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There is no downside to this story – how often can you say that? Okay I guess there is obesity and someone could be injured by a book dropped off a high building, but that’s about it: Now in its 4th year, Free Scoop Night is our way of saying …

Grammy-winning, silky-voiced quiet storm superstar Luther Vandross is in critical but stable condition in a Manhattan hospital: Luther Vandross contracted pneumonia after suffering a stroke and had to undergo a tracheotomy to help him breathe, but the procedure didn’t damage his vocal chords, his representatives said Monday. ….His business manager, …

Led Zeppelin: revered and vilified, sometimes by the same person – the personal, lyrical, and sometimes musical excesses (particularly live) are easy to ridicule, especially in retrospect, but there is ample reason why Led Zeppelin was THE best-selling rock band of the ’70s. Over a 10-year career from ’69-’79, Led …

We were at a small party Sunday for a friend who ran in the Cleveland Marathon (under 4 hours!). His wife is from Greek Cyprus – though she was largely silent during a long political conversation, when the topic of the border between divided Cyprus being opened last week came …

Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and Bull Durham will reunite for a 15th anniversary celebration this Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, two weeks after the Baseball Hall of Fame canceled out: Both Sarandon and Robbins, who played groupie Annie Savoy and rookie pitcher Nuke LaLoosh respectively, will be on …

Caroll Spinney, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for 34 years, has written a book: The 156-page book (Villard, $16.95) is for adults, not children, but Spinney figures most of his readers will have grown up with Sesame Street, or have children who watch it. At 69, he says he …

We’ve found the former Iraqi Information Minister, again making quixotic remarks (“My feelings are as usual, we will slaughter them all”), this time for the recording industry (in reponse to the Grokster ruling): “One thing is clear, it’s not over,” said Allen Dixon, general counsel at the International Federation of …

Move over Peter Arnett, here comes Ashleigh Banfield on the fast track to Arab satellite TV: NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield has ripped television news networks, including her own, for their “glorious” coverage of the Iraqi war and a lack of focus on international news overall. In a speech Thursday …

Bonnaroo 2002, and the upcoming 2003 show in rural Tennessee have been tremendous financial successes: June 13-15 on a 600-acre farm near rural Manchester, Tenn. That event sold out in 17 days, moving all 80,000 available tickets strictly via the festival’s Web site. The gross is estimated to be $11 …

Former pauper J.K. Rowling, who wrote the first Harry Potter book living on welfare in a two-bedroom apartment in Scotland just 10 years ago, is now worth more than the Queen: Rowling, 37, has more than quadrupled her personal fortune in the past two years, according to the survey by …