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1. Sheryl Crow: Down-to-earth celebrity

2. Transformers Dark of the Moon

3. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

4. Independence Day events to check out

5.  Miracle of the Day- Delivered from alcohol

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Sheryl Crow: Down-to-earth celebrityArtist performs in Sylvania Tuesday

Sheryl Crow’s career has taken her all over the world and splashed her face across the pages of every celebrity magazine in existence.

She was engaged to Lance Armstrong, was a backup singer for Michael Jackson, and has performed with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton. She’s won nine Grammys and most recently was in the news for accidentally flashing her underwear on a CMT awards show.

All of which indicates that life can be kind of weird for Crow, a solid midwesterner and bona fide top-notch musician who, by virtue of her glamorous looks and our out-of-control celebrity culture, has been forced to navigate two disparate worlds.

One minute she’s a working mother and an artist trying to figure out where the bridge should go on a song she’s written. The next she’s trying to make her way through an airport with paparazzi chasing her down.

"I’ve never been comfortable with the cameras in my face, but I really am uncomfortable with the camera in my kids’ faces and that’s a new thing in the last few years with the media outlets turning toward making money off pictures of people’s children. I think it’s a really unfair practice. My kids don’t understand that and it’s an intrusion and can actually be an assault basically," she said in a phone interview from a tour stop in Sioux City, Iowa.

"These guys run around with cameras like they’re in a war zone and it’s really silly. But there’s money to be made off celebrities’ kids, so that aspect of it is very unsavory. It is weird."

Crow, who is performing at Centennial Terrace in Sylvania Tuesday night, maintains an appealing down-to-earth vibe both in her music and persona. She speaks with an accent that is part southern and part midwestern and she’s never shied away from expressing her views on politics — very liberal — the environment, or any other cause that is important to her.

She makes decisions based on what’s best for her family — she has adopted two boys, Wyatt, 4, and Levi, 1 — and doesn’t seem to pay all that much attention to commercial considerations these days.

"I think your life in general informs your art. So everything in my life has become about them. They’re the first thing I think of in the morning and the last thing I think of at night," she said.

"And every decision I make they’re involved in the decision-making, or at least they inform my decision-making. There is something wonderful about how children reintroduce you to things in life that you don’t notice anymore or that you take for granted. So it’s great to observe life again in a fresh new way through the eyes of a child."

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Transformers Dark of the Moon

When a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Wore a Chastity Belt on the Tranformers Set?!

Guess someone warned Shia LaBeouf's new costar about what happened with him and Megan Fox?

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley brought her gorgeous self to Chelsea Lately Thursday night. Among the things the Victoria's Secret model and Chelsea Handler discussed were, of course, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. So was Rosie able to resist the, erm, boyish charm of Shia?


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Independence Day events to check out

ATLANTA -- Independence Day is a time to celebrate America with cookouts, time with family and friends and of course, fireworks.

Even if you're planning to celebrate the 4th of July with family and friends, there are plenty of opportunities to celebrate in a bigger way.

The AJC Peachtree Road Race has been an Independence Day tradition for decades in Atlanta. Runners will get started in Buckhead, race south on Peachtree Street, up Heart Attack Hill, into Midtown and finish in Piedmont Park. If you're not running, cheer the runners on along the route.

After the race, make your way Downtown to Centennial Olympic Park. A number of events are planned around the park and at nearby attractions. Just make sure to stake out a spot for your blanket on the lawn for the Fireworks Spactacular.

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Miracle of the Day - Delivered from alcohol


"Hi, my name is james petty. I grew up in tennessee.I started drinking at the age 15.I was the topical little get what you want kid the coolest one you know how tht goes.So I had to show out and show everyone how much I could drink.Well what started out so much fun,turned into a nightmare.To make a long story short is that im 31 now and for the past 15 years it only got worse. It from a six pack every now and again to 30 beers a day.Until december 26 2004 I got on my knees and ask Jesus into my heart SO PRAISE GOD HE HEALED AND DELIVERED ME I HAVEN'T TOUCH A BEER SINCE.Iwent back to school and got GED,and now i'm attending southwestern assembly of God University God has called me to preach."