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30 years after his death in a plane crash, guitarist Randy Rhoads continues to exert his influence on rock music. Ozzy Osbourne producer Kevin Churko reflects on the young rocker’s legacy. read the story

Sly Stone is about as reclusive as humanly possible. The funk legend and infamously eccentric former front man of the Family Stone has fought personal demons for decades. Heavy drug addiction has rendered him volatile and paranoid, afraid of trusting… read the story

‘Tonya & Nancy: A Rock Opera’ opens this week in Cambridge, breaking the ice that’s frozen over that whole Harding/Kerrigan debacle from the ’94 Olympics. That year, after being assaulted by Harding’s thugs, Kerrigan recovered to take silver in figure… read the story

The Wonder Years provided the basic dating model that every normal kid in the 90’s followed, and if you’ve been keeping any kind of tabs, you know that dreamy Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper) would go on to balance her future… read the story

Progress on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York City is still moving forward, albeit slowly. The structure, named Park51, is actually *not* a Muslim mosque, but a cultural center that happens to have a Muslim prayer room among… read the story

Ted Williams, the “golden-voiced” homeless man who was the media’s favorite “feel-good” story a few months ago, is currently back in rehab in Texas for “emotional” issues. The incessant media attention thrown at Williams drove him to break his 3-year… read the story

Despite the initial public outcry against the hands-free cell phone laws that took action in January 2009, the laws have helped decrease the number of phone-related accidents and deaths. Despite that, the Southern California Auto Club says that the number… read the story

Former Jet-Blue flight attendant Steven Slater became an air-travel sensation when he had a personal and career meltdown on a flight last year. Slater screamed profanities at his passengers, grabbed a couple after-work beers, deployed the plane’s emergency chutes, and… read the story

After burglarizing over 100 residences and stealing everything from speedboats to airplanes, the “Barefoot Bandit” was finally apprehended last year at the tender age of 19. Eluding local police, SWAT teams and FBI agents in numerous counties, Colton Harris-Moore was… read the story

Bearing the burden that his infertile wife could not, 34-year-old Thomas Beatie reassigned his gender and became the first man in the US to get himself knocked up by using anonymous cryogenic sperm and a syringe. The nation either cringed… read the story