Update" The Old Spaghetti Factory Gaslmap- ITS OPEN NOW

YES, now a place I can afford to eat downtown besides Pokez or Lotus (during lunch special time) I just read in the San Diego Business Journal that Dussini's is turning BACK into The Old Spaghetti Factory!! They are owned by the same Portland based restaurant group and the switch was originally made because they thought the current higher end entity would do better in the up and coming San Diego downtown landscape. But peeps be poor now! I'm so excited!! They have their famous "Complete Meal" that comes with bread and awesome garlic butter before your meal. You then get an entree, soup or salad, a drink and the best part, ice cream, all for one low price! I can almost taste the spumoni....oh my god and their insane cheese mizithra! All you job seekers take note! While they will be keeping their bar staff they are looking for other workers!!


**NOTE**
-Other Downtown Eatery News:
Max's on 5th is closing
Sun Cafe is turning into a Mexican food restaurant

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Saving Polaroids

New York Times
January 22, 2009, 7:03 am
Polaroid Fans Try Making New Film for Old Cameras
By Jenna Wortham
Before the advent of the digital camera, Polaroid reigned supreme when it came to photographs you could view in an instant. When the company announced last year that it would cease film production and abandon the technology that made it famous, the format seemed doomed to disappear.

Now a group of Polaroid enthusiasts are trying to create an entirely new instant film product, compatible with Polaroid cameras, that would keep the medium alive.

André Bosman, a former Polaroid employee, and Florian Kaps, a former manager of the Lomographic Society, an online community for film enthusiasts, solicited financing from private donors to purchase the remainder of the film manufacturing equipment from Polaroid. The two also leased the company’s factory in the Netherlands for their effort, cheekily called “The Impossible Project.”

The Impossible Project

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FDA approves human embryonic stem cell study

Bring on the progressive changes, Viva Obama!!

By Miriam Falco
CNN Medical News Managing Editor

(CNN) -- Federal regulators have cleared the way for the first human trials of human embryonic stem-cell research, authorizing researchers to test whether the cells are safe to use in spinal injury patients, the company behind the trials announced Friday.

Embryonic stem cells are blank cells found in embryos, which have the ability to turn into any cell in the body.

The tests could begin by summer, said Dr. Thomas Okarma, president and CEO of the Geron Corporation. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the trials, which will use human stem cells authorized for research by then-President George W. Bush in 2001.

The patients will be those with the most severe spinal cord injuries, called complete spinal cord injuries.

"A complete spinal cord injury has no hope of recovery below the injury," Okarma told CNN. "This is significant because it's the first clinical trial of a human embryonic-based product."

The primary purpose of the trial will be to see whether injecting these cells into patients is safe, but Okarma said researchers will also look for any signs of recovery. Scientists will monitor the patients for a year after the injections to see if they are regaining any function below the injured point.

"If there is any movement below the injury, they will measure that and record it," he said.

The trials will involve eight to 10 patients who are completely paralyzed below the third to tenth vertebra, and who sustained their spinal cord injury within seven to 14 days. The tests will use stem cells cultured from embryos left over in fertility clinics, which otherwise would have been discarded.

Using the stem cells, researchers have developed cells called oligodendrocytes, which are precursors to nerve cells and which produce a protective layer around nerve cells known as myelin. Researchers will inject these nerve cells directly into the part of the spine where the injury occurred.

Embryonic stem cells are blank cells found in four- to five-day-old embryos, which have the ability to turn into any cell in the body. However, when stem cells are removed, the embryo is destroyed -- which has made this one of the most controversial medical research fields in the past decade.

Federal research funds were prohibited for embryonic stem-cell research until August 2001, when Bush approved spending for research using only already-existing cell lines. Scientists later discovered that fewer than two dozen of those lines were useful for research, but abortion opponents opposed any legislation that would lift Bush's restrictions, and Bush twice vetoed congressional efforts to roll back his rules.

President Obama is expected to loosen the restrictions, which many researchers and advocates have complained severely set back work toward curing disease such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes.

Okarma said Geron did not use any federal funding for its research, and that the Bush restrictions had "devastated the field."

"People didn't think this would happen for another five years," Okarma said. "But it will happen soon, and it would have happened sooner if it weren't for the ridiculous Bush policies."

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Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard are engaged. NOOOOO!!!!!!

OMG I'm cringing and rolling my eyes, half smiling. The darlings of indie, engaged. Turns out over the Christmas break this one year old couple started down the road to tax breaks and once a month sex. You might know it as marriage. I used to be in LOVE with Ben Gibbard (32), I wanted to be the subject of one of his songs, a heartbreak one or a longing one, I didn't care. And if you read a couple blog posts down, you know I think Zooey Deschanel (28) is a weirdo lame-o with a good voice, cute face and the inability to act in any movie she's ever been in. This news break my heart....maybe it's a publicity stunt to save the waning indie scene and culture.....

Here's what Pitchfork had to say.... (Also, the picture Pitchfork used of Ben Gibbard for their article was taken by SD Local photog Natalie Kardos!!)
Cue the sound of thousands of blogger hearts breaking. USmagazine.com (via Rawkblog) reports that Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and actress/She & Him singer Zooey Deschanel are engaged. Isn't that just the most indie-in-2008 thing ever? It almost seems a little too perfect, as if we made it up in some kind of fantasy indie rock love connection.

Emails to Death Cab's publicist and She & Him's publicist haven't been answered yet, but various other sources, including MTV.com and People.com, claim to have confirmed the engagement. Sorry, lonely dudes.

Hal Turner Amero Video

This is about the ongoing debate about the Amero, the alleged coin that will be the currency of Canada, America, and Mexico when the American dollar is reduced to nothing. It makes a SHIT TON of sense if you know anything about the size of the American debt. I've read that Hal Turner is a neo-nazi White Supremacist. There are also news stories and other youtubes claiming to debunk these allegations. Never hurts to hear new information though. And for the most part, everything he is saying about the size of this countries debt and our near inability to pay it is true. Check it out, almost made me want to move all my money into a foreign bank. Until I realized. I really done haaaaaave any money....

Barack Obama is Staying in my home town of Kailua

Ok, well to be honest I lived there for about five years and to a girl that moved every two years, that was a lifetime. You've all probably seen the pictures of President Elect 8 Minute Abs (If You Haven't). HOT. If this were Cosmo Mag I'd have to say: Those pics are YUMMY!!! But what I'm focusing on more is that he's stay in Kailua, the gorgeous beach town I went to high school in on the North East side of Oahu. It's complete paradise and I thank my lucky stars I walked out of a door facing rugged ancient volcanic mountains and crystal blue water daily. If you've decided not to bother visiting Hawaii because you live in San Diego and figure it's about the same, forget it. It isn't. Visit Hawaii and see for yourself!

Total Bummer: Probably no follow up to the lone Postal Service album...

I sensed they ( Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel) were over it. Just didn't want to believe it. If youre like me you adore the entire album all the way through. The things ends too soon if you ask me. Which is why a second album would have been incredible. More insane beats (listen to Dntels other stuff for more of that) gorgeous lyrics and vocals (More Death Cab and Rilo Kiley for that, the female voice is Jenny Lewis) and honestly just one of the best sounding albums of the last 10 Years. I remember getting Give Up from a friend my freshman year of college and listening to it exclusively for about 2-3 months making everyone I knew listen to it too. They played a show in LA and I didn't go because I couldn't find a ride, worst show mistake I've made in life. Sigh.....Here's what Pitchfork had to say;

From Pitchfork:
Some advice to all those going postal (sorry) while pining for a new Postal Service record: Give Up. Ben Gibbard laid out the cold hard truth in a recent interview with Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily: "It's the record that never seems to want to come out. It's also just never been a priority...There never really was a plan to do a second album." Say it ain't so, bro!

Rumors of a sophomore offering from Gibbard and fellow Postal Servant Jimmy Tamborello have persisted since approximately 1912, but unless Ben's throwing us all for a loop here, the darn thing apparently doesn't even exist at this point. "The anticipation of the second record has been a far bigger deal for everybody except the two of us," he also said to Rock & Roll Daily. Rub it in why don't ya?

"I don't know about it being the indie-rock Chinese Democracy," Gibbard mused, "but now that Chinese Democracy has come out, I guess it just becomes the second Postal Service record that will never come out."

We do get one glimmer of hope, though: "We work from time to time together but we have other things that take up all of our time." Duuuude, what could possibly be more important than a new Postal Service record right now?

And what about Jimmy? Well, as he told Pitchfork in 2006, "I definitely want to do another [Postal Service record]." What's that they say about the road to hell again?

DCFC:

12-13 Tucson, AZ - Tucson Convention Center (KFMA's Unsilent Night)
12-14 Los Angeles, CA - Gibson Amphitheatre (KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas)
02-12 Nagoya, Japan - Club Quattro
02-14 Tokyo, Japan - Shinkiba Studio Coast
02-16 Osaka, Japan - Big Cat
03-07 Miami, FL - Bicentennial Park (Langerado Music Festival)

No West Coast Stops on Moz Tour 2009!!!!!!!

The recent addition to the Lost Highway label ( think Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson) will be touring 2009 to promote his new album "Years of Refusal."

What ups with Morrissey only going as far as New Mexico?? WTF?!?! AND no Mexico, Central or South America shows?????

02-28 Boca Raton, FL - Mizner Park
03-01 Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
03-03 Jacksonville, FL - Florida Theater
03-04 St Petersburg, FL - Jannus Landing
03-06 Myrtle Beach SC - House of Blues
03-07 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
03-09 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
03-11 Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center
03-13 Richmond, VA - The National
03-14 Washington, DC - Warner Theater
03-16 Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theater
03-17 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Music Hall
03-19 Buffalo, NY - University of Buffalo Center for the Arts
03-21 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
03-22 Philadelphia, PA - Academy of Music
03-25 New York, NY - Webster Hall
03-26 New York, NY - Carnegie Hall
03-28 Mashantucket, CT - Foxwoods
03-29 Boston, MA - House of Blues
03-31 Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater
04-01 Columbus, OH - Palace Theater
04-03 Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
04-04 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
04-06 Minneapolis, MN - State Theater
04-07 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theater
04-08 St Louis, MO - Pageant Theater
04-10 Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom
04-11 Houston, TX - Jesse H Jones Hall
04-12 Austin, TX - Bass Concert Hall
04-14 El Paso, TX - Chavez Theater
04-15 Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
04-28 Killarney, Ireland - INEC
04-29 Galway, Ireland - Leisureland
05-01 Omagh, Northern Ireland - Leisure Centre
05-02 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Waterfront
05-04 Stirling, Scotland - Albert Hall *
05-05 Dundee, Scotland - Caird Hall *
05-07 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands *
05-08 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands *
05-10 Liverpool, England - Empire *
05-11 London, England - Royal Albert Hall *
05-13 Great Yarmouth, England - Brittania Pier *
05-16 Cambridge, England - Corn Exchange *
05-19 Hull, England - Hull Arena *
05-20 Hartlepool, England - Borough Hall *
05-22 Manchester, England - Apollo *
05-23 Manchester, England - Apollo *
05-25 Salisbury, England - City Hall *
05-26 London, England - Troxy Ballroom *
05-28 London, England - Brixton Academy *
05-29 London, England - Brixton Academy *
05-30 London, England - Brixton Academy *
06-02 Paris, France - Grand Rex
06-03 Lille, France - Aeronef
06-05 Luxembourg - Rockhal Club
06-06 Rotterdam, Holland - Watt
06-08 Antwerp, Belgium - Elizabeth Hall
06-09 Offenbach, Germany - Capitol
06-11 Cologne, Germany - Palladium
06-12 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
06-14 Bremen, Germany - Pier 2
06-20 Oslo, Norway - Senstrumscene
06-24 Stockholm, Sweden - Hovet
06-30 St. Petersburg, Russia - Maneshe
07-01 Moscow, Russia - B1 Club

Child named Adolph Hilter Dosen't Get to Have His Cake and Eat it Too

EASTON, Pa. (WABC) -- Three-year-old Adolph Hitler Campbell is cute, cuddly and, for now, blissfully unaware of the shock value conveyed by his first and middle names. That may be changing, though.

The youngster was at the center of a recent dispute between his parents and a local supermarket that refused to spell out his name on a cake for his birthday party last weekend. A story in a local newspaper prompted an outpouring of angry online responses directed at Heath Campbell, 35, and his wife Deborah, 25.

"I think people need to take their heads out of the cloud they've been in and start focusing on the future and not on the past," Heath Campbell said Tuesday in an interview conducted on the other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in Hunterdon County, N.J.

"There's a new president and he says it's time for a change; well, then it's time for a change," he continued. "They need to accept a name. A name's a name. The kid isn't going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did."


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Story Highlights:

-The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.
-They wanted a swastika on the cake too
-On Tuesday the father wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.
-Wal Mart finally made the infamous cake (of course, ANYTHING to make a buck)
-There were 12 kids at the birthday party. They were of mixed races.

Shoes Thrown at Bush Revealed to Have Message on Bottoms

Lee Camp at 236

I like how the bottom of these shoes make it appear the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush was wearing checkered Vans or something....

According to City-Data the 92101 is One Huge White Dude Sausage Fest

Males: 19,032 (69.2%)
Females: 8,462 (30.8%)

Read more stats at City-Data.com

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Yeeeeeess: Iraqi Journlaist Hurls Shows at Prez Bush

The reporter's arrest has drawn angry protests in Baghdad's Sadr City as the TV station he works for is also urging for his release. In Iraqi custom throwing a show or facing the bottom of your shoe toward someone is an insult. RIGHT ON. If I could throw all my shoes at P. Bush I toats would.

Betty Page Dies at 85

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Legendary pinup queen Bettie Page died of pneumonia at the age of 85 in a Los Angeles, California, hospital Thursday, a week after suffering a heart attack, according to her agent.
She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," said agent Mark Roesler in a written statement. "She is the embodiment of beauty."

Page, said to be one of the most photographed people of the past century, became a recluse in recent decades. Yet, her images continued to be used around the world to market Bettie Page action figures, clothing lines and other merchandise.

The Web site, BettiePage.com, logs about 20 million hits a month, Roesler said. A TVGuide.com poll recently placed Bettie Page as the "ultimate sex goddess," outscoring others such as Marilyn Monroe.

Page was born to a poor family in Tennessee on April 22, 1923. While her birth certificate spelled her name "Betty," she changed the spelling later in life to "Bettie."

At a time when few women pursued a college education, Page earned a bachelor of arts degree in education from Peabody College in Tennessee in 1944, according to her official biography.

Her teaching career, however, was hampered by her looks, she said.

"I couldn't control my students, especially the boys," she is quoted as saying.

After her modeling career ended, Page returned to Peabody College to work on a master's degree, the bio said. Her southern drawl and a refusal to sleep with a Hollywood producer hampered her acting career, according to her bio.

"I didn't like his looks," Page said. "I wouldn't have gone to bed with him anyway. He was a creep. He drove off in his big car and scolded me, 'You'll be sorry.' I wasn't."

Page said she regretted not accepting studio boss Jack Warner's offer of another screen-test, but it came while she was trying to save her marriage to her first husband, Billy Neal.

Her modeling breakthrough began after she divorced Neal in 1947 when she met a police officer whose hobby was photography. He suggested the black bangs, which became her trademark, her bio said. Not long after, her images were everywhere, gracing magazine covers and locker pin-ups.

Page wore nothing but a Santa hat in Playboy's January 1955 centerfold. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said her appearance in his magazine's first year was a milestone.

"She became, in time, an American icon, her winning smile and effervescent personality apparent in every pose," Hefner said.

"A kinky connection was added by Irving Klaw's spanking, fetish and bondage photos, which became part of the Bettie Page mystique," Hefner said. "They were playful parodies that are now perceived as the early inspiration for Madonna's excursions into the realm of sexual perversion."

Perhaps the most memorable photos of Page were her bondage poses, which she said were all pretend.

"I never understood how anyone believed those poses were sexy," she later said. "To be tied up? I don't get it."

"She was a remarkable woman, truly someone that changed the social norms, not only here in this country, but also around the world," Roesler said. "While Jackie Robinson was changing the racial attitudes, Bettie Page was changing our attitudes on sex. She became a James Dean type of 'rebel' figure as she allowed people to be less inhibited and look at sex in a different way."

Saucy photos of Paige in skimpy clothing or none at all helped to lead the way for the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Page suddenly disappeared from the scene in 1958. It was only decades later revealed that she re-emerged to explain that she underwent a religious conversion and moved to Florida.

Her life took a dark turn starting in 1978 after her third marriage failed, Roesler said.

Page went through "some mental instability, violent mood swings, and serious trouble with the law" and was eventually diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, according to her bio.

Page reappeared in public in December 2003 for Playboy's 50th anniversary party, where she made a grand entrance with Anna Nicole Smith.

It was the only time in the past 50 years that Page allowed her photograph to be taken, Roesler said.

A private funeral service is planned for Tuesday. Page will buried at Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles, just a few feet away from Monroe.

Actor Cuts Throat on Stage in Knife Mix-Up

Time-World Magazine
By Adams Smith
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008
Try this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna's Burgtheater, one of Europe's oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character's desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor's neck. But something's not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That's because the knife, and the harm that it's done, are both tragically real.

Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller's play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. Rushed to the nearby Lorenz Bohler hospital having sliced through skin and fat tissue but thankfully not his main artery, Hoevels was fortunate to survive. "Just a little deeper," said Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, "and he would have been drowning in his own blood."

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The Nirvana Baby All Grown Up

From CNN:
"Spencer Elden, the underwater infant pursuing a dollar bill on the cover of 1991's "Nevermind" is doing swimmingly these days, having graduated a year early from a Los Angeles-area high school.

Being the "Nirvana baby" -- as Elden calls himself -- has been profitable.

Now 17, Elden says he was paid $1,000 to re-enact the famous pool pose for photographers. Compare that to the original shoot which paid $200.

Stuff happens like random cool situations where I get paid $500 just to go hang out," Elden said. "People just call me up and they're like, 'Hey you're the Nirvana baby, right? Well just come and swim in my pool and we'll give you some money."

NOTE: Lucky Bastard. Although I bet the people who call him are like lame asses from Big Brother 2 and other kooks who throw a party where the biggest incentive to come is the Nirvana Baby is going to be swimming in the same pool as you. Actually. That sounds sorta cool....wonder if he does house parties....

1.9 million jobs lost this year

The 2008 tally soars after payrolls shrink by 533,000 in November, biggest one-month decline in nearly 34 years. Unemployment soars to 6.7%

Mexico Drug Cartels Send A Message of Chaos, Death

By William Booth
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, December 4, 2008; Page A01
MEXICO CITY -- The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as a language to deliver a message to society.

Increasingly, bodies show unmistakable signs of torture. Videos of executions are posted on the Internet, as taunts, as warnings. Corpses are dumped on playgrounds, with neatly printed notes beside them. And very often, the heads have been removed.

When someone rolled five heads onto the dance floor in a cantina in Michoacan state two years ago, even the most hardened Mexicans were shocked. Now ritual mutilations are routine. In the border city of Tijuana, 37 people were slain over the weekend, including four children. Nine of the adults were decapitated, including three police officers whose badges were stuffed in their mouths.

"There is a new and different violence in this war," said Victor Clark Alfaro, the founder of the Binational Center for Human Rights, who moves around Tijuana accompanied by bodyguards. "Each method is now more brutal, more extreme than the last. To cut off the heads? That is now what they like. They are going to the edge of what is possible for a human being to do."

As competing drug cartels and their fragmented cells fight the police, the Mexican army and one another for control of billion-dollar smuggling corridors into the U.S. drug market, the violence unleashed by President Felipe Calderón's war against the traffickers grows more sensational.
As the war drags on, the violence grows bolder and more grotesque. Last week in Juarez, the corpses of seven men, each shot multiple times, strangled and tortured, were lined up against a garden hedge at a primary school. The killers left poster-size signs. Soon after the bodies were discovered, the local police frequency was commandeered and songs in praise of cartels were broadcast on police radios.

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Live Nation's Blockbuster Alliance

Posted from Encore Magazine:
NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) -- Blockbuster Inc. and Live Nation announced a three-year agreement that makes Blockbuster the exclusive physical retail ticket outlet for Live Nation Ticketing, Live Nation’s new in-house ticketing company, beginning with the start of the 2009 concert season. Under the agreement, Live Nation will sell its retail tickets exclusively through approximately 500 Blockbuster company-owned stores in strategically chosen markets across the country that mirror Live Nation’s concert venue platform footprint, providing music fans with a convenient and familiar outlet to purchase the more than one million tickets Live Nation sells to its concerts through retail locations annually.
The selected stores will offer exclusive blocks of tickets available only at Blockbuster during the first four hours of ticket sales, as well as general ticketing as long as supplies last. Blockbuster will be responsible for managing and operating all aspects of the ticket transactional experience.

Grammy nominations in top categories:

Record of the Year:

"Chasing Pavements,” Adele
"Viva La Vida,” Coldplay
"Bleeding Love,” Leona Lewis
"Paper Planes,” M.I.A
"Please Read The Letter,” Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Album of the Year:

"Raising Sand,” Robert Plant & Alison Krauss"
"Viva La Vida,” Coldplay
"Tha Carter III,” Lil Wayne
"Year of the Gentleman,” Ne-Yo
"In Rainbows,” Radiohead

Song of the Year:

"American Boy,” William Adams, Keith Harris, Josh Lopez, Caleb Speir, John Stephens, Estelle Swaray & Kanye West (Estelle Featuring Kanye West)
"Chasing Pavements,” Adele Adkins & Eg White (Adele)
"I'm Yours,” Jason Mraz
"Love Song,” Sara Bareilles
"Viva La Vida,” Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, & Chris Martin (Coldplay)

New Artist:

Adele
Duffy
The Jonas Brothers
Lady Antebellum
Jazmine Sullivan

Pop Vocal Album:

"Detours,” Sheryl Crow
"Rockferry,” Duffy
"Long Road Out Of Eden,” Eagles
"Spirit,” Leona Lewis
"Covers,” James Taylor

Rock Album:

"Viva La Vida,” Coldplay
"Rock N Roll Jesus,” Kid Rock
"Only By The Night,” Kings Of Leon
"Death Magnetic,” Metallica
"Consolers Of The Lonely,” The Raconteurs.

R&B Album:

"Love & Life,” Eric Benét
"Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA,” Boyz II Men
"Lay It Down,” Al Green
"Jennifer Hudson,” Jennifer Hudson
"The Way I See It,” Raphael Saadiq

Rap Album:

"American Gangster,” Jay-Z
"Tha Carter III,” Lil Wayne
"The Cool,” Lupe Fiasco
"Nas,” Nas
"Paper Trail,” T.I.

Country Album:

"That Lonesome Song,” Jamey Johnson
"Sleepless Nights,” Patty Loveless
"Troubadour,” George Strait
"Around The Bend,” Randy Travis
"Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love,” Trisha Yearwood

Latin Pop Album:

"Cara B,” Jorge Drexler
"Palabras Del Silencio,” Luis Fonsi
"La Vida...Es Un Ratico,” Juanes
"Cómplices,” Luis Miguel
"Tarde O Temprano,” Tommy Torres

Contemporary Jazz Album:

"Randy In Brasil,” Randy Brecker
"Floating Point,” John McLaughlin
"Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball Adderley,” various artists, Gregg Field & Tom Scott, producers
"Miles From India,” various artists, Bob Belden, producer
"Lifecycle,” Yellowjackets Featuring Mike Stern