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Eminem to auction off sneakers from personal collection for charity

DETROIT — More than 100 pairs of sneakers from the personal collection of Eminem, signed by the rapper himself, are going on the auction block to raise money for the rapper's Marshall Mathers Foundation. The sneakers are being offered through Julien's Auctions, the Los Angeles-based auction house which specializes in pop culture-based artifacts and memorabilia. Listings went up Tuesday through ...
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The real story behind George Michael and Wham!’s historic China trip

Artfully big hair. Awkwardly giddy girls. And two extremely photogenic pop stars strolling the Great Wall of China for the cameras. Forty years on, the visual charms of Wham! and their history-making 1985 visit to China have held up well. The footage – long beloved to fans as the backdrop to George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s music video “Freedom” – is back in a surprisingly unvarnished new documentary.
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Concert review: Rich musical tradition on show with Greg Presley, Zuill Bailey show followed by Time for Three

The Listening Room at Hamilton Studios was the site of Tuesday night’s presentation by Classics NW. In keeping with the spirit of enterprise and innovation that has increasingly characterized his programming, Music Director Zuill Bailey brought together styles and traditions that in times not long past would not have appeared in the same room, much less on the same program. The concert fell into two segments: in the first, Bailey, in his role as one of the world’s leading cellists, partnered with pianist Greg Presley in performing series of works of dazzling variety by Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Lucas Foss, Claude Debussy, Piotr Tchaikovsky and Nicolo Paganini. In the second segment, the stage was stormed by Time For Three, a high-voltage string trio made up of violinists Nick Kendall and Charles Yang and bassist Ranaan Meyer. Much of what they played and sang was improvised on the spot, some was based on compositions by members of the group or by contemporary composers, but none of it appeared on its surface to have anything whatever to do with the retinue that produced the music of the first segment.