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...King of Rock, Soul and Restraint UNMISSABLE In 2001 Solomon Burke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Mary J. Blige. Imagine Al Pacino receiving an Oscar from Juliette Lewis, and you have some idea of the moment's hoo-ah! scenery-chewing potential. Burke, known to the soul-music cult as the King of Rock and Soul, once held every note as if it were his last, and on his mid-career albums you might have believed it to be yours too. At 65, he has lost a little breath but gained restraint, and Nashville...
...founder of the Seay Stewardship & Investment Co. and grandson of former Texas Governor Bill Clements. Its members are mostly young--in their 30s and 40s--and wealthy, through entrepreneurship, inheritance or both. They are Christians concerned with social justice, in the mold of Rick Warren of Purpose Driven Life fame, and practice their faith without, as a Broadmoor attendee put it, "quoting Leviticus"--a reference to the harder-edged rhetoric at other gatherings of social conservatives...
...reaching out to African Americans, making dozens of visits to historically black colleges and other venues. Mehlman helped recruit Michael Steele, the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, to run for the Senate, while Republicans in Pennsylvania essentially cleared the field of potential primary opponents for Lynn Swann, the Hall of Fame ex-Pittsburgh Steelers receiver, who is making a bid for Governor there...
DIED. Jason Rhoades, 41, wildly irreverent conceptual and performance artist who rose to fame in the 1990s art scene; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. His most recent installations were a riotous clash of civilizations in which visitors became part of his work, in a gallery transformed "like Ali Baba's cave," said Gary Garrels, senior curator at UCLA's Hammer Museum, "with neon lights, rugs, Mexican tourist souvenirs, American Indian dream catchers, hookah pipes ... Every cultural ideal was up for challenge...
DIED. Arthur Lee, 61, psychedelic rock pioneer and leader of the 1960s Los Angeles band Love, regarded as having influenced the Rolling Stones and the Doors; of leukemia; in Memphis, Tenn. Lee never reached the fame of his contemporaries, but his 1967 album Forever Changes, which blended folk melancholy with rock verve, is one of the genre's most important albums. In May 2006, as part of his leukemia treatment, he became the first adult in Tennessee to receive a stem-cell transplant...