Jesse James News

There are 23 days left in the year . On this date : In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception.

Whether playing it back over a single weekend or an entire season, deja vu rules college football like the house rules Vegas.

Deep soul singer Jesse James was born in 1943 in El Dorado, AR, with the handle James McClelland.

Australian musician and screenwriter Nick Cave is seen during an interview with Reuters in New York in this picture taken January 18, 2006.

This oil painting of a skull mixes elements of Tibetan and Mexican designs may reside on canvas now, but it was envisioned to rest permanently on somebodya s back.

Jackyl's chain saw-wielding singer Jesse James Dupree is a busy man these days with plenty of work outside of the band in television, as a solo artist and having his own line of beer.

See Missouri Mule on June 18 with Rowdy Kate, 10 p.m.; $3; at Sophia's Thai Kitchen, 129 E Street in Davis; www.myspace.com/missourimulemusic . Order a Missouri Mule at any bar and you'll get a concoction of whiskey, Campari bitters and any number of extra alcoholic ingredients, depending on who's making the cocktail.

Nine years after his 15-year-old little brother was shot to death in the Santa Barbara foothills, Ben Markowitz yesterday came face to face with the man who prosecutors say masterminded the boy's kidnapping and murder.

Nick Cave is a bad-ass. Perhaps, the baddest ass around. Consider: in the last few years alone, he's released two of the best albums of his career -- Dig Lazarus Dig!!! with longtime backing band The Bad Seeds and the self-titled debut by side project Grinderman .

These days, guitarist/singer Adam Ritchie makes his home in the Boston area, playing with his band The Lights Out.