Songs of Love and Murder, Silenced by Killings
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Mexicoâs country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate â 13 in the past year and a half.
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Geraldine Hughes has the sweet, musical lilt of Northern Ireland in her voice -- a sound dramatically at odds with the hard, violent history of the country in which she grew up.
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Mexicoâs country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate, in a trend that has gone hand in hand with a surge in violence between drug gangs.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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Hero splashes love and death in ravishing colors
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The Feb. 6 death of legendary singer/songwriter and artist manager Merle Kilgore draws the curtain on one of Music Row's most popular figures.
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Gone are Oaxaca's familiar nighttime sounds of tinkling marimba music and vendors hawking chocolate or traditional fried grasshoppers, replaced by gunfire, the roar of burning tires and shouts from bands of men armed with clubs.
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"My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, From Chekhov to Munro" (HarperCollins Publishers, 587 pages, $24.95), edited by Jeffrey Eugenides: In the introduction to this remarkable collection, Jeffrey Eugenides warns readers that good love stories aren't fluffy, happy-go-lucky affairs. Instead, they "depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart."
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Every six hours, a woman is killed by a husband or boyfriend, reports Amnesty International. How one counselor makes a difference.
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Lorraine Feather offers songs that are cheerful tugs of war between the past and the present that are performed with a conversational ease.
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Recordings of Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves and others are added to an online poetry initiative.
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A decade ago Paula Westâs dark, clotted vocal sound was her main calling card. Today the power of that sound is matched by a probing musical intelligence.
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As silence about crimes during the Spanish Civil war erodes, justice is still sought.
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In the latest twist in the BTK serial-murder mystery, Wichita police have asked for the public&#39;s help in finding missing links between one of the killer&#39;s poems, a former Wichita State University professor and a grim folk song. In a brief ...
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Farhan Akhtar's Don has a mix of good and not-so-good songs.
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A love that leads to murder, obsession and the dark side of our existence.
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By the time this piece is read, the jolly sound of drums, flutes and songs would have resounded in the air of my city, Pondicherry.