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'Godfather of Soul' James Brown Dies
Zap2It.comJames Brown, the "Godfather of Soul" and an influence on countless musicians and performers, has died at the age of 73. The revolutionary singer died at 1:45 a.m. on Christmas at Atlanta's Emory Crawford Long Hospital where he was hospitalized for...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Hospitals and Clinics, Dining and Drinking, Social Issues, Elvis Presley
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Dan Patrick reunites with Keith Olbermann on NBC
WatchdogSeveral easy newspaper column topics have come and gone during my vacation; here's another: Dan Patrick is reuniting with Keith Olbermann on NBC's Sunday night football program this fall, another step in the network's strategy of hiring everyone in...Tags: Dick Ebersol, Tiki Barber, Jerome Bettis, Multi-Sport Events, Football
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'So You Think You Can Dance': lots of props, plenty of awesome dancing
Reality CheckJohn-John Williams IV is in Chicago at a hotel that does not have Fox (to our disbelief). So I'm filling in and recapping a well-danced So You Think You Can Dance. There's new partnering tonight (again). Each pair will dance......Tags: Bars and Clubs, Celine Dion, Entertainment, Brian Setzer, Georgia Brown
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Dems convene, night 1 live-blog
The Swampby Frank James 11:20 PM -- It's difficult to tell how Michelle Obama's speech played out in flyover country. She obviously has a great personal story, this South Side Chicago girl. But is it enough to overcome her earlier controversial......Tags: Caroline Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain, Madeleine Albright
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Tall order for the heavyweight class
Out of a small boombox, James Brown is preaching about shaking your moneymaker, getting up and staying on the scene, while the Giant's size 18 feet bounce in steady rhythm on the mat. Way, way up above, the boxer's meaty hands, each the size of a catcher'...Tags: Photography, Education, Boxing, Basketball, Arts and Culture
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Sox-Royals
The Best Team in Baseball, the Chicago White Sox, dropped a rare one last night to Kansas City, which they had royally flushed the previous 10 games. Today is the rubber match from uncharacteristically cool Kansas City, where it's a lovely 70-something...Tags: Matt Stairs, Emil Brown, Tribune Tower, Timo Perez, Kansas City Royals
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Jukebox heroes
Everybody knows what happened to jukeboxes in the '50s: They blew up. Teenyboppers, frustrated with listening to Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry on fuzzy transistor radios, flooded to soda fountains to hear music that was properly amplified. "You just...Tags: Brian Eno, Bones and Joints, ABBA (music group), Sex Pistols (music group), Frank Sinatra
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Rapper rakes 'em in
NEW YORK -- Eminem won four awards at the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday, but it didn't put the rapper in a good mood--he found time to feud with his nemesis Moby, then ended up getting booed by the crowd. It was just part of the annual celebrity...Tags: Eminem, Entertainment, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Jimmy Fallon, Christina Aguilera
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Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials
The irrepressable Lil' Ed Williams and his Blues Imperials return from a seven-year recording hiatus with plenty of scorching blues on their appropriately-titled fourth release,"Get Wild." The nephew of famed slide guitarist J.B. Hutto, the west side-bred...Tags: MP3s
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Ruppersberger beats Bentley; Morella falls to Van Hollen
Sun StaffDemocrats claimed victories last night in two hotly contested races for Maryland congressional seats that have long been in Republican hands. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Baltimore County and Christopher Van Hollen Jr. of Montgomery County won in contests...Tags: Entertainment, American Legion, Wayne T Gilchrest, Regional Authority, Elijah E. Cummings
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Movie review, 'Showtime'
As your mind wanders during the formulaic, witless, self-contradictory piffle that is "Showtime," you may ask yourself questions. Like: Remember when Robert De Niro's presence in a movie used to mean something? De Niro movies weren't all great, but...Tags: Entertainment, priceline.com Inc., Rene Russo, Television, Celebrities
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Rock review, Trey Anastasio at Alpine Valley Music Theatre
When Phish announced its indefinite hiatus, you could almost hear the band's thousands of fans mutter: bummer. After taking over for the Grateful Dead as the jam band of choice, Phish continued to grow in popularity, attracting the great unwashed and...Tags: Death, Phish (music group), Music Theater, Trey Anastasio
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