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Liberia: Civil War Fueled By Greed for Power - Bennie Warner
"Liberia's civil war did not relate much to the country's ugly past but was fueled by greed and grasp for power", Former vice president Bishop Bennie D. Warner told commissioners of Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Woman raised in cellar is reunited with family
By VERONIKA OLEKSYN A woman born and raised in the cellar where her mother allegedly was kept captive as a sex slave for 24 years has emerged from an induced coma with two requests: to go on a boat ride and to see pop singer Robbie Williams in concert, doctors and a lawyer said Wednesday. Kerstin Fritzl met with family members Sunday, shortly after doctors roused her from the induced coma she ...
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DC's after The Glen: Days Like These, Part I
"Nobody told me there'd be days like these; strange days indeed." (C Lenono Music) From a pole-sitting, all but "antique" SunTrust car that had been little more than a museum piece two weeks previous, to a brand spanking-new Ruby Tuesday Daytona Prototype forced to the rear of the starting grid, the 26th Sahlen's Six Hours Of The Glen was a strange couple of days, indeed.
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Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Big Range Dance Festival, Electile Dysfunction, La Sylphide and A Doll's House, Present ...
bare Damon Intrabartolo (music and book) and Jon Hartmere (book and lyrics) call their vigorous and entertaining R-rated musical set at a co-ed Catholic boarding school a "pop opera," and that's all right by us, even though it's a long way from having an opera's thematic unity. Yes, everything's sun ...
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WCPO.com's 2008 Festival Guide
WCPO.com staff members have created a complete guide to summer festivals in the Tri-State.
WCPO Cincinnati |
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The Roots Will Not Apologize
At all times, legendary hip-hop drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is a man pulled in many directions. The 37-year-old musician, producer, blogger and hip-hop tastemaker fairly defines multitasking: Aside from anchoring his long-term band The Roots since the late '80s, he's an executive producer and ...
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Juneteenth Revisited
From the 1970s to the early '90s, Juneteenth at Miller Outdoor Theatre was the largest free blues festival in the world and one of the city's marquee live music events. Thousands of people, young and old, black, white and brown, would come to the park and drag coolers and blankets up Hippie Hill to ...
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Jason Ward's Matagorda Island Discs
This week's installment comes from Jason "J-Thunder" Ward, current bassist for '80s cover act the Lost Boys. "I keep seeing this," he writes, "so I figured I'd throw a list out and see if anyone else wants to pick on me for it." Despite his musical endeavors, Ward's list ranges from the ...
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Precisely 88 mph at Etro Lounge
People who listen to '80s music do not like to fight. It's weird. Like, when was the last time you were sitting around listening to Depeche Mode and thought, "I feel like kicking some ass right now"? It just doesn't happen. That's why you can feel safe at Montrose's Etro Lounge (1424 Westh ...
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T.H.E. FLY and Rooster: The Smoke CD
As we all know, rappers do not lie. They're like the George Washingtons of the music industry. But when T.H.E. FLY and Rooster say they're destined to be bigger than Thriller during "Mphatigo" on their latest LP, The Smoke CD, we tend to believe they could be, shall we say, overstating their case. ...
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Spiritualized: Songs in A&E
It took a stop in Cincinnati and a brush with death (unrelated incidents in this case) to bring Jason Pierce's latest Spiritualized project into focus. Pierce wrote much of Songs in A&E years ago, strumming the melodies on a vintage 1929 Gibson he picked up at a Cincinnati music shop. A serious bout ...
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Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan's songs almost always deal with conflict — often without resolution. In his incisively detailed lyrics, people struggle with themselves, lovers, family or society. Throughout, there are references to the valiant nature of love and passionate living. Sometimes the valiant rise to g ...
Houston Press |
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WCPO.com's 2008 Festival Guide
Banana Split Festival When: Friday, June 13, 2008 4 p.m. - 10 p.m. Saturday, June 14, 2008 12 p.m. - 10 p.m. Where: JW Denver Williams Memorial Park Rombach Avenue Wilmington, OH 45177 937-382-1965 www.clintoncountyohio.com How much: Free
The Kentucky Post |
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Bonnaroo opens amid summer festival revival
When the tens of thousands of music-crazy fans gather in the Tennessee countryside this weekend for Bonnaroo, they'll be part of not just one of the summer's biggest music festival, but a nationwide revival.
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Alanis Morissette reflects on breakup with new CD
BURBANK, Calif. -- Alanis Morissette was so happy for a while. And there was no new music.
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Working Waterfront Festival to screen preview of PBS show
NEW BEDFORD — On June 12th as part of AHA, New Bedford's monthly arts and culture night, the Working Waterfront Festival will present a preview screening of "New England Fishing Communities: The Challenges and The Sacrifices," a program produced by...
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Ibrahimovic’s brilliance breaks Greek resistance
Salzburg (Austria): Salzburg may be the city of Mozart and The Sound of Music , but the reigning champions produced a performance here on Tuesday night that was football’s equivalent of Les Dawson playing the piano. ...
The Hindu |
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Local wagon train to participate in annual event
Area residents will have the opportunity to step back into the Old West Saturday as part of the Symphony in the Flint Hills, held one mile south of Council Grove.
El Dorado Times |
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Simpson sticking with country
Jessica Simpson wants to sing country music for "the rest" of her life.
The Arizona Republic |
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NECC dancers light up the stage
Dance students at Northern Essex Community College capped off their semester with performances in the Sport and Fitness Center. The music blared, and the lights were bright as students from the Dance in Performance class, Jazz Dance, Dance Repertory and Afro-Caribbean Dance showed off the moves they had perfected. In matching costumes for each piece, the dancers impressed the crowd at the 34th ...
The Haverhill Gazette |
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Scott Storch wanted by police
The music producer is wanted by Florida authorities over his spiralling debt problems.
FOX 6 News San Diego |
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HDTV Entertainment: Is Your Home Theater Ready?
SAN FRANCISCO----Digital TV and high-definition entertainment have finally arrived. New HDTV channels, HD programming, movies, and music videos are constantly being announced as networks and studios strive to release more HD content.
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Kerstin Fritzl reunited with family
A woman born and raised in the cellar where her mother allegedly was kept captive as a sex slave for 24 years has emerged from an induced coma with two requests: to go on a boat ride and to see pop singer Robbie Williams in concert, doctors and a lawyer said.
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Posted 06/12/2008
Thursday 6.12 REGGAE UNDER THE STARS “The more I drink/the more I love you/The more I love you/ the more I drink” might not be a fitting credo for tonight’s Reggae Under the Stars benefit concert, but, then again, Insatiable’s catchy rhythms and good-natured delivery pretty much sanitize themes of drunken hookups and nicotine fits.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
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June 11, 2008
As a guitar-playing, tighty-whitey wearing Times Square regular, the Naked Cowboy may seem out of his mind. But the truth is, he's definitely on to something -- it's fun to be a New York cowboy. Thanks to a number of Western-themed watering holes, city slickers can kick back, tame a mechanical bull and two-step their way to their inner cowboy.
The Virginia Gazette |
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