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'American Idol' recap: Songs from the movies
Reality CheckJanell reports on last night's American Idol, which was songs from the movies, but should have been "[Most of] the Contestants Ignore Jimmy Iovine.":Did you hear? Pia got eliminated last week! I know, like, whoa. If I can summarize some......Tags: Phil Collins, George Strait, Music, Boomerang (tv network), Movies
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Condi wants to 'Rock and Roll All Nite?'
The Swampby Aamer Madhani Who would suspect that Condoleezza Rice would be a glam rock fan? The Associated Press reports that the Secretary of State and classically trained pianist had a chance encounter with the legendary rockers KISS while passing through......Tags: United Nations, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Saddam Hussein, Condoleezza Rice
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Billy Joel, Paul McCartney send off Shea in style
WatchdogSports stadiums are part of my vast jurisdiction around here, so I went to Shea Friday night to make sure Billy Joel sent off the old barn in style as a concert venue. No problems there. Hicksville High's own......Tags: Roger Daltrey, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Music
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Denver: Apple inside the perimeter
The Swampby Mark Silva DENVER -- Update here on the apple-free zone: No longer. For all who read with great sympathy about the inability of your health-minded Swamp correspondent to carry an innocent, shiny red apple into the grounds of the......Tags: Barack Obama
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Sarah Palin: Rock star or cement weight?
The Swampby Mark Silva Sarah Palin, the Palinomenon from Nowhere, stepped onto the national stage as a rock star in the making, electrifying the conservative base of her party and offering a stunning new post-feminist alternative to the Hillary Clinton whom......Tags: National Government, Death, Politics, Government, Republican Party
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"Jonas" Starts May 1
The TV Zone(Getty pix) Remember that Jonas Bros. sitcom? And no wise cracks please. It is the Next Big Thing on the Disney Channel, and it's gonna be GREAT. Honestly, I'll reserve judgment. And I do have my doubts... It launches......Tags: Miley Cyrus, Nick Jonas, Jonas Brothers (music group), Mad Men (tv program), Camp Rock (movie)
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Forty years after Woodstock: Rock Rules
The Swampby Mark Silva I came across a child of God.... actually, just a poll: Forty years after Woodstock, it appears, the generation gap is alive and well. It's less about a long-passed war, free love and weed, however, and more......Tags: Ethics, Social Issues, Music, Employment, Popular Music (genre)
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Teen clubs along I-4 corridor helped fuel rise of Southern rock
As Bob Kealing notes in his new book, most folks who drive by Orlando's Loch Haven Neighborhood Center have "no idea how it used to rock." Inside the building, the place looks much like it did in the 1960s, when it was the Orlando Youth Center. Then,...
Tags: Elvis Presley, Music, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Arts and Culture
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Beach Boys mix nostalgia, surf, melancholy at Chicago Theatre
Brian Wilson broke character Monday at the Chicago Theatre in the first of two 50th anniversary concerts by his longtime band. The most fragile of the Beach Boys plunged into the turmoil of “Sail On, Sailor,” a song rarely performed by the...
Tags: Music, Brian Wilson, Frankie Lymon, Physiology, Phil Spector
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Cleveland Rocks
In the early 1960’s and really for years beyond, the newspaper business was not exactly an upwardly mobile profession for women. The same could be said for broadcast journalism when I started several years later. Just about the best a woman could do...Tags: Journalism, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Radio Industry, Bruce Springsteen
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Report from Stratford Shakespeare Fest: 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' 'Twelfth Night' and the rest
STRATFORD, Ontario — Des McAnuff, the artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, North America's largest and arguably most prestigious, classically based theater, has announced his intention to leave his post in 2013.
Personal...Tags: Brian Dennehy, Health, Celebrities, Behavioral Conditions, Titus Andronicus (music group)
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Like a Spirit in the Night
Or at least that is how the story goes when a still struggling rock and roll band met The Big Man, and the change was made uptown. It was a stormy night along the Jersey Shore – the wind was howling, the lightening was flashing – and then,...Tags: Prosecution, Metal and Mineral, Building Material, Soul (genre), The E Street Band (music group)
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