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From six strings to 12 steps. That's where guitarist ERIC CLAPTON will take his career this month when he opens the Crossroads Centre for drug and alcohol treatment on Antigua. Clapton is a recovering addict who has been sober for a decade. Now the man with the famously slow hand is extending it to others by using a significant chunk of his own money to found the 28-day treatment center on the idyllic island where he's had a second home for 15 years. One-third of the center's 36 beds will be reserved for low-income...
...been the only adult entertainment business in the area that has a liquor license. The club was featured in a 1997 A&E special report on the adult entertainment industry, and the club's managers were once guests on the Phil Donahue show. According to one manager, Eric Clapton was once spotted in the audience. The same manager says comedian/actor Sam Kinnison was a regular during his lifetime. On more than one occasion, when I have told people outside the tri-county area (that my newspaper covers) that I live and work in Peoria, they have asked--sometimes jokingly...
...Sonic Youth CD is like taking a holiday. Not an easy vacation like, say, skiing in Vail, but more like an adventure tour, the musical equivalent of climbing a particularly high peak without bottled oxygen. Traditional rock can be a sad grind--for example, on Eric Clapton's wan new CD, Pilgrim, one of the few listenable songs, Sick and Tired, turns out to have disturbing lyrics about threatening to blow out a woman's brains...
When he was nine, ERIC CLAPTON discovered the woman he thought was his older sister was really his mother. Now that he's 53, other members of his family have popped up. The Canadian papers have unearthed TED RICH, once an up-and-coming Vancouver guitarist, now a heroin addict living in a flophouse. He and Clapton were both fathered by Edward Fryer, a Canadian soldier who met Clapton's mother in Britain during the war. Rich also has a sister, living in Florida. Rich says he would like to meet his half brother, but not until...
Similarly, the Jews who write for The Crimson's editorial page write on an amazing variety of issues of general concern, from Eric Clapton to queer culture, campus apathy to Republican politics, assuming a range of positions from left-liberal to neo-conservative. It is impossible to find a common perspective in their writings that could not also be found in the editorials of The Crimson's non-Jewish writers...