Move over Ashton Kutcher and CNN! Taylor Hicks is tweeting from the phone in the cone as he waits above the Grease stage at the malt shop. With his Blackberry smart phone, Taylor reaches out from the small confines of the ice cream cone to connect with fellow twitterers.

The New York Times calls Twitter "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet." TIME Magazine says, "Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app," and Newsweek noted that "Suddenly, it seems as though all the world's a-twitter." Follow the latest from the phone in the cone at taylorrhicks@twitter.com.

Our blogspot even mused about “Taylor Hicks on the phone in the cone.” The Taylor Hicks Community Blog

MAY 27~~Shadow tour in the Northwest~~Taylor opens at the Triple Door in Seattle on Wednesday, May 27, at 8:00 p.m.

~~~TICKETS TO GREASE and SHADOW TOUR SHOWS

Grease in the Northwest...
"Grease" says goodbye to San Francisco and heads to Portland, OR this week. It opens at Keller Auditorium April 21 and runs through April 26.

"Grease" returns to Southern California for a two-week stay in Costa Mesa, California, April 28 – May 10. Grease Tour Schedule

Sports Illustrated names Regions Number One and Taylor's there...
Taylor goes home to Hoover, AL to play in the golf tournament where he was a caddy while growing up. Now, he returns as a celebrity player in the 2009 Regions Golf Classic which tees off at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bride Resort and Spa in Hoover, Al on May 13 - May 17, 2009. Sports Illustrated selected The Regions Classic as the Number One Event on the Champions Tour. Players on the Tour include Tom Kite, Bernard Langer, Andy Bean, Curtis Strange, and Hal Irwin. Celebrities participating include Nick Saban, Bart Starr, Jeff Fisher, Taylor Hicks, Phil Niekro and Vince Gill. It is rumored that Taylor will be paired with fellow American Idol, Ruben Studdard.

The people around Taylor...
Taylor talked to Q107.5 in Memphis last week about his new album, The Distance. The host commented that Taylor had people with a lot of song writing history come in...

“The people that knew who I was as a artist and the people that were reflective in the styles that were reflective of me...that's the key...having people around you who know who you are, and this time around that happened.” (Q107.5 Memphis)