Kanye West is at that level of "tabloid celebrity" where joining Twitter is such a huge event that it makes headlines. And, Kanye's buddy, comedian Aziz Ansari, has been "Predicting Kanye Tweets" on his Twitter account, dropping potentially prophetic gems like, "Hans Zimmer needs to write a score for whenever I eat a cookie … when I eat cookies shit is mad suspenseful."  

Cincinnati has a long history in education. Did you know the Art Academy of Cincinnati is one of only five museum schools in the U.S.? Read on to learn about UC, Miami, Xavier and other schools in our area. You can even learn which local program, despite our economy, has had 100% job placement for the last 15 years.  

The names of many of the performers for this year's MidPoint Music Festival (coming up Sept. 23-25) have been leaking out gradually over the past few months, but the first official schedule is now available at mpmf.com. The interactive grid allows you to choose Thursday, Friday or Saturday's lineups and scroll across the 26 venues, then click on any performer name to get details.  

The annual two-day Cincy Blues Fest features three stages of continuous music at Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point on the banks of the Ohio River. Saturday's musical acts include Joe Louis Walker   

Once upon a time, Kings of Leon was this scruffy, scrappy little band all the cool kids loved. Then radio started playing their songs every 10 minutes. Then those cool kids began looking at the band with a disdain usually reserved for Nickelback. Then birds began to rain shit on them.  

If you've peeked at the Internet in the past few weeks, you'll know Mel Gibson's blockbuster movie career is in trouble after recordings of his caustic, racist and sexist phone calls to his baby mama made it to the public. Mel might want to consider a career in Hip Hop after making his debut on a track by rapper Ras Kass, who sampled his meltdown for "Why You Be Dressin' Like That."   

Times are tough for those in the corporate music world, so, like a lot of people having trouble paying the bills, they're getting into porn. Eleven major labels have teamed up to sue porn Web sites RK Netmedia and RealityKings for unauthorized use of music by big-timers like Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson.  

  

Probably due to being sick of waiting for the promo boost of a 'V For Vendetta' film sequel, one of the best-named bands in Indie Rock has changed its name. Seattle's Natalie Portman's Shaved Head has decided to drop its unusual moniker for the far more boring Brite Futures. Perhaps a band called Natalie Portman's Shaved Head could never be a truly "big" band like U2, but who's to say?  

One of the coolest just-for-the-hell-of-it projects by a musical superstar in recent memory is Beck’s “Record Club” project, a loose-yet-focused jam session of sorts that features Beck and an impressive list of pals covering classic albums in full.