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With 'Honey,' life is sweet for Lucinda Williams
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comLucinda Williams isn't exactly sure what's going on, but she knows it's good. Night after night, she's watching her fans go crazy for her latest songs, even though the album "Little Honey" (Lost Highway) doesn't hit stores until Tuesday. "I remember...Tags: Kurt Cobain, Pete Townshend, Courtney Love, Radio Industry, Amazon.com Inc.
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Lake Harmony Fire Damages Kitchen At Split Rock Resort
About 400 guests and employees were evacuated Friday night during a fire at one of the main buildings at Split Rock Resort & Golf Club in the Poconos, according to officials. Chief Ralph Lennon of the Lake Harmony Volunteer Fire Company said the fire...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Employees, Fires
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People we want to talk to ... Devo singer/bassist Gerald Casale
Chicago Tribune reporterDevo hasn't released a new album in 18 years but keeps leaving its mark on popular culture. The 1980 hit "Whip It" has been adapted for a Swiffer commercial ("Swiffer's good!") and a musical toothbrush called Turbo Tooth Tunes ("Brush It"). The new...Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Barack Obama, McDonald's, Sarah Palin
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Morphine Generation's Erik Hart adds a self-named line
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWHEN designer Erik Hart launched Morphine Generation, his darkly romantic streetwear line, in 2003, imitators came flocking -- ripping off the collection's skull-and-flora silk-screens ad nauseam. "There were people who built their lines around my first...Tags: Andy Warhol, Motorcycling, Cindy Sherman, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Pitt
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Slash leaps at chance to honor Les Paul — no strings attached
Not wanting to miss a chance to pay tribute to Les Paul, his guitar hero, former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash signed up to play at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's tribute concert Nov. 15 without even hearing who he'd be playing with on stage. "I'm just...Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Les Paul, Richie Sambora
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MUSIC
WHAT Lucy Kaplansky performs songs blending alternative country, rock and roll, and folk music. WHEN|WHERE 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 W. Main St., Bay Shore INFO $35; 631-969-1101 WHAT The Canta Libre...Tags: Shelter Island, Folk Music
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Birthdays
*Playwright Harold Pinter is 78. *Actor Peter Coyote is 67. *Entertainer Ben Vereen is 62. *Singer John Prine is 62. *Actress Jessica Harper is 59. *Rock singer David Lee Roth is 54. *Country singer Tanya Tucker is 50. *Actress Julia Sweeney is 49....Tags: Harold Pinter, Music Industry, Peter Coyote, Celebrity, Mario Lopez
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Today's Celebrity Birthdays
Playwright Harold Pinter is 78. Actor Peter Coyote is 67. Entertainer Ben Vereen is 62. Singer John Prine is 62. Actor Charles Dance is 62. Rock singer-musician Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers) is 60. Actress Jessica Harper is 59. Singer-musician...Tags: Harold Pinter, Music Industry, Peter Coyote, Celebrity, Mario Lopez
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Call him mellow, gray: Donovan releases autobiographical DVD, plans album, tour
Associated Press WriterWOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) _ Standing in the rain wasn't going to dampen Donovan's spirits. He had come to a field in this Catskills arts colony to be photographed, looking every bit the '60s troubadour of "Mellow Yellow" fame with a calf-length, black...Tags: Jimmy Page, Festive Event, Ravi Shankar, Film Festivals, Cinema Industry
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Cracker to play the Suffolk Peanut Festival
247-4732Johnny Hickman, guitarist for the rock band Cracker, said his group is digging back toward its punk-rock roots. "The new record we're working on is hearkening back to the punk rock we were listening to when we first became friends in the late 1970s and...Tags: Murder, Festive Event, Demographics, Dickey Betts, Folk Music
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Humor saves 'M. Butterfly' from geopolitical changes
It's been two decades since David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning "M. Butterfly" first hit Broadway. Hwang based his drama on the true-life case in which a French diplomat passed state secrets to his Chinese lover, actually a man in drag, a fact that escaped...Tags: Frank Zappa, Literature, Diplomacy, Music Theater, Academic Progress
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Newman still feeling pessimistic, thank God
On the evidence of his first album of new songs in nine years, "Harps and Angels" (Nonesuch), Randy Newman is not living out the artistic decline spelled out in his 1999 song "I'm Dead (But Don't Know It)." Even though that song's narrator embodies...Tags: James Taylor, Popular Music, Music Industry, Carole King, Randy Newman
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