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Donna Summer Dead -- Disco Legend Died After Battle with Lung Cancer

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8:48 AM 5/18/12 -- Donna's memorial is scheduled for next Wednesday in Nashville. 9:27 AM PST- TMZ has learned ... Donna died from lung cancer. Several sources are telling us Donna believed she contracted it by inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City. 9:35 AM PST- Donna's family just released a statement, claiming, they "are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Read More...

Annie Mac to launch club night ending at 12am for people who need sleep | Clubbing

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Clubbing This article is more than 1 year oldAnnie Mac to launch club night ending at 12am ‘for people who need sleep’This article is more than 1 year oldDJ responds to demand for nightlife that suits older people and other ‘Cinderellas’ More than 40 years ago, the folk singer Fred Wedlock branded anybody showing a little grey hair who fancied a night on the tiles as that most tragic of figures: “the oldest swinger in town”. Read More...

Aria by Nazanine Hozar review an epic tale of turmoil in Tehran

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Book of the dayFictionReviewThe young eponymous heroine in this warm-hearted debut embodies the complexity of Iran in the runup to the 1979 revolution Unwanted by her father and so abandoned by her mother, in 1953 a baby girl is found under a mulberry tree in wealthy north Tehran. Carrying her home to the impoverished tenements of the southern city, Behrouz – an army driver who, as a motherless boy, pretended to be a mother himself – names her Aria. Read More...