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...Listen to those smooth Motown trumpets and funky beat on jazz-hop jesters De La Soul’s classic “Eye Know.” Smokey Robinson? Nope, that’s actually bleached-white classic rock group Steely Dan (the track is “Peg”), who are also namechecked on Chicago rapper Common’s song “I Am Music...
...WERE IN LITTLE ROCK, ARK., LAST MONTH ANNOUNCING A $5.9 MILLION GRANT TO TRAIN PEOPLE FOR WORK IN THE AUTO AND "ADVANCED MANUFACTURING" INDUSTRIES. WHO ELSE NEEDS HELP? The construction industry in Louisiana can only find 65% of the skilled labor they need. Health care's another one. We need about a million nurses and 3.4 million health-care workers in the next eight years. About 90% of the fastest-growing jobs these days require added training post--high school...
...DIED. TONY MEEHAN, 62, founding member of hit pop band the Shadows; of head injuries sustained in a fall; in London. Seizing on teenagers' infatuation with U.S. rock 'n' roll in the late '50s and early '60s, the Shadows dressed in shiny suits, toted red Fender Stratocaster guitars and danced a uniquely British three-step shimmy into the charts with songs such as Apache and Kon Tiki. As the backing band for Cliff Richard, they had other hits including Living Doll and Travellin' Light...
...different than with music, because no one has a particular taste for a particular type of comedy,” Tanjeloff said, referring to the failure of the HCC’s planned Wyclef concert. “Funny is funny....Even if it’s not Chris Rock out there or Robin Williams, people are still going to come and pay money for charity.” He also said that it wasn’t difficult to find comedians interested in the event. “A lot of people expressed a lot of interest and unfortunately...
...appeasement; that is self-interest. Like all other multicultural nations, France will have to effectively integrate minorities into its mainstream society. The problem is an internal socioeconomic one, and it has nothing to do with Islam or the broader problems of the Middle East. Murad Elsaidi Little Rock, Arkansas...