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Waiting on the World to Change: A Playlist for Our Nobel Peace Prize-Winning President

David Wild | Posted 10.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John Mayer, Bob Marley, Nobel Prize, Green Day, U2, President Barack Obama, George Harrison, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Stevens, Nobel Peace Prize, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Obama Nobel, Entertainment News

Congratulations, Mr. President. Seriously. Big fan. Big Prize. Here's a celebratory playlist that I really hope will inspire you to keep earning this glittering prize in the days and years to come.

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Leaked Ahmadinejad Diary Proves Iran Prez Is Jewish

Katie Halper | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy

I attended Camp Havanagila, a Zionist summer camp in the Catskill Mountains, when I was young, and so, it seems, did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Daryl Hall & John Oates Interview, Part 2: Daryl Hall and the "War" with his Generation

Jon Chattman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Duo, Lorne Michaels, 500 Days of Summer, 1980s, Maneater, You Make My Dreams Come True, BB King, Snl, Hall & Oates, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Musicians, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, John Oates, Daryl Hall, Entertainment News

Arguably the biggest music duo of all time have said they're able to coexist and churn out hits and perform because they don't drive each other crazy and let each other do their own thing.

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Judy Collins: Singing for the Privileged Few

James Gavin | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

Read More: 1960s, Susan Boyle, Cafe Carlyle, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Folk Music, Barbra Streisand, Judy-Collins-Cafe-Carlyle, Leonard Cohen, New York News

As I watched the transfixed faces of Judy's Carlyle fans, I had to wonder: What long and winding road took them here? Did they ever roll around in the mud at Woodstock? Take LSD?

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Judy Collins Sings The Stuff Of Folklore, Perfectly

Katy Hall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Judy Collins Cafe Carlyle, '60s Pop Music, Cafe Carlyle, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Music, Joan Baez, Entertainment News

She drifted into a few lines of 'Suzanne,' the song Leonard Cohen wrote for her to sing but made him famous, stopping herself just as she got to those oranges that traveled halfway around the world in the summer of 1965.

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Bob Dylan And Citigroup? New Album Released Early To Citibank Customers

Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Citibank, Bob Dylan New Album Release Date, Bob Dylan, Christmas in the Heart, Bob Dylan Christmas Album, Citigroup, Business News

First it was an eerie and disturbing commercial with Victoria's Secret, now it's an album tie-in with a bailed-out mega-bank. Reuters reports that Bob...

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Bob Dylan and Gaddafi: Separated at Birth?

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Gaddafi Tent, Gaddafi Un Speech, Gaddafi Text Speech Un, New-Jersey-Police, Bob Dylan, Muammar Gaddafi, Comedy News

They're the same age, they can be difficult to comprehend, and are known to give their audiences more than they bargained for. What gives?

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Happy 60th Birthday, Broooce!

Shawn Amos | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

Happy birthday, Bruce. It seems like only yesterday that you and the Big Man were boys chasing each other on the Jersey Shore.

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Mad Men's Emmy Triumph Comes As "Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment

Last night's repeat win at the Emmy Awards further enshrined Mad Men as television's best series on a night when it aired a consequential new episode.

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Mary Travers Passes, Vic Chesnutt on Music & Healthcare, plus Angel Taylor, BLK JKS, Susan Boyle, and more

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Peter, Paul & Mary helped mold the opinions of millions, persistently trying to open the minds of everyone who listened to their recordings or saw them perform live.

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Field Notes from a Songwriter's Centennial -- Part II

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sonny & Cher, Brenda Lee, Frederic Chopin, George Martin, Joni Mitchell, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Carl Sigman, Entertainment News

September 24th is the centennial birthday of my late father, the songwriter Carl Sigman (1909-2000), who wrote nearly a thousand songs.

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The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 9 edition

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama, Ben Parsons, Bob Dylan, Cheba Hut, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Jane Norton, Kent Lambert, Marco's Coal-Fired Pizza, Mark Dym, Michael Roberts, Peter Boyles, Red Rocks, Tag, The Pirate Signal, Tony's Market, Yonder Mountain String Band, Home News

Meat, and so much more. Today in Cafe Society: • The winner of the burger battle at Tony's Market. • Open house today at 3014. • Ton...

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Pixies, Bob Dylan, Yonder Mountain String Band shows announced

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Bob Dylan, Pixies, Yonder Mountain String Band, Home News

As we reported in July, the Pixies will visit the Fillmore Auditorium Monday, November 16 as part of a nine-city US tour celebrating the ...

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Field Notes From a Songwriter's Centennial

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Glenn Miller, Beatles, Billie Holiday, Louis Prima, Johnny Mercer, George Martin, Bob Dylan, Ebb Tide, It's All in the Game, Monty Python, Entertainment News

My dad's biggest hit -- "It's All In The Game" -- began as classical violin solo composed by Charles Dawes, making it the only No. 1 song to have been co-written by a vice president of the United States.

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Mew At The Troubadour, John Mellencamp's No Better Than This, and Stephen Schwartz Gets Five For Fighting

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Five for Fighting, Conor Oberst, Wicked, David Roe, John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Don McLean, Entertainment News, Bo Madsen, The Troubadour, David Lynch, Willie Nelson, Bright Eyes, Entertainment News

John Mellencamp says his next album was made in part at Sun Studios. "Everything was set up exactly as Cash and Elvis Presley recorded."

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A Dream Goes On Forever: A Playlist for Senator Ted Kennedy

David Wild | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bob Marley, Neil Diamond, Donny Hathaway, Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren, Dixie Chicks, Congress, Bob Dylan, Ted Kennedy, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

Senator Ted Kennedy loved to sing. And so it seems only fitting to make a playlist in memory of this singular American icon who did so much for so long to help so many.

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Summer Vacation? 'Nothing' Doing

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Bob Dylan, Robert Wright, Buddhism, Jdate, Meditation, Nirvana, Yoga, Vipassana, Yogi, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Living News

Having just attended a silent Vipassana meditation retreat at Spirit Rock in woodsy Woodacre, I can report that sitting still and doing nothing was, in fact, the primary activity on my summer vacation.

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Bob Dylan To Voice GPS System

Telegraph | Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gps, Bob Dylan, GPS Devices, Entertainment News

Bob Dylan, the singer-songwriter who has taken his fans down Highway 61 by way of Lonely Avenue and Desolation Row, is in negotiations to voice a sate...

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An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Inner Circle, The O'Jays, Imogen Heap, The Adventures, Janis Ian, Cate Bros., Rubicon, Daryl Hall & John Oates, The Beach Boys, Woody Guthrie, Eric Burdon, REO Speedwagon, Otis Redding, Now That's What I Call Country, Matt Hires, Mark Schultz, Jack Ingram, Smile Empty Soul, Roy Hargrove, Billy Ocean, Cheap Trick, Rory Gallagher, David Guetta, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Michael Bolton, Queen Latifah, Matisyahu, Robert Glasper, The Roy Hargrove Big Band, Cass Elliot, Neil Diamond, The Casualties, Roberta Gambarini, Patton Oswalt, George Benson, Elvis Presley, Phil Stacey, Tim Buckley, Delores O'Rioran, Carmen Appice, The Mamas & the Papas, Al Jarreau, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Entertainment News, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Dukes, Paul Revere & the Raiders, 16 Horsepower, Collective Soul, Fun., Alan O'Day, Pilot, Now That's What I Call Music, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Roy Orbison, The Bloody Beetroots, Felix Da Housecat, Teddy Pendergrass, The Subdudes, James Carter, Adam Ant, Colbie Caillat, Arctic Monkeys, Jeff Golub, Jackie DeShannon, Island Records, Fame, Woodstock, Sounds of Blackness, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Smokie Norful, Irma Thomas, Mew, Tanya Stephens, Brian Bromberg, Willie Nelson, Jack Wagner, The New City Ramblers, Mott the Hoople, Love and Theft, New Releases, Deryl Dodd, Cross Country, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Kenny G, Jet, Niti Sawhney, Vander Graaf Generator, Sally Shapiro, John Denver, Jason Aldeean, Smokey Robinson, Taking Woodstock, Vandaveer, Najee, Selah, Needtobreathe, Latoya, Strawbs, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Advocate, Lgbt, Sony Legacy, Verve Records, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein, Grammy, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Jerry Wexler, Gramma Awards, Saturday Night Live, Wbai, Wnew, Miami Vice, Dar Williams, Birthers, Fox News, Cher, Teabaggers, Joan Baez, Glen Campbell, Mel Torme, Death Panel, Nina Simone, Entertainment News

Janis Ian is one of the Woodstock era's unsung musical heroes who, just two years prior to the Bethel Bash, shocked our nation with her controversial single "Society's Child."

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Top 5 Greatest Mysteries of Housework, Plus Top 5 Records to Clean By

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Dar Williams, Bob Dylan, Cleaning, Music, Country Music, Family, Living News

I take a big deep breath of relief the minute my husband gets in the car with the kids to go to church on Sundays. Finally I can assess the week's damage, and gather my forces to bring order to the house.

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Dog Days of Summer Playlist: Volume 2

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Eric Clapton, Ian Hunter, Declan O'Rourke, Lupe Fiasco & Jill Scott, The B-52's, Prince, Squeeze, Salt-N-Pepa, Iron & Wine, Benji Hughes, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Smashing Pumpkins, Music, Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder, N.W.A, Fleet Foxes, Julie Doiron, Fleetwood Mac, Empire of the Sun, David Bowie, A Tribe Called Quest, Billy Idol, Muse, Martha Wainwright, Mary J. Blige, Elmer Bernstein, Danielle Evin, Bob Dylan, Big Mama Thornton, Lykke Li, Andrew Bird, Golden Earring, mp3s, Diana Ross, Emmylou Harris, The Ventures, Artie Shaw, Skip James, Gillian Welch, Richard Swift, Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey, Phil Ramone, Nina Simone, Pink Floyd, Alice Coltrane, Diana Krall, Jeff Buckley, Seals & Crofts, Pixies, James Taylor, Dog Ears, The Wallflowers, Entertainment News

This week's column features music by the B-52's, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, The Wallflowers and Pink Floyd.

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Nine Questions for Madeleine Peyroux

Michael Bialas | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Singer-Songwriter, Festival, Jazz, Music, Madeleine Peyroux, Concert, Folks Festival, Colorado, Billie Holiday, Steely Dan, Jazz Music, Bob Dylan, Patsy-Cline, Bessie-Smith, Joni Mitchell, Paris-France, Hank Williams, Entertainment News

Born in Athens, Georgia, Peyroux spent her teen years in Paris, where she developed a love for jazz. But there are no musical boundaries for Peyroux.

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Bob Dylan, Skip Gates, and the New Celebrity Culture: Do You Know Who I Am?

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Wolff, Media, Henry Louis Gates, Bob Dylan, Celebrities, Media News

What if there are no celebrities anymore? That is, nobody who's universally recognizable. No truly iconic figures. No absolute stars.

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Obama Invites Dylan, Cop to Bong Summit

Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Michael Jackson, Andy Borowitz, Bob Dylan, Barack Obama, Satire, Comedy News

After news that music legend Bob Dylan was picked up by a New Jersey policeman who failed to recognize him, the president has invited the two men to the White House for what aides are calling a "bong summit."

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Bob Dylan Stopped By Cops, Asked For ID In New Jersey Shore Town

AP | WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York

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(Associated Press) Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to repor...

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