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School students face traffic cops' music
Panic gripped students from various city schools on Tuesday after traffic police launched a special drive to check minors riding vehicles (two-wheelers and four-wheelers) without possessing requisite documents like licence etc.
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Jon Friedman's Media Web: Sex, more sex and rock roll personify Blender
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Back in the heady days of the English punk-rock movement, an eccentric and much-loved band called Ian Dury and the Blockheads cut a song called "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll." In time, that irresistible, oft-quoted title came to sum up much of the image of the contemporary music scene.
Market Watch |
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Google's game plan
The Internet giant has your attention at the computer and now it wants your attention in the living room. Google plans to get it by linking its search engine to your TV, Playstation, music player and more.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Police: Singer Exposed Self At Christian Club
A rock band's performance gets the members tossed out of a teen Christian-based club. It wasn't their music that made the crowd uneasy, but what lead singer decided to do during the show.
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"Gitaroo-Man Live!"
The rock opera track - who's that against again? That's who I'm stuck on, nearly had him on a couple of occasions, mind... I did the one with the sort of darkness style operatic singing. Then I had the arena showdown with the love interest which sort of tails off half way through.
EuroGamer |
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Woman says she didn't hear 3-year-old open car door, jump out
SPRINGFIELD — A southwest Missouri woman whose 3-year-old daughter fell from her moving car said she didn’t hear what happened because of loud music she was playing.
Columbian Missourian |
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Patti McKenny, Chicago Playwright, Librettist and Lyricist, Dead at 57
Patti McKenny, a Chicago playwright, librettist and lyricist who was a vocal advocate of the development of homegrown musicals, died June 28 of a heart ailment in her northside Chicago apartment, friends and colleagues reported.
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Michael Martin Murphey set to perform
ALAMOSA – The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad, Colorado's newest scenic train, is bringing the popular High Altitude Concert Series back to its unique outdoor venue nestled among the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
9 News Denver |
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Canadian firm chosen for Boettcher renovation
The Toronto-based architectural firm of Diamond and Schmitt has extensive experience in designing performing arts centers.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Apps: ShareTool, Tri-BACKUP, Audicorder
ShareTool 1.2 ($20) remote access solution for Mac OS X. ShareTool lets users access all of the Bonjour services on their home network from anywhere in the world. This includes iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, and more. With ShareTool, users can listen to their entire iTunes music library at work, control the screen of any of the...
MacNN |
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Woman says she didn't hear 3-year-old open car door, jump out
SPRINGFIELD — A southwest Missouri woman whose 3-year-old daughter fell from her moving car said she didn’t hear what happened because of loud music she was playing. The child, who ...
Columbia Missourian |
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The NHS at 60; Jarvis Cocker's Musical Map of Sheffield
The BBC's health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys presides over a series of four debates that will balance the expense of having a public health service against the benefits it provides.
Times Online |
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New Council Members Want To Discuss Capitol Music Hall
As Wheeling's new city council members and mayor are sworn in, they say they want to tackle a number of issues, including talking more about the future of the Capitol Music Hall.
WTOV 9 Steubenville |
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U2's Basquiat art makes over £5m
A piece of art owned by rock band U2 has sold for more than £5m at an auction held in London.
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Bravo TV's Top Chef Winner to Cook at Tahoe Food Festival
Chef and restaurateur Stephanie Izard, the winner of the fourth season of Bravo TV's Top Chef, recently signed on to host a cooking seminar at the 23rd Annual Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival, scheduled for September 5-7 in the outdoors at the new Village at Northstar(TM).
Centre Daily Times |
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First Confirmed Acts For BayFest Announced
The final night of the 2008 BayFest Music Festival will definitely have a country flair. More
WKRG News 5 Mobile |
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Hans Zimmer - Zimmer Considered Scrapping Batman Score After Ledgers Death
Revered movie composer HANS ZIMMER was so devastated about the death of pal HEATH LEDGER he considered scrapping his score for the new BATMAN film and starting all ...
ContactMusic |
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Fourth Of July Activities In Rockbridge
There are lots of activities scheduled during the Fourth of July Weekend from including the annual Lexington 4th of July Bike Parade with Uncle Sam, the BB&T Sunrise Rotary Hot Air Balloon Festival, Hot Air Balloon rides in Buena Vista, Concerts, entertainment and food in Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge Baths.
Rockbridge Weekly |
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Manahan to stay at NYC Opera through 2011-12
Conductor George Manahan will remain a music director of the New York City Opera under incoming general manager Gerard Mortier, agreeing to a four-year contract through the 2011-12 season. Manahan, 56, was hired as music director in 1996, effective with the 1997-98 season. In 2009-10, Mortier's first season, Manahan will conduct Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" and Britten's "Death in ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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Group wants to buy land around Blossom Music Center
CLEVELAND -- A land conservation group says it has an agreement to buy property around the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls and preserve it as green space.
WKYC Cleveland |
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Prouty band takes on the Hard Rock Cafe
Instead of waiting to be discovered, the Jessica Prouty Band, featuring Cody Nilsen, 15, of Wilmington, is already rocking around New England.
Wilmington Advocate |
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McKenzie's Freedom Festival is Friday
The 18th annual Festival of Freedom kicks off Friday in McKenzie with events throughout the day. The day's activities kick off with the annual VFW Freedom Fest Breakfast. For $6.00, participants can feast on country ham, sausage, gravy, biscuits, eggs, coffee and juice.
The McKenzie Banner |
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Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section chosen for musicians hall
The legendary Muscle Shoals music sound will be center stage again in October when the 2008 Musicians Hall of Fame class in inducted.The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Friends are among the six inductees for the hall of fame in Nashville.
The Florence Times-Daily |
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Beyond nostalgia
Some of my friends have been teasing me about my recent columns taking on a strong element of nostalgia: reissues of old Filipino music, 1930s films about Manila, 19th century clothing. Could this be, one friend irreverently suggested, a sign of aging?
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Third Series of Jazz Icons Debuts September 30!
New series of Jazz Icons DVD's features vintage unseen concerts featuring Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
All About Jazz |
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