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Performance artist unveils plan for NY art center

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NEW YORK (AP) — Performance artist Marina Abramovic plans to build a $15 million center in upstate New York devoted to the research and production of duration-based works of art lasting from six hours to several days.

At home with Toni Morrison

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GRAND VIEW-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — The Hudson River extends like the sun from the back of Toni Morrison's house, illuminated and infinite, undimmed by an unseasonably drab spring afternoon.

Love, family, drugs: Gregg Allman tells it all

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gregg Allman thinks about his late brother Duane every day. And once in a while, he can feel his presence.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band marks 50 years at fest

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Sunday marked its 50th anniversary with a jam session at New Orleans' Jazz Fest featuring a number of old friends.

'Avengers' smashes record: $200.3 million debut

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hulk, smash.

Muti to conduct Vivaldi, Verdi concert for Pope

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Riccardo Muti will be conducting a concert in the Vatican in honor of Pope Benedict XVI.

George Lindsey, known as Goober Pyle, dies

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera

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NEW YORK (AP) — Absent from the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years, Benjamin Britten's great maritime tragedy "Billy Budd" has made a brief but welcome return in the season's closing days.

Madonna: Beastie Boys' Yauch was one of a kind

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NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna says Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys rapper who died Friday, was one of a kind and that the group was important to her musical history.

'Avengers' scores No. 2 opening day with $80.5M

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lots of superheroes add up to lots of money for "The Avengers."

Pass the mic: Yauch, Beastie Boys over the years

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Adam "MCA" Yauch was the gravelly-voiced rapper who helped make the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop. And his good-hearted nature led him to humanistic causes and made him beloved in the industry. He died Friday morning at 47 after a nearly three-year battle with cancer.

Sarah Ferguson tried in absentia in Turkey

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The trial of Britain's Duchess of York for allegedly taking part in the secret filming of two orphanages in Turkey has been adjourned so the plaintiffs can evaluate a proposed out-of-court settlement, Turkey's state-run news agency said.

The benevolent Beastie: Adam Yauch remembered

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NEW YORK (AP) — When the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just weeks ago, the New York trio was down a man.

CBS threatens ABC over upcoming reality series

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS is hoping a legal warning shot shatters rival network ABC's plans for its reality show "The Glass House."

Mystikal gives a bit of NO flavor to Jazz Fest

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thousands turned out Friday to see New Orleans rapper Mystikal perform one last time before returning to jail on a probation violation.

Evangelista testifies at NY child-support trial

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NEW YORK (AP) — Tracing her working life from picking cherries as a preteen to the cover of Vogue, supermodel Linda Evangelista told a court Friday she can still command about $100,000 to walk a runway, though her career has slowed since its 1980s and '90s heyday.

Police found no evidence Lohan hit club manager

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan won't face prosecution over a nightclub manager's claims that the actress struck him with her sportscar due to lack of evidence and doubts about his credibility, prosecutors decided Friday.