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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: December 2, 2008

Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: December 2, 2008

Explain That Tune

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: December 2, 2008

Jack of Hearts

Has Hollywood’s original bad boy gone good? One-time rogue Jack Nicholson lives alone, tends to his teenagers, and yearns for one last great love.

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: December 1, 2008

Music for Grownups: Top Ten Holiday Albums

A stack of holiday albums sways precariously on my desk. It represents only a fraction of the seasonal releases this year, and an even smaller portion of the thousands of holiday albums released during the history of recorded sound. Offerings 2008 range from traditional carols and standards to reinvented rock and jazz arrangements to moody midwinter evocations of the holidays' pagan origins. Here are my favorites:

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: November 20, 2008

Music for Grownups: Opera Tube

A world of larger-than-life opera magic lies at your fingertips, thanks to YouTube.

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: November 19, 2008

Music for Grownups Archive

Music news and notes twice weekly.

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: November 13, 2008

Music for Grownups: Mavis Staples Live

Mavis Staples has been performing for more than 50 years. Her recent, boisterous set at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill revisited the impassioned days of the civil rights movement, for which gospel provided the soundtrack.

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: November 13, 2008

AARP Radio: Fats Domino

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: November 13, 2008

AARP Radio: Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel, 96, the preeminent oral historian of 20th-century America who described the major events of his time through the experiences and observations of the ordinary men and women who lived them, died October 31, 2008 at his home in Chicago after a fall.

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: November 6, 2008

Music for Grownups: Ten Holiday Hits

Music writer Richard Gehr selects 10 top holiday hits.

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: October 30, 2008

Music for Grownups: 'John Lennon: The Life'

British novelist-biographer Philip Norman authors the comprehensive and highly readable 851-page biography, "John Lennon: The Life."

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: October 28, 2008

AARP Presents Feels Like the First Time Tour with Foreigner

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: October 28, 2008

AARP Presents Legends of Jazz Tour

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: October 23, 2008

Music for Grownups: Best Halloween Songs

Richard Gehr selects his top-10 Halloween songs for adults. These songs range from the harrowing to the entertainingly creepy, including Michael Jackson's "Thriller."

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Subchannel: Entertainment. Date: October 20, 2008

Music for Grownups: Best Music Sites

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