Jan 27, 2010 | Television Without Pity
Today's TWoP News: January 27, 2010
Today's news is best enjoyed to the tune of War's "Why Can't We Be Friends?" People may only be reuniting because of money and contract obligations, but the important thing is that we stay one big happy family, at least until Lost comes back on Tuesday.
Music brings fans back to special times in their lives, so they share those time-travel songs
Classic songs, classic memories, classic cars ... The genesis came from writer Pete Hamill, who told the Gifford Lecture Series crowd in Syracuse last month how the music of his youth helped him fill in the holes of his memory as he was writing his autobiography.
"Legend" is a term that can be tossed around a little lightly when it comes to hip-hop artists, but the "Legends of Hip-Hop II " concert in Atlantic City tomorrow night gets it right.
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WAR and Average White Band will bring funk to Whitaker Center
Two music legends will share the stage Saturday night at Whitaker Center: WAR and Average White Band .
Whitaker Center features local, national talent
Beat the midwinter blues and start the new year right with a show at the Whitaker Center, a Harrisburg venue that presents nationally known talent of all sorts, as well as regional favorites.
One of the most popular funk groups of the '70s, War were also one of the most eclectic, freely melding soul, Latin, jazz, blues, reggae, and rock influences into an effortlessly funky whole.
One of the most popular funk groups of the '70s, War were also one of the most eclectic, freely melding soul, Latin, jazz, blues, reggae, and rock influences into an effortlessly funky whole.
Long-touring WAR thunders into Carmel's Sunset Center.
The year 1969 was a time of anti-Vietnam war protests and civil rights marches, which made it a perfect platform for WAR, an eight-piece, Los Angeles-based band featuring a multicultural lineup of musicians playing songs popping with socio-political lyrics.
DeLay Is Tapped Out From 'Dancing'
Tom DeLay, the former House speaker, dances with Cheryl Burke during a recent episode of "Dancing With the Stars." Dancing with DeLay is no more.
Fractured feet did in former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in his bid to make himself over from scandal-tainted pol to that nice old man who won the cheesetastic Mirrored Disco Ball on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." The rump-shaking disgraced Texas Republican planned is going to announce his resignation from the running Tuesday night -- 24 hours ...
DeLay Is Tapped Out From 'Dancing'
Dancing with DeLay is no more. Tom Delay, the former Texas congressman who joined the cast of "Dancing With the Stars" this season, has decided to end his run on the show.
Histoires Grecques Snapshots from Antiquity by Maurice Sartre Translated by Catherine Porter Belknap Press of Harvard, 448 pp., $35 For those on nodding terms with ancient history, the life trajectory of the Greek polis looks a lot like that of a rock star on the old VH1 series Behind the Music .
Dancing DeLay 'insane or stupid'
Dancing DeLay 'insane or stupid' October 6, 2009 It was one painful step for Tom DeLay, and one giant leap for non-partisan politics when the Hammer danced the samba last night -- against doctor's orders, no less.
Frank Mickadeit: There's always the Mafia
Heretofore, my impression of CIA recruiting came via "Why Can't We Be Friends," in which we learn that the Mafia - or as War pronounced it, "moff-eye-hay" - is the more selective secret organization.
I haven't been in this studio since my second-grade class took the NBC tour years ago,' blurts 51-year-old Living Colour guitarist and founder Vernon Reid.
Genre: Creative-Death Horror Directed by: David R. Ellis Starring: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson There is a scene early on in David R. Ellis' The Final Destination where a neo-Nazi - who is drunkenly attempting to set a cross ablaze in the front yard of a black security guard - is set on fire.
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