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Your Chance to Own the Deadhead Chevy
MotorTrend MagazineEvery car has stories to tell, if people will only make the effort to listen. But I'll bet this shopworn '56 Chevy has more to say than most, as it for many years served as a road trip taxi for a guy named Garcia, and his band, The Grateful Dead. You'll... -
Fans hope to honor late country star
Associated PressLOUISVILLE—Bonnie Hill was 12 when she first saw Kentucky-born country music singer Keith Whitley play a concert in his native Appalachia. It left an "everlasting impression" on Hill. Now, nearly two decades after his death from alcohol poisoning,...Tags: Kenny Chesney, Hank Williams, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Country Music
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B.B. King's 'One Kind Favor' and another: a blues museum
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterB.B. King is full of it. Humility, that is. Listen to what the blues master has to say about the $15-million museum bearing his name that's slated to open Saturday in the small Mississippi Delta town where he sweated for a few cents a day picking...Tags: Popular Music, Jonny Lang, Robert Plant, Robert Johnson, Robert Cray
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Looks can be deceiving for Terps' Turner
He's from Southern California, has curly blond hair and can appear as placid as a sunset over the beach.
Maryland junior quarterback Chris Turner, named the starter for today's game at Middle Tennessee State, might occasionally amble to the practice...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Ralph Friedgen
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'Fashion Rocks' kicks off Fashion Week
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comIt was as if the "Fashion Rocks" organizers were inspired by a constant loop of Tim Gunn uttering his trademark phrase, "Make it work." After all, the Fashion Week kick-off event, celebrating its fifth anniversary, was faced with an organizational...Tags: Deborah Harry, Ceremonies, Society, Radio City Music Hall, Marvin Gaye
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Irish Eyes Are Smiling
By AMY ELLIS | Courant Staff WriterDarren Holden has quite an impressive résumé. Holden put together his first band, Wanted, when he was 16; was a performer in "Riverdance" and played piano and sang lead vocals in the Tony Award-winning Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp musical "Movin' Out." Oh,...Tags: Broadway, Twyla Tharp, Chevrolet Theatre, Imperial and Royal Matters, Family
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During hard times, LI tribute bands try to play on
darren.sands@newsday.comSal Conca doesn't care about how he looks onstage as much as he cares about how he sounds. That's why he was scanning the crowd on a balmy night in late July at the Red Lion in the West Village, his eyes sliding to and fro: from the raucous crew in...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Deer Park (Cook, Illinois), Academic Progress, Ceremonies, Society
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Stars turn "Fashion Rocks" show into night of tributes
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comIt was as if the "Fashion Rocks" organizers were inspired by a constant loop of Tim Gunn uttering his trademark phrase, "Make it work." After all, the Fashion Week kickoff event, celebrating its fifth anniversary, was faced with an organizational...Tags: Deborah Harry, Ceremonies, Society, Radio City Music Hall, Marvin Gaye
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Bold times, bold art
Of The Morning CallSheryl Oring is a performance artist who invites the public to perform the art of good citizenship. In ''I Wish to Say'' she sits in a portable office dressed in 1950s clothes and types messages from spectators to George W. Bush on an antique keyboard....Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Motorcycling, U.S. Elections, Political Candidates, Motorcycle Trial
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Fall Arts Preview: Dance
steve.parks@newsday.com; JUDY RAIAFall for Dance Festival (Sept. 17-27, City Center, 130 W. 56th St., Manhattan). First-rate dance at cut-rate prices - just $10 a performance - starting with the National Ballet of Canada and including the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Les Ballet Jazz de...Tags: Alvin Ailey, Popular Music, Garth Fagan, Suzanne Farrell, Tilles Center
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Music of the mind
Astral Weeks Pop Quiz: Name the piece of music responsible for these flights of fancy:
Example one: "About fifteen minutes [in] . . . I have entered a different reality and am in a strange part of the universe where you can sit on the tail of a flaming...Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Celine Dion, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Metal and Mineral, Fiction
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His fashion rocks
Menswear designer John Varvatos is in pursuit of an ideal spot for his Chicago store. In the meantime, we get to know the man—And why jeans and a white shirt are sexy. As a guy, there isn't much else you can ask of John Varvatos. The designer has...Tags: Public Relations, Alice Cooper, Barney's New York Incorporated, Popular Music, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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