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Drugs, death and rock 'n' roll
A long list of music stars, the most recent being Whitney Houston, has been destroyed by the potent cocktail of high-level fame and life on the road
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Singer Jason Crabb leads Dove Awards with 8 nominations; singer Laura Story earns 6 nods
ATLANTA - Singer Jason Crabb grabbed eight nominations for the Dove Awards, leading the way for the gospel and Christian music show that will be held in Atlanta for the second year in a row.
Laura Story had six nominations and rapper LaCrae got five nods for the show, which has run for 43
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Centric to air first documentary on top hit maker Heavy D since his 2011 death
WASHINGTON - The story of late rap pioneer Heavy D will be chronicled in a documentary airing Sunday on Centric TV.
"Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D" will feature interviews with the Jamaican-born rapper's family and artists such as Will Smith, Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah, according to...
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Altar Boyz coming to PTE
Heavenly hit musical Altar Boyz is coming to Prairie Theatre Exchange.
The boy band spoof tells the story of a group of young men who form a singing group to spread their message to the masses.
Altar Boyz begins its two-and-a-half-week run on Thursday.
Read Thursday's Free Press for a full...
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Childhood comic book collection fetches $3.5M at auction
DALLAS - The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold for about $3.5 million.
Lon Allen, managing director of comics for Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, says Billy Wright's 1939 copy of Detective Comics No. 27 that
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Soweto Gospel Choir counts Celine Dion and countless stars among its friends
TORONTO - Soweto Gospel Choir member Bongani Ncube gives a warning before rhyming off some of the illustrious recording artists the renowned South African group has worked with over the years.
"If I start counting, I won't finish," he said with a laugh in a phone interview ahead of the choir's
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Monkey Majik melds East, West
When Maynard Plant moved from Ottawa to northern Japan in 1998, the Queen's University graduate's only goal was to teach English.
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Federal appeals court says widow does not own copyrights to 'King of the Road' and other hits
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The widow of country music legend Roger Miller doesn't own the rights to some of his biggest hits, including "King of the Road," a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Sony/ATV Music Publishing owns the renewal copyrights to the
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High Life is a memorable, amoral rush
Lee MacDougall’s one-off wonder provides an opportunity for four offbeat performances
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Whitehorse: Numbering two, with a bullet
Canadian label Six Shooter fires roots rockers Whitehorse straight into the Big Apple
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Rihanna could draw criticism for songs with Chris Brown, who assaulted her 3 years ago
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Rihanna is known for making bold statements, from her often sexually charged music to her tattoos to even the hue of her hair.
But her latest decision — a musical pairing with the man who three years ago left her bloodied and bruised — has left some questioning her judgment.
On
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Edvard Munch's The Scream to be auctioned on May 2
Sotheby's will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's haunting work The Scream at an auction in New York on May 2 where it expects to fetch over US$80-million
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Journey drummer Castronovo ordered to anger management for domestic dispute with woman
DALLAS - Drummer Deen Castronovo from the rock group Journey was sentenced to 80 hours of community service in Oregon and ordered to attend anger-management classes for a domestic violence dispute.
The Statesman Journal reported (http://stjr.nl/xAQrd7 ) the sentence Wednesday based on court
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Adele’s Brit Awards middle finger and five other notable bird-flippings on TV
First M.I.A., now Adele? Before another pop starlet makes giving the middle finger a trend by raising it at this Sunday's Oscars (erm, fingers crossed!), we take a look at five notable single-fingered incidents from live television
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Adele sizzles, VH fizzles on charts
British superstar Adele turned her Grammy glitter into double chart gold in Canada this week, while Van Halen's much-hyped reunion disc is shaping up to be one of the biggest flops of the year so far.
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'Yikes' is right: Rihanna, ex hook up for remixes
Some people can't get enough of it. Personally, it just makes us sick. You know, like that queasy feeling we get every time we remember how Chris Brown was convicted for beating Rihanna until she was bleeding and unconscious in a rental car -- or whenever we hear that Brown and Rihanna have
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Kingston councillors vote to name one block of local street after Tragically Hip
KINGSTON, Ont. - If The Tragically Hip want to throw a block party in their hometown of Kingston, Ont., they'll soon be able to hold it on a city block named after them.
City councillors in the eastern Ontario city have voted to name a block of Barrack Street after the 12-time Juno Award-winning
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Adele wins, flips the bird at BRIT Awards
Adele was the early winner at the Brit Awards in London on Tuesday, taking home the honour for Best Female Solo Artist.
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BRIT Awards bosses apologize to Adele
The organizers and host of the Brit Awards have apologized to Adele after her acceptance speech was cut short during the show.
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Rhea, Thicke, headline comedy fest
Is the end really near?
Well, despite what the Mayans predicted, it seems unlikely that the world will cease to exist in 2012. But in terms of Al Rae's comedy-booking wish list, there can't be all that many names left to cross off.
As the Winnipeg Comedy Festival heads into its second decade,
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