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Bon Jovi to sing at NYC Hillary Clinton fundraiser - 01/05/2009

The final note of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign may very well be sung by Jon Bon Jovi. The musician is performing at a fundraiser for the former presidential candidate as she tries to close out her campaign debt, which stood at $6.3 million as of last month. The Jan. 15 performance at Manhattan's Town Hall

Grateful Dead alums plan first tour in 5 years - 01/02/2009

It looks like the old Dead are gettin' on. Surviving members of the Grateful Dead say they'll regroup for a 19-city tour, their first since 2004, beginning April 12 in Greensboro, N.C. The group, which now just calls itself The Dead, announced its plans Thursday. Original band members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey

Clarification: New Year's parties story - 01/02/2009

In Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 stories about New Year's Eve parties, The Associated Press reported that the economic downturn contributed to slow ticket sales for events hosted by R&B singer John Legend and Lindsay Lohan. It is typical for New Year's Eve parties hosted by Opium Group to sell out the afternoon of Dec. 31, and they did for the latest

Alagna, Gheorghiu ring in the new year at the Met - 01/01/2009

At the end of Giacomo Puccini's "La Rondine," an enamored woman jilts her ardent but poor lover, saying she can't give up her old life as a rich man's mistress. And, she says, she doesn't want to financially ruin her soulmate. But on New Year's Eve, after the Metropolitan Opera's gold curtain fell, there was a sec

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