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There was a time when people did not really discuss money in underground artistic and ministry circles, but I think it is becoming far more widely acceptable that many people make all or part of their living in the music and entertainment business. Everyone has their own opinions and viewpoints on where they feel comfortable, some feel their music should impact the mainstream, others feel it should be kept for ministry or artistic purposes, and most listen to all types of music, and find their own balance somewhere in the spectrum. If you want to make all or part of your living from music, you should understand, depending on your choices, it is not always easy, but here are a few options.

During the summer of my junior year in high school I attended a week long art camp at Denver Art Institute. It was supposed to be one of those once in a lifetime, career charting experiences, but I remember practically nothing about it. The only thing I recollect is the last day; the closing ceremonies party. About twenty-five of us were gathered in a parking lot behind one of the buildings enjoying the outdoors, the Denver skyline, the complimentary snacks and a live DJ spinning top-40 under a tent in back. I was watching the DJ. He was thoroughly enjoying his craft even though no one in our little crowd was paying much attention to him. He was mainly mixing for himself. At one point he picked up a record, smiled at no one in particular and placed it on his turntable. Then, as if everyone suddenly noticed there was music playing, people started dancing. It was an up-beat song: a four-on-the-floor kick, a euro-dance synth, and a bouncy female vocal singing something in Spanish. The groove was catchy and our group loved it. One of the students leaned over to me and answered my unspoken question, “It's called the Macarena.”

This week’s spotlight is with Gospel House DJ, Frankie Vibe. My husband and I have had multiple opportunities to spend time with Frankie and I’m being honest in saying that he’s one of the most interactive, entertaining DJs I’ve ever known. I hope you enjoy this look into the man behind the speakers!

In case you didn't notice, last week we finally got our community tool up and running. J Puddy and I have been working on this for several months now, but it's finally done and ready for your enjoyment. Of course like all things on the web,  we will be adding new features and tweaking the implementation of it for some time to come. Regardless all of the basic features you would expect are up and running, but let's talk about a few of them real quick.

This week I’m excited to introduce you to Kevin Oneel from Birmingham, Alabama. He’s  great guy with a great vision and (not to mention) a great live radio show Friday nights on boost.fm!

This week I have the privilege of sharing my interview with Vancouver’s Joel Armstrong. I’ve known Joel for a few years now and have always enjoyed his music. I hope you will too!

I’m extremely excited to introduce you to one of my favorite artists, who I just happen to be friends with! Meet Fitzpatrick from Birmingham, Alabama.

This week I had the privledge of interviewing someone I met this summer, DJ Modulation from Arizona. I really enjoy his music and think that you will too. So here we go, an inside spotlight on a great Christian DJ.

Well, just two weeks ago I came to you with a proposal to introduce social networking to Tastyfresh.com. The only catch was that we needed to raise some cash for it. After answering a slew of questions and showing the need for this, we've finally got the money for it. Now comes the fun part, making it work.

There is no disputing that Tastyfresh.com is an international community. It always has been and always will. The only problem with it being international is that we have not built a local community at the same time. This has always been a concern of mine. In the past, we've tried local message boards, but either they were never used or the people using them never interacted with the other boards. We've tried to push the idea of groove fellowship, local groups who would meet once a month, but there wasn't a good way of recruiting or coordinating these efforts. We've even tried to promote labels and artists as well through links and profile listings, but that content kept getting out of date faster than we could update it.