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...DIED. Sandy West, 47, pioneering rock drummer whose muscular riffs propelled the punk-metal sound of the Runaways, the all-girl band she co-founded in 1975 with Joan Jett; of lung cancer; in San Dimas, California. Although dismissed as a novelty act in the all-male world of rock, the Runaways influenced female-led punk bands from X-Ray Spex to the Go-Gos with raw, thumping anthems like Cherry Bomb, Born to be Bad and Is It Day or Night...
Musically, My Chemical Romance is competent. Most of the songs are instrumentation-heavy mid-to-up-tempo pop-punk, with metal guitar flourishes creeping in around the edges. They’re perfectly serviceable for the genre, and many have a flair for catchiness that makes it difficult to avoid bopping along...
...small mud hut in the village of Lipunga, which sits close to the Zambian border about 112 miles west of Malawi's capital, Lilongwe. Poor and uneducated, Banda tends a patch of maize and a vegetable garden and every now and again gets a job reworking scrap metal. When his wife Malita Lungu, a Zambian who gave birth to David across the border in her native country, died just a week after David was born, Banda struggled to raise his son with the help of relatives and friends. But a month later he sent David to the orphanage where Madonna...
...African American Lives,” a four-hour PBS documentary in which he and other famous African Americans uncovered their ancestral roots,“By mid-November, I should get my leg back,” said Gates, who trudges around the Square with crutches and a metal frame on his leg, for which he wears specially tailored wide leg pants.These days, he also travels with a camera crew which is filming a PBS sequel to “African American Lives.” In “Oprah’s Roots,” Gates...
...sell if no one is buying.” Pinkett-Smith said that women should be able to work with and support one another regardless of race or class. She described how she was able to connect with different types of women while she was touring with her heavy metal band, Wicked Wisdom, in Waterloo, Iowa. “I’ve had a lot of contact with women I normally don’t have contact with, and it’s made me realize the connection we have as women,” she said...