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10:12 am
Mon October 22, 2012

Chuck Berry Honored With Week-Long Cleveland Celebration

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Our friends at WCPN in Cleveland, Ohio devote their "Around Noon" show today to a week-long celebration of St. Louis icon Chuck Berry happening in their city. Check out their show via the link.
Dee Perry celebrates the life and music of Chuck Berry as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Case Western Reserve University pay tribute to this American Music Master in a week-long series. Listen for conversations with the organizers and participants like keynote speaker Greg Tate and legendary guitarist Earl Slick.
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9:39 am
Fri September 14, 2012

Morning headlines: Friday, September 14, 2012

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Unofficial recount results confirms Koenen victory

A recount has confirmed that Glenn Koenen won a Democratic primary for a suburban St. Louis congressional seat and will face Republican Ann Wagner in the November election.

Unofficial results of the recount released Thursday by the secretary of state's office show Koenen's margin of victory declined by two votes compared to the original count from the August 7th primary. But he still finished 46 votes ahead of Harold Whitfield in a four-person primary that drew a total of nearly 28,000 votes.

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11:35 am
Mon December 5, 2011

Chuck Berry's Cadillac a-rollin' to the Smithsonian

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Chuck Berry's 1973 Eldorado now belongs to the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The museum, now under construction, is set to open its doors in 2015.
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The hood ornament on Chuck Berry's 1973 Eldorado is the factory original — "amazing," Smithsonian fleet manager Bill Griffiths says.
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Chuck Berry performs at the Congress Theater on Jan. 1 in Chicago.
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Originally published on Sat December 3, 2011 2:47 pm

When rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry navigated his music career, he didn't rely on agents or record labels; he drove himself to his own business meetings and concerts in his fleet of Cadillacs.

Now Berry has donated one of those cars, a candy-apple red 1973 Eldorado, to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open its doors in 2015. NPR's Rachel Martin went with curator Kevin Strait to watch Smithsonian fleet manager Bill Griffiths restore the car in Suitland, Md.

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