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FILE - This Nov. 14, 2012 file photo shows Grammy-award winning artist  Kid Rock posing for a portrait in New York. Kid Rock's “$20 Best Night Never Tour” kicks off June 28 in Bristow, Va., and opening acts include ZZ Top, Uncle Kracker and Kool and the Gang. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP, file)

Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on scalping, summer tours

Kid Rock is a scalper. The 42-year-old Grammy winner, who is launching a summer tour where most tickets are priced at $20, said he's holding about 1,000 tickets from each show and reselling them on ticketsnow.com — owned by Ticketmaster — to make up for the cheaper regular price he's ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, holds 6-week-old Willow DeParre, as first lady Mary Pat Christie looks on as they greet people during the opening of the New Jersey shore, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Christie cut a ribbon to symbolically reopen the state's shore for the summer season, seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Several beach communities have annual beach ribbon cuttings, announcing they are back in business. But this year's ceremonies are more poignant seven months after a storm that did an estimated $37 billion of damage in the state. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Jersey shore eyes record-setting summer post Sandy

New Jersey used a record-breaking gesture Friday to celebrate its recovery from a record-setting storm, proclaiming to the nation that the Jersey shore is back in business following Superstorm Sandy. Gov. Chris Christie and a host of volunteers carried out a ceremonial ribbon cutting that broke the Guinness World record ...

In this May 21, 2013 photo, a large banner for a new exhibit, "Rolling Stones 50 Years of Satisfaction", greets visitors in the main atrium at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.  The exhibit opens on Friday. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Rolling Stones exhibit opening in Cleveland

Over the years, curators at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum have occasionally had trouble coaxing reluctant stars to help put together major exhibitions. Not so with members of The Rolling Stones, who made time in their packed anniversary schedule to help. "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of ...

FILE -In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, Miss Piggy arrives at the premiere of  The Muppets at the El Capitan Theater, in Los Angeles. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the Museum of the Moving Image, which is building a new gallery to house them, the institution announced Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, File)

Muppets creator Henson's items head to NYC museum

The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the ...

Dress like Bob Dylan and get in free, says museum

The Worcester Art Museum is offering free admission to anyone who dresses up like Bob Dylan on May 24, which will be the musician's 72nd birthday. Museum officials say images of Dylan are included in its photography exhibit, "Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation," which closes in June. ...

This April 2013 photo provided by Refinery Hotel shows a guest room at the Refinery Hotel, a new boutique hotel located in New York City’s Garment District. The hotel pays homage to the building’s past as a hat factory with furnishings like the desk, which is inspired by the design of a vintage sewing machine. (AP Photo/Refinery Hotel)

NYC's new Refinery Hotel draws on hat factory past

A new boutique hotel in Manhattan's Garment District is paying homage to its past as a hat factory. The Refinery hotel at 63 W. 38th St. opened this week in a 1912 building that once housed a hat factory on its upper floors. The independently owned hotel with 197 rooms ...

Fantasyland inside the Magic Kingdom in Florida is the largest expansion project in the park's 40-year history. Dueling Dumbo rides and the rethemed Barnstormer family roller coaster opened in April at the park in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Shameless? Rich moms' tactics to cut lines at Disney

According to reports, some wealthy Manhattan families have discovered a new way to skip the long lines at Walt Disney World — and likely found a new way to be despised by the "99-percenters."  The New York Post is reporting some wealthy families are now hiring disabled people to pose ...

In this photo taken Sunday, May 12, 2013, significant graffiti damage is seen along the Douglas Springs Trail in Saguaro National Park near Tucson.  Somebody used black paint to write unknown acronyms and symbols on about 16 cactuses, signs and boulders on a trail in the Rincon Mountain's foothills east of Tucson, said Andy Fisher, the park's chief of interpretation. Vandalizing a national park is a federal offense punishable by up to a $5,000 fine, six months in prison and three years of probation. (AP Photo/ National Park Service )

Cactuses tagged with graffiti in park near Tucson

National Park Service officials are trying to determine what can be done about graffiti spray-painted on cactuses and other objects along a hiking trail in Saguaro National Park near Tucson. Somebody used black paint to write acronyms and symbols on about 16 cactuses, signs and boulders along a trail in ...

This film publicity image released by Radius-TWC shows Andrea Osvart in a scene from "Aftershock." (AP Photo/Radius-TWC)

Review: 'Aftershock' fun but by-the-numbers horror

Splat pack ringleader Eli Roth takes his gory roadshow south in "Aftershock," a lively but formulaic Chile-set chiller where a group of tourists finds themselves bloodied, bludgeoned and buried beneath a horrific earthquake. With Roth playing one of the leads and handing off directorial duties to Nicolas Lopez (Santos), the ...

This 2013 photo provided by Horsefeathers Photography shows a black wolf wearing a VHF radio collar that identifies it as Wolf  “831F,” a member of the Yellowstone National Park ’s Canyon pack, in Swan Lake, Mont. Big game outfitter William Hoppe shot and killed this female wolf near where 13 sheep were killed in April. Leaders of a wolf advocacy group said Hoppe is intentionally luring the animals by leaving dead sheep carcasses in a pile. (AP Photo/Horsefeathers Photography, Brad Orsted)

Activists say wolf-killer is baiting the animals

A big game outfitter who shot and killed a collared wolf from Yellowstone National Park is intentionally luring the animals by leaving dead sheep carcasses in a pile, leaders of a wolf advocacy group said. "Make no mistake about that, it's definitely intentional baiting," Marc Cooke, president of Wolves of ...

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