Prince’s Paisley Park Adds New Guest Activities

Not only will Prince fans soon be able to dance to his hits every weekend at Paisley Park, they can also try to hit his falsetto notes in a recording studio. Two weeks after the Chanhassen City Council approved the rezoning of Prince’s home and studios as a public museum, Paisley Park officials introduced several new guest activities.

Among the new options for visitors will be "Paisley Park After Dark" every Friday and Saturday evenings, beginning December 2-3 and a “Sunday Brunch Experience” starting December 4, that is packaged with the $100 VIP tour. A menu of Prince’s favorite foods has been created with pricing; but there has not been an official announcement as to whether these items will be the offerings for the Sunday Brunch.

On Thursdays, Recording Studio B will be open for guests to record their own vocals to a Prince song and save it onto a USB flash drive. This will be an option included in the $100 VIP tour, but only on Thursdays.

The weekend parties will be the biggest change in the museum’s operations. A $60 ticket, good for both nights, will include a dance party with a DJ in the NPG Music Club room on Fridays beginning at 6 p.m., and a “movie night” on Saturdays with screenings of his films and concert footage. It has not yet been established how late the parties will go.

Chanhassen mayor, Denny Laufenburger, said all of these new activities fall within the ordinance approved by the city council and will hopefully generate and sustain interest in Paisley Park, while staying true to the vision Prince saw for his home and studios.

Mayor Laufenburger thinks that, so far, these new changes fall in line with that. Prince often hosted late-night parties in the practice studio, going back as far as New Year’s Eve, 1987. He even held a dance party there the weekend before his April 21 death.

Paisley Park is now operated by Graceland Holdings—which also runs Elvis Presley’s home museum in Memphis. Additional information about tickets and events can be found at the web site: OfficialPaisleyPark.com.

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Trump Wins

During the presidential campaign, I tried my best not to share my personal views about the candidates, but as the lies started getting uglier and crazier and the dirt was being served up by the shovelfuls, I couldn’t hold back any longer and I did make a few comments about “Crooked Hillary.”

I hate to gloat, BUT, I am SO happy right now! I started getting very nervous on election day and was starting to feed into the mass hysteria the mainstream media was dishing out, but then I got a grip on reality. I knew it couldn’t be possible for someone so horribly evil to win in the end. The good guys just didn’t deserve that. I had already seen the videos and read the books, so I was well aware of Hillary’s history of corruption, even before Arkansas and the Rose Law Firm.

Over the same period of time, I followed the shenanigans and questionable business dealings of Donald Trump. I was never a big fan, but like most people, I didn’t really know him. I have to admit, I did watch every single season of The Apprentice and even blogged about each episode every week. It made for some really good TV and Trump does seem to have a very magnetic charisma. Using his children as judges on The Apprentice gave us a glimpse into their personalities and the apples don’t fall far from the tree! I think everyone can agree, his kids are outstanding as business executives.

So, when Trump announced his candidacy I made it my goal to find out as much as I could about him. I wanted to be able to make an unbiased decision in the primary election. Hillary had basically little competition for her party’s nomination; and even though Bernie Sanders held his own, there were too many hints of rigged results. Poor Bernie—another victim.

What I soon realized is that Donald Trump is a lot smarter than I ever thought. He was starting to make a lot of sense. I was really going for his message. He’s been called a clown, and emotionally unfit to be president, but those big mouths are the same ignoramuses that aren’t smart enough to “get it.” And because so many wealthy donors had their hopes pinned on Hillary—she just had to win—no matter what. It got to the point where Hillary and her people would have said ANYTHING if it would get her elected.

The Hollywood celebrities who were willing to stand up and make themselves look like asses and/or idiots, now look like fools; and that is pay back enough for me. Let them cry their eyes out. Hopefully they will learn something from this experience. To the six expert astrologers “from around the world” who convened in Costa Mesa, CA and who were actually guest speakers at a seminar on predicting events by using birth charts and the positions of the Sun, Moon and planets and who predicted Hillary’s victory—Ha-ha. I have more-or-less believed in astrology my whole life and now, I am finally free of the delusions.

The big question is still: What should we do with Hillary? I think she should be convicted, but, excused from serving time—as long as they immediately release the poor sailor who is locked up for doing NOTHING and others who are serving time for doing much less than Hillary did. But in reality, I don’t care what they do with Hillary—I’m just glad she wasn’t elected president. I can’t say it enough—I am SO happy right now.

Trump’s visit with President Obama seemed cordial and professional. I honestly believe Obama secretly admires Trump for accomplishing this unbelievable victory in spite of everything he had to overcome—being an inexperienced political outsider. They are all buddy-buddy now, so it just goes to show how phony the whole political system is.

I truly believe Trump will make every attempt to keep every one of his campaign promises and I feel sure, he will accomplish most of the changes that need to be done as soon as possible. He has already started working on his biggest promise:

Good luck President-Elect Trump.

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Prince's Legacy Lives On

I wasn’t planning to write about the five-hour tribute concert, because it didn’t interest me that much. Since I didn’t personally attend or see any video of it, it is impossible for me to give an opinion on how it was or how it went. I have watched other bands and performers “cover” his music, but for me, it was all about the performance of the real artist. No one else can take his place.

Although several super-star performers originally committed to their appearance at the tribute concert, several of them dropped out.

The major headliners were Chaka Kahn and Stevie Wonder. “It is an emotional night for me and I’m just trying to keep it together because I miss him.” Wonder told the crowd toward the end of his set. “We talked about so much… so many plans just to make the world a better place.”

Christina Aguilera cancelled her scheduled appearance as she was fighting a “vocal illness.” A representative for Aguilera said “she has been advised by her doctors not to perform due to a vocal illness she has been trying to shake all week.”

Pop star John Mayer bowed out of the concert, citing a “change of schedule.”

Singer Anita Baker cancelled her appearance just before the event, but a publicist for the show did not know the reason.

Sheila E. had a previous, conflicting commitment.

All the media reports indicated that the concert was excellent and went off without a hitch. “[They] paid their respect to the Purple One by performing upwards of 45 songs from the many fantastic albums Prince provided us over the years.”

But, there is much bigger news.

The vault is open and Prince will live 4Ever.

Prince's estate along with NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records have announced the first music to be released since the Purple One's death on April 21. The first album will be a 40-track greatest hits collection entitled Prince 4Ever that will drop on 11/22 in the U.S. and 11/25 around the world. A deluxe, re-issue of Purple Rain will be released in early 2017. The re-issue was initially announced in 2014 and tied to the 1984 film's 30th anniversary. As Billboard notes, plans for the Purple Rain reissue “were agreed with Prince before he passed away.” Both albums will include unreleased music from the Paisley Park Studios vault. The compilation will bring together a selection of Prince’s best-loved songs including “1999,” “When Doves Cry,” “Let's Go Crazy,” “Kiss,” “U Got the Look,” “Diamonds and Pearls,” “Nothing Compares 2 U,” “I Wanna Be Your Lover and more.

Plus, 4Ever will come complete with a 12-page booklet of never-before-seen photos by acclaimed photographer Herb Ritts.

The following is the track list for Prince 4Ever:

Be Afraid America—Be Very Afraid

This is a scary and revealing video about Hillary's past.

Must see...

Please consider everything very carefully before you vote.

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Astrologers Predict 2016 Presidential Election

Excerpt from the Orange County Register

On Thursday, October 13, 2016, approximately 500 astrologers from as far away as India, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia and Argentina gathered at the Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa for a four-day conference where they made predictions on global financial markets, relationships and spiritual and karmic life phases.

A panel of six international astrologers from Turkey, Canada, Slovenia, England, Serbia and an American from La Jolla, convened to discuss and present their predictions for the 2016 presidential election.

With just one week to go, in one of the most contentious presidential elections on record, the celestial bodies have already declared a winner. The Planets are aligned for a Clinton victory. The panel unanimously tapped the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, for a return to the White House. The panel studied birth charts, election charts and planetary alignments to determine the winner.

Nick Dagan Best, a panelist from Montreal, found that Mars, Pluto and Saturn were aligned at the same point on the ecliptic, or Zodiac ring, signaling a win for Clinton. The next one is expected around 2020, he said, adding that past triple planetary alignments last century came in the midst of life-changing events.

“In 1982, the only time in her life that those planets made a conjunction was when she adopted the name Clinton,” he said. “She’s got that triple conjunction and it would just stand to reason that she would be the one in office when this occurs next.”

The only American on the dais, Edith Hathaway of La Jolla, said the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn within months of a presidential election or inauguration bodes well for whichever political party is in power at the time. Trump’s chart shows him nearing the end of the Rahu, an 18-year period of success and great heights, she said. “Typically when that ends, there’s separation and loss,” Hathaway said.

Though the six featured astrologers used different methods to come to the same conclusion, all agreed that Clinton’s time of birth, which remains in dispute, makes it harder to create her birth chart. On several occasions, Clinton has said she was born at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Oct. 26, 1947 in Chicago. She has also said she was born at 2:18 p.m.

“The problem is we have to dance around it,” said Shelley Ackerman an astrologer and spokeswoman for the event’s organizers, the International Society of Astrological Research. The issue is of such importance that Ackerman, who once obtained Bill Clinton’s birth time from his mother, created a petition that would mandate congressional candidates to release long-form birth records.

Christeen Skinner, a panelist from London, said Clinton will win the election, but may not make it to her inauguration due to her highly publicized health concerns. “I just don’t see that inauguration taking place,” she said. “There’s a big dispute about her time of birth, so it could be maybe she gets the flu. Who knows.” Skinner said Trump’s chart is steadily losing power, possibly from the “battles” he faces over allegations of sexual harassment, lawsuits and a troubled campaign.

Astrology faces criticism from skeptics, who rely more on polling data than on the cosmos. “It’s not about the stars,” said Ema Kurent, who served on the panel. “It’s about us being synchronized with planetary rhythms.”

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Posting Soon: The Prince Family Trust will be releasing two new albums of re-mastered hits and unreleased new material from "The Vault." Both are scheduled to drop in November. Check back for the details.

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Prince's Ashes in Miniature Mausoleum — Official Photos

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JonBenét Autopsy to be Released Wednesday, October 13

Burke Ramsey filed a defamation lawsuit on Thursday, October 6 against a Michigan forensic pathologist who told a Detroit-area media outlet that Burke Ramsey killed his sister, JonBenét.

The complaint alleges that in a September 19 interview, Dr. Werner Spitz said that nine-year-old Burke bludgeoned six-year-old JonBenét to death. The complaint filed in Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit says "Spitz made this accusation without ever examining JonBenét's body, without viewing the crime scene, and without consulting with the pathologist who performed the autopsy on her.” The lawsuit accuses Spitz of being a publicity seeker "with a history of interjecting himself in high profile cases."

In 2008, Burke Ramsey and his parents, John and Patsy Ramsey were cleared of suspicion by prosecutors who said that the DNA on JonBenét's underwear did not match anyone in the family.

Burke Ramsey, now 29 and living in the Charlevoix area of northern Michigan, is seeking a jury trial and at least $150 million in damages. His attorneys said they demanded a retraction from Dr. Spitz on the day after the interview, but Spitz refused.

Greg Testa, the Chief of Police for the Boulder Police Department said investigators have collected 1,500 pieces of evidence, including the analysis of 200 DNA samples, traveled to 18 states to interview about 1,000 people and have received, reviewed or investigated more than 20,000 tips, letters or emails. He described the Ramsey investigation as an open case with investigators from the department’s major crimes unit still assigned in an ongoing effort to bring “justice for JonBenét.”

Testa further said, "There is no question this case has caught worldwide attention and there continues to be speculation as to who committed this crime. Publications and movies offer many theories as to how this crime occurred and who is responsible. Facts have been surmised and often distorted, which has led to many conclusions."

Chief Testa asks that anyone with information, that might help the case, should contact:

Boulder Police Department Tipline at 303-441-1974, or
Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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Shocking Surprise at Paisley Park Museum

A miniature mausoleum, created on a 3-D printer in the likeness of Paisley Park is encased in glass and on display in the lobby of the Paisley Park Museum. An official photo of the display has not yet been released, but is described as being in the center of the room. It is now the final resting place for Prince’s ashes.

What a stroke of marketing genius!

Fans will be flocking by the tens of thousands to see that. The Chanhassen City Council is concerned that the museum will turn the small town into a "tourist" attraction and negatively affect the residents. Thus, until more research can be done, the rezoning discussions have been tabled until December. Until the rezoning is approved, no tour schedule can be released. Hopefully, both sides will get what they want.

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The Prince Movie Collection Arrives this Week

September 29, 2016

To the delight of his fans, Warner Bros. will be releasing the commemorative boxed set of The Purple One's movie collection this week.

The Blu-ray disc set will include the three feature films that starred Prince — 1984’s Purple Rain, with newly remastered audio and video; 1986’s Under a Cherry Moon; and Purple Rain's unofficial 1990 sequel, Graffiti Bridge. Purple Rain featured Prince in his first starring role in a movie, as “The Kid.” The movie includes his hits “Let’s Go Crazy,” “When Doves Cry,” “I Would Die 4 U” and, the title track, Purple Rain.

The Prince Movie Collection will be available in stores and from online retailers for $24.98. Individual films will sell for $14.97 ea. Amazon.com is currently taking pre-release orders of the boxed set for $19.99.

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Prince News—Paisley Park Museum

Just as I predicted, it was announced just two days ago, that the Paisley Park Museum, scheduled to open to the public for tours will NOT open on October 6 as planned. According to the Star Tribune, the Chanhassen City Council, has delayed the opening date. After several hours of discussion and a 3 to 2 vote, they chose to table the zoning request that would reclassify Paisley Park as a museum. The council members want more time to figure out how the museum’s opening would affect Chanhassen’s traffic, parking, and public safety. One member said they also need to decide whether they want to become a “tourist town,” hosting approximately 600,000 visitors annually. Even with a Trust adviser handling the business affairs for the estate, it seems that no one has ever heard the expression, “counting your chickens before they hatch.” Didn’t anyone think that until the details were finalized, it would not be a good idea to make big plans. Geez Louise…

The planned Paisley Park museum will provide fans access to the building’s first floor, which includes over 12 rooms that are organized chronologically throughout Prince’s career, and will include his various instruments, outfits, and other items. Prince apparently left “detailed guidelines” for converting the studios into a museum. Those include “a wall-mounted timeline of his life through the mid-1990s and messages and texts sent to friends that specify how he wanted fans to walk through Paisley Park.

“Entertainment Tonight” shared a sneak peek preview of the museum and a short interview with his sister, Tyka. She was asked about her reaction to her brother’s death and she said she was expecting it. He had told her two years ago that he felt he had done everything that he came here to do.

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I am continually amazed by how beloved Prince Rogers Nelson was to people who barely knew him, or didn’t know him at all. Cities all over the world are dedicating various events as a tribute to his memory.

I lived in Cincinnati and I know how conservative that city can be. Yet, they dedicated their annual Labor Day fireworks show to Prince by “purple-izing” the show. Their famous fireworks waterfall that cascades off of one of the bridges across the Ohio River, was turned purple instead of the usual white.

The latest display of affection comes from the Minneapolis Lynx players, who wore commemorative basketball shoes.

On September 19, 2016, the Minnesota Vikings played their first regular season game at their new home, U.S. Bank Stadium. During halftime, they paid tribute to Prince with a rendition of “Purple Rain,” performed by the Minnesota Orchestra and the Steele Family. The entire field was lit in purple.

Click the image to see footage of the halftime show.

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