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Interview: Visionary Entertainer Josh Charles

2morrowknight | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton, Healing Time, Professor Longhair, R&b, Preservation Resource Center, Music, Josh Charles, Twitter, Jazz, Lil Wayne, Dr. John, Facebook, Gregg Rubin, Neville Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Healing Time Foundation, Zydeco, Katrina, Blues, Funk, Rock & Roll, Grammy Award, Gospel, Wynton Marsalis, Motown, Dixieland, Entertainment News
2morrowknight

"When you write a song, you never know how it will evolve," Charles said. "I've been approached by people who are recovering from cancer and they have shared stories with me of how 'Healing Time' has helped them."

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Museum Of The City Of New York Releases List Of 400 Top New Yorkers In History

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Ian Schrager, Henry Hudson, Diane Arbus, Brooke Astor, Edith Wharton, Andy Warhol, Rudy Giuliani, Herman Badillo, Famous New Yorker, New York 400, Louis Armstrong, Museum of the City of New York, 400th Anniversary New York, John Jay, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay-Z, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, New York History, New York News

In honor of Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage across the Atlantic, the Museum of the City of New York came up with a list of 400 notable and legendary New Yo...

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Annie Leibovitz: Still One of the Greatest Artists Ever

George Alexander | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

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George Alexander

Annie Leibovitz and the description "struggling artist" can't even be mentioned in the same hemisphere. So I thought.

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Happy Birthday to the King of Swing: Benny Goodman Turns 100

Tony Sachs | Posted 06.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Big Band Jazz, Teddy Wilson, Fletcher Henderson, Bunny Berigan, Elvis Presley, Gene Krupa, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Swing, Swing Music, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Hampton, Carnegie Hall, Benny Goodman, Rolling Stones, Great Depression, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

If you like jazz -- or 20th century American music, for that matter -- then you owe it to yourself to check out Benny Goodman.

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A New "Green" Economy

Michael DeJong | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, George Washington Carver, Bill Clinton, Michael Phelps Marijuana Photo, Lewis Carroll, Incarcerated Black Males, Salvador Dali, William Shakespeare, 420, Richard Branson, Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Phelps Marijuana, Michael Bloomberg Mayor, Pot Smoking, Barack Obama, Climate Change Accelerating, Brad Pitt, Louis Armstrong, Queen Victoria, Environmental Justice Foundation, Green Economy, Kellogg's, Mad Hatter Johnny Depp, Save the Sea, Legalize Marijuana, Global Green USA, Entertainment Industry Environmental Leadership Award, Business News
Michael DeJong

In an economy quickly going down the toilet faster than a nickel bag government-sanctioned "ganja" could 'pot'-entially create more and literally 'green' jobs and add much needed tax revenues.

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