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On Love Is All's first album, Josephine Olausson's youthful cries bring to mind a punk-rock pep rally, as her insanely energetic supporting players funnel their sound through murky production that adds to their music's mystery and underground feel.

The new film Are We There Yet? stars Ice Cube as a man so eager to get close to a woman that he offers to travel many miles to reunite her children with their mother. The film was made by his production company, Cube Vision, which also developed Friday, as well as Barbershop.

Oil prices have fallen more than $12 a barrel from their peak level after Hurricane Katrina. But with domestic production still feeling the effects of that storm, government forecasters suggest the downward trend may be ending.

Featuring stylized '60s chamber-pop instrumentation, The Brunettes' glossy production and entangled vocal harmonies make "Her Hairagami Set" sound rich and fully developed.

Holiday Shores' ambition far exceeds its members' recording budget. The band's boyish vocal harmonies wash in and out with the tide, and reverb radiates from the guitars like heat off a sun-baked parking lot. The summery hooks must come easy, because everything else on Columbus'd the Whim sounds like the product of copious labor, as "Bradley Bear" suggests.

It was a short commute for Brooklyn's Little Jackie when it performed at the Bronx studios of WFUV. The band strips away Adam Pallin's lush production in this session with an acoustic guitar, percussion and back-up vocalists. Vocalist Imani Coppola even pulls out her violin on a Shangri-Las cover.

"Learned to Surf" is evidence that a band can age gracefully if it can just hang on to its nerve. The Superchunk fan of 1993 would have no trouble recognizing the song as the product of the group that helped define the indie-rock scene of the post-Nirvana era.

Actor Mark Webber, 21, is currently starring in the new Todd Solondz movie, Storytelling. He got rave reviews for his performance in the London and New York stage productions of David Mamet's American Buffalo opposite William H. Macy and Phillip Baker Hall. He also appeared in Snow Day with Chevy Chase and The Animal Factory directed by Steve Buscemi. Weber grew up in Philadelphia where he was sometimes homeless with his mother Cheri Honkala. She is a homeless rights activist and founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. In March Webber can be seen in HBO's Laramie Project. In upcoming films he plays Woody Allen's son in Hollywood Endings, and Al Pacino's assistant in People I Know.

The title character in Simon Boccanegra is among the most complex and poignant that Verdi ever created, and the opera is among his most beautiful. In this production from Houston, Boccanegra is played by the renowned baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Many have called Don Giovanni the finest opera ever composed. Mozart's classic is a brilliant combination of stark human tragedy and touching comedy, set to music of limitless genius. It's heard in a new production from Houston Grand Opera.

Luisa Miller was named simply, after its main character, but it was inspired by a play with a title that pretty much sums up Verdi's opera: Intrigue and Love. The production is from the Bavarian State Opera.

The North Carolina film industry fared reasonably well last year economically, but challenges linger.

The duo announces RTJ3 with a single from Adult Swim. With spooky production, low-end piano and John Bonham-size drum fills, "Talk To Me" sounds like John Carpenter took his synths to Valhalla.

In 2014, producer Sarah Koenig launched Serial, a spin-off podcast of This American Life. Serial Productions has now released S-Town, which explores an unexpected mystery in a small Alabama town.

If you aren't a paying customer, then you're the product.

We all know why the chicken crossed the road. Now, a new product wants to make sure they get to the other side safely. As chickens become more popular as pets, the British company Omlet is selling high-visibility chicken jackets — tiny fluorescent safety vets for when they're on the streets.

Also: a disabled cruise ship finally docks; Egyptian authorities discover explosives headed for the Sinai desert; new tests turn up horsemeat in British beef products; and a federal agency permits a same sex burial at a military cemetery.

Thirty years ago the Coca-Cola company introduced New Coke, which is legendary as both the most disastrous and most successful product launches of all time.

In the largest layoff in the company's history, it's stripping 14 percent of its workforce. CEO Satya Nadella says it's part of a plan to make the 39-year-old company more agile and productive.

The TV show Banshee will stop filming in and around Charlotte. It looks to be the first casualty of North Carolina’s soon to expire film incentive tax…