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Summer Camp Addresses Youth Obesity with Summer Fun and Adventure This summer parents can keep kids physically active and mentally engaged by signing them up for Get Fit Weight Loss Day Camp.

Seth "Mayhem" Mitchell must prove he's more than just another hulking football player- turned-boxer on Saturday night.

Anyone who has followed the Roots' 20-year career has already soaked up so much of Questlove's writing in novella-length liner notes, message-board posts and endless tweets that the drummer-bandleader's new memoir hardly feels like his first book.

Jim James & The Roots @ Prospect Park My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James and hip hop renaissance men The Roots are teaming up for a collaborative set today for a Celebrate Brooklyn show at Prospect Park.

It might seem like an odd pairing - Grammy-winning R&B-and-dance singer Macy Gray and Grammy-winning saxophonist David Murray.

Add to that two major fireworks shows, more concerts, movie screenings and food-focused events -- all of which are free -- for a Visitors can book their hotel stay at visitphilly.com , where they'll find great rates and packages.

On Saturday night, the D.C. Jazz Festival offered a heartbreaking choice: One could see the Roots and experience incredible drummer and hip-hop/soul producer Questlove, or see the lesser-known, but equally talented, Karriem Riggins, a Detroit native who is also an immense drummer and producer.

Locals Tin Bird Choir bring their soulful folk sound to Steel City Coffeehouse in Phoenixville tonight.

Summer Knights was originally set to be released today, however, it has been pushed back to July 1st.

Details about and excerpts from ?uestlove's forthcoming memoir, Mo' Meta Blues: The World According To Questlove , are discussed in a The Village Voice profile on Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson.

Now a member of The Beard Gang, Malik B teams up with Mr. Green to release his first full-length in a 20-plus year career of rapping.

Questlove sat down with Jeff Mao of Ego Trip for another installment of the Red Bull Music Academy lecture series.

Ronnie Styles hasn't sported long-ass dreadlocks for years, but he's still just as big into reggae culture and Rastafarianism as during his kinky-haired days, if not moreso.

Outside of maybe Austin, Brooklyn, and wherever the hell in the desert Bonnaroo is held, Philadelphia can legitimately lay claim as one of the hottest music cities in the country.

It might seem like an odd pairing - Grammy-winning R&B-and-dance singer Macy Gray and Grammy-winning saxophonist David Murray.

The DC Jazz Festival is roaring to a big close this weekend, with some big concerts still remaining on tap, including the Roots in Southwest.

Friday: Twenty-five years after their sophomore album, "Hangin' Tough," turned five boys from Boston into crush-worthy international pop stars, the New Kids on the Block are still capitalizing on a strange mix of lust and acid-washed nostalgia, never mind that their core audience is women now old enough to worry about mortgages and crow's feet.

There are musical gems throughout the lineup of the Winnipeg International Jazz Festival; some right in your face on the mainstage, others in smaller venues, but all worth the effort to seek them out.

The annual D.C. Jazz Festival wraps up this weekend on Sunday, and there is still plenty of time to take in some great acts at Washington's biggest music event of the year, whether it be the Dana Leong Trio's "hi def Yo Yo Ma" mash-up style at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue tonight at 8 p.m.: or The Roots and their unique brand of hip-hop funk ... (more)

TRENTON - On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Gov. Chris Christie appeared in one of the show's most popular segments - "Slow Jam the News" - to talk about the U.S. Senate race, 2016 presidential rumors and his weight.