Murray Wood: Connecting with my granddaughter on the swing set
Murray Wood shared a trip to the park with his granddaughter on Sunday, reflecting on her almost limitless capacity for ...
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A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on a musical legacy
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - It's 1966 and a thunderstorm illuminates the night sky in Memphis, Tennessee. Two Stax Records musicians, guitarist Steve Cropper and singer Eddie Floyd, sit in a room inside the Lorr...
Dec 30, 2020
Study of virus screening at concert reports zero infections
BARCELONA, Spain - The organizers of an indoor music festival in Barcelona to test the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening said Wednesday that preliminary results indicate there was zero t...
Dec 30, 2020
Being Judy Garland won Zellweger an Oscar. Is a Grammy next?
NEW YORK - Rene Zellweger is known for acting but you could easily write a thesis about her love for music. The entertainer won her second Academy Award for portraying Judy Garland in last year's "Jud...
Dec 30, 2020
'Craziest party ever': Superstar DJ Guetta upbeat for 2021
PARIS - Superstar DJ David Guetta has been brought back to Earth by the coronavirus pandemic and says his music has benefitted as a result. Back in his native Paris to record a New Year's Eve show, th...
Dec 30, 2020
Principal Joe Clark who inspired film 'Lean on Me' has died
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film "Lean o...
Dec 30, 2020
Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston
A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet - optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice - has been removed from its perch in downtow...
Dec 29, 2020
'60 Minutes' keeps on the news and is rewarded by viewers
NEW YORK - One of television's hottest shows is also among its oldest. It's not the first time that's been said about "60 Minutes" since its 1968 debut. In the frenzied news year of 2020, however, the...
Dec 29, 2020
French designer Pierre Cardin, licensing pioneer, dies at 98
PARIS - French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility tempered by a stiff dose of business sense. He had no problem acknowledging that he earned more from a p...
Dec 29, 2020
Lori Loughlin released after prison term in college scam
"Full House" actor Lori Loughlin was released from prison Monday after spending two months behind bars for paying half a million dollars in bribes to get her two daughters into college. Loughlin was r...
Dec 28, 2020
Shanghai police say suspect detained in games tycoon's death
BEIJING - Police in Shanghai say they have detained a suspect in the death by possible poisoning of the billionaire founder of a Chinese video game company that makes films based on the popular scienc...
Dec 28, 2020
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