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WHO The Black Crowes, with Patti Smith and her band WHEN|WHERE Two shows added, Oct. 30-31, Hammerstein Ballroom INFO Tickets ($50 advance; $55 day of) go on sale noon tomorrow at Ticketmaster, 631-888-9000, ticketmaster.com WHO The Cheetah...Tags: Hammerstein Ballroom, Nassau Coliseum
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Rosanne Cash says John Rich crossed the line
Cash thinks Rich walked over the line Rosanne Cash is tired of people using her late father's name to further their own political agenda. "It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father's name, five years after his death, to ascribe...Tags: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Folk Music, Music, John Rich
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How to survive the big weekend
Tribune staff reporterTake it from somebody who's spent a few long weekends at rock festivals: Plan but don't overplan. ■To make the most out of Lollapalooza, find a few key bands you really want to see. But leave some gaps in your schedule so you can bump into...Tags: Chicago Skyline, Perry Farrell, Architecture, Music, Festive Event
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Rachid Taha at California Plaza
ACTIVISM'S SOUNDTRACK Algerian rai music combines political activism with surging North African rhythms. French-Algerian Rachid Taha -- whose songs explode from rai roots -- takes the style further, adding his own interpretations of rock, techno, punk...Tags: Brian Eno, California, Popular Music, Music, Robert Plant
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At last, closure for the Gits
Special to The TimesIn the summer of 1993, everything seemed to be going the Gits' way. Bypassed in the initial wave of interest in Seattle's grunge bands, the punk quartet was close to signing with a major label and had begun recording its second album. But on July 7, after...Tags: Cancer, Folk Music, Music, Crimes, Murder
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'Auguries of Innocence' by Patti Smith
Who would have guessed, in the mid-1970s, that Patti Smith would end up as the visionary poet-mother of rock 'n' roll? Smith's brilliant early career seemed likely to end in burnout; as she intoned, memorably, at the start of her 1975 debut album,...Tags: Michigan, Arthur Rimbaud, Book, Books and Magazines, Poetry
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Punk club CBGB reopens as John Varvatos boutique
Special to NewsdayYou can kick it, smother it, force the owner to sell it, but CBGB just won't die. Not quite, anyway, thanks to designer John Varvatos, who's taken defibrillator paddles to the former home of the underground club and juiced it back to life. After recently...Tags: Radio Industry
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Exploring Mapplethorpe's use of Polaroids
amNewYork staff writerA placard in the lobby warns, "Some of the works in this exhibition may not be suitable for all audiences." Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe made his name through his controversial homoerotic works, and while there is some of that on view at the Whitney'...Tags: Photography, Robert Mapplethorpe
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Residents want to save mystery West Village building
dfreedlander@am-ny.comIn New York City, in places where hard facts don't go, rumor and speculation fill the void. Such is the case with 43 MacDougal St., an 1846 building that has for decades sat empty and abandoned in the West Village. "I heard that it used to be a...Tags: Greenwich Village, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, West Village
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Cannes pits Hollywood against obscure arthouse
Hollywood legends and obscure arthouse directors descend on Cannes from Wednesday for the world's biggest film festival that combines edgy cinema with A-list celebrities, glitzy parties and frenetic deal-making.
Clint Eastwood is in the main...Tags: Lou Reed, George Lucas, Clint Eastwood, Scarlett Johansson, Harrison Ford
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'Girls Rock' (girls go to rock 'n' roll camp)
Tribune arts criticTalk about irresistible subject matter: Adolescent and pre-adolescent girls go to camp to be in a rock band. There they meet, interact, form impromptu bands and rehearse and compose for a week, culminating in a raucous, riotous, all-girl rock-out of a...Tags: Music Box Theatre, Music, Movies, Rock and Roll Music, Janis Joplin
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A great year for water
At the Sundance Film Festival, 2008 became a banner year for large bodies of water as "Frozen River" took the grand jury prize for drama and "Trouble the Water" walked off with the top documentary award at the fest's closing night ceremonies Saturday at...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Film Festivals, Festive Event, Photography, Anjelica Huston
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