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Black History Month 2013 TV schedule
Channel Guide MagazineHere are some of the notable new and returning TV specials, documentaries and movies airing in celebration of Black History Month 2013. All times are Eastern. Programming is subject to change; check back regularly for additions and updates. American... -
Big-screen blind spot: 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights'
Once in a while, a movie slips under your radar. For about, oh, 20 years. In 'Big-screen blind spot,' we sit down with those 'classic' movies everybody but us has seen and give them the nostalgia critic treatment. Confession: In middle school, my friend...
Tags: Robin Hood, Mitt Romney, Robin Hood (movie, 2010), Errol Flynn, Entertainment
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Crowds flock to College Football Hall of Fame
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – Sunday is your last chance to check out the College Football Hall of Fame, at least in South Bend. The National Football Foundation is moving the Hall to Atlanta as we've known for years now. The Hall opened here 17 years ago, but...Tags: Football, Sports, College Football
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Sam Spiegel announces zany Maximum Hedrum project
Given the rate at which left-field super-groups have proliferated over the last few years -- Atoms for Peace! Them Crooked Vultures! Monsters of Folk! -- it was probably inevitable that we'd eventually end up with one as wacky as Maximum Hedrum, the new...
Tags: Tom Waits, Library of Congress, Them Crooked Vultures (music group), Kanye West, Spike Jonze
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Mariah Carey celebrated at BMI Urban Awards
Mariah Carey, Drake, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj all took home top honors at BMI’s Urban Awards in Beverly Hills on Friday. Carey accepted the night’s most prestigious honor, the BMI Icon Award, for her “unique and indelible influence...
Tags: Entertainment, Fantasia (music artist), Ceremonies, Snoop Dogg, Music Industry
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Birthplace of rock 'n' roll? Memphis has plenty of evidence in its favor
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - This port city on the Mississippi River calls itself the birthplace of rock 'n' roll. Its credentials? The Memphis Recording Service, forerunner of Sun Studio, in 1951 recorded "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats, which some...Tags: Soul (genre), Rock and Roll (genre), Entertainment, Smithsonian Institution, Concerts
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Top weekend shows: Slayer, Motorhead, Anthrax, Jimmy Webb
Slayer, Motorhead, Anthrax: These three titans are part of something called the “Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival,” which includes eight metal bands. The headliner is Slipknot, but Slayer (even with guitarist Jeff Hanneman sidelined,...Tags: Anthrax, Tinley Park, The Supremes (music group), Evanston, Entertainment
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The music of Stax Records, back on the radio
For a third straight year, DJ Chris Cowles will be on the airwaves, playing seven straight hours of some of the best music ever recorded. Cowles’ show, which he co-hosts with fellow radio personality Tom Shaker, is called the “Soulsville...
Tags: Soul (genre), Entertainment, Concerts, Arts and Culture, Albert King
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2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)
It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...
Tags: Bo Diddley, Joe Zawinul & the Zawinul Syndicate (music group), Jim Marshall, Amy Winehouse, Solomon Burke
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Donald 'Duck' Dunn dies at 70; soul music bassist
Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Hold On, I'm Coming" and...
Tags: Soul (genre), Al Jackson, Entertainment, Music Industry, John Belushi
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PASSINGS: George Murdock, Charles 'Skip' Pitts
George Murdock
Character actor often played the 'heavy'
George Murdock, 81, a veteran character actor who had a recurring role as Lt. Scanlon on the television sitcom "Barney Miller" and played God in the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,"...Tags: Soul (genre), Battlestar Galactica (tv program), V (tv program), Rufus Thomas, Entertainment
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'Shaft' guitarist Charles 'Skip' Pitts dies at 65
WGN NewsCharles 'Skip' Pitts, member of Isaac Hayes's band and creator of the iconic guitar riff in "Theme from Shaft," died of lung cancer in Memphis, May 1. He was 65 years old. Pitts is resonsible for the unique "wah-wah" pedal sound featured in the 1970s...Tags: Lung Cancer, Bo Diddley, Entertainment, Music Industry, Music
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