All The Web's A Stage With Yahoo! Open Mic
SANTA CLARA, CA -- Yahoo! Inc. announced Yahoo! users can take their musical talents beyond the privacy of their own showers and cars and onto the Internet. Yahoo! Open Mic, in collaboration with IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive) and Liquid Audio, Inc., gives musicians of all levels the opportunity to self publish and sell their own music online. [MORE]

VH1 And The Goo Goo Dolls Land In Southern California To Visit Brian Ahara, Winner Of The VH1 Big Backyard Barbecue Sweepstakes
NEW YORK, NY -- VH1 is bringing The Goo Goo Dolls to Southern California on Labor Day to play for Brian Ahara, Grand Prize winner of the VH1 Big Backyard Barbecue with the Goo Goo Dolls Sweepstakes. Brian will receive an all-expenses paid barbecue for himself and 100 of his closest friends, featuring a live performance by The Goo Goo Dolls. The concert and party will air LIVE on VH1 on Labor Day, September 7, at 7 p.m.

Sean "Puffy" Combs, Microsoft, MTV Networks And NBCi Set To Keynote Digital Hollywood
LOS ANGELES and BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- The Keynote speakers for Digital Hollywood have been announced and they are Sean "Puffy" Combs, CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment; Chris Kitze, President & CEO of NBCi and Xoom.com; Fred Seibert, President, MTV Networks Online and Anthony Bay, General Manager, Streaming Media Division, Microsoft Corp.

Television Newswire

THOMSON Multimedia Creates TAK, A Subsidiary Dedicated To The Wide Distribution Of Interactive Television Working With Microsoft
BERLIN -- THOMSON multimedia SA announced the creation of TAK. TAK is dedicated to developing interactive services on television. TAK will provide consumers with a range of services such as Internet access, e-mail and information services, and access to interactive programming content to enhance the entertainment value and provide more innovative ways for consumers to use their television sets.

Comedy Central Presents A Fabulous Fall Programming Line-Up, Including "Comedy Central Presents The N.Y. Friars Club Roast Of Jerry Stiller" And New Series "Turn Ben Stein On"
NEW YORK,NY -- Comedy Central celebrates the final autumn of the century with a host of great programming, featuring new episodes of "South Park," "The Man Show" and "Win Ben Stein's Money," a special millennium edition of "The Daily Show," and new seasons of "Strangers with Candy and "Upright Citizens Brigade." [MORE]

Movie Newswire

"Star Wars: The Magic Of Myth" Travels To Top Art Museums And Cultural Centers Nationwide
"Star Wars: The Magic of Myth" begins an American tour at the San Diego Museum of Art on September 25, 1999, and will be on view in San Diego through January 2, 2000. The exhibition showcases original artwork, props, models, costumes and characters used to create the classic Star Wars trilogy, to which have been added artifacts from Episode I The Phantom Menace.

Game Newswire

Golden Moment For Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. announced that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear has reached Gold Master. By popular demand, the Rainbow team is back...and tougher than ever. Due to the group's fantastic success with diffusing major terrorist incidents, the international community has come to depend on Rainbow as the main force secretly protecting citizens worldwide.

General Announcements

Jeff At The House Brings Pro Storyteller's Wit And Humor To The Internet ET
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Fame, foolishness and irreverent fun is the name of the game on Jeff At The House, the new show debuting Monday, August 30 at JATH.com. Pro storyteller, journalist and struggling TV writer Jeff Favre bravely brings to the public the stories reporters dare not tell, in episodes directed and produced by playwright and software director Dan Nelson.