#WhatsHappening for September 17, 2017

Me in sunlight.

Good Sunday afternoon, kids. Hope you're all enjoying the weekend. I spent parts of yesterday and today painting the deck at the karaoke compound. I'm not quite done, but almost. I tend to give up when the sun gets high enough to get into the backyard. 

We're just six weeks away from our Eighth Annual Costumes & Karaoke Halloween Party at the Iron Horse Tavern. Make sure you join us for the fun- coming Saturday, October 28.

Paul McCartney had a couple of special guests join him for his encore at Madison Square Garden last night as Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt joined him for I Saw Her Standing There.

McCartney had posted to social media before the show that the night was "going to be a night full of memories for me."

I'm pretty sure it was the audience who got the memories of a lifetime. And how come shit like that never happens when I go to a concert? Damnit.

U2 and Ed Sheeran were among those who cancelled their scheduled shows in St. Louis this weekend after violence broke out during protests of a former police officer's acquittal in the shooting death of a black man.

Live Nation and U2 released a joint statement that the St. Louis Police Department would not be able to provide the "standard protection for our audience as would be expected for an event of this size," and that crowd security personnel would not be at full capacity.

Thirty-two civilians were arrested in protests Friday, and 10 officers had been injured.

NME headline: Boston Marathon movie ‘Stronger’ criticised for casting Jake Gyllenhaal as a double amputee

I'd be criticizing them more because Gyllenhaal's just a fucking terrible actor.

Lady Gaga cancelled her scheduled performance at this weekend's Rock In Rio festival after checking herself into a hospital for "severe physical pain that has impacted her ability to perform," according to a statement posted on her Twitter page.

"Lady Gaga is under the care of expert medical professionals. She sends her love to all her fans in Rio and thanks them for their support and understanding," the statement concluded.

The singer has said that she suffers from fibromyalgia.

Attorneys for American Recordings and the Universal Music Group have delivered a cease and desist letter to white nationalist website Stormfront after the site repeatedly used Johnny Cash's cover of I Won't Back Down for their online radio show.

The letter says that the label had not “licensed, granted permission, or otherwise authorized” the use of the track for the radio show.

The move comes on the heels of Roseanne Cash's Facebook post last month that decried participants in last month's racist march in Charlottesville wearing tee-shirts with her father's picture on them- saying her father "was a man whose heart beat with the rhythm of love and social justice. He championed the rights of Native Americans, protested the war in Vietnam, was a voice for the poor, the struggling and the disenfranchised, and an advocate for the rights of prisoners."

"He would be horrified at even a casual use of his name or image for an idea or a cause founded in persecution and hatred. The white supremacists and neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville are poison in our society."

Birthdays today include: Chuck Comeau of Simple Plan (38); Maile Misajoin of Eden's Crush (41); Vinnie Brown of Naughty By Nature (47); Guy Picciotto of Fugazi (51); Doug E. Fresh (51); Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian (49); BeBe Winans (55); Ty Tabor of King's X (56); Fee Waybill of the Tubes (67); and LaMonte McLemore of the 5th Dimension (77). #MusicalBirthdays