The Open Borders Festival has been pretty much open to anything this summer. From the punk pluck of Pinback to the comedy of Brad Garrett, the festival has been offering up a diverse slate of music, art and other entertainment since early June, when it set up shop in the empty 40,000-square-foot building that once housed Borders bookstore. But Open Borders soon must close to make way for a suite of medical clinics. You’ve got just two more weekends to experience the action.

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HYANNIS The hardest working man in show business, now that James Brown has left the world’s stage, is probably Elvis Costello. At the Cape Cod Melody Tent on Wednesday night, Costello tore through two straight hours of songs with hardly a breath between them, and just a wave at an intermission, before launching into an extended encore.

He’s 56, but Costello hasn’t let time dim his love of rock n’ roll or his energy on stage. He kicked off the night with a rocking rendition of Heart of the City.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dan Peek, a founding member of the band America, has died.

Peek died Sunday at his home in Farmington, Mo., about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis, where he had lived since 1978. He was 60.

Peek’s father, Milton Peek, says Dan Peek’s wife found him dead in bed. An autopsy is planned.

Peek’s father was in the Air Force and the family frequently moved. He met Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, whose fathers were also in the military, at a high school in London in the late 1960s. T

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LONDON – Friends and family were saying goodbye to Amy Winehouse today at a private funeral ceremony in London.

Producer Mark Ronson and media personality Kelly Osbourne – her hair piled beehive-high in an echo of the singer’s trademark style – were among mourners arriving for the service at Edgwarebury Cemetery in north London.

Photographers and a few fans lined the lane outside.

The service was expected to be followed by cremation and a family gathering at a local synagogue.

The soul diva, who had battled alcohol and drug addiction, was found dead Saturday at her London home.

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HYANNIS Over her 25 years on the stage, Alison Krauss, who is only 39, has been at the forefront of the popularization of bluegrass. Blessed with a beautiful, strong emotive voice that can cross over into songs from other genres, Krauss and her band Union Station are touring in support of a critically acclaimed new album and played a sold-out performance at the Cape Cod Melody Tent on Saturday night.

They led off with Paper Airplane, a song of lost love and regret that is the title song from her new album.

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Captain America: The First Avenger starts out like one of those old advertisements in which the 90-pound weakling lifts weights and becomes Charles Atlas. Kick sand in my face? No more, bully!

In this case, the setting is World War II, and the scrawny fellow is Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a young man who wants to enlist to battle Hitler and all he represents. Because of his size and physical limitations, Rogers is classified as 4-F and rejected by Uncle Sam.

But, ever the underdog, Steve is determined, and during his umpteenth attempt to slip into the armed service, a scientist (Stanley Tucci) observes his courage and great heart. Full Article…