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Requests for emergency food are up nearly 40% , so the Second Harvest Food Bank could really use your support ... The first of the Columbia mosque arsonists has been sentenced.

NO CHANGE DOUBLE STANDARD STILL STANDS ABC says more than 1,500 people have called to complain about Adam Lambert 's behavior at the American Music Awards.

Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham - across her face. The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds of donated meat for an Atlanta food bank on Monday when someone threw one of the hams like a football and accidentally smacked her.

Even those living legends who still rock are in need of a body tune-up every once in awhile.

Little Richard is asking fans to pray for his speedy recovery after undergoing hip surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

Vim is perhaps a word out of time. It belongs more to a bygone age, maybe the 1920s, when grown men would list their hobbies as 'pomade' and 'spats' Vim is perhaps a word out of time.

Lonesome Onry and Mean vaguely remembers someone telling us a couple of years ago that Las Vegas bookies actually had a line on whether Chuck Berry would die that year .

Nearly half a century after the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in North Carolina, historian Andrew B. Lewis revisits the "ragtag band" of young people who kick-started a flagging civil rights movement with their sit-ins, voter registration drives, and protest marches.

"Tina Turner'' by Henry Diltz, one of the images at the Brooklyn Museum exhibit.

Two cutting-edge movies from the late 1960s and enough rock and roll for six parties constitute the home viewing week's platinum picks: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live * * * * out of four , 1986 forward, www.RockHallDvds.com/www.timelife.com, unrated, $120 Try 125 performances over a quarter-century on nine DVDs, including the rare concert that ...

The annual Brooklyn festival is striking out across the nation Punk: The dissonance often attributed to radical White people.

Thanks largely to my having a brother who is seven years older than I, I became an avid follower of pop music from the time I was 6 , which was basically at the "Dawn of Rock and Roll." And so it was that I literally grew up on the music of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Rock and roll first hit the airwaves in the mid-fifties, and it didn't take long for its creators to understand their ability to corrupt an audience with pleasure.

I have had considerable success in the rock-and-roll field, but I think that some of its exponents, usually the instrumentalists, are giving it a black eye.

Richard Wayne Penniman was born in Macon, Ga., nearly 77 years ago, the third of 12 children.

Ian Ono and Jana Monji : Melissa Joan Hart and Mark Ballas visited the Ellen Degeneres Show on 5 October 2009 and performed their jive , just not in costume.

Much as I love new technologies, I also cling to a few fond relics reminiscent of good times gone by.

Adam Kispert YAHOO! Kitsap A&E ADAM KISPERT LIST OF THE MONTH: Women's Contributions to Rock Rich and Varied List of the Month The ninth in a series looking at the best albums in rock 'n' roll history.

9, 1941, Dawson, Ga., U.S. died Dec. 10, 1967, near Madison, Wis. Main American singer-songwriter, one of the great soul stylists of the 1960s.

Looking at the crowd that came to see the legends Chuck Berry and Little Richard perform last week at San Manuel Casino, one could see all ages were out to lose themselves in the music.