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<p>Yoko Ono paid $42,000 for a full-page ad in today's Chronicle, because "it is a pretty urgent message," she said by e-mail Tuesday. "It is my contribution to the community."</p> <p>The San Francisco version of Ono's message is "Imagine Peace Spring 2003." Ono has taken out identical or similar ads making brief statements in last week's Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly and the Village Voice, and another will appear in the Washington Post this weekend.</p>

Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall. According to the criminal complaint filed on Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Give Peace A Chance" that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany. "I was in the food court with my son when I was...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- John Lennon's killer was denied parole for a second time yesterday on what would have been the slain Beatle's 62nd birthday. Releasing Mark David Chapman after 22 years in prison would "depreciate the seriousness" of the crime, the parole board said in a statement released yesterday. The board said Chapman had "acceptable" behaviour in prison but that didn't guarantee he wouldn't pose a threat to society. State Parole Division spokesman Thomas Grant said the timing of the notice wasn't intentional. At his first parole hearing two years ago, Chapman said he did not deserve to go free....

LONDON (Reuters) - Yoko Ono Tuesday pleaded with the world to "Give Peace A Chance" with the release on the MTV music channel of a short film to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. John Lennon's widow said in a statement: "Let's create peace, unity and light. I think John's words are needed just as much now as when they were written -- 'Imagine all the people living in peace' and 'Give Peace A Chance."' The film starts with the viewer trailing down a dark corridor to reach a door with light pouring through it. Yoko Ono...

LIVERPOOL, England -- The Queen made two stops in Liverpool yesterday devoted to the Beatles, opening a new $48-million US passenger terminal at John Lennon Airport and attending an exhibit of paintings by Paul McCartney. At the airport, the Queen met with Yoko Ono, the widow of the murdered Beatle, and viewed a life-size bronze statue of Lennon, complete with his trademark round spectacles and swept-back hair. The Queen chatted to Ono and sculptor Tom Murphy, creator of the Lennon statue. Ono said afterward that "John would have been very proud and honoured." After a short address by airport chairman...

Imagine there's no atheist. By Darren Morrison The Ex-Beatle John Lennon wrote a song called Imagine. This song became a hymn for GOD haters everywhere. Marxists use this song as their battle cry and this very song is living proof that John Lennon was an anti-freedom communist. On December of 2000 Fidel Castro attended the unveiling of a bronze statue of John Lennon sitting on a bench in a park of the city. The statue has been made by Cuban sculptor Josè Villa Soberon, and represents a long haired John in blue jeans. From the sixties The Beatles have been...

Dread ripples through me as I listen to a phone message from our manager saying that we (The Doors) have another offer of huge amounts of money if we would just allow one of our songs to be used as the background for a commercial. They don't give up! I guess it's hard to imagine that everybody doesn't have a price. Maybe 'cause, as the cement heads try to pave the entire world, they're paving their inner world as well. No imagination left upstairs. Apple Computer called on a Tuesday--they already had the audacity to spend money to cut "When...

Credenda-Agenda Volume 13, Issue 6 SimilitudesYou Say You Want a Revolution Douglas Wilson I am Chaos. I am the primordial tumult that underlies civilization, and I am the reason for perpetual revolution. Order and structure proceed from me, arising spontaneously, and depend upon me. I manifest order, showing that I can do so, but beneath, above, behind, and before is the ultimacy of whirl. And even when such orders develop and grow, they soon forget their maker and source, and so they grow stale, old, complacent, self-assured, and arrogant. And so, I, Chaos, extend my power once again, and revolution...