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Jimmy Boyd dies at 70; singer of 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus'
Jimmy Boyd, a singer best known for recording the Christmas novelty hit “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” in 1952 when he was 13, died Saturday. He was 70.
Boyd, who also was a child actor, died of cancer at a Santa Monica convalescent...Tags: John Forsythe, Entertainment, Music Theater, Television, Bing Crosby
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Dark Matter
Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.Cartoonists are natural contrarians. To paraphrase John Mellencamp, we smite authority, but authority always wins. Irritatingly, the authority in question often wants a signed copy of the cartoon. Authorities tend to have big egos. Ours is a world of...Tags: Cartoons, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment
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The Loner
Times Staff WriterThe great novelists, Larry McMurtry believes, write their masterpieces in the prime of life. And at 66, he figures he's past his prime. The powers that inspired "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment" are in decline. By his own reckoning, the...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Music Industry, Travel
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Country music icon, '70s soft rock hitmaker announced for Sands shows
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA country music mainstay who has released more than 125 albums in a career that has streched more than 55 years and a jazzy soft-rock favorite from the 1970s will perform shows at Sands Bethlehem Event Center, the venue just...... -
Diana Krall in Miami: 3 new songs we'd like to hear
Diana Krall’s arrival at Miami’s Arsht Center Tuesday night offers a departure. The singer-pianist’s performance is part of a tour in support of the album “Glad Rag Doll,” an October release on the Verve Records jazz label...
Tags: Diana Krall, Stephen Marley, Roy Orbison, Los Lobos (music group), Music
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Rob Thomas is a fan, too
Sometimes, even big-name musicians can be starstruck. Just ask Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas. During a recent phone interview, Thomas confessed that he once "geeked out" in front of Willie Nelson and fears a repeat performance if he ever meets Tom...
Tags: Tom Petty, Entertainment Events, Music, Music Industry, My Morning Jacket (music group)
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UPDATE: Stabler Arena confirms that Bob Dylan's coming in April
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGIt's now official that egendary singer Bob Dylan is coming to Stabler Arena in April. Dylan, the iconic folk and rock bard, will play the storied Lehigh University venue on April 18, Lehigh University has confirmed. The show had not...... -
Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGHere are the Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week: 1 . ED KOWALCZYK It’s almost four years since Ed Kowalczyk parted ways with Live, the York-based band whose writing and singing he defined with such alternative chart-toppers as “Lightning...... -
Tony-winning set designer Todd Rosenthal wows again at Steppenwolf
"Whoa." That's what the guy who sat behind me said as I settled into a matinee performance of "The Motherf***er With the Hat" at the Steppenwolf Theatre recently: "Whoa, will you look at that? That is something. That is large. I wonder what that'll do?...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Tony Awards, Clybourne Park (play), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Bruce Norris
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REVIEW: The Wallflowers channel the elder Dylan, for great and not so great
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGFor as much as Jakob Dylan, singer and front man for roots rockers The Wallflowers, has tried to avoid the coattails of his famous father (yes, that Dylan), the band’s show Thursday at Sands Bethlehem Event Center showed comparisons are...... -
Top 10 Things we're hoping for in Lehigh Valley Music in 2013
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGOn Monday, Lehigh Valley Music listed the things that made music great in the Valley in 2012. Today, we list our Top 10 Things We’re Hoping For in music in the Lehigh Valley in 2013. Luke Bryan at Allentown Fair......
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