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    May 18, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Donna Summer dies at 63; diva of disco

    In 1975, Donna Summer released a pop single unlike any before it.
    In 1975, Donna Summer released a pop single unlike any before it. The singer, then an unknown in the U.S., was living in Germany and working with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder and lyricist Pete Bellotte. Together they came up with a breathy,...

    Tags: Beyonce, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Music, Theater

    2. Aug 2, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Mitch Miller dies at 99; musical innovator and host of 'Sing Along With Mitch'

    Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most commercially successful recording artists, has died. He was 99.
    Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most...

    Tags: Doris Day, Erroll Garner, Music, Leopold Stokowski, Jimmy Boyd

    3. Oct 10, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Elton John & Leon Russell: Keyboard colleagues

    Few people can get away with telling an anecdote about being on safari in Africa and make it sound like a trip to the supermarket.
    Few people can get away with telling an anecdote about being on safari in Africa and make it sound like a trip to the supermarket. But for Elton John, that's precisely how and where he became inspired to call his keyboard-playing pal Leon Russell after...

    Tags: Country and Western (genre), Apple iPod, Alison Krauss, Music, Robert Plant

    4. Jan 12, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Music and the Tucson shootings

    Pop & Hiss
    Anyone who has been raised under the sway of a spiritual belief system -- Christian or Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or pagan -- knows that when a crisis arises, one thing you do is listen for a sound. A still, small......
    5. May 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. CPS approves largest school closure in Chicago's history

    Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.
    Tribune reporters
    Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings....

    Tags: Karen Lewis, Ameya Pawar, Illinois General Assembly, Carrie Austin, Layoffs and Downsizing

    6. May 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. CPS OKs massive closings

    Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.
    Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings....

    Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Ameya Pawar, Carrie Austin, Chicago Mayor, Layoffs and Downsizing

    7. Apr 12, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Words, images, music, courtesy of Bert Stern

    The soul-filling and gorgeous concert film "Jazz on a Summer's Day," shot during the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, started out as something else — a fiction feature, with jazz and Newport, R.I., as the backdrops, according to photographer and...

    Tags: Lindsay Lohan, Movies, Photography, Concerts, Arts and Culture

    8. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  8. Brooklyn singer heavy on tradition

    Plattsburgh Press-Republican
    The late Julia Porterfield Rice was a strong woman. Her maiden name is the P. in her granddaughter's band, the Alexis P. Suter Band. The bodacious bass/baritone performs with her bandmates -- Ray Grappone (drums), Jimmy Bennett (guitar), Benny...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Sony Corp., Brooklyn (New York City), Jimmy Bennett, Arts and Culture

    9. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  9. Local doctor's photograph goes postal

    Plattsburgh Press-Republican
    Dr. Laura Carbone's twin passions are photography and music. Wherever there's live music -- from the Cadyville Concert Hall to the Blast Furnace Blues Festival in Bethlehem, Pa. -- Carbone snaps away from the photogs' pit or finds a strategic front-...

    Tags: Mavis Staples, U.S. Postal Service, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Arts and Culture, Entertainment

    10. Apr 12, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise

    "The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream" has an elegant, unflinching, non-nostalgic clarity about Chicago that you rarely see in books about Chicago.
    Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...

    Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Marshall Field, Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Dave Garroway, Kanye West

    11. Feb 1, 2013 | Zap2It

  11. NFL Honors 2013 Saturday on CBS

    Channel Guide Magazine
    NFL Honors 2013 Saturday on CBS salutes the best players and plays from the 2012 NFL season, including the Associated Press awards for Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year, Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year, and the Walter Payton NFL Man of...
    12. Jan 22, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. NFL Network Super Bowl lineup includes Melissa Stark, Amber Theoharis, Brian Billick

    In addition to the Ravens on the field for Super Bowl XLVII, Baltimore viewers are going to see some familiar faces on the NFL Network's coverage leading up to the game.
    The Baltimore Sun
    In addition to the Ravens on the field for Super Bowl XLVII, Baltimore viewers are going to see some familiar faces on the NFL Network's coverage leading up to the game. Starting Jan. 28 through gameday Feb. 3, the channel will offer 140 hours of game-...

    Tags: Marshall Faulk, Super Bowl, Beyonce, National Football League, Super Bowl XLVII

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