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Portuguese Club Luau Friday
The Hudson Portuguese Club is sponsoring a luau after the 6 p.m. General Assembly meeting on July 18. The evening will consist of great music, excellent food, and various activities. The menu will include pig roast, chicken, shrimp, and tropical drinks. Additionally there will be children’s games.
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The Most Likely Living Superstars to Be Posthumously Exploited
Recently, SPIN.com ran an article in reaction to the snatching of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' gravestone , pondering which other deceased icons should be protecting their burial assets. And then came the news that on October 14, the world will be graced with the latest figurative coffin-raping of Johnny Cash's legacy, Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre/Music World). Cash has always been ...
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Spirit of Sinatra
The music of Frank Sinatra was featured last night at Memorial Field, as the sixth annual Summer Concert Series presented by the Downtown State College Improvement District and Northwest Savings Bank moved to a new location.
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UI getting gifts from all over country and world
UI Foundation has received 2,160 contributions for $631,000 as of Wednesday, from people all over the country and all over the world.
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Billy Bob Thornton
Back when glamour ruled Hollywood and gossip wasn’t yet an industry, stars were expected to do it all. If you couldn’t sing, dance and act, brother, you were out. This kind of jack-of-all-trades approach to stardom has returned somewhat in recent years (the High School Musical music/TV/mov ...
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Top iTunes downloads
Top 10 songs on iTunes Music Store for July 16:
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Master P, Romeo, Wal-Mart, and Coca-Cola Deliver Positive Message to New Orleans Youth at Essence Festival
Master P and Romeo took to the stage to empower thousands of excited and eager local youth at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. The father/son duo returned to their hometown, not to perform their music at the festival, but rather to give back to their community through their message of change, education, hard work and following one's dreams.
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GM exploring racing options after announcing cutbacks
Everywhere you look these days, the economy is making waves in NASCAR, and some of the folks that are surfing the hardest are the ones NASCAR teams count on the most: manufacturers and sponsors.
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Fringe kicks off with a show for kids
The 21st annual Winnipeg Fringe Festival kicks off in the Exchange District Wednesday. The first act is a show for kids. Young Fringers with get the chance to enjoy live music, acrobats, and magic acts.
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The Hacienda Brothers mourn fallen bandmate Chris Gaffney
After a blistering set about four years ago, Dave Alvin brought his band the Guilty Men back onto the Continental Club stage for an encore. From their sidelong looks and body language, there was obviously trouble in the band. Later, it turned out that drummer Bobby Loyd Hicks had overindulged and pl ...
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Can Alternative Venues Jump-Start the Local Music Scene?
The day after the Fourth of July could have been a glimpse of Houston's musical future. New York symphonic-metal lunatic Andrew W.K. and Austin instrumental techno-rockers the Octopus Project were scheduled to headline a party at the Keene Street Warehouse next to the railyards just north of Buffalo ...
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How Daughtry put rock back at the top
More than two years after he placed fourth in the American Idol’s Season 5, Chris Daughtry continues to prove (beyond any reasonable doubt) that he is, indeed, one of the top-rated talent search’s most popular non-winners.
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Performing for the love of it
Some people turn to music to heal past wounds and eventually find inner strength. Others use music to share the infectious happiness it brings to them with the listener.
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Tilly and the Wall, now with added drummer
One Wednesday night last March, the basement of the First Unitarian Church — Philadelphia's decidedly no-frills "venue" — was packed to the hilt with a couple hundred fans of Omaha quintet Tilly and the Wall. Gear had been set up, mikes checked, set lists taped to the floor, towels and b ...
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Kam: Bamitskam EP
Pop quiz: What do Los Skarnales, country music and the Baptist Church all have in common? If you said, "White people love them all," you'd be, well, we guess technically you'd be correct, but in this instance, you're wrong. The actual answer is Kamera Franklin. Known more succinctly in Houston music ...
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Locals Only
He may not have invented it — it's actually a kind of syncopation common to the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms — but he perfected it, and that inimitable "Bo Diddley beat" still pulses through plenty of today's music. So who better to pay tribute to the rock and roll pioneer than ...
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Talented musician will perform in Brandon (Thursday, July 17, 2008)
Canadian artist, Sean Ashby, will be hitting the road this summer to promote his new solo album, Brass and Gold. He will be performing at Lady of the Lake on Tuesday, July 22. Sean Ashby has played t
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"Sordid Lives" Back In Action
On "Sordid Lives: The Series," the colorful folk in a certain Texas town are back in action after having won an avid following with the 1996 play and 2000 movie of the same name.
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Billy Bob Thornton
Back when glamour ruled Hollywood and gossip wasn't yet an industry, stars were expected to do it all. If you couldn't sing, dance and act, brother, you were out. This kind of jack-of-all-trades approach to stardom has returned somewhat in recent years (the High School Musical music/TV/movie franchi ...
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SoBoBlog: News, rumors and oddments by and for the people of South Baltimore
by Colleen Wolfe soboblog@baltimoreguide.com There’s one thing that I see as indisputable about living on the peninsula. We have so many great organizations in our neighborhoods that there is always something going on. From church suppers to Easter egg hunts, Halloween parties, neighborhood clean ups, sports leagues, festivals and the myriad of other activities that go on [...]
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Music: Grupo Fantasma
Fri., July 18... By Chad Radford It's hard not to start dancing when GRUPO FANTASMA, the 11-piece Latin funk orchestra from Austin, Texas, takes the stage. The group's south-of-the-border grooves and high-energy live performances turn any concert into a fiesta. The arsenal of drums, guitars and horns fire up with volcanic force at the Earl Fri., JULY 18, when the group stops in Atlanta in ...
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Special event: Creatively Speaking
Sun., July 20... By Matthew Claiborne Enjoy a rich cultural discussion for an afternoon of CREATIVELY SPEAKING Sun., JULY 20. Princeton professor Cornel West will lead a discussion on artists and the Civil Rights Movement, along with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (right) and photographer Carrie Mae Weems. West has written and edited more than 20 books, Marsalis has received nine Grammys and the ...
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GSIS bares names of car insurance cartel
The chief of the state pension fund named companies that allegedly compose a cartel in a sector of the countrys insurance industry.
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Music: Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers
Mon., July 21... By James King Rock music is a vital component of the Americana "big tent," and ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS epitomize it. Hard enough to keep the heads bobbing, but with an extra element of gentility to make you listen closely Mon., JULY 21. Jim Bianco's gritty songs follow the trail of folks like Tom Waits, and while such comparisons seem blasphemous, in this case it's legit. ...
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Music: Gladys Knight
Fri., July 18... By David Lee Simmons When it comes to divas, Gladys Knight is the best thing that ever happened to Atlanta. The seven-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll and Georgia Music halls of fame inductee, and chicken-and-waffle entrepreneur gave her heart and soul to rhythm and blues over the past five decades. And while she's the subject of the National Black Arts Festival's LEGENDS ...
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