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LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 31 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Altergate Publishing announced today that author Dee Dee Phelps’s “Vinyl Highway” (ISBN: 978-1934321751) is a finalist in the National USA Book News Best Book Awards Autobiography category. Vinyl Highway goes on tour across the 1960’s in this humorous chronicle of destiny and rock-and-roll, as 18-year old Mary transforms from shy college student to hit singer/songwriter, half the singing team Dick and Dee Dee, one of the most popular recording duos of the era.

The memoir contains never-before-told tales of singing with the Beach Boys, recording with the Rolling Stones and performing and touring with many 60’s notable recording artists.

Dee Dee will read excerpts from her memoir at Barnes & Noble’s Los Angeles Grove store on Sunday, November 9th at 2 p.m.

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On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2009, Dee Dee and her partner, Michael Dunn, will perform as Dick [...]

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Red Carpet Election Party Hosted by Former American Idol Contestant Antonella Barba and CEO Ravi Singh

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 31 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Where will you be on Election Night? A good bet would be at ElectionMall’s Campaign Headquarters, the Ultrabar just blocks away from the White House and Capitol. Celebrate this Election Night 2008 with celebrities, ambassadors from nine countries, friends and colleagues, professionals young and old alike and possibly your very own congressmen. Everyone is welcome whether Democrat, Republican or Independent. Voters can blog, watch major live network coverage on all four floors, and celebrate democracy with an open bar, music, and dancing. Be there for the raffle and win McCain and Obama giveaways as well as a weekend stay at the Hotel Monaco.

ElectionMall.com, a leading campaign and election technology company, is holding their biggest red carpet non-partisan Election Night party yet. The theme of this year’s Election [...]

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Canada’s economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in August, a turnaround from the growth of 0.7 per cent seen in July, Statistics Canada said Friday.

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Have your friends voted yet? What about members of your family? And how about you? How are you going to feel November 5, and for the next four years, if you don’t?

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Militants who abducted 10 crew members from a tugboat off the coast of Cameroon in West Africa are threatening to kill their hostages if their demands are not met within three days.

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Mamma Mia! becomes the highest-grossing British film at the UK box office, beating the first Harry Potter film.

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In a CNN.com special report, Battleground Voters, we talked to people in five battleground states to find out how the economy would influence their choice for president. In the last of four parts, we talked to the unemployed, who say keeping jobs in their communities and in the country is key to their vote.

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Campaigners in London planned to petition the British government Friday for a posthumous pardon for the hundreds of people executed for witchcraft between the 16th and 18th centuries.

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The Kenyan president’s party is meeting over a report on poll clashes implicating politicians a day after his coalition partners rejected it.

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Pain and suffering after bomb blasts in Assam

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