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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... -
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: College Football, Football, Sports
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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: Rhythm and Blues (genre), Jerry Lee Lewis, The Miami Herald, Alan Freed, Robert Cray
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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, Slayer (music group), Glen Campbell, Music, Evanston
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Chicago's other Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Quick, name Chicago's Nobel Peace Prize winners. President Barack Obama and Hull House co-founder Jane Addams are two. But the third? That would be former Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who lived in Evanston and whose lakefront mansion is now the...
Tags: Nat King Cole, Jane Addams, Entertainment Events, Korean War (1950-1953), Wars and Interventions
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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: Whitney Houston, Milton Babbitt, Joe Gibbs, Eartha Kitt, Earl Scruggs
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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: Mavis Staples, Albert King, Memorial Day, Music, Human Interest
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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: Music, Bo Diddley, Movies, Lung Cancer, Entertainment
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Arts & Crafts, Grimes and Venice Dawn
The experience of SXSW is about information almost as much as music - the peerless Pocket Guide presents in ActualPaper the who, where, when, but not listed is the realtime hype, whether you should take that recommendation from the guy in your taxi,...Tags: Marvin Gaye, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Genesis (music group)
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He put the 'wah' in rock 'n' roll
You've probably seen Del Casher, sporting a yachtsman's cap as he cruises around town in his fire-engine-red sedan, and never given him a second look. But the 73-year-old musician, who operates a sound studio on Magnolia Boulevard in Burbank, is one of...Tags: Frank Zappa, Johnnie Ray, Entertainment Events, Elvis Presley, Don Knotts
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Buddy Guy makes believers of Symphony Hall audience
Lehigh Valley MusicAny non-believers in the powers of blues guitarist extraordinaire Buddy Guy could have been converted in the first 10 minutes of his show Sunday at Allentown Symphony Hall. Guy opened to a standing ovation from the smallish crowd of 600...... -
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