Rockabilly singer-musician Sonny Burgess is 84
Actress Carroll Baker is 82
Producer-director Irwin Winkler is 82
Actor John Karlen (“Cagney and Lacey”) is 80
Actress Beth Howland (“Alice”) is 72
Singer Gladys Knight is 69
Actress Sondra Locke is 69
Singer Billy Vera is 69
Singer John Fogerty is 68
Actor Brandon Cruz (“The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”) is 51
Actress Christa Miller (“Scrubs,” ”The Drew Carey Show”) is 49
Country singer Phil Vassar is 49
Singer Chris Ballew (bah-LOO’) of Presidents of the United States of America is 48
Singer Kylie Minogue is 45
Rapper Chubb Rock is 45
Actor Justin Kirk (“Weeds”) is 44
“The View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is 36
Actress Monica Keena (“Dawson’s Creek,” ”Undeclared”) is 34
Singer Colbie Caillat (kal-LAY’) is 28
Actress Carey Mulligan (“The Great Gatsby”) is 28
Actor Joseph Cross is 27.

On May 28th, 1966, Ike and Tina Turner released “River Deep, Mountain High.”

In 1976, the Allman Brothers Band broke up after Gregg Allman testified against his personal road manager, who was charged with drug trafficking. The band reformed in 1978.

In 1977, singer-actor John Davidson escaped a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, which killed 164 people and injured 130. Davidson stayed to help the victims.

Also in 1977, Bruce Springsteen settled his year-long suit against ex-manager Mike Appel and immediately began recording his “Darkness on the Edge of Town” album.

In 1983, The US Festival opened in San Bernardino, California. It lost millions of dollars, largely because of huge fees paid to such performers as David Bowie and Van Halen.

In 1996, singer Dave Gahan (GAHN) of Depeche (duh-PESH’) Mode was arrested after allegedly overdosing on a speedball of cocaine and heroin at his hotel in suburban Los Angeles.

In 1998, actor Phil Hartman was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself. Hartman was 49.

Stone Temple Pilots have accused the band’s former frontman Scott Weiland of hijacking its name and songs to promote his solo career.

The lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles also accuses Weiland of being chronically late to concerts when he was with the band and having a lawyer interfere with airplay of a new single by the group.

The 45-year-old Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots parted ways in February, and the singer said at the time that he learned of his ouster from a statement released to the media.

A phone message left for his manager Andrea Pett-Joseph was not immediately returned.

The band’s hits include “Vasoline,” ”Interstate Love Song” and “Plush,” which won a Grammy in 1993 for best hard rock performance with vocal.

The Creativity Unlimited Arts Council is hosting an event at the Lake House, Thursday, May 30th from 5:00 to 8:00pm. Several local artists will be demonstrating their artistic expertise for you to watch, ask questions, and purchase items. Most artists are donating all or part of their sales to the developing Prairie Arts Center. Artists sharing their talents will be Sandy Meyer, Sharon Skinner, Wava Best, Jack Carlson, Drew Carlson, Ron Meyer, Gene Gilsdorf and DeDe Hill. Complimentary Hor d’ourves will be provided. Music will be provided by RASCAL. The Art Study League will honor four seniors, Katie Hinrich, Cheyenne Schroeder, Sam Morris and Joseph O’Malley for their outstanding achievements in art. Come join us in a wonderful lake setting for food, art, music and conversation.

Brad Pitt has opened up about his marriage to Jennifer Aniston and says he was abusing drugs during that period of his life. During a recent interview with Esquire, Pitt admits that his life felt incomplete during the 1990’s and his marriage to Aniston was a big part of it.

“For a long time I thought I did too much damage – drug damage. I was a bit of a drifter. A guy who felt he grew up in something of a vacuum and wanted to see things, wanted to be inspired. I followed that other thing. I spent years f***ing off,” he says in the interview.

Pitt and Aniston were married for seven years before splitting in 2005. In a previous interview with Parade Magazine he admits that they weren’t happy years:

“I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t,” he explained.

(CNN)) Adding to what’s becoming a lengthy list of run-ins with the law, New York police arrested actress Amanda Bynes on Thursday night after she allegedly tossed drug paraphernalia out the window of her 36th floor Manhattan apartment.

Officers were called to her theater district abode after her building manager reported the 27-year-old star was smoking an “illegal substance” in the lobby, Christopher Pisano, a New York police spokesman, said.
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Bynes had headed back to her apartment by the time police arrived, but she let officers in when they knocked on the door, according to Pisano.

Once inside, the officers noticed a bong and other marijuana paraphernalia sitting on the coffee table, which Bynes immediately started to throw out the window.

Police have charged her with tampering with physical evidence, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of marijuana, Pisano said. Bynes was charged with endangerment because the paraphernalia could have hit someone below, he said.

The tampering charge is a felony. The two others are misdemeanors.

Bynes, wearing a blonde wig, was seen walking into NYPD’s Central Booking from the back of a police van on Thursday evening.

Bynes’ representatives did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.

The star of “Easy A” and “Hairspray” has lived in New York since last fall, having moved there from the Los Angeles area.

Bynes has a DUI case pending in Southern California, while a pair of separate hit-and-run incidents against her were dismissed late last year. Earlier this month, she was sentenced to three years probation for driving on a suspended license.

Actor-comedian Tommy Chong is 75
Musician Bob Dylan is 72
Actor Gary Burghoff (“M*A*S*H”) is 70
Singer Patti LaBelle is 69
Actress Priscilla Presley is 68
Country singer-songwriter Mike Reid is 66
Actor Jim Broadbent (“Moulin Rouge,” ”Iris”) is 64
Actor Alfred Molina is 60
Singer Rosanne Cash is 58
Actress Kristin Scott Thomas is 53
Bassist Jimmy Ashhurst of Buckcherry is 50
Keyboardist Vivian Trimble (Luscious Jackson) is 50
Actor John C. Reilly (“Chicago,” ”Gangs of New York”) is 48
Actor Eric Close (“Nashville,” ”Without A Trace”) is 46
Guitarist Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes) is 44
Actor Billy L. Sullivan (“Something So Right”) is 33
Actor-rapper Big Tyme is 32
Drummer Cody Hanson of Hinder is 31
Dancer Mark Ballas (“Dancing with the Stars”) is 27
Country singer Billy Gilman is 25
Actor Cayden Boyd is 19.

On May 24th, 1963, electric blues guitarist Elmore James suffered a fatal heart attack in Chicago at the age of 45. James, whose best-known recording was “Dust My Broom,” influenced such rock musicians as Keith Richards and Eric Clapton.

In 1969, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were arrested for marijuana possession at their home in London.

In 1974, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington died of lung cancer at the age of 75. Ellington, considered by many to be the greatest jazz musician ever, composed such standards as “Mood Indigo” and “I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good.”

In 1978, the debut album by Van Halen went gold in the U.S.

In 1980, members of Genesis surprised fans by showing up at the box office of the Roxy in Los Angeles to sell tickets to their benefit for local hospitals the following night.

In 1990, Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses and Erin Everly, Don Everly’s daughter, filed for divorce. They were married 27 days.

In 1995, the members of Lynyrd Skynryd put their handprints and signatures into the Hollywood Rock Walk.

In 2000, Britney Spears’ album “Oops!…I Did It Again” sold 1.3 million copies its first week out, giving her the most first-week sales for a female artist.

In 2006, Taylor Hicks beat out Katherine McPhee to win the fifth season of “American Idol.”

In 2010, Slipknot bassist Paul Gray was found dead in a hotel room in Des Moines, Iowa. He was 38. An autopsy determined he died of a drug overdose.

All concerts are at 8p
Friday….May 31….Cody Park
Friday….June 7….Lincoln County Historical Museum
Sunday….June 16….Centennial Park
Friday….June 21….Memorial Park Shelter
Friday….June 28….Cody Park
Thursday..July 4…..Lincoln County Fair Grounds
Friday….July 12….Centennial Park
Friday….July 19….Cody Park