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Images by: Norman Kind Bruce Hornsby :: 11.14.09 :: Centre East Theatre :: Skokie, Illinois Bruce Hornsby :: 11.14 :: Illinois Bruce Hornsby walked onstage carrying a stack of requests, waived to the audience, and began to play.

Jazz lovers in the capital have an exciting weekend in store. The 100 Pipers Jazz Utsav 2009 Saturday and Sunday will feature some of the biggest names in international jazz.

Undercover cops smoked out a series of illegal sales Thursday night outside the Grateful Dead tribute concert performed at The Klein, the city-owned auditorium on Fairfield Avenue, police said.

Bruce Hornsby: Looking at the man in the mirror. Details: Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers 8 p.m. Thursday, November 19.

Shucking monikers Soft White Underbelly and Oaxaca, Grateful Dead acolytes STG finally became Blue yster Cult, their shelved debut from 1970 jamming online in 2001 as Stalk-Forrest Group: St.

What do you get when you mix the Grateful Dead, Phish, blues, folk, jazz and good 'ol rock 'n' roll? You get the JiMiller band, which is playing its seventh annual night before Thanksgiving show at The Winchester in Lakewood.

Trey Anastasio fronts two Phish concerts this weekend at U.S. Bank Arena. A '90s bumper sticker summarized the stereotype of Phish fans: "Jerry's dead, Phish sucks, get a job." "Jerry" would be late guitarist Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, the Baby Boomer jam band to which Phish frequently is compared, often with a caricature of Phish fans as ...

I guess it was only a matter of time before someone created it a ' Grateful Dead-opoly. Based on the classic Monopoly game, this one has you buying master album recordings instead of properties and concert venues instead of railroads as you "tour with the Dead" from gig to gig.

Dead heads and pot heads take note. While the straight economy goes up in smoke with double digit unemployment , job prospects for hippies are booming -- and not just for boomers.

At the last Friday night Shabbat service I attended, the woman behind me was wearing a Grateful Dead T-shirt emblazoned with a skeleton face that had a joint dangling from its mouth.

This photo taken Nov. 9, 2009 shows Vladimir Ognovenko, second from left, playing a prison commandant and Willard White, second from right, plays Alexander Petrovich Gorianchikov in the dress rehearsal for the Metropolitan Opera's "From The House Of The Dead" in New York.

Rob Barraco, the keyboard player for Dark Star Orchestra, recently spoke with this newspaper by phone.

It might be time to break out your flannel and Doc Martens because 2009 looks like a '90s revival in Ithaca.

Jerry Garcia by Blakesberg The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive .

If you were there in '77 at the Barton Hall show at Cornell when Jerry Garcia absolutely tore up 'St. Stephen', well, that wouldn't hurt.

In a September post, we listed many of the projects that were going to receive National Leadership Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services .

Images by: Heather Ainsworth moe. :: 10.31.09 :: The Washington Avenue Armory :: Albany, NY Al Schnier - moe.

Pearl Jam :: 10.31.09 :: Wachovia Spectrum :: Philadelphia, PA Pearl Jam celebrated Halloween by performing the final show ever at the legendary Philadelphia Spectrum .

Dark Star Orchestra, "possibly the most talented and accomplished tribute band out there," according to Rolling Stone, started like most cover bands - small but focused, a place for local musicians to come together and celebrate the work of a cherished band.

Umphrey's McGee celebrated All Hallow's Eve at Las Tortugas Dance of The Dead in Groveland, CA.