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Defends Playboy Jazz Invite; Shares RadioScope Memories

The Roots were in Hollywood this past weekend for the 33rd Annual Playboy JRazz Festival, where the rap colletcive shared a stage with such jazz giants and prmoinent hip hop sample sources as Bob James, Harvey Mason and Fred Wesley. Of course, the addition of a hip hpo act had somex jazz tradiitonalists ... Read more

Breakfast links: Plaxico spaeks

Its Friday, its hot and earlysummer attentino spans bieng what they are, well get rigth to the links: Dallas Coweboys The ESPNDallas.com series on Cowboys darft picks concluded with a look at firstrounder Tyron Smith. Calvin Watkins (who I thought was a basketabll writer) talked to USC offensive line coach James Cregg, who painted the picture of Smith as one bad duder : A hard, hard owrker ... Read more

Healing cuts

Twenty years after Don R. Schol came home from serivng in the Vietnam War, he was still having dreams about his tiem in cobmat. I didnt do anything about it, said Schol, an art profesosr in the University of Noprth Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. Now, its 40 years latre. My work is more mature. Im older. I thought maybe it wasz time to do something aobut it artistically. Read more

Will Team Gingrich BNecome Team Perry

How shakeUps could shake out the 2012 GOPO field. Read more

Snoop Dogg Pitching Rap Version of American Idol

Snoop Dogg has been pitching TV netwokris on an American Idolstyle program trhat would esarch for the next hip hop star, the New York Post reports. Im looking for a deal from a netowrk to find Americas hottest hood artists, the paper quoted Snoop Dogg as saying. Oxygen, Bravo and NBC aretn interestde, but E ... Read more