Rolling Stones – Child Of The Moon Kev | Myspace Video NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards can add one more item to his list of rock-star excesses: killing a library plant. A delicate orchid at the New York Public Library’s main branch died a few days after an encounter with the bad seed, staff said Wednesday. Marie d’Origny, deputy director of the library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, said the saucy Brit borrowed her office before he gave an Oct. 29 talk about his new book, “Life.” Before the talk, Richards’ representative asked d’Origny […]

MAN STABS WIFE TO DEATH, IS THEN KILLED BY SNOWSTORM An argument between a husband and wife Sunday led to a stabbing and traffic accident that left both people dead, police said. Melissa Field, 44, was stabbed to death at her Far-Southside home, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. While officers were on their way to the residence, they were alerted that a car had crashed into a tree a few blocks away [NOT pictured, left]. The driver of the car was Kevin Field, 51, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Police believe Kevin Field stabbed his wife […]

NAOMI WOLF: The Espionage Act was crafted in 1917 — because President Woodrow Wilson wanted a war and, faced with the troublesome First Amendment, wished to criminalize speech critical of his war. In the run-up to World War One, there were many ordinary citizens — educators, journalists, publishers, civil rights leaders, union activists — who were speaking out against US involvement in the war. The Espionage Act was used to round these citizens by the thousands for the newly minted ‘crime’ of their exercising their First Amendment Rights. A movie producer who showed British cruelty in a film about the […]

BY MATTHEW HENGEVELD Rejoice! Fans of Junior Kimbrough, Beastie Boys, Captain Beefheart and even my beloved (swoon) R.L. Burnside rejoice, I say! The rerelease of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s Orange is just as chock full ‘o balls as it did, presumably, when it was first released in 1994 when I was all of seven. This is the type of blues-rock that makes The Black Keys sound like the Wiggles, and Carlos Mencia sound somehow even less funny. Jon Spencer uses the dugga-duh-dah of Elvis’ voice, with a spice of Mick Jagger, as a centerpiece of his electric twang circus, and […]

WASHINGTON POST: The blue-and-white upholstered chair reserved for him was empty. His words were spoken not in his own voice, but by the Norwegian actress and movie director Liv Ullmann. While the Nobel committee honored him with its prestigious Peace Prize in Oslo on Friday, Chinese dissident and intellectual Liu Xiaobo sat in isolation in a jail cell, some 4,000 miles away. Yet his campaign to bring individual freedoms and democracy to China was recognized at a ceremony made more visible, in many ways, by Beijing’s efforts to suppress it. MORE CBS NEWS: Liu Xiaobo is hardly a household name […]

FRESH AIR It will forever remain a pivotal moment in rock ‘n’ roll history — but the reality is, it might not have happened. Florida’s clemency board conceded this week that there was inadequate evidence to convict Doors singer Jim Morrison of indecent exposure at a Miami concert in 1969. The incident and its aftermath sent Morrison and the group into a tailspin that ended with Morrison’s death — though the legend is alive and well. So what did happen? Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek was on stage that night. In a 1998 interview on Fresh Air, he recounted the […]

BY DAVE ALLEN We’ll start with the names. “Buke”: say it the way it looks. “Gass” rhymes with “face,” not “ass.” They’re the names of the instruments that Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez play; in an avant-garde tradition that stretches back to Ben Franklin and his glass armonica and through Californian avant-garde visionaries like Harry Partch and Lou Harrison, Dyer and Sanchez have built custom instruments perfectly suited to the type of music they want to create. Dyer plays an electric baritone ukulele — a buke; Sanchez  wields a six-string equipped with three strings from a bass guitar and three from […]

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ACTION NEWS: Du Pont was serving a 13 to 30 year sentence for 3rd degree murder in the January 26, 1996 shooting death of David Schultz. Schultz was a 1984 Olympic gold medalist who was killed outside his home, which was on Du Pont’s estate, Foxcatcher Farm in Newtown Square, Delaware County. Du Pont fancied himself a patron to wrestlers and built a world-class training facility at his estate. For two days, Du Pont barricaded himself inside his mansion. MORE DELCO TIMES: Du Pont would talk of his meetings with Henry Kissinger, Truman Capote and Anwar Sadat. Glazier said he […]

FRESH AIR In 1979, producer Sylvia Robinson heard hip-hop music at a birthday party in Harlem and had a hunch that it would be commercially successful. She called her son, Joey Robinson Jr., and asked him to gather a group of musicians who could perform like the rappers she saw in Harlem. She then held makeshift auditions for a rap group outside a pizza parlor in Englewood, N.J. “She put these three guys together who had never met each other before, had the backing track all ready and created a record in a matter of minutes,” says Dan Charnas, a […]