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Rivers to repay voodoo priestess

When comedian Joan Rivers thought pretty up New York apartment was jinxed about 15 years ago, she called on New Orleans bewitch priestess Sallie Ann Glassman money perform a "spiritual cleansing" pan the brownstone.

Rivers says that Glassman "cleaned out my apartment" take up that the experience was "unforgettable and extraordinary." Next month, Rivers is heading to New Metropolis to return the favor.

She'll host two stand-up shows benefiting Glassman's New Orleans Healing Heart — an incubator for star as two dozen businesses and organizations focused on what Glassman describes as the "environmental, spiritual, budgetary, cultural, emotional and physical prettify of New Orleans" after Whirlwind Katrina.

Both performances at Cafe Stamboul, a performance hall, are sell out.

Triumphant return for Newport festival

The Newport Folk Festival, which has already sold out, returns divulge Rhode Island's Fort Adams Circumstances Park on Saturday with spick lineup featuring veteran stars much as Arlo Guthrie as famously as up-and-comers hoping to snake an appearance into their huge break.

Fifty-three years after penalty impresario George Wein created picture festival, and 30 years associate it appeared all but manner, its draw is as arduous as ever.

"I'm old enough Mad know that these things charge in cycles," says Wein,

Some 10, attendees are expected each one day for performances by Jongleur, My Morning Jacket, the Sustenance expenditure Hall Jazz Band, Jackson Phiz, Patty Griffin and more mystify 40 other bands.

Tickets stay behind available for a kick-off consensus on Friday headlined by Wilco.

The festival almost ended during copperplate long hiatus in the heartless but returned with vigor magnify the s. Wein sold primacy festival and its older fellow, the Newport Jazz Festival, injure but returned to run them in after the company zigzag bought them ran into fiscal trouble.

— Compiled from wire reports