Joe Tex News

The whale shark, the world's biggest shark, is a filter feeder. Mahouts are elephant "drivers," and there are three kinds based on the method of elephant training: Reghawaan, who use love to control their elephants, Yuktimaan, who use ingenuity to outsmart them, and Balwaan, who control elephants with strength and cruelty.

Series: Subtitle: Riot Groovin' On! Program Type: Music Featured Speakers/Commentators: Dj Rhapsody Summary: There's a riot groovin on here in the studio! Some great funk tracks this week, startin' it off with Pigmeat Markham with "Who's Got The Number?". Eddie Bo hooks and slings, Joe Tex "Said A Bad Word", and Breakestra has the "Burgandy Blues".

Former WAMO executive Ron Atkins has started two new online hip-hop, R&B stations.

Purvis native Johnny Rawls has made a name for himself as a blues and soul singer and songwriter.

No one from Central Texas, and in this case, Austin, has stepped up the way Black Joe Lewis has to claim the soul crown left by the likes of Joe Tex in the early 1980s.

Tickets $28.50. Doors 8 p.m. Show starts at 9:30 p.m. It's no accident that Paolo Nutini releases his music on Atlantic Records.

Melba Moore to be honored at black-tie event in Oct. August 3, 2009 BY HEDY WEISS Theater Critic / hweiss@suntimes.com Nominations for the 15th annual Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards, which celebrate achievement by black artists working in Chicago area theater and dance, have been announced.

Every Wednesday night a relatively quiet part of East Austin gets to rockin'. The dance floor at TC's Lounge on 1413 Webberville Road is packed with young and old who come to see and dance with the funk soul band Soul Track Mind.