming weeks.

Highlights for the eighth edition of the festival include GRAMMY® Award winning trumpeter Chris Botti at the newly opened Sony Hall in Times Square; an intimate evening with American music icon Art Garfunkel at The Town Hall; two-time GRAMMY® Award nominee jazz vocalist Gregory Porter (presented by City Parks Foundation at Central Park SummerStage in association with Blue Note Jazz Festival); jazz fusion guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola; renowned folk singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot; a very special 5-night residency with future funk collective Lettuce performing for the first time ever at the historic Blue Note Jazz Club; jazz vocal group The Manhattan Transfer; Latin jazz legend pianist Eddie Palmieri; three-time GRAMMY® Award nominee and revered blues guitarist Tab Benoit at Highline Ballroom; iconic Brazilian producer, composer, keyboardist and vocalist Sergio Mendes; celebrated blues guitarist Robert Cray; GRAMMY® Award winning multi-genre vocalist/musician Bilal performing with Victory (presented by founding festival partner Jill Newman Productions); New Jersey-based rocker Southside Johnny and many more!

This year’s Blue Note Jazz Festival features the addition of several new key partnerships marking a new chapter in the festival’s history.
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Foodies Unite! Presenting “Eatellia” A New Food Photo Network

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Recently, I lamented about the ending of the Foodspotting App in a post that can be found HERE. I loved it at first since it was easy to use and help broadcast that which I was eating but over the most recent months it seemed like it was falling to the wayside. I’d learn that it was because it was heading towards its end thanks to a purchase by OpenTable and now its time to move on.

This post is to introduce our readers to an app that was learned about while trying to get all of our photos back from Foodspotting but more on that later. Foodies of the world, behold “EATELLIA” – a Social Network that appears to keep it simple and functional which is a win, win idea in my book. Take a look at my profile down below.

eatellia, social networking, foodie

So while you see there are some “700” or so photos in the profile, I’ve only been using Eatellia for a few days. I was able to still import almost all of my Foodspotting images into this account. Sadly, I think the window for that kind of old Foodspotting integration is closed but you can try. Speaking frankly, I am quite disappointed in the lack of communication from OpenTable to the Foodspotting user community about their accounts and images. With the technology available today, the means to access ones images and perhaps move onto a brand-new OT account should have been communicated. The failure to do so makes me feel that my personal information was just purchased by yet another medium and I will be making sure that there is no trace of me on OT for the time being. It’s not a network I think that I need but I digress.

So far Eatellia is a fun app for me to use and since I don’t really like posting food images on Instagram and pretty much abhor the use of Facebook for anything other than feeds to “The Chronicles” or PiercingMetal.com, think I will be continuing to utilize it. If I’m able to secure my press credentials for the Summer Fancy Food Show this year, you can count on my loading the account up with photos like you might recall seeing HERE. If you consider yourself a proper Foodie, then take that stuff off of the other socials and make them stand with something new. I’ve got their link down below for you to examine along with ones for both Yelp and OpenTable – the first so you can provide some value to the mix and the second to try and reclaim your Foodspotting stuff.

Relevant Links:
Eatellia: https://www.facebook.com/eatellia/
Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/
OpenTable: https://www.opentable.com/

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ReedPOP & NY Comic Con Announce “The Dates” For 2018

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Hey there my dear readers, I just wanted to alert you to this bit of news about the upcoming 2018 NY Comic Con. It came to us not long ago from the folks over at ReedPOP and you’ll want to mark some of this stuff down for good measure as its important if you are a fan of this massive convention.

nycc 2018, reedpop, ny comic con 2018

Piercing Ken Thoughts: I am going to stress the importance of watching for the “Fan Verification” email because I’ve had a lot of important messages go to my Spam folder over the last few months. Considering that you need to be verified nowadays to attend this event you are NOT going to want to miss out on this one if you have a profile already. The registration for Industry Professionals and the Press is already open and I’ve just requested my credentials for the PiercingMetal Media site. As most of you more tenured readers know, I’ve been attending this convention since 2010 as a member of the press and have put together numerous posts about it. If this is news to you then by all means please click HERE to peruse them to your hearts content. You’re also going to want to click through to the websites down below since they will help to keep you informed on all of the information that you need about this years convention. See you next time.

Official Websites:
NY Comic Con
ReedPOP

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“Good Morning America” Announces Its 2018 Summer Concert Series Lineup

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Summer is almost here and that means its once again time to share the revealed performers for the Good Morning America “Summer Concert Series”. As you most likely know by now, the live music scene is something that I love and the offering up of free performances like this is quite incredible. These events begin in the coming weeks and as you will read below, start very early in the morning if you’d like to get a proper space. I’d suggest a dawn arrival and choose the most suitable gig for you as possible since you cannot use the same lateness excuse blaming the MTA so many times. Check out the concerts below and I will return at the close with additional thoughts.

good morning america summer concert series logo

Concert Schedule:
May 15 – Liam Payne and J Balvin (#LIAMonGMA, #JBALVINonGMA)
May 25 – Sting and Shaggy (#STINGonGMA, #SHAGGYonGMA)
June 1 – Halsey (#HALSEYonGMA)
June 8 – Ne-Yo (#NEYOonGMA)
June 15 – Pitbull (#PITBULLonGMA)
June 22 – Bebe Rexha (#BEBEREXHAonGMA)
June 29 – Florence + the Machine (#FLORENCEonGMA)
July 6 – G-Eazy (#GEAZYonGMA)
July 13 – Backstreet Boys (#BACKSTREETBOYSonGMA)
July 20 – Camila Cabello (#CAMILAonGMA)
July 27 – Fall Out Boy (#FALLOUTBOYonGMA)
August 3 – Kelsea Ballerini (#KELSEAonGMA)
August 10-The Chainsmokers9 (#CHAINSMOKERSonGMA)
August 17 – Leon Bridges* (#LEONBRIDGESonGMA) *This concert will be held in our Times Square studio.
August 24 – Luis Fonsi (#LUISFONSIonGMA)
August 31 – Alesso (#ALESSOonGMA)

How to Attend a Summer Concert:
All other concerts are free and open to the public and will take place on Fridays from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET. Viewers interested in joining “GMA” in Central Park are encouraged to arrive at Rumsey Playfield via the 72nd Street entrance on Fifth Avenue at 6 a.m. when the park opens to the public. The Summer Concert Series returns for the eighth year to Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, home of City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage Festival.

Piercing Ken Thoughts: I’ll be listing all of these events on our handy dandy Events Calendar for sure so if you do NOT yet have that bookmarked as a favorite on your computer or mobile device please get to that ASAP. I want you to be up to date on the latest and greatest happenings in our region. Now as you can see, these events happen very early in the morning and I can only stress that acting fast and being there in as timely a fashion is in your best interests. Sadly there don’t seem to be any performances by artists I’d want to see for the purposes of my PiercingMetal.com adventures. So what do you readers think about these offerings? Will you be entering their giveaways to see one of the artists listed? Let me know down in the comments section below. Until we meet again.

Official Website: http://www.abcnews.com

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Marvel Studios: “Ant-Man and The Wasp” Official Trailer #2 (7/2018)

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Before I begin this one, I am going to let you know that I will occasionally be mirroring the same post that will be broadcast over on PiercingMetal when it comes to the Marvel Studios and Warner Brothers hero stuff. Here we go with one such post. I’ve been on a bit of a social media and Internet silence since the opening of “Avengers: Infinity War” because I didn’t want any of the film spoiled on me but as you are reading this, I am just now home from seeing it and all I can say is “HOLY WOWZAWOW”. It was awesome, but its rather long. You must go to see it ASAP because so many people are talking about it and I don’t want anyone to miss key points. This film has already made over $725 million dollars and it only opened last Friday. As I returned to my home I was overjoyed to learn that the latest trailer for the upcoming “Ant Man and The Wasp” film was available to share with you so here we go.

The Premise:
Set after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Scott Lang tries to balance his home life as a father with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, when Hope van Dyne and Hank Pym present him with a new mission to bring to light secrets from their past, requiring him to team up with van Dyne as the new Wasp.
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