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U2 Tour of Tiny Towns

Are you a Midwesterner without the time, money, or inclination to visit Ireland, but you still want to get a taste of U2 tourism? Look no further: it’s the U2 Tour of Tiny Towns. Begin your trip in Clayton, Illinois, population 904, in west-central Illinois. Actor John Anderson, who had a recurring role on TV’s [...]

Aisle seat, baby!

Looks like Bono is sitting behind Paul McCartney at the Grammys.

Contains unprecedented U2/”yaw” connection

For U2 completists only, Ford has named their new vehicle THE EDGE. Please note the attractive (?) toffee color and Edgeworthy laptop compartment, and get a load of the press release’s descriptions of The Edge: Edge will deliver performance, quietness… We expect Edge to make waves in the hot crossover market this year. It was [...]

Bono: shrinking violet

from Slate.com-snippet from a Jody Rosen review of Mary J. Blige’s new album, The Breakthrough. …Toward the end of the album, Blige encounters a heretofore immovable object: Bono. In a live recording from the Hurricane Katrina relief telecast, she joins U2, one of the few acts in the world with a comparable mastery of the [...]

Bono, Helms, some guy have dinner

From Yahoo News: This photo supplied by the Jesse Helms Center shows Bono, wearing hat, posed with former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms and his wife, Dot, seated center, and family and friends at a pre-concert meal at the new Charlotte Bobcats Arena before Irish rockers, U2, played to a crowd of 17,000 Monday night, [...]

Extra Exit

Former U2 cover band Exit are featured on “Extra” this weekend (check local listings). You may recall that Exit joined U2 onstage in Los Angeles last month. “Extra” profiled the band, who described the exciting night. The Edge, when asked to comment about the group, had this to say: “If they can write songs, they’ve [...]

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