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PHOTOS: Punk Legend Patti Smith Hits The Vic

Posted 05.07.2013 | Chicago
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Legendary punk provocateur Patti Smith returned on Monday to her birthplace to play a sold-out gig at the Vic Theatre. Smith, 66, has perhaps never...

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Patti Smith's Dark Tribute To Mapplethorpe

Posted 04.18.2013 | Arts
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A wild display of Patti Smith's multi-media art endeavors is heading to Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center next month. Among the works on display a...

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Patti Smith Meets The Pope

Agence France Presse | | Posted 04.10.2013 | Religion
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US punk rocker Patti Smith shook hands with Pope Francis at a general audience in St Peter's Square on Wednesday, saying afterwards she found the new ...

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Patti Smith's Cincinnati Art Exhibit Will Be a Robert Mapplethorpe Tribute

Steven Rosen | Posted 04.04.2013 | Fifty
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Steven Rosen

In a phone call from London, the exhibit's curator revealed some details of the museum's planned Patti Smith show, which will be a tribute to Smith's close friend, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

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PHOTO: You'll Never Guess Who's Wearing A Mockingjay Pin

Posted 04.01.2013 | Books
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Look who's wearing a Mockingjay pin: Patti Smith, rock star and National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids. As everyone who's read The Hunger ...

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Patti Smith Performs Surprise Show At The Beach

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 04.01.2013 | Arts
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Rockaway Beach, a Queens neighborhood hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in October, is still rough around the edges. Five months later, houses near the wat...

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Groundbreaking Punk Exhibition Is Coming To The Met

Posted 05.10.2013 | Arts
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“We wanted to strip everything down further, away from the showbiz theatricality of the glitter bands, and away from bluesiness and boogie. We wante...

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Patti Smith And Antony Featured In All-Star Photo Exhibit

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 02.07.2013 | Arts
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Besides her music, Patti Smith is known for capturing ghostly black and white snapshots of objects owned by herself and her idols. However, the punk p...

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A Compendium of Encounters -- Including Excerpts From My Book On Rhino, My Life In The Ghost of Planets - The Story of a CBGB Almost-Was

Binky Philips | Posted 04.03.2013 | Entertainment
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Binky Philips

Over my many years as a rock 'n' roll/pop culture freak, I've had my share of classic New York City encounters with celebrities and ummmmm, street life.

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Patti Smith Holds Benefit For Brontë Museum

Posted 01.23.2013 | Books
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Musician Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids was a National Book Award Winner in 2010 (and a sequel is apparently in the works,) but maybe you didn't know ...

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Ode to New York

Laura Steiner | Posted 02.25.2013 | New York
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Laura Steiner

New York is unapologetic and doesn't wait for anyone. It's a city that creates and a city that happens. New York doesn't need anything or anyone and perhaps that's exactly why you still crave it so much, because of it's idyllic unattainability.

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From Ike & Tina Turner, John Lennon and Led Zeppelin to The Clash, The Sex Pistols and Green Day: A Conversation with Bob Gruen

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.22.2013 | Entertainment
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Mike Ragogna

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Best Memoirs By Musicians

| Posted 12.21.2012 | Books
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Read more at the LA Review of Books: Ever since Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One hit the shelves in 2004, a flurry of musicians have published ...

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Patti Smith Planning Sequel To 'Just Kids'

Posted 12.18.2012 | Books
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Patti Smith recently announced that she is planning a sequel to bestselling memoir Just Kids. Smith won one of literature's most prestigious award...

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Pioneering Female Rocker Gets Huge College Honor

AP | Posted 11.27.2012 | College
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BRYN MAWR, Pa. — Rock music veteran Patti Smith will be honored by Bryn Mawr College for her artistic accomplishments and pioneering spirit. Th...

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Interview with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Limor Tomer

Kalup Linzy | Posted 11.23.2012 | Arts
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Kalup Linzy

Today I am sharing with you an interview with the general manager of concerts and lectures at the Met.

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Collisioni 2012, Barolo Italy

Jasmina Tesanovic | Posted 09.16.2012 | Home
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Jasmina Tesanovic

Eating Raw Meat with Subsonica There three days and two nights, eating handmade ravioli, privately bottled Barolo and fermented goat cheese: two d...

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Who Really Made CBGB Cool?

The Huffington Post | Michael Hogan | Posted 07.18.2012 | Entertainment
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Who's responsible for turning CBGB's into the petri dish that unleashed punk rock onto the world? It's long been known that the idea didn't origina...

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Kids Have Summer Reading Lists. Here's One For Adults. [But With No Book Reports Due In September]

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 08.28.2012 | Books
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Jesse Kornbluth

A friend suggested I pull together a reading list for the summer. I had a hard time taking her seriously. She's one of the smartest, best-read people ...

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Alan Rickman, Is That You?

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 06.29.2012 | Entertainment
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It's hard to imagine Alan Rickman as anyone other than Severus Snape, but after seeing the British actor on the set of the upcoming "CBGB" film, we're...

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The Rust Belt Aesthetic: Conflict and Creativity

Richey Piiparinen | Posted 08.19.2012 | Arts
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Richey Piiparinen

The Rust Belt landscape shoves you. If a suburb in Florida serves to take the edge off, Cleveland cuts you into corners. And depending on your poison, this can be a good thing, especially if you are an artist.

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Words of Mouths: One Old Crow Production's Cowboy Mouth

Bess Rowen | Posted 08.13.2012 | Home
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Bess Rowen

If you're craving something that is part theatre, part performance art, and part concert, listen to word of mouth and head over to Cowboy Mouth.

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In the Time of Gods: A Conversation With Dar Williams, Plus Chatting With The Sweet's Andy Scott and Steve Barton

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.10.2012 | Entertainment
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Mike Ragogna

"Time is about appreciating having all this ability to sort of capture the eternity of a moment, but then knowing that you're going to have to let it go at some point. Winter will come."

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'CBGB' Film Casts Its Patti Smith & Iggy Pop

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 06.05.2012 | Entertainment
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"CBGB" is shaping up to be quite a star-studded affair. The film, which chronicles the famous New York City music venue, has cast "The Big Bang Theory...

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Kate Abbey-Lambertz

Idols And Talismans: Patti Smith Behind The Camera (PHOTOS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 06.01.2012 | Detroit
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"Perfection has never been my beat," said Patti Smith, the rocker, writer, artist and legend of the downtown New York City arts scene who later made h...

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