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A big thank you to veterans
LEWISBURG -- Music, movies, a parade and fireworks are just a few of the highlights of this year's 14th annual Union County Fourth of July Celebration.
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Soulja Boy Proves Ice T Is Old [Hip-Hop]
Latest rap star Soulja Boy and ancient rap star Ice T are fighting on YouTube. The 17-year-old who got famous on the Internet (over 60 million views for his music video "Crank That") is using the...
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The Theatre
OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. CIRQUE DREAMS “JUNGLE FANTASY” Neil Goldberg created and directs this spectacle, which features aerialists, contortionists, acrobats, jugglers, and musicians in a jungle setting. In previews. Opens June 26. (Broadway Theatre, Broadway at 53rd . . .
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CMA - The Unveiling: Original 1916 building is fine art itself
UPDATED: 00 :17 a.m. EDT, June 23, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes a Fortney & Weygandt field superintendent. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
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When Surfers Attack
Not directly music related but a problem with see with a certain caliber of "pop" star. Seems that surfers have found the ultimate solution to the problem of stalkerazzi: give the prying photogs a beat down!
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On the Horizon
MOVIES BLACK LIGHT July 4-9 BAM’s annual Afro-Punk Festival kicks off with “A Panther in Africa,” Aaron Matthews’s documentary about Pete O’Neal, a member of the Black Panther Party who fled the U.S. in 1969 and has lived in Tanzania for three decades. Other films include Bill Gunn’s 1973 . . .
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Night Life
ROCK AND POP Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements. BAM RHYTHM & BLUES FESTIVAL AT METROTECH MetroTech Commons, Flatbush Ave. at Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn (718-636-4100)--June 26: The legendary Senegalese Afro-Cuban ensemble Orchestra Baobab performs a noontime show. BEACON THEATRE . . .
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Made in Africa
Orchestra Baobab was formed thirty-eight years ago, in Dakar, but time has done nothing to diminish the group’s quiet intensity. The band mixes so many regional styles that listeners can easily think they’re hearing three or four different genres. The guitarist Barthelemy Attisso, who is also a lawyer, leads . . .
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New Order DVD Preview
imeem has your front row seat to the premiere of New Order's new concert DVD
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Museums across the country freshening up, expanding
Art museums throughout the country have gone on a construction binge as older institutions freshen up and expand and fast-growing cities tap into new wealth to show they have arrived in the art world.
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Classical Music
CONCERTS IN TOWN NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: “SUMMERTIME CLASSICS” The avuncular British conductor Bramwell Tovey, who has found a comfortable niche at the Philharmonic, brings his light but knowing touch (and his Pythonesque shtick) once again to the orchestra’s early-summer series, held in the air-conditioned confines of Avery Fisher . . .
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Love: Thy neighbor
Like cheese steaks, G. Love & Special Sauce will always be linked with Philadelphia. Yet Boston can also lay claim to the raspy-voiced music veteran: it was Beantown where...
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Above and Beyond
BROOKLYN RECORD RIOT” Everyone knows that the music business is in turmoil and that CD sales are collapsing. (According to the Recording Industry Association of America, sales fell more than seventeen per cent last year and just over twelve per cent the year before that.) Suddenly, though, old-fashioned vinyl . . .
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Readings and Talks
NUALA O’FAOLAIN TRIBUTE Frank McCourt, Paul Muldoon (the poetry editor of this magazine), Fintan O’Toole, and others honor the Irish writer, who died earlier this year. With music by the vocalist Susan McKeown. (Celeste Bartos Forum, New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. at 42nd St. 212-868-4444. June 24 at 7 . . .
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Figueroa, Lewis, Llana, Spanger and More Sing for Diversity June 23
A host of Broadway favorites are part of a June 23 concert to benefit Diverse City Theater Company, the organization founded in 2003 to focus on "promoting diversity and multiculturalism in the theatre arts."
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In the Heights: Vitality and Diversity at Manhattan's Tip
With its four Tony Awards, including the one for best musical, "In the Heights" has not only thrust itself onto New York's radar screen, but also has put its revered neighborhood of Washington Heights, on a high ridge in northern Manhattan, fully on the map.
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A Song For Bo
SEBRING — Michelle Alvarez is working hard to turn the near drowning death of son into a positive experience. Alvarez hopes to build a hospital where children and parents could go for alternative treatment, has started a swimming program, is working to create a house for children with special needs and even starred in a ready-for-prime-time music video. The 33-year-old physical therapist became ...
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Calypso Gypsies
Island music presented in an outdoor lunchtime venue. June 25, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.; free Cascade Plaza (330) 375-2311
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Etheridge has awakened to healthier ways
After a public battle with cancer, Melissa Etheridge returned to the spotlight last year, winning an Academy Award for her song “I Need to Wake Up” (from Al Gore's movie about global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth”) and releasing a new disc, “The Awakening,” in September. Before kicking off her “Revival Tour” – which rolls through Charlotte on Tuesday – the 47-year-old rocker spoke to Observer ...
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Jefferson plans July 4 celebration
JEFFERSON — Enjoy a fresh slice of Norman Rockwell as the 15th anniversary edition of "Jefferson Salutes America" fires off its trademark Fourth of July "Fireworks Fantazmagoria" over historic Big Cypress Bayou and turning basin. The fireworks display — during which some $12,000 in pyrotechnic charges will be fired off over the river's natural amphitheater — caps an evening of live music and ...
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Hersam Acorn Newspapers
Students in Patti Grenier’s first grade class at Hurlbutt Elementary School were invited to perform for their classmates on Piano Day, June 11, designed by music teacher Luke Henderson to provide an opportunity for children who take piano lessons to play for their peers, and for their classmates to experience a live piano concert.
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Family, friends hold jam session to honor men killed outside Garland record studio
GARLAND – Through song and music, they celebrated the lives of two slain men. A couple hundred fans, friends and fellow worshippers gathered on State Street outside the Zion Gate recording studio Sunday afternoon to honor Matthew Butler, 28, and Stephen Swan, 26.
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SIUC's Webb furthers legacy with award
CARBONDALE - In her description of the organ, professor of music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Marianne Webb refers to the ancient instrument as "the king of instruments."
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Page's green thumb creates a blooming business at Rebel Hill
Everything is coming up roses for Anna Page, who founded Rebel Hill Florist in 1987. Her company has been named one of the Top 250 florists in the country for the fourth year in a row by Teleflora International, the world's largest floral wire service. Page is also the District 16 councilwoman on Nashville's Metro Council -- winning another four-year term after winning a special election in ...
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Summerfest lines up new sponsorships
With 892,005 visitors walking through the gates of Summerfest in 2007, the 11-day music festival has become fertile advertising ground for Milwaukee companies.
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