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For Those Living The Struggle: Ten Best Cities To Find A Job

Believe it or not, there are still jobs to be had in this economy . As a matter of fact, in several industries – from Manufacturing to Health Care – employers can’t find the right people to fill the jobs they have to offer. Check out a few cities where jobs are still popping and the industries most likely to be looking for workers in each of those cities.

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Kid Rock Tour To Benefit Struggling U.S Cities

Detroit rocker announces shows will raise money for local charities in each stop. By Gil Kaufman Kid Rock Photo: JulNeil Lupin/ Redferns Kid Rock has made every effort to help his beleaguered hometown of Detroit rebound from decades of economic distress. But now D-Town’s favorite son and original “American Badass” is expanding his scope with an upcoming club tour that will attempt to raise a few bucks for other struggling U.S. cities. The 10-city swing will hit intimate (at least for Rock) clubs in Maryland, New York, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Colorado and Missouri, beginning on November 16 with a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in Silver Spring, Maryland. According to a press release announcing the swing, Rock “has assembled a team of Detroit titans to show support for other cities in need, and to show that Detroit, while experiencing [its] own difficulties still has the power to unite to help others around the country.” Working with this group of Detroit business leaders, Rock and company have pledged to donate money to local charities, causes and individuals through the Kid Rock Foundation at every stop on the swing. Radio stations in the local markets will help determine worthy causes. The tour was Rock’s idea, timed to coincide with the release of his latest single, “Care,” a duet with Martina McBride and T.I. on Rock’s Born Free album that urges Americans to stop bickering and take care of those in need of help. “The song says ‘the least that I can do is Care’ — and I want to put my money where my mouth is. Everyone knows that Detroit is hurting,” he said in the statement announcing the tour. “But I want to show that even though we don’t have a lot on our own plate, it doesn’t mean the people of my hometown don’t have compassion to share with others all over the country. At the end of the day we’re all Detroit, we’re one country, one family.” Considering that Kid Rock played to 12,000 or more each night on his summer Born Free arena/amphitheater tour, the upcoming dates are a big shift in terms of capacity, but also a rare opportunity to see him up-close-and-personal in such legendary room as Nashville’s 2,300-seat Ryman Auditorium; the 2,800-capacity Beacon Theatre in New York; and Boise, Idaho’s 1,000-capacity Knitting Factory. Tickets for the tour go on sale on Saturday, October 15. Dates and venues for Kid Rock tour, according to a press release:

Darren Aronofsky Told a Bad Joke, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy September! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: The Hunger Games has a Web site! (Sort of?) … Hollywood eyes a summer box-office record … The Church of Scientology goes to all-out war with The New Yorker … A fest favorite is coming to theaters … and more…

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Cher is Angry

“lovelies! Chaz is Being Viciously Attacked on Blogs & Message boards about being on DWTS ! This is Still America right ? It took guts 2 do it. Can u guys check out sites & give him your support? BTW …Mothers don’t stop Getting angry with stupid bigots who fk with their children!” Now you know. [ @cher via WSJ , AP ]

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1988 George Lucas Would Totally Hate 2011 George Lucas

Back in 1988, in testimony before Congress, one of Hollywood’s most successful, beloved and influential filmmaker-moguls expressed deep concern for a disturbing trend sweeping the movie industry. “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians,” this filmmaker said, “and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society.” Damn straight, George Lucas .

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REVIEW: Overstyled Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Fumbles Singer-Songwriter’s Myth

The bold, relatively brief life of Serge Gainsbourg, the French singer, songwriter and svengali who died in 1991, is twice removed from the story told by Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life . First-time writer and director Joann Sfar has said that polishing the fine points of that life — ceding to biographical “truth” — was of no interest to him. A top-flight fan and best-selling comic book artist, Sfar was intent on avoiding the brash outlines of a biopic in favor of a certain sort of homage, the tender evocation of style and personality in place of strict chronology and narrative arc. A parallel determination to inhabit his hero’s life with an intensely personal, interpretive gusto bends the film back into a more conventional shape; the big moments play out with the giddy gratification of fan fiction. Both abstract and very specific, Sfar’s inspirations abound such that they frequently overshadow those of his subject.

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Seth Rogen and Will Reiser on 50/50 and How Life Sometimes Needs a Rewrite

They say to write what you know. Unfortunately, in the case of screenwriter Will Reiser, what he knew was cancer. Six years ago, Reiser was diagnosed with cancer in his back, and — after surgery to remove the tumor — decided to handle the life-changing situation the only way he knew how: by finding the humor. Thus, 50/50 was born.

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Ask a Programmer: Movieline’s Guide to 5 Major Fall Film Festivals

Just ask Movieline Chief Critic Stephanie Zacharek, who is already stationed in Venice for the season’s first major film festival: Fall is the happening time for these organized movie galas. In honor of this fest upswing — and Movieline’s week-long seasonal cinema celebration — we contacted authorities at the Telluride, Toronto, New York, London and AFI film festivals to pick their brains about the programming process, their events’ unique identities in the fest circuit and much more. For festival novices, consider this a primer for the autumn film festivals. And for the seasoned vets out there, enjoy these behind-the-scenes accounts of the rigorous preparation that goes into selecting tomorrow’s award-winning films.

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REVIEW: Hong Kong’s Tsui Hark Makes a Grand, Loopy Spectacle with Detective Dee

When I saw Hong Kong producer-director Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame at the Venice Film Festival last year, I lamented that although American viewers would probably be able to track the movie down on DVD or online, the picture wasn’t likely to get a U.S. theatrical release. Happily, I was wrong, and if you’re lucky enough to live in one of the cities where Detective Dee is playing, you too will now have a chance to witness Tsui’s glorious and somewhat unhinged vision as he tackles an episode in the real-life history of China — the ascent of the first female emperor to the throne — adding fanciful touches like spontaneous human combustion and mysterious creepy-crawlies with dangerous powers. It’s the kind of ambitious, loopy spectacle that begs to be seen on the big screen if at all possible.

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UFO Cult Declares National Topless Day [PICS, VIDEO]

Well beam me up, Scotty, because I’m totally flying saucer-eyed right now! Thank you, thank you, we’ll be here all week. OK, let’s back up for a minute. National Topless Day is the brainchild of Rael, a former journalist and racecar driver who says aliens apeared to him on a hilltop on France in 1974 and told him that all life on Earth was created by extraterrestrials. Rael also claims the aliens told him that it was his divine mission to fight injustice- specifically, the skin justice of men being allowed to doff their tops in public while women’s watermelons must remain covered. Whatever you say, fella. In 2007, the space cult leader started www.go-topless.org, a site dedicated to rallying womankind to “FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!” And believe it or not, there are women who have joined the cause, organizing topless protests and petitioning lawmakers to change the laws and make their states and cities officially “Top Free” (they’ve already succeeded in converting Columbus, Ohio, Portland, Oregon, Washington, DC and Austin, Texas, among other cities). They’re planning a “Historical Boob March” (their words, not ours) on Washington on August 26, 2012, but in the meantime topless advocates must content themselves with marching in boob-friendly locales each year on National Topless Day. (In uh, “top slave” locales like Los Angeles, protestors glue fake nipples over their own in order to prove a point. The point being that they also saw The Change-Up ). This past Sunday the Raelians and their compatriots gathered to celebrate their annual festival of funbags, and you bet there were photographers there to document the liberated love muffins. See the pics after the jump!

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