Jul 5th, 2008 · The son of folk-rockers Richard and Linda Thompson says he didn't listen to any music made after 1959 until he was 16. But his new album furthers his folk and country roots with some of the contemporary sounds he's grown to like.
Jul 2nd, 2008 · Kids love theme restaurants. Chuck E. Cheese, Rainforest Cafe — and, in a suburb of Beirut, the new fast-food restaurant Buns and Guns. You can order the Kalashnikov sandwich or a "Terrorist Meal." Owner Ali Hammoud said, "I could have put toys in place of the sandbags and teddy bears instead of guns. But it was just an idea."
Dec 31st, 2007 · It has been 25 years since a car crash left legendary soul singer Teddy Pendergrass paralyzed. But as he tells Farai Chideya, he's still inspired. His new CD retrospective, The Essential Teddy Pendergrass, focuses on the scope of his amazing career.
Dec 6th, 2007 · A British school teacher faced execution following an incident involving a teddy bear, and, in Saudi Arabia, a female rape victim was chastised for being alone with a man who was not her husband when she and the man were both gang raped. An Imam explains worlwide anger over the incidents.
Dec 3rd, 2007 · A British teacher convicted of insulting Islam is free after being pardoned by Sudan's president. Gillian Gibbons was found guilty of insulting Islam after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad. President Omar al-Bashir pardoned Gibbons after two British Muslim politicians from the House of Lords met with him to plead for her release.
Nov 30th, 2007 · Crowds of Sudanese protesters in Khartoum are calling for the death of a British teacher, who was convicted of insulting Islam after her class named a teddy bear Mohammad.
Nov 29th, 2007 · British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons appeared in court Thursday in Sudan, where she has been charged with insulting Islam. Fellow teachers say Gibbons made an innocent mistake when she let her students name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Aug 28th, 2007 · On his third album, Up Front & Down Low, singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson covers classic country songs including "She Thinks I Still Care," "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers," and "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone."