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In the news
By Times staff writer TLC at work on a new albumAfter mourning the death of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, the surviving members of the band TLC -- Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas -- are back at work on the group's fourth album. Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds is working with the pair. Edmonds told the Associated Press in a recent interview that the women have "held up pretty well." Lopes, 30, was killed in April after her SUV crashed in Honduras, where she was on vacation. Thomas and Watkins have decided to continue TLC as a duo. The new record is scheduled to be released in the fall. Edmonds said that much of it was recorded before Lopes died, so her vocals will be present on the album. Burning Man festival sponsors sue over videoThe Burning Man festival, an annual celebration of art and self-expression in the Nevada desert, is suing a video company for allegedly filming naked women at the festival surreptitiously and selling the videos. Festival sponsors filed suit Monday in federal court in San Francisco, accusing Voyeur Video Inc. of ignoring rules printed on each ticket that prohibit commercial use of photos from the festival without organizers' consent. Clothes are optional for participants at Burning Man, which started in 1986 and is held each Labor Day weekend on a dry lake bed in the Black Rock Desert, about 120 miles north of Reno, Nev. The psychedelic festival combines wilderness camping and an eclectic mix of art and music in a 5-square-mile encampment. It culminates with the burning of a 40-foot wooden statue. -- From wire reports.
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