California fire leaves many homeless in Riviera area
Santa Barbara residents recount a blazing coastal disaster. Charlie Davis, a 22 year veteran police lieutenant, watches his five level custom home burn as 200 houses collapse and more than 1,100 firefighters battle the blaze. No fatalities reported though 208 injuries and widespread damage. The wind shifts and dry brush threaten further fires, while survivors assess losses and lessons for wildfire policy and personal preparations.
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Murray Olderman
Santa Barbara
Calif
Nea
Charlie Davis
Camino Verde
Charlie
Riviera
California
Charley Butler
David Taylor
Taylor
Bill Patterson
Peterson
Patterson
Behind the Scenes of Broadway in Two Autobiographies
Elizabeth Mitchell reviews Cheryl Crawford and Henry Ephron Phoebe Ephron autobiographies. Crawford details her fifty years in theatre with hits like Porgy and Bess Brigadoon West Side Story and her Group Theatre work while revealing personal strain and a embezzlement case. Ephron duo Henry and Phoebe chronicle a thirty seven year collaboration on screenplays for Carousel Desk Set There's No Business Like Show Business and Daddy Long Legs with a witty married life and Nora Ephron's tender epilogue.
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American Library Assn
Elizabeth Mitchell
Cheryl Crawford
Crawford
Virginia Woolf
Elia Kazan
Arthur Miller
The
Theatre Guild
Group Theatre
Actors Studio
American Repertory Company
Dietrich
James Dean
Mary Martin
Marilyn Monroe
Richard Chandler
Chandler
Phoebe
Henry Ephron
Henry
Hollywood
O.K
Ephrons
Fred Astaire
Cary Grant
Katherine Hepburn
Spencer Tracy
Ephron
York Avenue
Nora Ephron
Varied 70s LPs Highlight Broad Reggae Jazz and Rock
A brisk, opinionated survey of 1970s releases across reggae, rock, jazz, and blues. Heptones, Marley, and Ras Temples anchor reggae. Beatles live discs draw mixed praise. Parsons Project and Geils push techno rock and white R&B. Jazz flute by Horn and Ornette Coleman return to form. Steeleye Span Original Masters and Sonny Terry Brownie McGhee offer roots and blues high points. A compact buy-list with strong opinions and era flavor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stan Mieses
Heptones
Uslandy
Leroy Sibbles
Tokens
Lee Andrews
Frankie Lymon
Hob Marley
the Wadlers
Exodus
Island
Marley
Hollywood Bowl
Capitol
Star Club
Hamburg
Germany
Atlantic
Taj Mahal
Great Pyramids
Horn
ABC
Waylon Jennings
Willie Nelson
Margaritaville
Ornette Coleman
Horizon
Ornette
Steeleye Span
Chrysalis
Top 10 Albums for Week of August 13
Fleetwood Mac Rumours leads the list with bands and artists including Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Barbra Streisand, Peter Frampton, Kiss, Steve Miller Band, James Taylor, and the Star Wars soundtrack among the nine other entries. Commodores also feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
GSN
Crosby, Sis and
Naan
Superman
Barbra Straisane
Peter Frampton
Kiss
Steve Miller
James Taylor
Commodores
XERF radio in Ciudad Acuna peddles faith and funds
The 250000 watt XERF station broadcasts gospel and patent medicine for 14 hours daily from Ciudad Acuna. Hosts beg listeners to mail funds, selling Bible guides, prayer cloths, and autographs while critics warn of scams. Despite complaints, the station earns over $1 million annually and profits from heavy air time sales.
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Ciudad Acuna
Mexico
Nea
Tordellos
XERF
James Carr
Palmdale
Calif
Carr
Christ
Joe Harold Smith
Orlando
Flame
Brother Smith
C.L
Basin Bible
Burpo
Mother Graham
Jesus Christ
John Brinkley
XERI
Brinkley
Mexico City
Arturo Gonzales
Gonzales
U.S
Radio Xerf
Radioland
Brother Carr
Semspaeh Enterprise Assn
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Rich Peterson
Pacific Ocean
Scott Sheldon
Barker Pass
Sierra Vista Road
Las Alturas Road
Sycamore Drive
Roger Horton
Roger
Circle Drive
Sycamore Canyon
Bobbs-Merrill
Norton
Switzerland
Cairleen McCullough
Harper & Row
John D. MacDonald
Lippincott
Susan Howarch
Simon & Schuster
Oliver's
Erich Segal
Robert Ludium
Qial
John Cheever
Knopf
Goma
Reddin Cook
Little, Brown
Paul E. Erdman
Trinity
Leon Uns
Doubleday
Shanna
Ana W. Dyer
Funk & Wagnalls
Brooke Hayward
Gan Sheehy
Dutton
Alga Haley
Goubleday
S.fishbait
Congressional Bookkeeper
William “Fishban
Miller & Frances
Leighton
Prentice-Hall
Erma Bombeck
McGraw-Hill
Zit
Victor Lasky
Dial
Robert Lacey
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Parsons
Robot
Arista: Ie
Edgar Allan Port
Geils
J Geils
Johnny
Graham Parker
Columbia
Sweet Baby James
al Green
London
Reverend Green
Paul Norn
Mushroom
Pink Floyd
Sonny Terry
Brownie McGhee
the Heatles
John, Paul
George
Halonen
God
Partners
Wolfman
Anton Haislan
Paris
Shawne Hawks
Srnrange
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