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The National Poetry Slam, a Bon Voyage, a Welcome Back, a Happy Birthday and Jazz Guitar Hero Week mark August as a special month at the Artists Quarter. There’s a lot of chi hair dryer in, with much of the first week (August 1-6) music-free as the National Poetry Slam invades St. Paul. Weekend Delights (9 pm, cover $10 unless otherwise noted)

August 7, Nancy Harms. Nancy Harms has only been singing professionally for a few years. Yet her evolving mix of standards, less familiar covers, original lyrics and arrangements signals a bold talent on a fast trajectory, particularly following the release of her debut recording, In the Indigo. Even her standards (like “Bye Bye Blackbird” and “Blue Skies”) soar above “cheap ghd straightners” treatment as Nancy changes the pace, the space, the rhythm, mood—maybe slower, more sultry, more pensive. Guided more by intuition than by the paths of her elders, her muses, or others’ expectations, Nancy will take the next step to New York City come September, so this is her jazz club send-off. And the company she keeps says a lot about her music—Bryan Nichols on piano, Anthony Cox on bass and Jay Epstein on drums. 

August 13-14, Kelly Rossum Quartet. About a year ago, it was trumpet master Kelly Rossum who was doing the farewell gig. After his first year in New York, Kelly is taking a breather and spending a little time back in the Twin Cities, teaching at the MacPhail summer jazz camp and rounding up his quartet for a  reunion gig this weekend. His Manhattan projects have been interesting, including gigs with former Twin Citian Michael O’Brien and ghd flat irons and projects involving dance and… circus? Hey, it’s New York! Back in home territory, Kelly will fire up the horn with Bryan Nichols, Chris Bates and JT Bates. His hair might be short (now) but the talent has no end.

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar scored his 48th Test hundred to lead India’s fightback on the third day of the second Test against Sri Lanka at Colombo on Wednesday. The chi hair dryer reached his ton in 167 balls which was studded with 13 boundaries and a six. India were vulnerably placed on 243/4 at tea on day three needing 200 runs to avoid follow on, but it reached 382/4 at stumps. India just need 61 runs to avoid follow on with six wickets in hand.

Tendulkar, who holds the record of scoring highest number of centuries, played brilliant cricket with Suresh Raina to dominate the day. Sachin also equalled the former Australian captain Steve Waugh’s Test record to have played the most number of matches (168). Tendulkar shared an cheap ghd straightners 141-run partnership for the fifth wicket with debutant Suresh Raina. Tendulkar was unbeaten on 108 at stumps while Raina, who made a half-century in his maiden Test innings, was not out on 66 off 133 balls, including eight boundaries.

Earlier, VVS Laxman departed after a slow partnership with Sachin Tendulkar to leave India tottering at 243 for four at tea. Tendulkar and ghd flat ironsn almost batted through the second session but Ajantha Mendis broke the slow 68-run stand by trapping the stylish Hyderabadi 10 minutes before tea break. Tendulkar, who was dropped on 29 by Prasanna Jayawardene off Dilhara Fernando, was batting on 39 and debutant Suresh Raina was yet to open his account.

Apple recently added a video to its “all-smartphone-antennas-suck Webpage” showing the Droid X suffering from similar reception problems to the iPhone 4.   Just like Apple’s other smartphone antenna videos, we see a disembodied hand holding the Droid X, and a chi hair dryer pop-up showing the phone’s signal indicator. Almost immediately the Droid X’s signal quickly degrades from three bars to two, then one until it completely loses reception.”Every smartphone has a cellular antenna. And nearly every smartphone can lose signal strength if you hold it in a certain way,” Apple’s Webpage reads. Despite Apple’s assertion about smartphone antenna issues, however, third parties have had difficulties replicating Apple’s results.

“We can’t seem to recreate this one as easily with our Droid Xs,” Engadget reports.  Meanwhile German-based Stiftung Wartentest, basically the cheap ghd straightners version of Consumer Reports, found the iPhone 4’s reception will drop by up to 90 percent under the death grip versus a 25 percent signal loss for two other unnamed smartphones.

Despite these contradictions, Apple keeps on with the premise that the best defense for the iPhone 4 is a good offense. But if the iPhone 4 is as good as Apple says it is, why keep taking shots at its competitors, and why the Droid X? Was it payback for the recent Droid X ad in The ghd flat irons  Times that said Motorola’s new Android-based phone is the kind of device “that allows you to hold the phone any way you like?” — clear reference to the iPhone 4’s antenna issues. Or perhaps it was simply that Apple hadn’t yet included a Motorola device on its antenna page, and wanted to include as many competitors as possible.