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For postdoctoral researchers at UC Berkeley, the years at school keep growing as the chances of landing a faculty job keep waning. Noise Pop celebrates its sweet sixteen with expanded coverage of art, film, comedy, and a whole lot of noise. A look at how the music fests's indie empire has grown.
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CONCERT REVIEW Are You That Girl?
By Sarah Dupuis ARTS EDITOR Dear girl from Boston College who stood in front of me at the Third Eye Blind show,
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Today's local news briefs
ROSENDALE - Rosendale Earthfest and Energy Expo, a daylong event that combines fun with a how-to program to fight global warming and shrink your carbon footprint, is scheduled for Saturday at the Rosendale Community Center, state Route 32.
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OPERA REVIEW Lyric Opera’s Last Production
By Balaji Mani STAFF WRITER It’s no surprise that in Boston, a city inundated with eager students, free arts events harness high attendance. Last week, hundreds of such students attended a free performance of the Boston Lyric Opera’s last production of the season, The Abduction from the Seraglio . Though this is one of Mozart’s lesser known operas, the theatre filled to near full capacity. ...
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Student ensembles join for free concert
The Arizona Symphony Orchestra and the University of Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra share equal billing in a joint concert tonight.
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Dark Matter
A brilliant but quixotic Chinese graduate student scientist named Liu Xing (actor Liu Ye from Curse of the Golden Flower ) arrives in a small American city to begin research in a university astrophysics lab, but the head of the department (Aidan Quinn) throws obstacles in his way, as does life in the USA in general.
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Black Lily salutes women in music and film
Women's contributions to arts and music will be celebrated in Philadelphia this weekend at the 2d Annual Black Lily Film & Music Festival. Films, concerts and workshops will be in abundance May 2-4.
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Brackendale Bluegrass Festival an intimate affair
The Brackendale Art Gallery is known for its intimate live concerts and the sixth annual Bluegrass Festival promises to bring audience participation to the forefront with four workshops run by the likes of mandolin master John Reischman on Saturday (May 3).
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Top 5 Recent Disaster-Inspired Jazz Tracks
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New Line Home Entertainment Features DTS(R) on the Upcoming Blu-Ray . Release of The Golden Compass
Release of The Golden Compass 29/04/2008 11:00:00 Business Wire US4016921086 The upcoming Blu-ray release of New Line Home Entertainment s adventure spectacular, The Golden Compass, will feature state of the art 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio(TM) which delivers high definition audio for home theater and PC applications.
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Beloved music teacher, family face new task -- in Zimbabwe
WEST LINN -- Jeff Cumpston gave his soul, musically speaking, to the West Linn High School band and orchestra programs for 12 years. But the man who brought statewide recognition to the symphonic and jazz bands is moving to Zimbabwe with his family.
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Immigrant and Worker’s Rights march draws hundreds to Watsonville Plaza
Hundreds of community members, community activists and organizers gathered Thursday evening in the Watsonville City Plaza for the Immigrant and Worker’s Rights March.
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Weekend Events
PORTSMOUTH – The third annual Concert for a Cure to benefit the Jimmy Fund is Friday, May 2, at 7 p.m., at the Masonic Temple in Portsmouth. Musicians ages 13-21 are featured, as well as performances by local jazz singer Carri Coltrane and instrumentalist Kent Allyn.
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Symphony orchestra plays at Fresno State
The Fresno State Symphony Orchestra will present its final concert of the year on Wednesday.
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Growing plants and self-esteem
With a goal of helping clients move into “real world” jobs, Growing Grounds Farm and Nursery was launched in 1984 as a joint project of the San Luis Obispo County Department of Mental Health and Transitions Mental Health Association. The hope was that the garden, located on Orcutt Road on property marked by large power poles, would provide a place where people recovering from mental illness ...
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M.I.A. creates transglobal pop with unity in mind
ARULAR, the 2005 debut by Maya Arulpragasam — the London-bred vocalist, producer and visual artist better known as M.I.A. — heralded the arrival of one of the most original and bracing voices in contemporary music.
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Stuart Rose sells karaoke stake
Music has stopped for Sir Stuart Rose's ambitions to own a slice of a karaoke bar business
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Piano Recital by Maria Blanco
A piano recital by Maria Blanco will be held on Friday at 2000 CEST at the Music Room at St James Cavalier in Valletta. The programme consists of Haydn: Sonata in C major, Hob. 48; Brahms: Three Intermezzi, Op.117; Shchedrin: Basso Ostinato and Schumann: Carnival Jest from Vienna, Op.26. Maltese pianist, Maria Blanco, was the winner of the 1999 Young Musicians National Competition and the ...
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Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexican heritage and the start of patio season
Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday that commemorates the initial victory of the Mexicans over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
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Dining Guide
THE FOLLOWING are among the best in their categories, chosen by restaurant writer Helen Schwab. QUESTIONS? hschwab@charlotteobserver.com . UPDATE a listing: hmims@charlotteobserver.com BISTROS AND SUCH BOUDREAUX'S LOUISIANA KITCHEN, 501 E. 36th St.; 704-331-9898. With a lineup that's part Cajun, part Creole, part Mississippi, part wherever, this artful little NoDa restaurant ...
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Top 5 The Reporter-Herald
Composer John Williams’ music will be the highlight of the Colorado State University Family Pops concert 3 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at Griffin Concert Hall, University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington St., Fort Collins.
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MONDAY
5 DANCE SULTRY: "Forever Tango" brings 14 dancers and 10 musicians for two evenings of romance, Argentine-style. 8 p.m. Also 8 p.m. Tuesday. Belk Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, 130 N. Tryon St. $19-$49. 704-372-1000; www.blumenthalcenter.org . TUESDAY 6 MUSIC THE END IS NEAR: The "Quartet For the End of Time" is the end of the season for Chamber Music at St. Peter's. 12:10 ...
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‘Rent’ provides controversy and meaning By Jennifer Leigh Johnson The Reporter-Herald
“Rent” breaks all the rules when it comes to Broadway productions. But the controversial topics of the rock musical seem to be one of the main reasons for its success. Inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La Bohème,” the musical, coming to the Budweiser Events Center May 8, follows a group of impoverished young performers who aspire to make it “big” in the artsy avant-garde lower east side of ...
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Coronation details about the Queen, Princess and Duchesses
Tradition, pageantry and artistry highlighted the 2008 Coronation, “The Court of Timeless Fascinations”
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N.Y. quartet blends cabaret, jazz By Glenn BurnSilver The Reporter-Herald
What do you get when you take a country music singer who likes jazz, a classically trained upright bass player, a Latin-infused guitar virtuoso and a quirky melodica and piano player and swirl them together in the big blender of New York City influence? A tall, cool drink of cocktail pop, compliments of the Lascivious Biddies. This female-foursome takes a jazz meets cabaret meets pop music ...
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