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A formula typically only works as long as it doesn’t feel too much like a formula. Apparently this summer’s movies feel formulaic: The summer movies of 2003 have thus far made roughly 2 percent less at the box office than last summer’s fare, and actual attendance has fallen an even …

Following hot on the heels of Lou Reed, who was inducted a couple of weeks ago, Earth, Wind & Fire is inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk (at 7425 Sunset Blvd.) today at noon local time. Earth, Wind & Fire recently released their first new CD in six years, The Promise, featuring …

While Al and Natalie prepare for their greased cage match over the value of U.S. citizenship on a day of independence for all the munchkins and their descendents, Dawn channels pseudo-Sullivan on the glories of being a Republican in a log cabin in the U.S. of A.

We had a grand, if schizophrenic, time at the Aurora Independence Day Parade and subsequent carnival. We had blazing sunshine and temps in the 90s interspersed with sheets of rain waterfalling from the sky – surely a day the plants will remember. After watching my son march in the Aurora …

Happy putative birthday to Louis Armstrong, who would’ve been 103 if he were alive today – and the story of his birth on July 4th, 1900 were at all true. Pop music will forever be in Armstrong’s debt: listening to his earliest recordings with the Hot Five, you can trace …

July 4th weekend is upon us, so what better time for an old fashioned "Surfin' Hootenanny"?

I love Willie: great songwriter, great singer, great eccentric personality, still a loose canon at 70 freaking years of age. But none of that means he knows dick about politics, in fact as we have discussed in great detail, length and variety in the past, perhaps all of those good …

I was thinking about Dolly Parton and gradually it dawned on me how much she has in common with Martha Stewart. Why does this combo seem so absurd? Please see the story on MSNBC.com: Their styles couldn’t be more different, and their stars are currently hurtling in opposite directions. Still, …

It’s not “yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate’s life for me” – vicious Godsmack-backed trailer for the new Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl film here. Formats: Real, Windows, QuickTime. Rockin’ – the movie is out July 9.

This strikes me as overkill, but it’s an interesting idea nonetheless: Pop singer Rachel Farris has done her share of club gigs, radio station appearances and guest spots on tours for better-known acts, but she’s far from a household name. ….On Friday, the nation’s largest movie theater chain and two …