Drake is taking his Club Paradise on the road; and I have a pair of tickets to give to one lucky winner in the United States. All you have to do is email me the answer at [email protected] to “Before Drake was a Grammy nominated singer, what show did he star on?” by May 17th with your full name, email, phone number, and your choice of city/venue and concert date. One winner will be chosen at random. Only the concert tickets are provided, you will need to provide your own transportation and such.
The Club Paradise Tour comes on the heels of Drake’s hugely successful sold out US college and European arena tours which saw the artist play US college arenas from Miami to San Jose and European venues including London’s O2 Arena and the Oslo Spektrum. The Los Angeles Times review of Drake’s performance at USC’s Galen Center praised Drake’s “masterful flow and wildly imaginative wordplay,†and The OC Register raved that the LA show was a “near knockout performance†and “only a sampling of the heights Drake seems capable of scaling.â€
TAKE CARE (Young Money / Cash Money / Universal Republic), Drake’s sophomore album was released November 15, 2011 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with 631,000 copies sold. Acclaimed by fans and critics alike, the album has been praised as one of the best releases of the year, with The New York Times dubbing Drake “hip-hop’s current center of gravity.†The album has since been certified Platinum, having sold over 1.5 million copies in the US.
TAKE CARE follows Drake’s full length album debut, 2010’s THANK ME LATER, which also bowed at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart week of release and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album earned Drake multiple Grammy® nominations, including Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, and Best Rap Solo performance.
Tickets are available for all dates at http://bit.ly/Draketickets.
THE CLUB PARADISE TOUR DATES:
DATE CITY VENUE
May 7 Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord
May 8 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
May 10 Phoenix, AZ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion
May 11 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
May 13 Denver, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
May 14 Albuquerque, NM Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque Presents The Pavilion
May 16 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
May 17 Houston, TX Toyota Center
May 19 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
May 20 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
May 22 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
May 23 Virginia Beach, VA Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
May 25 Washington, DC Verizon Center
May 26 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
May 28 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
May 30 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
June 1 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
June 2 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
June 5 Memphis, TN FedExForum
June 6 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
June 8 Darien Lake, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
June 9 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Bank Center
June 11 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre
June 12 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
June 14 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 16 New York, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
June 17 Boston, MA Comcast Center
Before Robert Sean Leonard was playing pranks on House, he was doing them in The Manhattan Project. How awwwdorable was the 15 year old in that 1986 movie.
Tonight at 10p Hawaii Five-0 airs its second season finale on CBS and the show’s producers described it as “jaw dropping.” Peter Lenkov and Elwood Reid aren’t kidding because someone high up on the force will be shot and killed within the first few minutes of the show. Then while looking into his murder one them will be shot. But it doesn’t stop there, the police station will blow up and they will barely get out in time. And wait there’s even more, one of them will have to deal with two of the people in their life being held hostage and their lives are in danger. Will that person be able to rescue at least one of them in time or will they lose them both? Oh and did I mention that the name of the episode is Ua Hala which means Hawaiian “Death in the Family.†Lenkov said that we should be prepared to say goodbye to someone, but who you will have to tune into to find out.
Another thing Lenkov said is that tonight’s season finale, which they made with the intention of topping last year’s, will leave you “pissed where it ends.” Now even though you will have to wait all summer to find out what happens next, he promised that the new season will pick up right where this left off. In fact a lot of what happens tonight is setting things up for next year.
So now we know how the second season will end, how did this reboot begin for Lenkov. He told us why he jumped at the offer of working on this show. He said he did it because it was his dad’s favorite show. He then reminisced by saying, “I remember back then, television used to be with your families. You sit down with your mom, your dad and your siblings and you all watched TV together…I don’t think that family viewing exsists anymore. But I remember as a little boy sitting by my dad, who took the couch, and I’d sit on the floor next to the couch and I’d watch the show with him.” Adding, “I don’t remember the stories, I could not tell you one episode…but I just remember palm trees, the wave, the hula girl. I remember all these different moments, I remember the car, I remember Jack Lord’s hair. I remember Danny to me always looked like an outsider. I wondered what is this blonde haired, blue eyed guy doing in Hawaii. I remember bits and pieces of it. It was really formed over the twelve years it was on because my dad would watch it religiously, every week. So I remember how important it was to him and that was really the reason why I wanted to do it. I knew if he was a fan there were millions of other fans just like him out there.” And they are out there and they are still watching along with a new generation of fans.
Here are some tidbits he told us about how the original plays in today’s version. There are a few writers and crew member’s (including Jack Lord’s driver) from the original who work on the show now. Also Lenkov and Reid go back to the original for character’s, back stories and locations, but not for plots. And on that note we have not seen the last of Wofat, he will be back but you will have to wait until September to see how…
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Harrison Ford was out and about and I never realized that he had such a big Hans Solo before. Seriously is that a light saber or a crystal skull in his jeans?
Why was he always wearing looser pants in all of those movies and not tight ones? Maybe if he did, Star Wars and Indiana Jones would’ve done better in the box office…
