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Patti Smith penned a moving and evocative tribute to her longtime friend and collaborator Sam Shepard for The New Yorker. The writer and actor died at his home in Kentucky Sunday due to complications from ALS at the age of 73. As Smith detailed in her 2010 memoir Just Kids, …

UPDATE: Global Citizen has announced “Global Citizen Week,” a series of events, speakers and performances, from September 17th to 23rd leading up to the Global Citizen Festival. On Monday, September 18th, Annie Lennox will receive theGeorge Harrison Global Citizen Award at theNYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Tom Morello …