One Offs

Iranian police arrested 230 people at an underground rock concert near Tehran for behavior contrary to Islamic law, seizing recording equipment, alcohol, bootleg CDs, revealing female clothing and drugs, according to Agence France-Presse …

Tanya Tucker’s former fiancé was recently arrested and charged with stealing $500,000 worth of her wardrobe and jewelry when he broke away from Tucker’s entourage, on its way to a gig in Las Vegas, and threatened to sell the items in the truck he was driving unless Tucker paid for gas, police said …

DNA testing confirms that the late James Brown has two children beyond the six he claims in his will …

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to perform with his longtime Celtic band, O’Malley’s March, at The Irish Festival of Baltimore City in September – the only public performance since O’Malley’s inaugural ball …

Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett has been permanently banned from Italy’s Umbria Jazz Fest for telling the audience to put down those annoying cell phone / digital movie cameras; he was applauded by the Guardian newspaper.