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Stolz Marketing Group created some interesting dimensional outdoor boards for Idaho home builder Paramount.

OurStage, an online talent community where fans vote for the best upcoming music and video artists, says it’s forged a partnership with AOL. According to the release: “The partnership will give OurStage artists major visibility on AOL Music, and will give everyone on AOL Music the chance to be their own A&R by judging the unsigned and indie artists vying … to win cash prizes as well as development prizes.” The missive makes much of “social music.” Amy Winehouse must be anti-social music. OurStage says that Plushgun, Sydney Wayser and The Forms are about to “break through.” Well, somebody better knock Flo Rida off the radio—enough with those beats, already. Now, here’s a song OurStage doesn’t play, though it is related to today’s biggest media news: the Internet Celebrities jammin’ on “Net Neutrality.”

—Posted by David Gianatasio

Whether it’s the stills of Khmer Rouge victims or the portraits of dead American soldiers, we need to witness both sides of death to understand what war has wrought.

Cuba announced on Friday that it will allow Cubans the unrestricted use of mobile telephones for the first time in the latest step by new President Raul Castro to improve access to consumer goods.

Cuba has the lowest rate of cellular telephone use in Latin America with the service been mainly restricted until now to foreigners and government officials.

The Cuban telecommunications monopoly ETECSA said it would begin mobile phone service for the general public in the next few days.

“ETECSA is able to offer mobile phone service to the public,” it said in a statement published in the Communist Party newspaper Granma.

Many Cubans have for long wanted access to cellular phones and hoped it would be among the first steps taken by Raul Castro, who took over from his ailing brother Fidel Castro as Cuba’s first new leader in almost half a century on February 24.

Some Cubans have mobile phone service in the name of foreigners or their work places. They will now be able to put the contract in their own names, ETECSA said.

It said the new service would be paid for in hard currency in order to fund the development of Cuba’s telecommunications systems and extend land line telephone services. Reuters reports

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Brian Morrissey is a journalist in the employ of Adweek.

What do you get when you mix a New York-style pizza brand…in Holland…with the Italian mafia?

(TrendHunter.com) Really interesting what Time Out New York has been doing lately. In each issue there are real-world ways to meet and hang out with the editors, writers and staff of the magazine.

The magazine was starting to feel somewhat corporate, but this brings it back to the streets where it all started. For …

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