Historic Aberdeen sawmill closes 
The Daily World - Dec 23 11:04 AM
DAILY WORLD / KEVIN HONG Randy Dawson helps dismantle one of the saws after the final logs went through the large-log sawmill Thursday. First there was a whizz. Saws zipping past. Then the thud of a giant log hitting the chain-like treadmill.Save to My Web

New and old directions make jazz fans smile in 2005 
City Pulse - Dec 27 1:21 PM
(Stratton is host of the The Vinyl Side of Midnight on 89.7FM WLNZ, heard on Sunday nights, 9 p.m. to midnight.) Joe Lovano, Joyous Encounter (Blue Note). Dont ask me to pick one album for my favorite this year. O.K., if I have to choose, its this one.Save to My Web

Brunch & Entertainment 
Monterey County Herald - Dec 25 3:07 AM
| Say what? | ‘’My mother is cooking. So, I’m trying to watch my weight because I know when I get home I’m gonna probably gain 5 pounds, because I’m gonna eat that food five days in a row. I always eat it for a week after she cooks it.'’Save to My Web

Actor Ethan Hawke takes up the cause 
Portland Oregonian - Dec 23 4:06 AM
of an imprisoned killer in New Jersey Hawke Ethan Hawke has asked New Jersey’s acting governor to grant clemency to a 65-year-old woman who has been in prison for more than 16 years for murdering her boyfriend, a police officer.Save to My Web

Thee Shams ’strip it down and play’ 
Cincinnati Enquirer - Dec 22 10:15 AM
An aspiring rock ‘n’ roll bandleader would do well to take note of the matter-of-fact business sense of Thee Shams lead singer Zach Gabbard.Save to My Web

Harp in cath lab is surreal but can it heal? 
Telegraph - 24 minutes ago
URBANA (AP) When a harpist wearing blue hospital scrubs started playing the familiar strains of Pachelbel’s Canon during Edith Zook’s heart procedure, the scene couldn’t have been more surreal.Save to My Web

Queen Honors Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page 
AP via Yahoo! News - Dec 14 6:44 AM
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page went to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to receive an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, from Queen Elizabeth II but the award was for his work with poor Brazilian children rather than his music.Save to My Web

Daimler Sells MTU, Unit of Detroit Diesel to EQT (Correct) 
Bloomberg.com - Dec 28 12:21 AM
(Corrects spelling of first name in seventh paragraph.)Save to My Web

Donovan Leitch’s The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man 
The Village Voice - Dec 23 2:35 PM
Donovan opens his autobiography in Scottish dialect, as he and a pal wage a tin-can grenade war against the Anderson Gang in 1954. The trippy Glaswegian folk-rock icon evokes Portrait of the Artist ’s language games and adolescent playgrounds . . . read more (By Brandon Stosuy)Save to My Web