President's school speech released Sep 11, 2009
Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other. (Cameron Observer, MO)
Six stabbed at Shoreline concert Saturday Jun 2, 2009
Police from local cities began helping with crowd control and began investigating three stabbings, but three other stabbing victims would later come forward, including one who flagged down an ambulance that was leaving the amphitheatre and two who later walked into local hospitals ... Police shut down the concert early at 10:15 p.m. after the headlining band, War, finished playing ... I was watching a KQED fundraiser featuring War a few weeks ago-and for a new membership a pair of tickets to... (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 10-16 May 7, 2009
Singer Eric Burdon (The Animals, War) is 68. Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo ("24") is 57. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New Lowrider name, old sound Mar 15, 2009
Drummer Harold Brown went to see War, the band he started 40 years earlier but now includes only one original member, keyboardist Lonnie Jordan ... They lost rights to use the War name years ago in a court battle with their former manager ("The judge decided we were sidemen and he owned the name," said harmonica player Lee Oskar) and it grates on the band's original members that what they see as a second-rate facsimile of their group makes more money and gets more bookings ... "It upsets me... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
