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...been more than a decade since Great White recorded a recognizable hit, which is one reason the band was playing the Station, a cramped and sweaty nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., last Thursday night. The venue often is host to bands whose popularity peaked in the 1980s, and when Great White took the stage shortly after 11 p.m., the band decided to provide the audience with a reminder of its heavy-metal past. Sets of "gerbs"--sparking pyrotechnic fountains--shot up from the stage as the band kicked into its first song, Desert Moon. Within seconds, flames crawled...
...there were indications that the West Warwick calamity, at least, was not the product of lax regulation. The building was 60 years old and consisted of approximately 1,200 sq. ft. of concert space, a kitchen, a bar and a few pool tables off to the side. It passed a safety inspection as recently as December after infractions like malfunctioning exit signs were corrected. The venue did not have a sprinkler system, but Rhode Island state law does not require one in structures built before 1976. The club's owners, Michael and Jeffrey Derderian, were well regarded by West Warwick...
Investigators will also want to determine whether the club had instituted proper safeguards in the event of a fire. Survivors of the West Warwick blaze say nearly the entire crowd tried to escape through the front door of the club, in part because the Station's three other emergency exits were obscured by the thick black smoke. How many people could have made it out in time by exiting through another door will never be known. The intensity of the conflagration was staggering; witnesses say the building was entirely ablaze three minutes after the fire started. When rescuers arrived...
...travel also expands Bernstein's world. Three years ago, the New York City native bought a retreat in Woodstock, N.Y., where he has spent summers since 1930 and where the Woodstock Film Festival has named a music award after him. He and his wife Eve have another home in Warwick, England, near where she was raised. In California he divides his time between a house in Santa Monica and a property in Santa Barbara that includes a main house on top of a hill and his studio out of sight down the slope. Each day he walks the 150 steps...
...stopped the trial to suppress. The official victor was the Mirror (circ.: 2.1 million). It paid Burrell $450,000 for his story, beating papers that had offered him much more because it agreed not to pressure him to tell more than he wanted to. Burrell's agent, David Warwick, says another paper was willing to pay $1.5 million - and after being scooped by the Mirror doubled its offer, even dangling a separate payment at Warwick as well. The papers that had their checks returned found exquisite ways to exact revenge. As the Mirror focused on What The Butler Is Willing...