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Daum: America's shortcut culture
Not even the Olympics are a sufficient distraction from the scandal of Jonah Lehrer. He's the 31-year-old who rose to prominence writing such bestselling books as "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" and "How We Decide," and delivering lucrative corporate...
Tags: Documentary (genre)
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'Searching For Sugar Man' review: Fascinating music doc makes you believe the unbelievable
*** (out of four) The Beatles. Simon and Garfunkel. Rodriguez. What? Apparently, South African music fans in the ‘90s put little-known early ‘70s folk singer Rodriguez on the same level as those legends. The Detroit-native musician,...
Tags: Searching for Sugar Man (movie), South Africa, Music, Music Industry, Entertainment
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Q&A: Rodriguez, star of the documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man'
Spoiler alert: Little-known, critically acclaimed early 1970s folk singer Rodriguez is not, contrary to popular belief, dead. Yet, as chronicled in the Sundance award-winning film “Searching for Sugar Man,” that’s what many fans in...
Tags: Paul Simon, Animal Collective (music group), Searching for Sugar Man (movie), Music, Music Industry
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Vacation Bible school starts Sunday
“Take Me To the Water” begins Sunday evening. That’s the theme for this year’s vacation Bible school at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church. The school starts at 7 p.m. and will include music, Bible stories, crafts and games. The...Tags: Religion and Belief, Music, Music Industry, Basilica of the Assumption, Woody Guthrie
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Tom Morello keeps punk-rock spirit of Woody Guthrie alive
Tom Morello says he rarely gets nervous anymore before he performs, in part because he’s done just about everything from rocking stadiums with Rage Against the Machine to participating in protest rallies around the world as a guitar-thrashing...
Tags: Folk (genre), Ghosts (supernatural entities), Music, Bruce Springsteen, Punk (genre)
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Donald 'Duck' Dunn dead at 70: A soul rhythm-section great
Donald “Duck” Dunn, who died Sunday at age 70 in Tokyo only hours after playing his final show with longtime friend Steve Cropper, was part of one of soul music’s greatest rhythm sections. Dunn was a self-taught bass player who had been...
Tags: Otis Redding, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Music, Entertainment
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Video game creator Eugene Jarvis is Player One
The young guy in the trucker cap, skinny jeans and Air Jordans squeezed the trigger on the toy shotgun and his umpteenth round of “Big Buck Hunter” blasted to life. The guy was maybe 25 and so focused on bagging digital deer, the butt of the...
Tags: Wrigley Field, Culture, Companies and Corporations, Genres, Human Interest
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Concert review: Bonnie Raitt at Chicago Theatre
Bonnie Raitt claimed she was “intimidated” by the Chicago Theatre, but that hardly seemed the case Saturday in the first of two sold-out concerts at the Loop landmark.
Raitt’s wisecracks, several at her own expense, and genial banter...Tags: Chicago Loop, Arts and Culture, Music, Concerts, NATO Summit
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Ensemble for seniors celebrates milestones
"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing." I doubt Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was thinking about "playing" musical instruments when he said that, but if he'd been talking about New Horizons Band, he'd have...Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Music Theater, Schools, Arts and Culture, Music
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Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond
As a teenager in ‘60s San Francisco, Joe Louis Walker lived just blocks away from Sly Stone, roomed with Mike Bloomfield, and played shows with B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk. Walker was the 16-year-old house guitarist at the Matrix,...
Tags: Music, Blues (genre), Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment, Albert King
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Album review: Bonnie Raitt, 'Slipstream' ✭✭✭
“Slipstream” (Redwing) marks Bonnie Raitt’s first album since 2005 and her first independent release in a career that stretches back to the early ‘70s. The album is a composite of two recording sessions, one a self-produced...
Tags: Music, John Lee Hooker, Entertainment, Bonnie Raitt
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Levon Helm, drummer and singer for The Band, dies of cancer
Levon Helm was the rarest of musical multi-taskers: an unflappable drummer and a singer who wrung soul out of every note. He also was a terrific team player and bandmate; he made the people around him sound good. Helm was "the only drummer who could make...
Tags: Capitol Records, Steely Dan (music group), Throat Cancer, Joni Mitchell, Chuck Yeager
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