Rapper TheGame pleads not guilty

ScottWeiland died of an accidental overdose of cocaine, alcohol and methylenedioxyamphetamine, the drug commonly known as MDA.

The cause of death of the former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman was confirmed Dec. 17 by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner in Minneapolis, where the rocker died.

The medical examiner’s office also notedWeiland’s atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, history of asthma and multi-substance dependence as significant contributors to his death.

Weiland, 48, was found dead on Dec. 3 after dying in his sleep on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minn.

Police reported finding cocaine in his tour bus, and a member of his backing band, theWildabouts, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance that police identified as cocaine. Weiland and the Wildabouts were scheduled to play the Medina Entertainment Center in Minnesota the day he was found.

In March, the band’s guitarist, Jeremy Brown,

An auction LOS ANGELES— of Sylvester Stallone’s black leather “Rocky” jacket and other movie memorabilia has earned more than $3 million.

Heritage Auctions President Greg Rohan says Stallone’s leather jacket was the top item sold at the three-day auction, with a winning bid of $149,000. A poncho worn by Stallone in the first “Rambo” film fetched $60,000 in a sale that featured boxing trunks and gloves, and other items from the actor-director’s

Rapper LOS ANGELES— The Game has pleaded not guilty to charges filed after he was accused of punching and threatening an off-duty police officer during a basketball game.

The rapper, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, entered the plea Monday in a Los Angeles courtroom.

Taylor was charged in June with one felony count of making criminal threats and a misdemeanor assault and battery charge over the altercation that occurred in March.

Last year, CHICAGO— BenjaminWynn, a sound designer and electronic artist who records as Deru, released “1979,” a multimedia project named for the year he was born. “1979” lives inside an Obverse Box, a wooden structure that houses a handheld LED projector (each song has an accompanying video), and costs $1,000; it can also be downloaded through the usual channels.

“1979” was made in collaboration with a team of visual artists and writers (it also lives on a website, www.1979.la

Wynn grew up in Chicago and experimented with

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We made 50 of these projectors, and we did a presale where we offered them for $500, and we sold most of them that way . there’s like, two left. We sold 41 of them before the album even came out. I was definitely surprised, it was definitely a huge gamble. The trend is that music has no value anymore, that’s it’s a dollar or it’s free, and we wanted to say the opposite, that music done the right way could be presented just as art is. Five hundred dollars in the art world is nothing. You could walk into any gallery and the smallest little drawing is $500. It’s only in the music world that that’s seen as very expensive.

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Exactly. We wanted to give people multiple ways to experience this music, (including) the website with an online gallery of memories. We said, “An album’s coming, please go

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He was an academic who had a bent toward philosophy. He started getting more erratic later in his life, he would go on these rants about life and death. As he became a bit more ranty, there was a lot more truth in what he would say. I would discover these things, and kept them for years.