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...terribly strange to be 61 ... and on only your first post--cold war reunion tour. Mellowed folk rockers PAUL SIMON and ART GARFUNKEL, whose chilly friendship had kept them from riding the baby-boomer nostalgia wave to its lucrative peak, told a news conference last week that they would finally reunite for a 36-city concert tour starting next month in Michigan. After more than two decades of on-and-off estrangement, the pair was inspired to launch Old Friends: The 2003 Concert Tour after reconciling for a warmly received performance of Sound of Silence at the Grammys last February...
...music store, but he doesn't quite fit there. He came up with rockabilly phenoms like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, but few of his songs were hard-driving rave-ups. I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues--these are, if anything, contemporary folk songs. Cash sang of specific injustices and eternal truths; he was the deadpan poet of cotton fields, truck stops and prisons. He was a balladeer, really, a spellbinding storyteller--a witness, in the Christian sense of the word. Here was a man who knew the Commandments because he had broken...
...Cambridge site’s eclectic collection of folk art will likely be moved to other House of Blues venues, according to Tedesco...
Some critics also claim that artificial sweeteners can actually make you fatter by turbocharging your sweet tooth, but that's folk wisdom with no hard evidence. The real question is whether they do any good. For losing weight, diet soda is better than regular, but water is even better. And pastries made with artificial sweeteners can still be high in calories if they're high in fat. If you get a Big Mac and fries with that Diet Coke, you're simply going to get fat at a slightly slower rate. Fake sugar is probably not a terrible thing...
...rosewood plaque bearing God's laws. He prevailed over civil libertarians who sued for its removal, and rode his fame even further in 2000, when he was elected chief justice of Alabama's supreme court on the slogan "Roy Moore: Still the Ten Commandments Judge." But while he earned folk-hero status among Evangelicals and conservatives, last week he finally pushed the legal establishment too far when he ignored a federal court order to remove his largest monument to the Commandments, a 5,280-lb. granite carving known as Roy's Rock. Moore and some helpers had installed the sculpture...