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Day: Dr. Horrible Part Of Trend
Felicia Day, who co-stars in Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog , told SCI FI Wire that the Internet musical arrives just as the Web is gaining legitimacy as a launchpad for creative people.
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Musical tells a tale as old as time
An enchanted castle, replete with enchanted occupants; a beast/hero; an enlightened ingenue; a forest (also enchanted); a village and village people; a handsome, though shallow town hero; and an eccentric, though lovable father ... does it get any better?"Beauty and the Beast" has it all. A gentle tale, gently told.
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Funds may shrink as fewer dine out
Higher gas prices and an overall economic downturn mean people are eating out less in Columbia — which is bad for restaurants but could be worse for the Main Street Latin Festival, Riverbanks Zoo and a RuPaul event sponsored by S.C. Pride. Those groups depend on hospitality tax money — the two cents on the dollar you pay every time you eat out. The city already has committed $4.4 million of that ...
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GLAM-ROCK KICK
Original music is the musical's highlight. With one foot astride the world of glam rock and the other firmly entrenched in the most formulaic of musical-theater clichés (boy meets android, boy loses android, boy finds … well, you get the picture), local theater impresario Tod Kimbro has launched his most ambitious stage extravaganza yet: the science-fiction rock-musical My Illustrious Wasteland ...
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THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
On Monday, July 7, One Eyed Jack’s hosted a screening of The Gits, a rock doc about the Seattle punk-rock band of the same name whose rise was truncated by the murder and rape of their influential singer, Mia Zapata.
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E3 2008: 1UP Interviews Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto
A chat about peripherals, microphones, Animal Crossing, and Wii Music.
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CENTRAL NEW YORK NEWS
The sights, sounds and aromas of a Middle Eastern village will fill the air this weekend at one of the bigger events of every Central New York summer: the St. Elias Middle Eastern Cultural Festival in Onondaga.
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THE WATER COOLER MAN
How Miami's Jim Jonsin crafted this year's most talked-about smash. When the debut single from rapper Lil Wayne’s newest album hit the Internet in early March, the circumstances surrounding the song couldn’t have been more foreboding.
Orlando Weekly |
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Check out the latest low-cost Netbooks!
Netbooks are simple, inexpensive, compact mobile devices that can be used for surfing the Internet, emailing, working on basic office applications, listening to music and even making Skype video phone calls.
rediff.com |
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Gospel show set for Friday
The weather is a subject of virtually all conversations in our part of the country. We are having a good weather year to date in 2008. We got .25" rain last Sunday evening, and it was a blessing as it fed the plants during the night and did not evaporate. Now that is just the case where we live, and showers are always scattered this time of the year. We are over halfway through July and have not ...
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Sella Will Be Salieri in Chicago Shakespeare's Amadeus This Fall
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has snagged Robert Sella to play envious composer Salieri in its Sept. 6-Nov. 9 production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, directed by associate artistic director Gary Griffin.
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"Part of It All": [title of show] Opens on Broadway July 17
[title of show] — the new, intermissionless musical that would rather be nine people's favorite thing than 100 people's ninth favorite thing — officially opens on Broadway July 17. Previews began at the Lyceum July 5.
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Video-game designers hear the music
One of the hottest trends in video games is one of the oldest pastimes of the human race. A virtual symphony of music-playing games will soon be lining store shelves as game publishers and console makers try to capitalize on the growing popularity of the genre. The latest is from Nintendo Co., which unveiled its “Wii Music” game at the E3 video game convention in Los Angeles. Sales of music- and ...
The State |
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Come to the park for a party
FRANKLIN -- The Somerset County Park Commission Horticulture Department invites the public to the ninth annual Garden Party featuring lectures; unusual specialty plants, perennials, and garden sculptures for sale by Daisy Garden Center & Sculpture; complimentary refreshments; and live classical music.
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Musicians coming together to help two of their own
Wednesday night Tantra Lounge hosted a benefit to raise money for Jason Stats and Dave Williams. The two were seriously hurt during an attempted armed robbery.
WTOC 11 Savannah |
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Catch Surf & Turf at Farm Museum
While the Carroll County Farm Museum has become known throughout the Mid-Atlantic for hosting the Maryland Wine Festival in September, the museum is starting to gain a reputation for a new food-based festival marking its third year this Saturday.
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GO! Early
"LEGEND AND LEGACY" - Historical outdoor theater, 7 p.m. tonight, July 24 and July 31, Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, off 30th Street across from Garden of the Gods, free.
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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Apricado: Selling Your Music Has Never Been This Easy
Over the last few years we’ve seen a number of online music stores that offer independent artists a way to sell their music without a recording contract. And while a handful of these have risen to success, they tend to be pretty involved - you can’t just upload your songs and start getting paid. [...]
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Billy Joel helps say goodbye to Shea Stadium
His piano was in centerfield, out near the Mets apple, where Lenny Dykstra spent five seasons collecting grass stains on the front of his jersey. “I remember when this place was built,” Billy Joel told the Shea Stadium crowd Wednesday night. “I was about 13 or 14.
The Record |
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Guitar Hero leaps into cellphones
Guitar Hero has turned millions of people into rock stars with plastic guitars. But can they shred on a Nokia? The answer is a resounding yes.
International Herald Tribune |
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Wii Music is "more interesting than a videogame", says Miyamoto News by
Legendary Nintendo developer Shigeru Miyamoto has said he agrees with those who say WIi Music isn't a proper videogame - adding that he reckons it's even better.
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Nas Celebrates Release Of Untitled, Breaks Down Some Of The New Songs For MTV
Yes, it did feel as hot as a 19th-century Louisiana cotton field, as some people inside New York's Blender Theater at ...
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Ithaca Gears Up For Grassroots
ITHACA-- Well it's that time of year and Ithaca is preparing for four days of music, lots of food and fun. The annual Grassroots Festival is here again.
WENY-TV |
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The Whip - (Southern Fried)
Frustration is the perfect mix of Joy Division's electro bass and The Psychedelic Furs' spacey guitar and Modern English's driving pulse - in short, the perfect new wave single. How this plays out some 30 years after that kind of pop stance mattered is anyone's guess. Hey, just look at Elastica!
Hour.ca |
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Swan Mountain recpath benefit
The third annual Swan Mountain Recpath benefit concert and silent auction will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, in the Silverthorne Pavilion.
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