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Despite sagging page counts, general print-media malaise, and the fact that they're still saddled with that Diablo Cody column, Entertainment Weekly found reason to celebrate this week: It's the magazine's 1,000th issue, and in honor of that milestone the editorial team there put together a buttload of lists of "New Classics," arbitrary best-of rundowns that supposedly quantify the best pieces of pop culture of the past 25 years.  read more »

Rita Hosking with her band, Cousin Jack. Band mates are, from left, husband Sean Feder, Bill Dakin and Andy Lentz. "People say home is where the heart is, and (the mountains of eastern Shasta County area are) where my home was, definitely. It was such a wild and rich upbringing," says Hosking.

The roots of Davis folk singer-songwriter Rita Hosking's music go deep into a California gold mine.

Her great-grandfather, W. Tom Hosking, was a voice in the Cornish Carol Choir that in the early 1940s sang to a national radio audience from 2,000 feet underground in Grass Valley's Idaho- Maryland Mine.  read more »

Dan Wilson is best known as the primary singer and songwriter for the Grammy-winning rock band Semisonic, though his collaboration with the Dixie Chicks also won him and the band many accolades. Hear an interview and in-studio performance.

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Dan Wilson is best known as the primary singer and songwriter for the Grammy Award-winning rock band, Semisonic. His collaboration with the Dixie Chicks also won him and the band many accolades. Hear an interview and performance with the singer-songwriter.

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