Weezer Wants You!With the proliferation of online music collaborations, Weezer discovered some untapped talent—their listen-ing audience. Weezer’s front man, Rivers Cuomo, has offered a chal-lenge to their listeners—remix “Love is the Answer,” a song off their latest album, “Raditude.” If your remix is chosen, you get to collaborate with Cuomo (via the Internet) on a brand new song to be released on an up-coming album. Weezer is looking for all styles and interpretations of the song, keeping the message “Love is the Answer” alive. Deadline for re-mixes is March 9, 5 p.m. EST. You can enter your remix at www.inda-bamusic.com/featured_programs/show/remixweezer

Sade fans know they have to be pa-tient. In only her 6th studio album in her 25- year career, the Nigerian-born-velvet-toned chanteuse, Sade, crafts another stunning disc.

Collaborating with her original band mates and co-writers, Sade started the undertaking in 2008—painstakingly crafting 10 new songs for this project.

For Sade, the catalyst for the group’s songwriting, it’s a matter of genuine integrity. “I only make records when I feel I have something to say,” said the iconic singer on her Web site. “I’m not interested in releasing music just

for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.”

Ninth Annual Bonnaroo Even More DiverseSince its 2002 inception, Bonnaroo has gone from an ambitious jam-band-based music festival to an all–out-genre-defying American music festival experience. The first Bonna-roo featured around 50 acts includ-ing Widespread Panic, Ben Harper, Phil Lesh, and String Cheese Inci-dent. In the years since, Bonnaroo diversified to include: James Brown, Herbie Hancock, The Police, Pearl Jam, Kanye West, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, BB King, and even Bruce Springsteen. This year’s fes-tival, taking place June 10-13 in its usual space in Manchester, Tenn., offers close to 150 bands and headlin-ers, ranging from the Dave Matthews Band to a rare performance from the legendary Stevie Wonder; from hip hop trendsetter Jay-Z to alt-pop stars Kings of Leon.

Aside from music, the four-day-around-the-clock Bonnaroo offers a mind- numbing amount of other activities including: a movie theater, air conditioned comedy club, Broo’ers Festival (beer garden), yoga classes, shopping district, the Bonnaroo Salon (free hair washing!), and my favorite, the Silent Disco—for the late night crowd it provides top DJs spinning, but instead of a thumping sound system, all patrons get wire-less headphones—making a surreal scene of gyrating dancers in a rela-tively quiet space good for those try-ing to catch a little shut eye.

And as for sleeping, you can choose from do-it-yourself camping, on site tent, RV rental, or the Total Access (TA) experience. TA includes your very own fully stocked tour bus (for you and seven of your friends), back-stage parking spot, private lounges, and special on-stage-viewing sec-tions. Couple this with your own golf cart and driver, a concierge, drinks, and on-site catering—you too can live like a rock star for the weekend! A full lineup, tickets, and informa-tion can be found at www.Bonnaroo.com.

Stacy Towar-Fogarty is an on-air per-sonality and music director for a pop-ular radio station in the heart of the Colorado Rockies.

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An Inside Look at Katrina’s Effect on Pets

By JOE BENDEL

When Katrina devastated New Or-leans, many volunteers rushed into action—to save stranded animals. While that might sound noble, in many cases the rescuers and the animal shelters that took them in have been less than cooperative in subsequent efforts to reunite the pets with their rightful owners. Frustrations and regrets continue to compound for many New Or-leanians in Geralyn Pezanoski’s documentary “Mine,” which airs this Tuesday on most PBS outlets, as part of the current season of “In-dependent Lens.”

Storm shelters, including the infamous Superdome, refused to accept pets and neither did most motels. With Katrina bearing down, many New Orleanians with limited means were forced to leave their animals behind. Most as-sumed the storm would pass, and they could return to their homes in a matter of days. Of course, nobody predicted the extent of

Katrina’s devastation or the com-plete breakdown of the state and local governments, which would follow. Evidently though, some self-styled res-cuers jumped to rather judg-mental conclu-sions about the owners [who were] forced to leave their pets behind.

It would be nice if “Mine” were simply a collection of in-spiring animal rescue stories, but the reality is much more complex. As the ironic title suggests, many of the cases of disputed adoptions documented in the film boil down to legalistic questions of property ownership.

“Mine” focuses on a handful of displaced residents as they search for their beloved dogs, including Victor Marino, who lost Max; Jesse Pullins, who lost J.J.; and Malvin Cavalier, an octogenarian missing his beloved Bandit. All were doting owners who will spend years trying

to get them back, with varying de-grees of success. Although the film clearly invites audiences to view their conflicts through prisms of

race and class, there seems to be another factor at play. Indeed, sev-eral times res-cuers express the notion that Katrina might have been the “best thing” to happen to some pets.

Peza nosk i captures some pretty dramatic scenes includ-ing a telling phone call in

which a “rescuer” flips out on Pul-lins. While we do hear from some rescuers, those who participated in the film sound rational and moder-ate. Notably missing from the film are a few pointed queries directed at the less reasonable rescuers, like the one who had taken J.J. The ob-vious question not being asked is whether they believe in their heart of hearts that the dogs should have been saved before human beings,

which was a very real trade-off faced by many of the former own-ers profiled in “Mine.”

Granted, Pezanoski can only talk to those who voluntarily con-sented to interviews, but the ab-sence of the uncooperative rescu-ers is conspicuous. Still, “Mine” is quite an eye-opening look at the myriad of unexpected indigni-ties that continue to bedevil New Orleans residents. By contempo-rary documentary standards, it is relatively restrained in the cheap shots it takes at the president and contemporary America in general (but of course, the dubious perfor-mance of Mayor Nagin and Gover-nor Blanco go entirely unremarked upon).

There is a lot of bitterness in “Mine,” but there are some touch-ing moments as well. It definitely is an opinionated documentary, worth checking out when it airs on “Independent Lens” this com-ing Tuesday (Feb. 16 at 10 p.m. on New York’s Thirteen).

Joe Bendel blogs on jazz and cul-tural issues at jbspins.blogspot.com and coordinated the Jazz Founda-tion of America’s instrument dona-tion campaign for musicians dis-placed by Hurricane Katrina.

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