Jeff Walker

On latest guitar game, players strum real strings

Players strum real strings on latest music video game. An upcoming musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument.
 

In gritty Newark, civilians cruise against crime

Civilian caravans cruise rough Newark, NJ, neighborhoods in a bid to keep criminals in check. Loiterers and criminals on the nighttime streets of New Jersey's largest city have some company ? concerned citizens and government workers who are cruising neighborhoods in an effort to reduce crime.
 

Atlanta close to tearing down last housing project

Atlanta, birthplace of housing projects, to tear down last one; poor could be lost in progress. The nation's bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta ? home of the first public housing development ? the first major city to eliminate all of its large housing projects.
 

Country artists try to build their base abroad

Despite challenges, country artists look to increase the genre's popularity overseas. Dierks Bentley and his band recently jetted to Australia to open six shows for Brooks & Dunn, playing to more than 10,000 people a night in the country's largest cities.