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Letters: Baseball Drama, 'Children Of The Rainbow'

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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 5:05 pm

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

It's time now for your letters.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW")

SIEGEL: The song is "Children of the Rainbow" being sung by 40,000 Norwegians yesterday in Oslo, as they marched to the city's courthouse.

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

Inside sat right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, on trial for massacring 77 people last year. The singers gathered because Breivik has said publicly he hates the song, and considers it a Marxist plot to brainwash Norway's children.

1:22 pm

Fri April 27, 2012

For Baseball Fans, May the Force Be With You

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Baseball's 10th player: you, on your couch, willing a win.

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Hart Seely knows the Yankees count on him to will each hit and each run. They can't win without him.

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Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 5:05 pm

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Hart Seely is the author of The Juju Rules: Or, How to Win Ballgames from Your Couch: A Memoir of a Fan Obsessed.

Remember that pod on the Death Star, where Darth Vader would go to be alone? Did you ever wonder what he was doing in there?

Well, I have a theory: I think he was watching ballgames.

The new baseball season is here. For me, it means reclaiming the war pod, the living room — or, as I prefer to call it: my personal corporate luxury skybox.

4:14 pm

Thu April 26, 2012

Something Wicked: A Haunting Must Read

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Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

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Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 5:27 pm

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Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of Unholy Night.

I know it's strange to be thinking about October right now, but whenever I write, in a way that's always where I am. Growing up in Connecticut, it always held a special place in my heart — "a rare month for boys," as Ray Bradbury begins Something Wicked This Way Comes.

1:27 pm

Thu April 26, 2012

Marooned In L.A. For A Week, Coachella Bands Make Do

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Ian St. Pe of the band Black Lips performs at this year's Coachella festival in Indio, Calif. Like many of the artists on the bill, the band agreed not to book other shows in Southern California within months of the event.

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Radiohead's headlining set on April 14 featured many songs from their album The King of Limbs, and an excellent ponytail on the head of singer Thom Yorke (right).

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After Explosions in the Sky played Coachella in 2007, says guitarist Munaf Rayani, the band went from "playing in rooms that were 400, 500, maybe a thousand people," to "the Palladium in L.A., which [has a capacity of] 4,000, and filled it up." Explosions in the Sky, seen here at Coachella on April 13, were booked by Goldenvoice, Coachella's promoter, to play a set at The Glass House in nearby Pomona on April 18.

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During a set by Sunday night headliners Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog, a holographic image of Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996, performed for the crowd. In a YouTube message to fans, Dr. Dre said, "This was not done for a tour. If a tour happens, we'll see."

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Performers at Coachella, like Gotye, seen here April 15, were subject to a "radius clause" that prevented them from playing in the immediate area of the festival. So that they didn't waste the week between the festival's two weekends, Gotye's booking agent, Tom Windish, scheduled performances for his clients in locations like San Francisco and Las Vegas.

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Florence Welch, of Florence and the Machine, performs April 15 at Coachella.

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Santi White, aka Santigold, performs onstage at Coachella on April 15.

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"Honestly, we would like to play ... while we're in L.A. ... but they told us not to," Black Lips guitarist Cole Alexander told NPR. "So we're like, 'Whatever, we'll just record.' " The band found a new friend (and potential collaborator) during their week off: the pop star Ke$ha.

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Ke$ha in the audience at Coachella on April 15.

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Other guests who performed with Dre (at left) and Snoop during Coachella's first weekend included Eminem, 50 Cent, Wiz Khalifa and Kendrick Lamar.

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James Mercer performs with The Shins on April 14 at Coachella.

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Concertgoers attend the Black Lips performance April 14.

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Rihanna performs during a set by DJ and producer Calvin Harris, who produced the singer's hit "We Found Love," during the first weekend of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.

By Amy Walters

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 9:51 am

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The massive Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival came to a close in California on Sunday after two weekends worth of sold-out shows by over 150 artists.

One of those acts was the Austin, Texas, band Explosions in the Sky, which first played Coachella back in 2007 and has seen its profile grow since then.

7:28 pm

Wed April 25, 2012

Immigration Brings High Drama To The High Court

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This artist rendering shows Solicitor General Donald Verrilli speaking before the Supreme Court. Verrilli argued Wednesday that Arizona's immigration law steps into federal territory.

By Nina Totenberg

Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 7:53 am

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A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled Wednesday that they will uphold at least part of Arizona's controversial immigration law. Four provisions of the law were blocked by a federal appeals court last year, and while even some of the court's conservatives expressed skepticism about some of those provisions, a majority seemed willing to unblock the so-called "show me your papers" provisions.

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