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Singer-songwriter Carole King writing memoir (AP)

27th December 2011 Cat: Entertainment News with No Comments »

…, King sang her own material on the classic “Tapestry” album. That album has sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S. alone. Other rock stars working on memoirs include The Who’s Pete Townshend and Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band. …

Survivors of Joplin tornado develop rare infection (AP)

4th September 2011 Cat: Most Viewed News with No Comments »

…hospitalized with the infection have died, but authorities said it was unclear what role the fungus played in their deaths because they suffered from a host of other serious ailments. “These people had multiple traumas, pneumonia, all kinds of problems,” said Dr. Uwe Schmidt, an infectious disease specialist at Freeman Health System in Joplin. “It’s difficult to say how much the fungal infections contributed to their demis…

Zsa Zsa’s final fade upstaged by family soap opera (AP)

15th January 2012 Cat: Entertainment News with No Comments »

…mous lying helplessly in between. Almost weekly, Von Anhalt alerts the media to another Zsa Zsa Gabor medical crisis: A broken hip, a leg amputated because of gangrene, the other leg nearly amputated, blood clots, infections, pneumonia. Last week, she underwent surgery to reposition her feeding tube. Since last summer, Gabor has been admitted to UCLA Medical Center nearly two dozen times. Then there are von Anhalt’s own news flashes: In 200…

Nils Lofgren: Eye-popping past, poignantly present (AP)

3rd July 2011 Cat: Entertainment News with No Comments »

… “I woke up and everyone was passed out”; he returned to the stoop. To this day, he’s “grateful that somebody like Sly Stone had been so kind.” He soon went home, “scary ill” with pneumonia. “Instead of just trying to crush my dream,” his parents provided shelter and structure until his band, Grin, started making money. The dropout perfected his own curriculum. “I would go to any…

It’s all about soul for Warren Haynes at Bonnaroo (AP)

15th September 2011 Cat: Entertainment News with No Comments »

MANCHESTER, Tenn. – There are different levels of celebrity at Bonnaroo and Warren Haynes belongs in the elite group. After eight visits and dozens of performances, Haynes — the Gov’t Mule frontman, the voice of The Dead and the go-to guitarist of The Allman Brothers Band — is a part of the fabric of the 10-year-old festival down on the farm in Tennessee. After laying down a scorching set of soul songs on Friday afternoon from his new solo…

New York City Private School Tuition Bill Tops $40,000 (Y! News

21st June 2011 Cat: Most Viewed News with No Comments »

…creasing their costs of tuition, noting how high prices can negatively impact the student population. “…You may find yourself with a very different population in your school than you want to have,” said John Allman, head of school at Trinity, in the article. “We think it’s increasingly difficult for families across a socioeconomic spectrum to consider Trinity as a viable economic option.” [More from WSJ.com: H…