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Astrodome spared? Group suggests overhaul, reuse
The Astrodome, a now-empty showplace that has hosted everyone from Elvis Presley to Hurricane Katrina evacuees, should be turned into a multipurpose ...
Warhol 'Elvis' fetches $37M at NYC auction
Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at ...
Aretha Franklin going into GMA Gospel Hall of Fame
The queen of soul is taking her place in the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Aretha Franklin is one of six people who'll be inducted into the Hall on ...
Leftist economist behind Argentina's YPF takeover
Miguel Galuccio sat quietly with a nervous smile as Argentina's president suddenly thrust the youthful oil executive from obscurity into one of the ...
Owners get funding to reopen Sahara on Vegas Strip
The owners of the shuttered Sahara casino on an aging stretch of the Las Vegas Strip say they've secured $300 million in funding to redevelop the ...
Riverboat resumes nostalgic cruises on Mississippi
The churning red paddlewheel propels the pearl-white steamboat along the wide Mississippi River, like a slow-moving time machine through a slice of ...
Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dead at age 71
Much of the Band's innovative sound was born in the "Big Pink." It was a house in idyllic Woodstock, N.Y., rented for $125 a week and nicknamed for ...
AP writer recalls appearance on 'Bandstand'
The photo is over a half century old but the colors miraculously have not faded. The smiles of young Dick Clark and me are as bright as the day it was ...
Dick Clark, TV and New Year's Eve icon, dies at 82
Dick Clark stood as an avatar of rock 'n' roll virtually from its birth and, until his death Wednesday at age 82, as a cultural touchstone for boomers ...
Unusually warm March temps might stick around
Boaters cruised along the river in downtown Chicago. Golfers smacked balls in Minnesota. And an ice-breaking mission on Maine's Kennebec River was the ...
Highs in 70s in March? Warm spell expected to last
Break out the beach towels, flip-flops and baseball bats: Warm weather is arriving early across much of the U.S., even in northern states where ...
Titanic auction interest rises as 100th mark nears
The April 1 auction of more than 5,000 Titanic artifacts a century after the luxury liner's sinking has stirred hundreds of interested calls, with ...
God, family make appearance on Oscar red carpet
It wasn't hard to spot Elvis Presley's old co-star on the Oscars red carpet. She was the one wearing the nun's habit. Mother Dolores Hart, who left ...
A nun, football coach and Marine going to Oscars
At least one person on the Oscars red carpet won't have to worry about what to wear: Mother Dolores Hart. The 73-year-old nun, who left Hollywood in ...
New music on the way from late Waylon Jennings
The family of Waylon Jennings will soon release songs the country music icon recorded shortly before his death 10 years ago. At least eight of the 12 ...
Lisa Marie Presley wants to make better Elvis film
Over the years, Lisa Marie Presley has become dissatisfied with movies chronicling her father's life, so she just might make a film about the rock 'n' ...
AP Interview: Chris Isaak makes Memphis album
Chris Isaak is returning to the roots of rock 'n' roll and doing it old-school: All in one take. The U.S. soul singer headed back to the original Sun ...
Annie Leibovitz opens new art show at Smithsonian
Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new project now on view at the Smithsonian ...
Johnny Otis of 'Willie and the Hand Jive' dies
Johnny Otis, the "godfather of rhythm and blues" who wrote and recorded the R&B classic "Willie and the Hand Jive" and for decades evangelized black ...
Publisher: Burt Bacharach working on memoir
Burt Bacharach will be handling the words for his next project: a memoir. The award-winning collaborator on such hits as "I Say a Little Prayer" and ...
Rock Hall of Fame opens archives to public
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories ...
Ali center part of legacy to his social activism
Muhammad Ali's fists made him famous, but his plight as a social activist was perhaps his biggest fight. At the Muhammad Ali Center, visitors see the ...
Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle
In the little town of Bethlehem, a cloistered nun whose luminous blue eyes entranced Elvis Presley in his first on-screen movie kiss is praying for ...
New tour offers glimpse of New Orleans movie sites
Sitting near the New Orleans streetcar line aboard a van equipped with video screens and a speaker system, tourists watch actress Vivien Leigh ride ...