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  • Some people feel awkward about eating alone in restaurants but a new eatery in Amsterdam has only small tables with single chairs. It requires customers come solo. The restaurant is part culinary endeavor, part social experiment. As its creator says, she wanted to give people "food for thought."
  • Doe just released A Year in the Wilderness, and recently sat down in the studio to play a few of his new songs. In between performances, he talks about the mythic qualities of the American West, as well as the differences between song lyrics and poetry.
  • Japan's longest serving prime minister is being laid to rest in Tokyo today in a private family service. The country is still struggling to recover from the shock of his assassination.
  • More people have been killed taking selfies this year than have died from shark attacks. The fatalities are driving authorities to put up warning signs in particularly popular and precarious places.
  • The two sisters from Stockholm have a sound steeped in the traditions of American country and folk. Their new album is called The Lion's Roar.
  • Security agents arrested five Russians, two Ukrainians and an Armenian as suspects in the explosion, which disabled a critical link between Russia and the Ukrainian peninsula it annexed in 2014.
  • The Primus founder and bass player has created theme music for the cartoons South Park and Robot Chicken; had some of his band's best-selling songs featured in Rock Band and Guitar Hero video games; established a wine-selling venture and written a novel.
  • Singer Rhiannon Giddens was classically trained, but says she's been in love with string- and jug-band music since she first started going to contra dances.
  • Scott Rolen, a seven-time All-Star third baseman, played with the Philadelphia, St. Louis, Toronto and Cincinnati teams over a 17-season career. None of the 27 other players won enough votes.
  • "I'm Just Ken," from the Barbie movie soundtrack, is on Billboard's Hot 100 at No. 87. Fans might know about his musical talents. As a kid, Gosling sang and danced on the Mickey Mouse Club.
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