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In its finest form, the concept of fusion in music represents an ideal blend of a wide variety of sources and influences, to create a unique vision that defines exactly who the artist is. And when that artist is as capable and gifted as the outstanding vocalist and songwriter Ron Boustead, the result is Mosaic, his newest CD and his first recording since his acclaimed 2006 release, Blend. The album weaves a wide variety of musical motifs, colors and influences, performed by a remarkable assemblage of musicians, to create an aural pastiche and a finely-honed musical statement.

Today Byliner publishes The Man with the Electrified Brain: Adventures in Madness ($1.99), a shockingly frank new memoir by Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, which reveals for the first time how he nearly lost his mind.

According to online resource, addiction interferes with ordinary life responsibilities and one's health-causing out-of-control behaviors and problems for the person and others. In Liberation from Addiction, author Dr. Cesar A. Fabiani dissects addiction and also provides historical and clinical considerations to allow those who are suffering to discover the steps to freeing from it.

'The biggest movie of the summer isn't Man of Steel, or The Lone Ranger, or Fast & Furious 6. It's a new documentary called How to Make Money Selling Drugs.' That's Huffington Post editor-in-chief, Arianna Huffington's reaction to the newest documentary from filmmaker Matthew Cooke.

Dorset Theatre Festival continues its longstanding commitment to New Play Development with an exciting new work by award-winning playwright Adam Rapp. Now in its 6th Season, DTF's New Play Programs have drawn critical and national acclaim, attracting some of the top writers each year to their Writers Retreat and Play Reading Series. 'It is exciting that we have begun to attract such a sophisticated and engaged audience for our Reading Series. The Q & A with the writer and actors directly after the reading has become one of our hottest tickets,' says Ashley Connell, DTF's New Play Reading Coordinator.

The YWCA USA, one of the oldest and largest non-profit organizations dedicated to improving the lives of women and eliminating racism, announced today that after a nationwide recruiting process, 13 women joined the YWCA National Board of Directors, effective June 8, 2013. They will serve on the organization's national board of directors along with four re-elected YWCA Board leaders. The appointment of the new board was ratified at the YWCA's National Business Meeting in Washington D.C. on Saturday, June 8, at the organization's 2013 Annual Conference.

Dorset Theatre Festival continues its longstanding commitment to New Play Development with an exciting new work by award-winning playwright Adam Rapp. Now in its 6th Season, DTF's New Play Programs have drawn critical and national acclaim, attracting some of the top writers each year to their Writers Retreat and Play Reading Series. "It is exciting that we have begun to attract such a sophisticated and engaged audience for our Reading Series. The Q & A with the writer and actors directly after the reading has become one of our hottest tickets," says Ashley Connell, DTF's New Play Reading Coordinator.

An overwhelming lust for power, a manipulative wife, and witches' prophecies spur a Scottish general onto a tragic path of betrayal, murder and madness. Long Beach Opera (LBO) closes its 2013 season with Macbeth, Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch's re-discovered powerhouse, sung in English. Performances at the World Cruise Center in San Pedro, CA. begin tonight, June 15, 2013 and continue on June 22 and 23.

Final Analysis and Breakfast with Mugabe will open in repertory at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center in August and will have a limited run engagement through the first week of October. Producers of Final Analysis and Breakfast With Mugabe are utilizing the innovative crowd-funding platform, Kickstarter, to help defray production expenses.

The Production Company's artistic directors, August Viverito, T L Kolman and Skip Pipo, proudly announce the company's return to the NoHo Arts District in residence at The Secret Rose Theatre and announce the first three productions of TheProdCo's 7th Legendary Season.

An overwhelming lust for power, a manipulative wife, and witches' prophecies spur a Scottish general onto a tragic path of betrayal, murder and madness. Long Beach Opera (LBO) closes its 2013 season with Macbeth, Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch's re-discovered powerhouse, sung in English. Performances at the World Cruise Center in San Pedro, CA. begin on June 15, 2013 and continue on June 22 and 23.

The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non- profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, proudly announces that the 2013 Smith Prize Commission, which carries an Award of $5,000, has been awarded to Martyna Majok for her untitled play. Majok's proposed play is inspired by Slavoj Žižek's Violence, which examines capitalism and our treatment of people. Awarded annually to a proposal for a play that focuses on American politics, The Smith Prize is funded by a gift from screenwriter, novelist and playwright Timothy Jay Smith and a number of other socially-conscious donors.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will present the 2013 International Emmy Founders Award to renowned film and television Creator/Writer/Director J.J. Abrams.

TimeLine Theatre Company, dedicated to presenting plays inspired by history that connect to today's social and political issues, announces that The How and the Why by Sarah Treem (Netflix's House of Cards, HBO's In Treatment), directed by Keira Fromm and starring Janet Ulrich Brooks and Elizabeth Ledo, will be the third production of its 2013-14 season.

Curious Theatre Company presents Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, directed by Producing Artistic Director Chip Walton. The production runs April 25 - June 8, 2013 at 1080 Acoma Street, Denver. The opening performance is April 27, 2013, at 8 p.m.

Landmark on Main Street's Main Stage Fabulous Folk Series will conclude for the 2012-13 Season with a double-bill: Nellie McKay & Red Molly on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8 PM. Landmark thanks our Landmark thanks our Fabulous Folk Series Sponsors WFUV Radio and host WFUV's John Platt. Additional thanks to our program sponsors Andrew Abramowitz, PLLC and Kay & Leo Ullman. We gratefully acknowledge our Season Sponsor Pall Corporation and our Partners in Performing Arts: Harding Real Estate, Town of North Hempstead, Bank of America, The Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation and Winthrop University Hospital their support of our full season of programming.

ANN, the new critically acclaimed play written and performed by Emmy Award-winning actress and 2013 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee Holland Taylor, is launching the Great American Women Talkback Series, which will feature post-show discussions hosted by Tony and Emmy Award winner Lily Tomlin, Tony award winning playwright and activist Eve Ensler, feminist activist and writer Gloria Steinem, and award winning political humorist Kate Clinton. All talkbacks are complimentary with ticket purchase to ANN at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre (150 West 65th Street). ANN is directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein, and has been extended through Sunday, September 1, 2013.

The series profiles many different types of pets, their pampering and their personable owners, no matter how unconventional the pet. Whether it's snakes and reptiles or rats and ferrets, Spoiled Rotten Pets explores the myriad ways in which pets can be spoiled and the lengths to which the pet owners will go to ensure that their pets are prized!

Martita Goshen's Earthworks - 9 dancers joined by female equestrian and jockey Janice Blake Baeza - will premiere her 'Turning Home,' a tribute in dance and film to the greatness and goodness of American thoroughbred racehorses Barbaro and the brilliant Ruffian, who both died tragically and too soon. The one-hour work has original music by Art Baron of the Duke's Men, and Grammy Award-winning cellist/composer David Darling, and video by Peter Richards. Three performances, tonight, April 18-20, at the Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn.

Connie Whitlock, an artist, advocate, educator and visionary, received the 2013 West Valley Arts Council's Champion of the Arts Award at the 20th anniversary Diamond Ball, a Shanghai Soiree, on Saturday, April 13 at The Wigwam, 300 E. Wigwam Blvd in Litchfield Park.

Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTC: CBIS) is pleased to announce Sacred Cow Production presents American Drug War II, a film by Kevin Booth, for national release on June 6, 2013, as Dr. Robert Melamede, President and CEO of Cannabis Science, appears in the film and played a production role.

ArtsRock will present evening with multiple Emmy and Tony Award winning actor David Hyde Pierce, who discusses his life and his career with Peabody Award winning broadcaster Elliott Forrest from WQXR/WNYC. Clips from David Hyde Pierce's television, film, and stage work will be shown during the talk for a full night of fun. Come join ArtsRock for David Hyde Pierce in conversation with Elliott Forrest tonight, April 14th, 7:30pm at the Rittenhausen Theater at BOCES, the old Nyack High School, 131 North Midland Avenue, Nyack, New York.

BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange has announced the 2013 Artist-In-Residence Year End Performances. Featuring BAX's Artists-In-Residence (AIR), these performances culminate a shared journey through the creative process. Audience members enjoy the rare opportunity to follow a work and engage its creators from the early stages through to full productions. This journey began with the Open Studio Series in November, continued with the Works-in Progress Series in January, and culminates in these Spring performances.

KPS Productions and HP Productions in association with Pleasance and Theatre503, with the support of the Jersey Arts Trust, present the World Premiere of PLAYING WITH GROWNUPS by Hannah Patterson, directed by Hannah Eidinow, at Theatre503 in London, 14 May - 8 June 2013.

In a refreshingly to-the-point discussion session, Kate Weare and her company dancers revisited two recent works: 'Drop Down' (2006) and 'Garden' (2011).