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CD Spotlight: Madonna 'Hard Candy'
Madonna Hard Candy Warner Bros. For the first part of her career, Madonna was a saucy girl with pop-music savvy that seemed (but was not) almost incidental. For the second part of her caree...
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Three towns team up for weekend tour of the area
LONG BRANCH - A group of area arts, business and entertainment organizations have joined forces to bring the "TriCity Arts Tour" to the Long Branch, Red Bank and Asbury Park communities.
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Sim-ply stunning success
'The Sims' reaches 100-million-game milestone W ednesday, video game publisher EA will celebrate selling 100 million copies of its stalwart franchise "The Sims," which has been chugging along in a gaming world dazzled by the pyrotechnics of "Halo 3," the flying-among-the-stars fun of "Super Mario Galaxy" and the get-out-of-your-seat thrills of "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero III." ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 17:40 UTC
While the technologies used on the web have always been mostly free, with non-free technologies delegated to non-essential parts of the net, this has been changing fast, lately.
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Pistons’ Billups, Hamilton, Wallace nearly beat 76ers alone
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Pistons might have won Game 5 more than an hour before it started. Music wasn’t rattling the locker room. Eyes were locked on the big-screen TV showing the previous matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Musician 'duped' into anti-piracy video
An artist featured in a new campaign pushed by the Australian music industry to discourage illegal file sharing and change the public's perception that musicians live like royalty says he was duped into joining an anti-piracy witch-hunt.
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Neville Bros. return to New Orleans jazz fest
The Neville Brothers, one of New Orleans most famous musical families, on Wednesday sought to soothe hurt feelings caused by their absence since Hurricane Katrina by playing in the city's jazz festival.
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Texas schools testing ways to ease TAKS anxiety
A quiet campaign is afoot in Texas schools to scrap a key part of the state accountability test: the pressure. Educators say some students have become so nervous at test time that they vomit before the exam, cry at their desks or become so unglued that their parents turn to professional help.
Denton Record-Chronicle |
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Violin Virtuoso Arrives to Head the Cleveland Institute of Music (Wednesday, April 30)
A highly regarded violin master and educator has been appointed president of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Joel Smirnoff, who chairs the violin department at The Julliard School and leads the Julliard String Quartet, replaces long-standing leader David Cerone. ideastream®'s David C. Barnett reports the new president got a warm Cleveland welcome yesterday.
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Front Page
The Dufferin Youth Arts Festival will get off to a rousing start on Monday morning with Mary Runciman and her choir from Mono Amaranth Public School (MAPS), along with school choirs across Canada, singing "Our Song." And the CBC is involved as well.
Orangeville Citizen |
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PAC to host free concert for charity
MILLSTONE - Some area children have earned the honor of having their artwork displayed during an upcoming concert at the Performing Arts Center.
Examiner |
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Return of the gangs
According to...the Mighty Sparrow, he was at the celebrated Miramar nightclub on South Quay in the heart of Port of Spain on the night in question.
Trinidad Express |
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ART steps out in style with final show
Troupe does a fine job with tap-dancing comedy
Contra Costa Times |
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Fire Destroys Nightclub At Famed Hollywood Intersection
Fire tore through a building at the famed corner of Hollywood and Vine this morning, gutting the hip Basque Restaurant & Nightclub where Lindsay Lohan celebrated her 21st birthday and Kanye West partied just nine days ago.
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Owner wants to move Hagerstown bar fined for noise
HAGERSTOWN The owner of a downtown bar fined for noise complaints said Wednesday he wants to move the business when the lease expires next year. In April, Decourcys Pub at 139 N. Mulberry St. was fined $1,000 because of problems with excessive noise, according to Robert Everhart, chairman of the Washington County Board of License Commissioners.
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Madonna set to top U.S. chart despite sales slump
Madonna is on track to net her seventh No. 1 album on next week's Billboard 200, despite a big drop in sales, according to preliminary data issued Wednesday.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Arts award for rising star Callum
PROMISING young singer and actor, Callum Jones, from Romsey's Mountbatten School, has won more backing from Test Valley Arts Foundation after another successful audition for a major national production.
Hampshire Chronicle |
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Common lightens up with new "Summer" album
Common's upcoming album is shaping up to be an electro-tinged departure from the Chicago rapper's previous lyric-driven releases.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Flea market raid yields nearly $130,000 in bootleg merchandise
Investigators say the cartons of music CDs they wheeled out of an evidence room today represented just a fraction of the nearly $130,000 in pirated merchandise taken from an area flea market.
The Greenville News |
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Biography
From his early taped-speech pieces It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot’s digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Steve Reich’s path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz.
All About Jazz |
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A Fabled Instrument, Suppressed in Iraq, Thrives in Exile
Two musicians one in Iraq, one in the United States are bound by their passion for the oud, a pear-shaped instrument whose roots run deep in Iraq?s history.
New York Times |
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National Day of Prayer events set in McKinney
McKinney will participate in the observance of the 57th annual National Day of Prayer today. “Our country and our communities are facing difficult challenges right now,” said Tasha Douglas, city coordinator.
McKinney Courier-Gazette |
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After School Explorers Club: Toys in Orbit, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1. Step out of the classroom and into a world of fun. For grades second through sixth. Pre-registration required; call 304-561-3529. Clay Center for the Arts & Science, One Clay Square, Charleston. $15; $12 members.
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch |
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Hamilton Farmers Market returns Saturday
Anyone with a yearning for fresh, locally grown vegetables, fragrant baked goods, unique jams and salsa and locally produced furniture, arts and crafts, need go no further than the Hamilton Farmers Market.
Ravalli Republic |
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Operation Osprey in Ocean City
As the sun sets over the bay in Ocean City, night herons stake out pilings and egrets head toward the rookery, the Wetlands Institute and Ocean City will officially begin a new partnership.
Cape May County Herald |
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