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Secret Sailor to have concert Saturday\nSecret Sailor Bookstore, 202 N. Walnut St., will host a concert 9 p.m. Saturday evening Headlining is Bablicon, billed as an avant-jazz experimental post rock band with members of Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control. \nAlso playing is Sonna, a plaintively melodic group with sparse vocals and a post rock style. \nSecret Sailor Bookstore is an all-ages venue.\nCommunity Band, Mojo Hand to perform\nAs part of the Performing Arts Series will be the Bloomington Community Band from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at Third Street Park.\nThe series will continue at Bryan Park Sunday. Lost Brothers, opening for Mojo Hand, will begin at 5:45 p.m. Mojo Hand will play from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. This performance is sponsored by Wild Birds Unlimited and Harley Davidson.\nRib America National Tour to stop in Indy\nThe 2000 Rib America National Tour will make a stop in Indianapolis Thursday through Sunday. The festival brings together top barbecue chefs from across the country, who will enter competitions such as "Best Ribs" and "Best Sauce." \nAdmission is free, and food and beverage tickets are available. Live entertainment includes concerts and Robinson's Racing Pigs.\nMolly Hatchet to play Murat Centre\nSouthern rock band Molly Hatchet will play at 9 p.m. Friday at the Murat Centre in Indianapolis, sponsored by Seyfert's Rib America. Molly Hatchet, from Jacksonville, Fla., was formed in 1975, and went platinum with its self-titled debut album released by Epic Records. They have toured with Aerosmith and Bob Seger.\nUniversity press to publish former governor's autobiography\nThe IU Press will publish "Doc: Memories from a Life in Public Service," a memoir by Otis R. Brown, a small-town physician from Fulton County. He served as the 44th governor from 1973 to 1981. He then became a professor at the IU School of Medicine and spent five years in the Department of Family Medicine.\nBut Brown's public service career was not done. Dan Quayle suggested Brown as a potential successor when Margaret Heckler resigned as the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Reagan administration. Brown served in the Cabinet for three years.\n"Doc" was co-written with William DuBois, Jr. and will be published Sept. 28. In an issued statement, Brown called the work "my best effort to write a true account of what happened to a Hoosier who loved being a small-town physician, but saw politics and public service as an incurable disease."\nPitt fans nearly crushed at movie premiere\nLONDON — Brad Pitt was mobbed by screaming fans when he arrived for the premiere of his new movie. \nAs the crowd of 4,000 outside Leicester Square's Odeon cinema surged forward Wednesday night, police told Pitt to move back to prevent fans from being crushed against the barricades. \nNo one was seriously injured but the episode put an end to the actor signing autographs. \n"There were kids getting crushed at the front," Chief Inspector John Moore said. "I told Mr. Pitt that 'You owe it to them not to put them in danger.'" \nThe frenzy was sparked when the star stepped out of a chauffeur-driven car alongside English director Guy Ritchie for the premiere of "Snatch." Pitt plays an Irish bare-knuckle boxer in the gangster film. \nHe told reporters that he chose the role because he "liked the story" before being quickly ushered into the theater. \nTiger Woods sues over painting\nINDIANAPOLIS — The Society of Professional Journalists has asked a federal appeals court to reject a lawsuit filed by Tiger Woods against an artist who sold copies of a painting of the golfer. \nThe Indianapolis-based organization says Woods' appeal threatens First Amendment rights. \nWoods sued Alabama artist Rick Rush after he sold prints of a painting he did on the golfer's Masters tournament victory in April 1997. Woods claims the sale violates his trademark and right of publicity. \nWoods lost the first round of the lawsuit in April when a Cleveland judge threw out the case, saying that trademark or property rights laws do not protect Woods' image. The judge ruled the First Amendment allows Rush to paint the golfer's image and profit from copies of the artwork. \nThe SPJ on Wednesday joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the ongoing case. The brief asks the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio to reject Woods' appeal. \nThe lawsuit was filed in Cleveland because Woods' company, ETW Corp., is based there. \nSPJ and other organizations believe that if Woods' appeal is successful, it would increase the potential for publicity rights laws to extend into the newsgathering process. \nO.J. sending children to South Florida private school\nCORAL GABLES, Fla. — O.J. Simpson's children have enrolled in an exclusive South Florida private school and he asked the media to leave them alone. \nStanding on the driveway of Gulliver Academy, Simpson said Thursday he's proud that his 14-year-old daughter, Sydney, and 12-year-old son, Justin, passed the school's rigorous entrance exams and are beginning classes. They were not present at his news conference. \nThe academy charges $13,000 annually, has an average class size of 14 students and sends almost all of its graduates to college. The children of Gov. Jeb Bush and singers Julio Iglesias and Gloria Estefan have attended the school. \n"My major concern was the education of my kids," Simpson said. "The two key things to raising kids is to make sure that they know they are loved and make sure that they got a first-class education."\nSimpson, 53, has had custody of his children for four years, since shortly after he was acquitted of murdering their mother — his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson — and her friend Ronald Goldman. A civil jury later found him responsible for their 1994 deaths, awarding their families $33.5 million. \nSimpson said he's in the middle of moving from Los Angeles to South Florida, renting a house for now in an undisclosed location. He said he is seeking a home near the school. \nThe Associated Press contributed to this story.