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As I gather from this post by Al Barger, a lot of people have the impression that the negative reaction to Howard Dean’s oratory rampage the night of the Iowa caucuses is due to the anger he displayed. This is not at all how I see it. It wasn’t anger …

Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, 69, is a longtime Chicago electric bluesman and roots rocker with an affinity for wearing a full indian headdress that was given to him for good luck somewhere along life’s winding path. Originally from Mississippi then Alabama, “Clearwater” (a play on “Muddy Waters”), played guitar behind …

Steve Earle has become one of our greatest songwriters, producers, impresarios and accumulator of roots music styles – as a widely eclectic master he is perhaps second only to Neil Young (who finds the essence of and takes ownership of most every style he touches) – in Earle’s case: roots …

It has become a truism and a cliche that the Super Bowl is worth watching for the ads alone. Maybe, the game itself is often over by halftime. When I was DJing full time, I used to work a Super Bowl party one place or another each year and that …

BAffleck and JLo have split – thank God. Some celebrity couples bring out the best in each other and seem to complement each other’s strengths: going way back you had George Burns and Gracie Allen, more recently Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and right now Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey …

Truly, if they were any cuter we would have to eat them. I can’t tell you why (though I will try), but I find the public display of new love between poptart Jessica Simpson, and her boyband singing husband (formerly of 98 Degrees) Nick Lachey both deeply amusing and inexplicably …

The title track of SHAKING THE DISEASE, a three-song “CD single” from the Dublin-based, Welsh-Breton singer Katell Keineg, is one of the most delightfully energetic numbers she’s ever done. Where many artists mellow with age, on the evidence of “Shaking the Disease” it’s clearthat Keineg’s songwriting is as strong and …

Is there a rule that Johnny Depp has to be in every other movie that comes out? In an effort to take advantage of the wild success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp’s next movie is being released early: The Johnny Depp thriller “Secret Window” is opening six weeks earlier …

That guy gets around, but is there video this time? Ukraine’s youngest ever mother on record, an 11-year-old girl, has given birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 3.8 kilograms (8.4 pounds), a newspaper reported Thursday. Surgeons at hospital No. 5 in the eastern city of Kharkiv delivered the infant …

For those who are sanguine about Howard Dean’s performance in Iowa – ie, “it wasn’t that bad,” “he was just pumping up the faithful,” and the like – when freaking Maureen Dowd (Democraticic partisan, party-line lib) says you scared the women and horses, you scared the women and horses, buddy: …