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As 'MacArthur Park' turns 45, Jimmy Webb will play it in that park
Before becoming a widely lauded songwriter, Jimmy Webb was just another aspiring musician living in a dingy Los Angeles apartment. The Oklahoma transplant would wander from his low-rent flat in Silver Lake to a place that would inspire one of his most...
Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Radio, Music Industry, Camelot (tv program), Music
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Sam Most dies at 82; pioneering jazz flutist
Sam Most, a pioneering jazz flutist who performed with a stylistically diverse range of artists, including Tommy Dorsey, Donald Byrd, Herbie Mann and Charles Mingus, died Thursday at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Woodland Hills. He was 82....
Tags: Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Obituaries, Music, Entertainment
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Movie review: 'One Track Heart' on Krishna Das like a broken record
The transformation of Long Island boy and wannabe rock star Jeffrey Kagel into Krishna Das, a singer of Hindu devotional chants, is an odyssey as long and winding as any searcher's tale. In "One Track Heart," director Jeremy Frindel lays out the...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Music, Entertainment, Human Accomplishments
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Early terrorist in U.S. condemns today's jihad
WASHINGTON — Long before Sept. 11, the war on terrorism and two pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon, a young Muslim from Egypt walked into the ballroom of a New York City hotel and shot to death an outspoken Jewish rabbi. El Sayyid A....
Tags: Punishment, FBI, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Prosecution, Prisons
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Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist
Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...
Tags: Joyce Brothers, Radio, Philosophy, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychologists
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85
Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...
Tags: Joyce Brothers, Philosophy, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychologists, Psychology
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Jodi Arias asks jury for life term; deliberations begin
PHOENIX — Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she “lacked perspective” when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail. Standing...
Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Justice System, Trials
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'Gatsby' is talk of the town, but 'Iron Man 3' will still be No. 1
"The Great Gatsby" is set to make a splashy debut at the box office this weekend, but "Iron Man 3" will still be the life of the party. The Marvel Studios film starring Robert Downey Jr. debuted with a massive $174.1 million last weekend and has already...
Tags: Craig Robinson, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Carey Mulligan, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Cannes Film Festival
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Web campaign to build a Tesla museum succeeds in purchasing lab
The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property. Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal, put up a comic strip announcing...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Politics, Computer Hardware, Cartoons
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'The Sad Passions' paints haunting tale of loss and art
Spectral girls and shadow fathers haunt the center and fringes of Veronica Gonzalez Peña's second novel, "The Sad Passions," but this isn't magical realism. These aren't spirits who visit in the middle of the night. These phantom girls and men are living,...
Tags: Authors, Depression, Book, Family
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Oklahoma tornado: Hospital 'code black' before flood of patients
The injured children came into the Children's Hospital at the Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City fast. So fast that the hospital set up a triage center in its own facility. "Every once in a while, a trauma trickles into the emergency...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Tornadoes, Broken Bones, Hypothermia, Natural Disasters
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Botched robbery leads to N.Y. student's death -- by police
It wasn't like the movies. Seven of the police officer's bullets hit the robber. An eighth hit a hostage, Andrea Rebello. Both were killed, and a standoff was over. The repercussions, however, had just begun. The death of the 21-year-old Hofstra...
Tags: Hofstra University, Shootings, Criminals, Crime, Law and Justice, Firearms
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