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Canadians applaud aboriginal reconciliation on Canada Day
This year's Canada Day festivities are pillared by both celebration and reconciliation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Governor- General Michaelle Jean both said Tuesday. Canada's 141st birthday was celebrated across the country, with face-painting, backyard parties and, in some places, military cannons pounding out ear-splitting 21- gun salutes [...]
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Get your head in this game
Ogunquit Playhouse is jumping aboard the sensationally successful "High School Musical" and taking that baby for a ride. And, if its run proves successful, there may be similar trips in coming summers.
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Stevie Wonder Talks About Tour, Music Trends
Stevie Wonder is fidgeting with his camera phone, embarrassed because he can't get it to work right. But wait, it's not what you think.
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Canadians proud, but uninformed
Two recent polls revealed Canadians are, by and large, patriotically proud of our country but, at the same time, are more familiar with American history than our own. Canada Day in Sudbury found many painted in red and white, whether using body paint, coloured hair-spray or temporary [...]
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Sudburians venture out to celebrate country's birthday
Thousands ate and played at two main events in Sudbury this Canada Day. The Sudbury Multicultural and Folk Arts Association's bash at the arena drew so many it was painstakingly slow to go from one end of the rink to the other. Uncertain whether to sample Greek, [...]
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At Your library: 'We the People' now on shelves
Every year since 2002, the National Endowment for the Humanities has invited libraries across the country to apply for a "We the People" bookshelf grant. Recipients of the grant are given a collection of classic American books on a particular theme.
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International House of Potato Salad
While you're all engaging in Independence Day BBQs with your beer and your hot dogs and such, I'll be in Michigan attending a big four-day music festival with budding musician Teen Daughter Avalon.
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Sounds Like Dates
Singer/songwriter Eric Hutchinson sure knows how to pick tourmates. After wrapping up a string of shows with Marié Digby at Club Sound in Salt Lake City June 30, Hutchinson heads back out in support of his latest release Sounds Like This with Missy Higgins for a tour that will see the two visiting venues around the States through August.
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Mulberry Organizes Holiday Celebration
MULBERRY For a while, it looked as though the Fourth of July in Mulberry would be welcomed with a whimper. But now it's certain to be celebrated with a bang.
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Northern Ky. calenar of events
July 3 Newport Motorcycle Rally, 5 p.m., Festival Park-Newport, Riverboat Row, Newport. Music, food, games, cycle rides and contests. Free. Through July 6. 859-912-2509; http://www.newportmotorcyclerally.com " target="_blank"> www.newportmotorcyclerally.com .
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Go & Do - Cool stuff going on Wednesday and Thursday
Grab a bite to eat from the Piscataqua Grill in Prescott Park and enjoy a mid-week concert featuring everything from soul, rhythm & blues, jazz to big band music. Concerts will be held every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the Portsmouth park. Suggested...
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Mary Carlin King-Ross, 74; Coronado concerts organizer
Anyone who has enjoyed a Coronado concert in the park on a summer Sunday evening owes thanks to Mary Carlin King-Ross. The lifelong Coronado resident was a driving force behind the concert series for more than 30 years. As a member of the tightknit naval community, she grew up when residents of the idyllic resort village took a ferry to get to San Diego.
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Karanji musical treat
Producer N.M.Suresh irrespective of failure or success is forging ahead in making films. He has just finished Gandhi Smiles a different type of Kannada cinema, announced a film on seven wonders of the world starring Shivarajakumar – Cheluveye Ninna Nodalu and now started a quickie Karanji starring Vijaya Raghavendra and Bollywood actress Gauri Karnik (who figured in Sur) in the direction of
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July 4 events and festivities
July 3: Band concert followed by fireworks show at dusk over Alton Bay. July 4: 7-10, Breakfast, Common Man patio. 9 a.m., Food sale, post office parking lot. 10 a.m., Parade. 5-8 p.m., Skateboard demonstration, skate rink. 6-9 p.m., Dancing, tennis courts.
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Learn to use iTunes on your new computer
Q: My husband has a new laptop. He has hundreds of songs on iTunes. ITunes has been installed on his new computer. He is having a terrible time with Apple's instructions. How does he transfer those songs to the new computer?
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DJs Take Control - Juno Records & Juno Download Launch Unique User-Generated DJ Charts System
Dance music web sites Juno Records & Juno Download launch a unique system allowing DJs to create & promote charts online. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1067694.htm
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Bayreuth goes online
The highly prestigious Bayreuth Festival will go online this year — but there's a catch.
iafrica.com |
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Family Festival calendar
Danvers Idol, 6 to 9 p.m., Rotary Pavilion. New this year, Danvers Idol will showcase the town's best singers. Finalists square off tonight, and the winner will receive several prizes, including special VIP seating at the fireworks for four friends and family, and an opportunity to sing onstage at the fireworks event in front of more than 40,000 people.
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Lots of fireworks expected this July 4
JACKSON: Independence Day Celebration, 4 p.m.; John F. Johnson Jr. Memorial Park, Cooks Bridge Road and Kierych Drive; D.J. until 6 p.m., music by Dr. Cheeko, 6:30 p.m. until dusk; children's activities until 7 p.m.; fireworks at dusk; rain date Saturday; (732) 928-1200, ext. 255.
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Rhapsodies with 'Mrs. C'
Like most buildings in downtown Grayslake, Kathi's Musicians' Center School of Music on Center Street has more character in one room than new construction can design into an entire structure. Stroll beyond the Renoir print and miniature bust of Beethoven that overlook an upright Yamaha in the sunlit foyer, and you'll find a spiral staircase that drops through the first floor to a basement that ...
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Madonna's not divorcing her hubby, or having an affair
London, July 2 : Music icon Madonna has finally hit out at rumours that she's called in the divorce attorneys and that she's having an affair with a married baseball star.
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BayFest 2008 announces first slate of country acts
BayFest has unveiled its first main-stage slate for 2008: Country stars Eric Church, Blake Shelton and Rodney Atkins. The 13th annual music festival takes place Oct. 3-5 in downtown Mobile.
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School's jazz band to perform at Montreux Festival
MUSICIANS from Thomas Adams School in Wem will take part in the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland which starts on Friday. The members of Adjazz will share the bill with stars including Katie Melua, Lenny Kravitz and Sheryl Crow.
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Zack de la Rocha music!
Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha has formed a new project called One Day As A Lion. Joining the vocalist is The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. The pair have signed a deal with Anti Records and will release their self-titled debut EP on July 21.
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Roommate: We Were Enchanted
Harnessing the same end-of-days anxiety that fueled Don DeLillo's 1985 novel White Noise and Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 1998 debut F#A# ∞ in music that bears traces of Ennio Morricone, Jack Nitzsche, and Philip Glass. read more
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