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The group was initially put together by producers Louis Baldonieri and Brian Lukow and titled 'Boy Wonder'. The band featured several 11-14 year old boys from the New York Broadway/Acting scene. Baldonieri and Lukow hoped to make an impact on the pop music industry by introducing a group of teenagers to the scene, all of whom had prior stage-singing experience. Jesse McCartney, Gregory Raposo, Matt Ballinger, Frankie Galasso, and Chris Trousdale would become the new faces of the group, and were given the name "Dream Street". In early 2002, four of the members and their parents (McCartney,...
The credit crisis story has plenty of bad guys. Banks and brokers thought sub-prime mortgages were a new way to get rich while Washington politicians served as enablers.
A dusty maze of concrete, sheet metal and scrap wood, Diepsloot is like so many of the enormous settlements around Johannesburg, mile after mile of feebly assembled shacks, the impromptu patchwork of the poor, ...
Fashion designer Eletra Casadei, whose collections were carried in boutiques and department stores across the nation and were seen on such TV shows as "The Golden Girls" and "Dynasty," died Sept.