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FILE - In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Alekhina went on hunger strike Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in protest at not being allowed to attend her own parole hearing in Perm province. In letters dated Monday and posted online by the group's supporters, McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow's main cathedral. The judge in Mordovia province to whom the Beatles frontman Paul McCartney addressed two letters in Pussy Riot support, denied Tolokonnikova parole last month. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, file)

Paul McCartney writes in support of Pussy Riot

Thursday, May 23, 2013

MOSCOW (AP) — Beatles frontman Paul McCartney has asked a Russian judge to release members of the Pussy Riot punk group from prison. In letters dated Monday and posted online by the group’s supporters, McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow’s main cathedral. McCartney wrote that he was making the request “in a spirit of friendship for my many Russian acquaintances who, like me, believe in treating people - all people, with compassion and kindness.” Alekhina went on a hunger strike Wednesday in protest at not being allowed to … 0

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Tuned in

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Australian singer/songwriter Paul Kelly is widely acknowledged as one of that country’s best, and has been called “virtually a national hero.” He has a new album called “Spring and Fall” that flies in the face of modern music listening habits (random tracks on iPods, single-song downloads): it’s a song cycle, a story told … 0

PHOTO BY KEN MAIURI Young@Heart director Bob Cilman, left, and chorus members hold an impromptu rehearsal backstage before a concert in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In the foreground, John Rinehart practices his solo, Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish.”

Clubland: On the road with Young@Heart

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Editor’s note: Ken Maiuri, Young@Heart’s pianist, is traveling with the group on its tour of The Netherlands and Belgium. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, not yet 9 a.m. — it’s rainy and very grey but the sunny cacophony of a marching band bounces off the wet city streets and up among the buildings. The sharp … 0

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