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NEW YORK (AP) _ Call her the Fresh Princess. Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's 9-year-old daughter, Willow Smith, is making her debut as a recording artist. She has signed a deal with Jay-Z's label, Roc Nation.


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Digital music might have decimated the compact disc market, but vinyl is making a huge comeback.
On Oct. 23, 2010, the seventh Night Owl Record Show will make available thousands of vinyl records from dozens of sellers in the Northwest


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Graffiti, normally a transitory art form, is the subject of a more permanent body of work created especially for exhibit at Washington State University Vancouver by local artist Leah Jackson.


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When Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. pulled the plug on the long-in-development "Duke Nukem Forever" last year, most observers in the video-game industry thought they'd seen the last of its titular hero.
But you can't keep a bad man down -- and last weekend, the cigar-chomping, beer-swilling tough guy staggered back to life at the Seattle fan-fest Penny Arcade Expo.


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A period of withdrawal from the public eye to grieve ended when Corinne reemerged in 2010 upon the release of her second album, "The Sea," a relatively-sober CD in comparison to the light and breezy collection of melodies on her initial offering


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Black foster children need black male advocates

R&B artist Anthony Hamilton wants you to know that black children in foster care need black men to advocate for them.


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"This is the second anthology of great speeches by African-Americans meant for the eye and ear. Our first book/CD project, Say It Plain, chronicled an array of black leaders across the 20th Century exhorting the nation to make good on its promise of democracy.


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Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested along with his wife Tameka Cottle on suspicion of possessing methamphetamines, five months after the hip-hop star finished a prison stint on weapons charges.


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Previews of films opening the week of Sept. 3, 2010


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Diabetes benefit for Boogie Cat's birthday


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