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    Nov 15, 2012 |Story| WSBT Radio

  1. Gather moss? Not the Rolling Stones at 50

    <h2 style=&quot;margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">Rock's original bad boys are marking their unlikely milestone with another greatest hits album, a new movie and a handful of live shows. And they're doing it their way.</h2>
    Rock's original bad boys are marking their unlikely milestone with another greatest hits album, a new movie and a handful of live shows. And they're doing it their way. The Rolling Stones of yore were more likely to be caught dead than to be caught...

    Tags: Movies, The Rolling Stones (music group), Arts and Culture, Folklore and Mythology, Jean-Luc Godard

    2. Dec 25, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Bronzeville among city sites seeking Obama library

    The site where Michael Reese Hospital once stood isn't much to look at, just a 37-acre swath of overgrown land in Bronzeville, behind a shoddy chain-link fence.
    The site where Michael Reese Hospital once stood isn't much to look at, just a 37-acre swath of overgrown land in Bronzeville, behind a shoddy chain-link fence. Developers are itching to build a casino or perhaps a sports entertainment complex on the...

    Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, University of Michigan, Elections, Southern Methodist University

    3. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Daily Press

  3. Local acts The UnXpected, Anthony Rosano and The Conqueroos shined at International Blues Challenge in Memphis

    More than a week has passed since local bands returned from the <a href=&quot;https://blues.org/ibc/#ref=ibc_index" target="_blank">International Blues Challenge</a> in Memphis, time enough for the experience to marinate in the minds of musicians.
    More than a week has passed since local bands returned from the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, time enough for the experience to marinate in the minds of musicians. Members of the Peninsula youth blues band The UnXpected as well as hard-...

    Tags: Entertainment, The UnXpected (music group), Led Zeppelin (music group), York (York, Pennsylvania), Music

    4. Sep 8, 2012 | Allentown Morning Call

  4. Did Buddy Guy show his age in Bethlehem at '76 years young'?

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    Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy sang at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Friday night, "I'm 76 years young, there ain't nothing I haven't done." I believe it. Guy played with John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He......
    5. Nov 7, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Proof that the blues are a universal language

    The blues are a foundational American art form that speak not only to the U.S. experience but to all of humanity's.
    The blues are a foundational American art form that speak not only to the U.S. experience but to all of humanity's. Need proof? Just ask a European -- especially a European who's making a sentimental journey to the sacred shrines of the blues, with...

    Tags: Eric Clapton, Maxwell Street, B.B. King, Martin Luther King Jr.

    6. Nov 9, 2012 |Story| WPMT-LTV

  6. Two men attacked when arriving for work in Spring Garden Township

    Spring Garden Township Police are investigating an attack and car theft that happened around 4:50 a.m. this morning. Willie Dixon, 50, was getting out of his vehicle at Glen-Gery Brick this morning when three males wearing masks and dark clothing ordered him to the ground.
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    Spring Garden Township Police are investigating an attack and car theft that happened around 4:50 a.m. this morning. Willie Dixon, 50, was getting out of his vehicle at Glen-Gery Brick this morning when three males wearing masks and dark clothing...

    Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), Robert Miles

    7. Oct 23, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues

    Last May, during a conference on &quot;Race, Gender &amp; the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy.
    Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...

    Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Rentals, James Cotton, Jazz (genre), Eric Clapton

    8. Sep 28, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Poetry is everywhere, if you listen

    They are the overlooked of the literary world, and so you never hear mentioned the names of William James Dixon or Cora Walton or McKinley Morganfield when people gather to talk about great Chicago writers.
    They are the overlooked of the literary world, and so you never hear mentioned the names of William James Dixon or Cora Walton or McKinley Morganfield when people gather to talk about great Chicago writers. Don't know those names? Understandable. But you...

    Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Poetry

    9. Sep 20, 2012 |Story| Daily American

  9. Third Annual 'Wang Dang Doodle' Set for Roxbury

    The ‘Wang Dang Doodle’ on Derby Street has a funny name, but a great purpose. The Wang Dang Doodle, or WDD, is a one-day music, food and car cruise event held on Derby Street next to Roxbury Park. The WDD provides an admission-free festival...

    Tags: Entertainment, Animals, Human Interest, Genres, Roxbury

    10. Feb 12, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. The creative stew that was Bronzeville

    On Nov. 22, 1981, the Rolling Stones paid tribute to black history at the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd Street. In town for concerts at the then-Rosemont Horizon, the famed rock group made a pilgrimage to the South Side, where their musical style and name were born. They shared the blues joint's tiny stage with Muddy Waters, whose song &quot;Mannish Boy" had the refrain: <i>"I'm a rollin' stone."</i>
    On Nov. 22, 1981, the Rolling Stones paid tribute to black history at the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd Street. In town for concerts at the then-Rosemont Horizon, the famed rock group made a pilgrimage to the South Side, where their musical style and...

    Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Savoy (music group), Mick Jagger, Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, Entertainment

    11. Jun 7, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond

    As a teenager in &lsquo;60s San Francisco, Joe Louis Walker lived just blocks away from Sly Stone, roomed with Mike Bloomfield, and played shows with B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk.
    As a teenager in ‘60s San Francisco, Joe Louis Walker lived just blocks away from Sly Stone, roomed with Mike Bloomfield, and played shows with B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk. Walker was the 16-year-old house guitarist at the Matrix,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Susan Tedeschi, Bob Dylan, Blues (genre), Grant Park

    12. May 27, 2012 | Allentown Morning Call

  12. Fabulous Thunderbirds show the best of what Levitt Pavilion's all about

    Lehigh Valley Music
    For the myriad things great about the Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks on the ArtsQuest campus in South Bethlehem, the one bad thing – that it’s uncovered and the shows are held rain or shine – threatened the Saturday’s opening of the.....
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