Weekend Fun: Drumming Hippies

Got a pocket full of change from returning your “uninspired” holiday gifts? (Namely those ugly sweaters from Grandma Lena -Ed.) Then have we got a great way to waste your money… Drumming Hippies are charming little battery-powered figurines that play along to the tunes that blast out of their infra-red risers. In addition, these Hippies, like counterculture namesakes, like to hang out and jam. If their infra-red...

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The Top-Grossing Tours Of 2006

Concert tours by the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand and country duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were among the top-grossing tours in North America in 2006, helping drive ticket revenue to a record $3.6 billion, according to figures released Thursday by Pollstar, the industry trade magazine. The figures represent a 16 percent increase over 2005, when North American concert ticket sales totaled $3.1 billion, said Gary Bongiovanni,...

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