Brooks & Dunn [ tickets ], who for the last three years have headed up The Neon Circus & Wild West Show festival, will scale back their production in 2004.

According to the duo's official website, the band's upcoming winter tour will play smaller venues--and will touch down in smaller markets--than its recent outings.

Though the itinerary hasn't been released, the tour is expected to kick off on Feb. 12 in Redding, PA, and to visit about two dozen cities.

Welder and dancer Maureen Marder, whose life inspired the movie "Flashdance," has filed suit against Jennifer Lopez [ tickets ], claiming that Lopez' video for "I'm Glad" is an unauthorized depiction of her life's story. The video recreates scenes from the movie.

"'Flashdance' owes both its story and its soul to Maureen Marder," Marder's attorney Robert Helfing said in a statement. "But she has received almost nothing for her contribution, accepting a small sum of cash from the producers who told her that the movie was only generally about dancing and would not feature the details of her life. In the last twenty years, she has tried to put that betrayal behind her, but she is penniless, disabled with a spinal injury, and trying to raise a teenage daughter. Now her life story is on the screen again -- and other people are profiting from it -- with no acknowledgment of her rights, let alone fair compensation for her contribution."

Sony Music Entertainment--Lopez' label--and Paramount Pictures Corp., which released "Flashdance," are also named in the suit.

Eat the Day, a band featuring former Limp Bizkit [ tickets ] guitarist Wes Borland, has been put on the shelf because the group hasn't been able to find the right vocalist.

"Two years after I walked away from Limp Bizkit, we have loads of great instrumental material and no singer," Borland wrote on the Eat the Day website. "We think it's time for something to give. So here's what we're doing: This project will go into indefinite hibernation and we will all be working on other projects, coming together whenever we cross the path of someone who may be an option to fill the vocalist position."

Borland soon plans to record with Trust Company and Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano.

"I will be writing with a couple of very cool bands, and producing other various projects," he wrote. "I also plan on possibly joining a band on tour as a full time guitarist next year."

Cypress Hill [ tickets ] will donate some of the proceeds from Saturday's (11/15) Smoke Out Festival to the American Red Cross' Inland Empire chapter. The money will help victims of the recent Southern California wildfires.