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Incredible Portraits Of Cultural Icons

Posted 05.10.2012

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Norman Seeff is a South African rock photographer known for capturing the grit and glamor of the world's most creative minds, though he didn't start o...

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Improving Maternal Healthcare, One Song at a Time

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Chris Martin, Sting, Video, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Edge, David Legry, Dave Matthews, Paul Simon, Alanis Morissette, Edie Brickell, Global Motherhood, Patti Smith, Faith Hill, Lauryn Hill, Cedella Marley, Seal, Eddie Vedder, Rita Wilson, Starbucks, Beck, David Bowie, Rufus Wainwright, Diana Krall, Coldplay, Sade, Bono, Global Financial Crisis, Impact News

Did you know that every 90 seconds a woman dies from pregnancy-related causes? Every Mother Counts is dedicated to increasing education and support for reducing maternal mortality through programs around the world.

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An Art Gala To Remember

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.01.2012

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Last night, BOMB Magazine celebrated its 31st anniversary at Capitale in New York by honoring curator Klaus Biesenbach, playwright Marsha Norman, and ...

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For the Love of Patti Smith: Celebrating World Book Night 2012 in Chicago

Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 04.26.2012

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Just Kids made me feel proud to consider myself a writer. To explain to my loved ones what I do, who I am and what I hope to one day achieve. And now I was lucky enough, I hoped, to share all those things with an unsuspecting commuter or 20.

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PHOTOS: Varvatos Hosts A Ramone Autobiography Party At Former CBGB Venue

Posted 03.30.2012

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High-end fashion designer John Varvatos celebrated the launch Thursday of "Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone" at his chic 315 Bowery boutiq...

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LOOK: January Jones And Patti Smith At The Met's Manon Premiere

Posted 03.27.2012

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The Metropolitan Opera premiered their latest production, "Manon," starring Anna Netrebko with plenty of pretty faces and celebrities to help celeb...

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Still a Wizard, a True Star: A Conversation With Todd Rundgren, Plus Tonight Alive's "Starlight" (Exclusive)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.06.2012

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"I wrote a song about my high school girlfriend who broke my heart and have been milking it ever since. The irony of it is, it's the very first song I ever wrote and it's the song that's pinned on my back, kind of like 'kick me.'"

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Famous Authors’ Bizarre Obsessions

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Book News, Author Trivia, Author Obsessions, Victor Hugo, Famous Authors, Martin Amis, Flannery-Oconnor, Patti Smith, Author Facts, Books News

By Emily Temple for Flavorwire: We tend to put our favorite authors on a pedestal, and in some ways when we do that, we turn them into characters t...

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Patti Smith Just Sang Her Heart Out to Us in Manhattan

Vicky Tiel | Posted 04.14.2012

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How did she know that song was Richard and Elizabeth's personal love song? I went into shock. It was from the film The Sandpiper the film where I met Elizabeth, met my husband Ron Berkeley. It was the film where it all started for me in Paris in 1964.

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'Chimes of Freedom' Celebrates the Power of Music and Activism

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.01.2012

Amnesty International's Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan is not the first time they've tapped into the music community to raise funds and bring awareness to human rights issues.

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Patti Smith Cancels Controversial Hotel Chelsea Concert

| Posted 01.13.2012

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By Mathew Katz CHELSEA -- Songstress Patti Smith has canceled a performance at the Hotel Chelsea that had been set for Thursday evening but sparke...

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OWS To Hold Vigil For MLK

Posted 01.11.2012

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Occupy Wall Street is coordinating a global series of candlelight vigils on Sunday, January 15th in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Protesters aim to ...

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Patti Smith To Play Concert For New Management Of Chelsea Hotel

Posted 01.12.2012

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Patti Smith selling out? While we'd like to believe it isn't true, some are concerned that Smith may indeed be betraying her Chelsea Hotel roots by pl...

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Canada Man Turns $200 Gift Into $1 Million Donation

www.winnipegfreepress.com | Posted 01.09.2012

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LAURIE Johnston took a gift of $200 more than a half-century ago and turned it into $1 million. The retired pharmacist donated $500,000 on Friday t...

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Patti Smith Muses On Childhood And Art In Miami

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Video, Just Kids, Books and Books, Miami News, National Book Award, Patti Smith, Miami International Book Fair, Woolgathering, Miami News

Miami is no doubt still a bit high on love for Patti Smith. The rock-n-roll poetess appeared at the 2010 Miami International Book Fair just days after...

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Patti Smith Turns 65!

Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Just Kids, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Patti Smith Group, Robert Maplethorpe Just Kids, Fifty News

Patti Smith may be turning 65 on December 30, but for someone who spent nearly two decades of a 35-year career in music in retirement, she seems to be...

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The Best-Selling Books In Southern California

Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Joan Didion, California Bestsellers, Sciba, Just Kids, Bestselling Books in Socal, Bookweb, Diane Keaton, Patti Smith, Blue Nights, Los Angeles News

The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association has released the bestselling books at local, independent bookstores for the sales week end...

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World Book Night Giving Away 1 Million Free Books, Needs YOUR Help

Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Free Books, Stephen King, Sherman Alexie, World Book Night, World Book Night UK, Dave Eggers, Maya Angelou, Patti Smith, World Book Day, World Book Night US, Books News

Ever heard of World Book Night? If not, you will. Because they want your help to give away free books. WBN first launched in the UK last year. It t...

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Yellowcard's Audio Exclusive, Chatting With Pegi Young, Van Hunt and Tommy Keene, Plus PopMarket and Girl Talk's Halloween Playlist

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.30.2011

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With Yellowcard's release of the acoustic version of their critically-acclaimed album When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes last week, it only proved that Yellowcard is indeed back.

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Patti Smith's Peaceable Kingdom

Dorothy Spears | Posted 12.26.2011

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For the opening of her exhibit, Patti Smith: Camera Solo at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT last week, Patti Smith gave a concert celebrating essential connections between art, music, and literature.

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Chats With George Benson, John McLaughlin, Fred Schneider of The B-52's, and L.A. Guns' Tracii Guns, Plus Lisa Hannigan's New Video

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.20.2011

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Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art: Chatting With The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.25.2011

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"I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models. They were strong women, but their power was very much connected to their creativity and their voice."

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Rock And Roll Revisited

Posted 10.15.2011

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Chances are if you have a love of old New York, an obsession with rock & roll and dreams of being famous you've already read Patti Smith's memoir "Jus...

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PHOTOS: Escape To New York Debuts, But Is Cancelled On Third Day

Southampton, NY Patch | Brendan J. O'Reilly Email the Author | Posted 10.08.2011

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The inaugural Escape to New York was cut short when the third planned day of music and arts was rained out, but the first two days brought high profil...

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Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio)

Michael Vazquez | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Tori Amos, Ema, Bitch Vig, Nirvana, Titus Andronicus, Nevermind. Dave Grohl, Lounge Act, Geffen, Territorial Pissings, The Vaselines, Courtney Love, Stay Away, Drain You, Surfer Blood, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Muse, Midnight Juggernauts, Lithium, Curt Cobain, Nameless" Sub Pop, Endless, Olympia, Patti Smith, Michael Vazquez, On a Plain" "Something in the Way, Kris Vovoselic, Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band, Jeff the Brotherhood, Meat Puppets, Michael Azzerad, Steve Albini, Chad Channing, Polly, Telekinesis, Amanda Palmer, AJ Schnack, Foxy Shazam, Smells Like Teen Spirit", Come as You Are" "Breed, "In Bloom, Entertainment News

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