Dungeon Family reuniting at festival

Dungeon Family reuniting at festival

ATLANTA

The legendary Dungeon Family music collective, which birthed a generation of hip-hop stars, was to reunite on stage Saturday for the first time in a decade, and they weren’t looking to stop there.

They want to create new songs and eventually collaborate for their own big festival or tour.

First, they’ll perform together as the headliner at the seventh annual ONE Musicfest in Atlanta.

Over the years, the rap collective has consisted of a multitude, including such big names as Andre 3000, Big Boi, CeeLo Green, Killer Mike and Sleepy Brown.

Some members also are associated with other groups including Outkast, Goodie Mob and production trio Organized Noize.

Woman in iconic WWII Times Square kiss photo dies at 92

NEW YORK

The woman who was kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died at the age of 92.

Greta Zimmer Friedman’s son says his mother died Thursday at a hospital in Richmond, Va. She died from complications of old age, he said.

Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse’s uniform Aug. 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day the Japanese surrendered.

People spilled out into the streets from restaurants, bars and movie theaters in New York City when they heard the news. That’s when George Mendonsa spotted Friedman, spun her around and planted a kiss on her. The two had never met.

In fact, Mendonsa was on a date with an actual nurse, Rita Petry, who would later become his wife.

The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt is called “V-J Day in Times Square” but is known to most the world over as simply, “The Kiss.”

The photo first was published in Life, buried deep within the magazine’s pages. Over the years, the photo gained recognition, and several people claimed to be the kissing couple.

In an August 1980 issue of Life, 11 men and three women said they were the subjects. It was years until Mendonsa and Friedman were confirmed to be the couple.

Associated Press