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Teen Night organizer: Teenagers are worth it, right now
The smell of fried food and music filled the air Monday as teens filled the street and the bleachers in front of the Civic Center Drive Stage for Rochesterfest's annual Teen Night
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Students, school making the grade
The rhymes of rapper Lil Wayne no longer serenade Jahzhanee Sut ton as she rides to Greater Newark Charter School each day. The seventh-grader ditched the morning music after she worked with classmates on a science project that concluded music has a negative ef fect on concentration.
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Questions/Answers
Questions and answers on Tribune stories from readers like you. WASHINGTON - Cue the calliope music. Angels right-hander John Lackey and Nationals right-hander Jason Bergmann had a good pitchers' duel going for 6 1/2 innings - then the circus came to town.
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Officials probe teacher's death
FALLS CITY, Neb. — Officials continued an investigation Monday into the death of a University of Nebraska-Omaha graduate who recently took a job as a music teacher with the local school district.
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DSMA plans poker run for July
Poker run to raise funds for music program
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‘Going to be a lot better now’
Jason Aldean has spent much of the past two years touring with two of the biggest acts country music has to offer — Rascal Flatts in 2007 and Tim McGraw this summer.
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U-46 board won't reconsider choral director's resignation
Larkin High School music supporters Monday heard their fight to keep the school's choral director had reached its final act, after the Elgin Area School District U-46 board made clear it would take no further action on the issue.
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Thirteen-year-old wins talent contest
Bushwhacker Colgate Country Showdown winner Ginelle Esry, 13-year-old daughter of Gary and Nancy Esry, El Dorado Springs, said she enjoyed singing in competitions and that winning was an added bonus. Esry will be in eighth grade this fall in the El Dorado Springs Middle School.
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Harvest Festival seeks food, craft vendors
Rock Island County NAACP is seeking food and craft vendors for an Oct. 11 Harvest Festival in Hereford Park, East Moline.
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Texan Alejandro Escovedo’s latest CD is an ode to an artist who can make the seemingly mundane matter
By PRESTON JONES Alejandro Escovedo is lucky to be alive. The guitarist and singer/songwriter based in the Hill Country town of Wimberley survived a life-threatening bout of hepatitis C in 2003, and his latest record, Real Animal , pulses with a vitality known only by the very young or the very grateful. Of course, anything would seem chipper after 2006’s The Boxing Mirror , a grim piece of ...
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It's time for Seattle to give back to jazz icon
The mortgage foreclosure crisis has hit home, affecting a Seattle-based, international jazz icon in her late 70s. Ernestine Anderson needs our help.
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NEWS: THQ Announces Bratz Girlz Really Rock for Wii, DS
THQ readies seventh Bratz game just in time for DVD and doll line by same name.
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Footnotes
Apparently not everything that happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. The 25th annual MTV Video Music Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Sept. 7. ... The original cast recording of ?The Hired Man,? part of the current ?Brits Off Broadway? festival at 59E59 Theaters, will be on sale at the theater starting Tuesday. The show continues through June 29 (britsoffbroadway.com). ... The comedian ...
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Simon Cowell grants one more 'Chance'
The Simon Cowell-produced story of a rags-to-riches reality music star is moving ahead at Paramount.
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Mothballing a Critic
In the wave of buyouts and layoffs hitting newspapers this season, The Kansas City Star has decided it can no longer afford a classical music critic. Paul Horsley, who took the critic?s job eight years ago, was quoted on the Web site MusicalAmerica.com as saying, ?I think it was a very ?corporate? decision.? He added, ?I think they eliminated the beat they thought they could most easily farm ...
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Hear me: Duffy's 'Rockferry'
A debut album from artist Duffy which is already carrying great success in Europe, "Rockferry" delivers a memorable impression on listeners, sure to retain its quality in the future.
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New music program hits a high note
A volunteer program that began in March has helped make beautiful music at the Global Learning Charter Public School in New Bedford.
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Host families are needed for students arriving from Spain
RACINE — The EF Educational Homestay Program is looking for host families for four students arriving from Spain on Thursday. Gonzalo is a 14-year-old boy who enjoys sports, music, movies (watching and the making of them) and has a great interest in astronomy and space as he wants to be an astronaut. Paula is 16 years old and loves to go to the beach, shopping and Itailian food. Lucas is a ...
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Stars & Stripes songstress gets taste of activism
Oakland County singer-songwriter Jill Jack has worn many hats in her lifetime: Working mother, actress, accountant and performer.
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Music in the key of life
Music is timeless. West Fargo's community summer band proves that musicians can be, too. This year's crop of 41 players spans the generations from high school teens to 70-something retirees, bound and determined to play in harmony. Advertisement: JobsHQ Looking for some good employees? Contact info@jobsHQ.com and learn how you can post all your jobs for one low monthly fee on the ...
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And all that jazz
Kelly Roberti has been around the block more than once.
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A Seductive Urban Sound Hushes Carnegie Hall
In the hands of João Gilberto, who returned to Carnegie Hall for a JVC Jazz Festival concert on Sunday, Bossa nova is very clearly an urban music.
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Press Quotes
Program Director Quotes on the new Patrick Yandall “Laws of Groovity” CD: Top 10 On New Smooth Jazz list on Amazon.com! #3 Most adds Smooth Jazz Reporters (Feb.)
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Music star misdeeds are age-old
It appears a mole was key in R. Kelly's acquittal of child pornography charges earlier this month. Prosecutors spent the last six years studying a videotape in hopes to prove the man in it is Kelly getting all NC-17 with girls way under 17. But that video man has no mole on his back. Kelly does. And isn't there some saying that if the mole does not fit you must acquit? ...
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COMMUNITYACHIEVERS
The Music Academy in State College recently announced its 2008 Mary Lee Eyer Scholarship Competition winners. All winners received a cash prize for use in continued music study.
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