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Album review: Victim of Love – Charles Bradley

VICTIM OF LOVE Charles Bradley (Shock) Arguably the toughest job for Brooklyn’s Daptones label and their crusade to record those now-ageing soul artists who slipped through the grooves of the sound’s 60s and 70s heyday is to back up their discoveries with solid second albums Once the glossy sheen of discovery has worn through then it takes an artist with the talents of a Sharon Jones or, in this case, Charles Bradley to harness the music and make it relevant again, not just an all-singing, all-dancing museum piece.

Duchess may have let baby’s sex slip

A regal slip of the tongue may have let the cat out of the bag about the sex of the latest royal-to-be. While working a crowd of thousands in the northern English town of Grimsby, the

Miley Cyrus Was Front Row for 82-Year-Old Stripper

Moments before Miley Cyrus‘ alleged nightclub altercation she had a seriously close encounter with an 82-year-old stripper! The Show The nightmare went down Saturday night at the Beacher’s Madhouse in Hollywood, where Miley was standing front row when the octogenarian dancer hit the stage. The well-preserved dancer (billed as the world’s oldest female stripper) worked […]

Alzheimer’s: New Research on Understanding the Disease

Not all of Dr. Richard Mayeux’s elderly patients have Alzheimer’s disease; not all will even go on to develop it

Presumed Innocent

The appalling truth is out, although a tantalizing portion of it vanished forever when Charles Stuart jumped to his death into the icy waters of the Mystic River. A stunned city is left to wonder which is worse: the ease with which it embraced Stuart’s lie that a black mugger murdered his wife for a bit of jewelry, or the knowledge that evil can wear an expensive suit, hold a respectable job, own a house in a pleasant suburb

Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart

The appalling truth is out, although a tantalizing portion of it vanished forever when Charles Stuart jumped to his death into the icy waters of the Mystic River.

David Koresh: Cult Of Death

David Koresh — high school dropout, rock musician, polygamist preacher — built his church on a simple message: “If the Bible is true, then I’m Christ.” It was enough to draw more than a hundred people to join him at an armed fortress near Waco, Texas, to await the end of the world. The same message tempted Koresh to entertain a vision of martyrdom for himself.

Ivory Coast Unrest: Ouattara, Gbagbo Struggle for Control

Heavy gun battles raged around the last bastions of Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo as the United Nations warned both sides to rein in their soldiers; the countdown to Gbagbo’s exit began. The boom of large weapons rang across the city as forces loyal to President-elect Alassane Ouattara targeted the two official presidential residences and the state broadcaster.

Crime-fighting leech cracks Australian cold case

If not for a lowly leech, Peter Alec Cannon might not be in the heap of trouble he’s in now. In what Australian officials are calling a first in their country — and possibly in the world — police used DNA extracted from a leech that bit Cannon eight years ago to convict him of robbing an elderly woman.

Brooke Astor’s son, lawyer guilty of bilking estate

A jury in Manhattan found the son of Brooke Astor and one of his lawyers guilty Thursday of scheming to bilk millions of dollars from the late philanthropist’s estate.