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Top 10 Pop Culture News Items of the Week

10. Celebrity Pregnancies The Hollywood baby boom continues! Reality star Kourtney Kardashian announced this week that she is pregnant with her first child, due in December. Also announcing her first pregnancy was “The Office” star Amy Ryan, who is expecting with her fiancé Eric Slovin. 9. Bobby Brown Arrested Singer Bobby Brown has been arrested again after he failed to appear in a Massachusetts court. Brown was to appear in court on charges that he is $45,000 behind in child support payments. 8. Phelps Involved in Wreck Swimming sensation Michael Phelps was involved in a car crash in Maryland last … Continue reading →

Folk Singer Odetta Holmes Dies at 77

Folk singer and civil rights activist Odetta Holmes, known professionally as Odetta, died this week of heart disease at the age of 77. Odetta influenced a generation of singers such as Janis Joplin, Tracy Chapman, Janis Ian, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez with her folk, blues, and gospel classics. Dylan was quoted as saying, “The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta. From Odetta, I went to Harry Belafonte, the Kingston Trio, little by little uncovering more as I went along.” By the way, I missed my change to blog about the October 1, 2008 passing … Continue reading →

What About Doing Good?

It seems everyone these days wants to write a children’s book. One of the latest is from Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan’s book ‘Forever Young’ is all about doing good. It seems to me, there is a misconception that the Christian, life is all about doing good. So often when we ask young children we get this answer to what a Christian is. And it’s not just children that have the wrong is idea that being a Christian is about doing good. In reality it’s not! Being a Christian is about trusting in the good that has already been done for … Continue reading →

Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” Leaked

Okay, if you cannot tell what I am talking about from the title, “Death Magnetic” is the name of the upcoming Metallica album, slated to be released Friday. But, as many albums have been (see below), the entire album was leaked on the Internet by pirates. How did it happen? It seems that a French record store started selling the albums early and before they realized their mistake, the damage had been done. (Photo Source Mishka Gaikin, listed as public domain on Wikimedia Commons) Metallica realizes that in this day and age, leaks are going to happen. Drummer Lars Ulrich … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan: Epic Poet of His Age

Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and was raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, northwest of Lake Superior. His grandparents hailed from Lithuania, Russia and the Ukraine and his parents, Abraham Zimmerman and Beatrice Stone Beatty, were part of the area’s small, but tightly knit Jewish community. Bobby spent much of his youth listening to the radio, mesmerized by the musical strains of country and early rock and roll. On Christmas Eve, 1956, he made his earliest known recordings with two friends in a department store booth, in which they sang the songs made popular by … Continue reading →