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Onslaught media invade America's gas pumps

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. used to say that he wrote novels in order to clean out all of the pop culture junk that had collected in and stuck to his brain.
 
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Illness doesn't keep guitarist down

In recent months, local musician Rick Simpson would take his guitar and perform for recovering stroke patients at a rehab center. Never mind that the 61-year-old Simpson was himself a client at the center, battling lymphoma and recovering from having a pacemaker put in him.
 
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Danny Pittle

Full-time musician and full-time Stetson University student.
 
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Best Bets for Sept. 18, 2009

SATURDAYNashville ax man picks on guitar expoLots of pickin' will be happening at this weekend's Guitar Tech Expo, including some by a protege of Chet Atkins. The expo will feature a workshop by Nashville guitarist...
 
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Cartoonist's 'No Towers' casts disturbing shadows

One of the most curious scenes ever penned by cartoonist Art Spiegelman depicts a guy painting the Twin Towers -- New York City's World Trade Center -- engulfed in flames.
 
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