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San Francisco Blasts Sonic Noises to Disperse Homeless

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Live Aid, Homelessness, Third World America, Manuel Noriega, Nimby, Homelessness San Francisco, The Tenderloin, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Tenderloin San Francisco, San Francisco News
Joel John Roberts

Most communities around the country are frustrated that very poor Americans are squatting on land. Not-In-My-Backyard has almost become a popular community anthem. But police sweeps and angry blogs are not very effective.

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21 Reasons Why 80s Nostalgia Is Dumb

Dumb As A Blog | David Moye | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Shoulder Pads, The Clash, Live Aid, Ronald Reagan, Fingerless Gloves, Thundercats, Small Wonder, E.T. Video Game, Big Hair, Mcdlt, USA for Africa, Atari, Video, Weird News News

The modern pop culture machine chewed up and crapped out the 60s and 70s long ago, leaving 1980-89. Which would be fine, except that decade was du...

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BBC Apologizes For Band Aid Claim

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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The BBC has apologised over reports claiming millions of pounds raised by Band Aid was used to buy arms. ...

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From 'Misery' to Twilight: Conversations With Maroon 5's Adam Levine and Fanfarlo's Simon Balthazar

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Simon Balthazar, Live Aid, Maroon 5, Fanfarlo, Joseph Kahn, Lady Antebellum, Twilight Eclipse, Adam Levine, Kara's Flowers, Twilight Soundtrack, Simon Balthazar Interview, Grey's Anatomy Fanfarlo, Twilight Fanfarlo, Maroon 5 Interview, Fanfarlo Interview, Adam Levine Interview, Rihanna Maroon 5, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Adam Levine: I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad people aren't paying as much attention to them as they used to, and they're not as culturally relevant as they used to be.

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A Girl Talks to Rob Sheffield about Duran Duran (and His New Book)

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Rob Sheffield, The Beatles, Love Is a Mixtape, Neil Diamond, Van Halen, Madonna, The Go-Go's, Hot Tub Time Machine, Power Station, Boy George, David Lee Roth, Omd, Rolling Stone, Duran Duran, John Taylor, Live Aid, Bob Geldof, Mtv, Simon Le Bon, Lvis, Books News
Kristi York Wooten

In his brilliant new coming-of-age-in-the-1980s memoir, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield calls 1985 "the year of the awesomeness drought."

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Lessons from Legends at One Young World

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, Alejandro Toledo, Live Aid, John Kerry, Davos, One Young World Summit, Bob Geldof, Desmond Tutu, Muhammad Yunus, David Jones, Boris Johnson, Home News
Marian Salzman

The inaugural One Young World summit under way this week in London is a next-generation Davos: a gathering of hundreds of future leaders from the worl...

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AC/DC's Brian Johnson: Bono Should Do Charity Work In Private

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Live Aid, Bob Geldof, Brian Johnson, Poll, Bono Charity, Music, Bono, Entertainment News

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson is taking on Bono and Bob Geldof for their public displays of charity work. "When I was a working man I didn't want to ...

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Thank God It's Thursday: Book Expo '09 & The 27s plus The Singular Thomas Dolby

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nikola Tesla, Italian, Brian Jones, Catholicism, Josh Hunter, New Wave, Eric Segalstad, Dolby's Cube, Who, The Magic Show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stevie Wonder, Lene Lovich, Dynasty, Margaret Thatcher, Burt Bacharach, Albert Einstein, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Dan Hicks, Peter Ham, The Kushans, Albert Schatz, Jesus, Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Mario Puzo, Depeche Mode, Poughkeepsie, Rose Bowl, Prefab Sprout, Thompson Twins, Roger Waters, Foreigner, Entertainment News, Carol De Gierer, Doug Henning, Pink Floyd, Enchanted, Joni Mitchell, Chris Bell, India, Unplugged, Promises in the Dark, Thomas Dolby, Poughkeepsie Journal, Live Aid, Jim Morrison, The Wall, Ronald Reagan, Mephisto on Wing, Latin, Broadway, Neil Young, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Issa, The 27 Club, Janis Joplin, Grand Theft Auto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Antoinette Pannard, David Bowie, Mtv, MTV Unplugged, Amazon, Kathleen Beller, Bill Clinton, Angels & Demons, Pocahontas, Albert Schweitzer, Kurt Cobain, George Clinton, Bookexpo, Robert Johnson, Grammy Awards, Best Buy, Lois Drake, Pop Music, The Godfather, Jazz, Indiana Jones, Howard Jones, The Betsy, New Age, Def Leppard, Jimi Hendrix, Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Brown, Pippin, Godspell, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.

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Smile and Say "Cleese!" - How the Secret Policeman Mocks, Rocks and Shocks

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rowan Atkinson, Peter Cook, Live Aid, Sting, John Cleese, Billy Connolly, Michael Palin, Bob Geldof, Monty Python, Amnesty International, Martin Lewis, Secret Policeman?S Ball, Home News
Gregory Weinkauf

Long ago on a smallish, awkwardly-shaped but somewhat culturally-significant island in the dismal North Sea, Peter Cook hosted a spoof awards show to anyone who featured in the 1981 Amnesty benefit show.

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