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The Grass Valley Center for the Arts has canceled Kathy Griffin's scheduled June 16 appearance at the Grass Valley Veteran's Memorial Building, said Julie Baker, the center's executive director. Baker announced the cancellation Wednesday, just one day after Griffin released a controversial photo of herself holding a mock version of President Trump's head, which was covered in fake blood and appeared decapitated. The photo was taken by Tyler Shields, a provocative Los Angeles-based celebrity photographer and contemporary artist. Griffin released a public apology Tuesday afternoon on Twitter. "I beg for your forgiveness," said Griffin in her 30-second apology video. "I...

How the Dixie Chicks Hit the Charts Without Radio Support By JEFF LEEDS In February, eager programmers at the nation's top country music stations got their first chance to hear new music from the Dixie Chicks in four years. But in a suite at the annual Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, brows soon furrowed over what would be the band's first single, the angry "Not Ready to Make Nice,"... "It took our breath away," Julie Stevens, program director of KRTY-FM, a country station in San Jose, Calif., said of the song. Before hearing it, she said, she had figured "fans...