Due to the tragic terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. iconoFAN will suspend our regularly scheduled news updates until Monday Sept 17th. Other scheduled articles and special features for this week have been postponed until later this month. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of these tragedies and their families. 

Detailed information on how you can help can be found at Helping.org

You can help the American Red Cross in their relief efforts by donating blood or money. To find out how to donate blood you can call your local Red Cross offices (check your white pages for the number) or call 1-800-Give Life to make a donation you can call 1-800-Help-Now or visit http://www.redcross.org/ to learn more. 

Blood Donations in New York

American Red Cross
150 Amsterdam Ave. at 66th Street. 
NY, NY

NY Blood Center  
310 East 67th St. 
between First and Second avenues.
NY, NY
www.nybloodcenter.org

Citibank office
310 East 67th St

Blood Donations in Washington D.C.

Please visit http://www.inova.org for information on how to donate blood in the Washington D.C. area
 

Several volunteers will be needed in the days ahead especially experienced health care professionals. For more information on on volunteering you can visit Helping.org - Most of the relief organizations need cash donations. Helping.org has detail information on how you can donate cash to agencies and organizations directly involved in the relief effort. 

For continuous updates on Tuesday's tragic events you can visit news.yahoo.com. 

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Most concerts in North America have been canceled or postponed. Ticket holders should contact venues before heading out to concerts.  Pollstar and Ticketmaster have been posting updates of several planned performances that have been canceled. 

Pantera has canceled their planned participation in the European Tattoo the Planet tour which was scheduled to kick off tonight. 

Other announcements. 

Below is an except from a statement issued by concert promoter's SXF this morning: 

In support of the President's wishes that the country return to its normal routine following Tuesday's tragedies, the Lynyrd Skynyrd and Backstreet Boys performances tonight in Raleigh, North Carolina and Toronto, Ontario, respectively, will be held as originally scheduled. The bands also announced that in honor of the victims and families affected by the tragedies, each group will donate at least $10,000 of tonight's ticket sales to help kick-off the ClearChannel.com Relief Fund, a newly established fund created by Clear Channel Worldwide. The ClearChannel.com Relief Fund will be accessible to anyone wishing to make any size donation by visiting  www.ClearChannel.com or mailing a donation to: ClearChannel.com Relief Fund, PO Box  659512, San Antonio, TX, 78265. The fund will benefit the American Red Cross and appropriate New York and Washington, DC Police and Firemen's funds.