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Nurse arranges backstage visit for someone special

Jean Dennis is a nurse near Ithaca, New York, who helps care for Brent Larsen during his trials with Muscular Dystrophy and life on a ventilator.

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Artist Turns Old Concert Tee Shirts into Valuable Quilts

Do you have a collection of concert tee shirts in the back of your closet from your old rocker days? A San Francisco artist named Ben Venom has come up with an unusual use for those old shirts — he sews them into quilts.

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The Who Launch First Ever Teens-Only Cancer Program in the US

Legendary rockers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of the Who have come to the UCLA Medical Center to launch the first teen-and-young-adults-only cancer treatment unit in the United States.

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John Mayer's Spring Tour will Benefit U.S. Troops

Seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer and musician John Mayer launches his first U.S. tour in two years on April 9, with 18 concerts that will raise money to benefit US veterans.

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House Cleaner Wins at Sundance for DIY Film

A house cleaning drop-out, Jon Foy, won the directorial award at the Sundance Film Festival for his homemade documentary, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. During the 5 year odyssey of making his film, he learned how to write, shoot, and edit, mostly in the bedroom of a shared group house in West Philadelphia.

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Oscars to Celebrate Heroes at This Year's Ceremony

The 86th Academy Awards will be a celebration of movie heroes, the producers announced this week. The theme for the March 2 live broadcast, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will honor big-screen real-life heroes, like "Gandhi" and "Erin Brockovich," as well as super heroes and animated heroes, both past and present.

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Breaking Bard: Shakespeare's Best Villains

In honor of his 450th birthday this month, we present, in order of increasing nastiness, William Shakespeare's best villains, the top 20 bad boys (and girls).

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Painting for Peace in Ferguson

While most of the headlines have depicted scenes of unrest and riots, many positive things have been going on in Ferguson. Missouri — stories the national headlines missed. Painting for Peace is one of them.