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...including Goldsound, a quartet of heavy hitters who will be playing a deconstructive jazz version of music by 90s indie rock band Pavement. “From a music point of view I think it’s going to be incredibly rich,” executive producer Larry Simpson said. Though the festival’s main objective is to provide unbridled entertainment, organizers are confident that the bacchanalia it encourages does not hinder the appreciation of the music at the heart of the festival. “The festival is a big joyous party for the city...
...have been sworn to ignore it.' YALE GALANTER, defense attorney, telling jurors at O.J. Simpson's robbery-kidnapping trial to forget about his 1995 murder trial...
...Know By Jessica Simpson; available now With its pat narratives, modern country excels at masking a lack of depth with a high gloss of feeling. So, good career move! Simpson navigates her twangy debut without incident until Dolly Parton shows up for a duet, clears her throat and reminds us to stop grading on a curve...
When television's fictional Simpson family visited Brazil a few years ago, their customarily extravagant adventures caused consternation. In addition to encountering hordes of street children, oversexed infants and monkeys rampaging around Rio de Janeiro, Homer was kidnapped and Bart was eaten by a snake. Unfamiliar with the concept of satire, Brazilians went nuts. The Foreign Ministry wrote a letter to the show's network, Fox; tourism officials threatened to sue; and Cariocas (as Rio residents are known) protested that Americans knew nothing about what they call the Marvelous City...
...Britain is awash with precious metal. By the time Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson had grabbed the country's fourth sailing gold of the games on Aug. 21, British athletes - track star Christine Ohuruogu, the only member of the team to win standing up, among them - had bagged 39 medals, including 17 golds - Britain's best haul in a century. Only the far larger countries of China, with 46 gold medals, and the U.S., with 28, have done better in Beijing...