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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JAN 19, 2003 10:35:25 ET XXXXX NEW YORK CITY MAYOR FUMED OVER 'SMOKING' ON STAGE AT STONES CONCERT; BAND RACED OUT OF GARDEN AVOIDING COPS **Exclusive** New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is fuming mad over Rolling Stones members smoking on stage at Madison Square Garden during an nationally televised concert this weekend, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "The mayor sent cops to issue summonses," one stage source told the DRUDGE REPORT late Saturday. "But the cops watched the show, off stage, by a monitor, instead of stopping the concert." MORE HBO cameras captured band...

The show was absolutely epic...Bryan Adams did an erzats set and then the Rolling Stones came out and redefined Rock-n-Roll for every kid from 6 to Micks 60...he was kicking out the tunes and moving like a demon!!!Keith did "Thru and thru" gave credit to "The Sopranos", claimed he would have forgotten it except for the show!!Cheryl Crow did a cameo, the peacnik, but she does have a great voice!!All in all a keeper, it was braodcast live on HBO and I hope they do a replay, so I can look for myself... I was right by the second stage!!

<p>Gone were the media hordes that covered the Rolling Stones when they launched their tour at the FleetCenter in September. Last night was more of a business-as-usual show for the Stones, who returned to Boston to satisfy the popular demand. The demand was heavy - another sold-out crowd - and the music was blisteringly heavy as well. The band revved up the volume and led an ecstatic charge that no doubt left many fans with ringing ears as they awoke today.</p>

(11/05/02) -- On Monday, the Teamsters union vowed they would shut down two Rolling Stones concerts this weekend at Pacific Bell Park (Home of San Francisco Giants) if the promoter, Clear Channel Communications, does not use union workers. William Cromartie, the president of the Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 85, said that the Teamsters have had a gripe with Clear Channel for years: "They want to bring in kids to work for $6 or $7 an hour and give then a T-shirt." Nearly 50 Teamsters were picketing outside the stadium as trailers arrived to deliver equipment for the Friday and Saturday...

Jagger says first Stones songs were 'crap' October 13 2002 at 05:35PMMick and Keef: "Nobody has been scumbag rockers like us and lived to tell the tale." Photo: AP London - The first songs penned by Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richard were so sentimental they were ashamed of them, Jagger told BBC Radio in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday. "We couldn't write rock songs. We just wrote these crap ballads," he told Britain's Radio Five Live, in extracts of an interview that were released before Sunday's broadcast. The band's first five hits were all cover versions...

MOROYAMA, Saitama -- A junior high school teacher who threw stones at the roof of a rice shop here, breaking a tile, was arrested after a police officer caught him in the act, law enforcers said.The 49-year-old teacher, Wataru Shimizu, was arrested for damaging property. Police said six similar stone-throwing incidents had left the rice shop damaged, and they were investigating Shimizu’s involvement.Shimizu said he threw the stones after becoming infuriated that a car belonging to the rice shop had been parked on neighboring land that he owned. “The rice-shop car was parked on my field without permission, and I...

The Mongol mysteries: Are 'deer stones' a clue? By Guy Gugliotta The Washington Post Sometime around 1000 B.C., a Mongolian tribesman climbed on the back of a horse and surveyed the windblown steppe that stretched as far as the eye could see. The weather was turning colder, and there wasn't enough grass for his goats. It was time to move. From the moment that decision was made, a tradition was born. Horses — yesterday's beasts of burden — became a means of escape. Soon they would become the tool of conquest, and the people of the steppe — whether Scythian,...

Christian Designs Found in Tomb Stones of Eastern Han Dynasty [2002-08-02] Studies show that as early as 86 A.D., or the third year under the reign of "Yuanhe" of Eastern Han, Dynasty Christianity entered into China, 550 years earlier than the world accepted time. When studying a batch of stone carvings of Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 A.D.) stored and exhibited in the Museum of Xuzhou Han Stone Carvings, Christian theology professor Wang Weifan was greatly surprised by some stone engravings demonstrating the Bible stories and designs of early Christian times. Further studies showed that some of these engravings were made...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Outside the gates of the U.S. military base at Kandahar airport, Jalat Khan selected a stone from the gravel on the shoulder of the road and swallowed it. Then Khan, a jobless wanderer in a turban and robe, did it again. And again. Pretty soon, a crowd had gathered, oblivious to the U.S. Army Humvees rolling out of the base on routine patrols. Even the clatter and roar of American helicopters and transport planes -- part of the daily base traffic that usually turns heads -- couldn't compete with Khan on Thursday, who invited spectators to hear...