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Art: Cool, indeed, and in tune with his times

Barkley L. Hendricks' portraits of African Americans capture a changing culture. By Edward Sozanski Contributing Art Critic Barkley L. Hendricks has achieved something relatively rare among artists: He has created paintings...

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Bowie bio traces artist's ch-ch-changes

By Michael Hill Associated Press David Bowie knows what he’s singing about when he performs “Changes.” After making a big splash in the early 1970s as Ziggy Stardust, he went on to become the Thin White Duke, an artsy Berlin...

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Supper clubs offer dinner, show in intimate setting

Clubs provide dinner and entertainment in an intimate setting The glittering world of the supper club seems so last century, and area restaurant impresario Tim McLoone knows it. These were places with names such as the Cotton...

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Ann Jillian

Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress, who started acting at age 10. Her career reached its zenith in the 1980s, with her best-known role being that of...

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Innovation and Leadership from the Jazz Session.

Mr. Crane is among the gradually growing posse of emerging leaders of Jazz Media support entering the strange new world growing from the cooling ashes of the Gutenberg model. By the time I came around in the 1970s, he had a...

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Pop's pensioners

Today's stars now rock right past the retirement age. How do they do it? And shouldn't some of them stop? Dave Swarbrick, one-time fiddler with Fairport Convention, can laugh about his "death" now. It was 1999 and he'd been...

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How much is that body in the window?

Ed Kienholz's widow and collaborator, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, talks to Kate Connolly as she prepares to show their masterwork installation The Hoerengracht at London's National Gallery Nancy Kienholz's house is in an obscure...

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Testament Speaks Volumes

Keith Jarrett's Fascinating New Solo Recordings Keith Jarrett's improvisational feats on the piano have taken on a new form, and his new recording, Testament: Paris/London, is abundant proof that it works. The latest...

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The Mind of Gil Scott Heron

The Mind of Gil Scott Heron San Francisco Bay View, Interview, JR Valrey, Posted: Nov 07, 2009 Gil Scott Heron is one of the greatest legends that Black music has breathing in this country. Here’s Gil Scott Heron in his own...

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Does this sound 80's?

i think a problem here is that u r trying to make "80s" as if it were a genre, rather than a decade, but ppl in the 80s were mostly trying to make specific genres to the exclusion of other genres (as subcultures with different...

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