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LAKE ELSINORE: Car shows planned for August
LAKE ELSINORE ---- The parking lot at The Diamond will be used to stage car show events each Thursday during August. The full name for the car show events is "Blazin' August Nights Custom Car and Chopper Show." The festival-style event will feature c
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Buzz Report: How to get your girlfriend to answer her cell phone
This week in Buzz, a magic device for getting women to answer their cell phones, NASA has a leak, and MTV gets into music. Yeah! Music!
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Mellencamp calls himself an ‘ex-rock star’
Although John Mellencamp was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the veteran doesn’t consider himself a rocker — at least not anymore.
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‘E3 '08 = epic fail'
Look for music titles, but not for originality coming out of annual games show
The Globe and Mail |
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Songs you can’t forget
Residents from all over Hillsdale County filled Mrs. Stock’s Park on Tuesday night with lawn chairs, blankets and pets to watch the Unforgettables, a female vocal trio in the tradition of the Andrews Sisters, serenade them with hits from the World War II era.
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Night of music and hope
Here'S how you can enjoy great music this Sunday with some of the best bands and singers in the Klang Valley — turn up at C18 in Bangsar and live it up. At the same time, do your bit for a good cause.
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Music in education
IN a manner very similar to the flying prehistoric bone in Stanley Kubrick’s film ‘2001: A space odyssey’, we fast forward to our day and examine how much is music imbedded in our lives and our education.
The Borneo Post |
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Heritage Bypass more than just a road
The opening of the Kerikeri Heritage Bypass by Prime Minster Helen Clark today marks the beginning of a new era for Kerikeri, and a new level of appreciation for New Zealand’s heritage according to the head of the country’s lead heritage protection agency.
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Plain talk about Girl Talk
Sooner or later, Gregg Gillis is going to get sued for doing what he does best. Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, is a Pittsburgh, Penn. musician whose work is comprised entirely from samples of other musicians’ work.
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Jazzing up the music of the Fab Four
David Kikoski and BeatleJazz. When: Tuesday-Wednesday, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Where: Zinc Bar, 90 W. Houston St., New York. How Much: No music charge, no minimum.
The Star-Ledger |
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Pianist gets warm receptionat Mannes College concert
International Keyboard Institute & Festival. Where: Mannes College, 150 W. 85th St., New York. When: Recitals at 6 p.m. (Prestige Series) and 8:30 p.m. (Masters Series) through July 27. How much: Concerts, $20; master classes, $15; festival concert pass, $250. Call (212) 580-0210, ext. 4858, or visit ikif.org .
The Star-Ledger |
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Last Saturday some 50 kids learnt the value of forgiveness at The Music Workshop's annual show in Kingston.
These kids are not from troubled communities, they are the children of professionals, being groomed to become their parents.
The Jamaica Observer |
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Bay Area top 20 albums
This weekNationArtistAlbumLast week 14BeckModern Guilt-22ColdplayViva La Vida131Lil WayneTha Carter III243Camp Rock Soundtrack357Mamma Mia!Soundtrack-618JourneyRevelation6710John MayerWhere the Light Is: Live in Los Angeles 4821DuffyRockferry898RihannaGood...
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'Spamalot' writer Idle offering new musical
In Eric Idle's world, a leaf blower is part of the orchestra. The Monty Python star and "Spamalot" writer is bringing his silliness back to the stage with "Not the Messiah," a musical comedy hodgepodge that features a full orchestra and the occasional leaf...
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'West Side Story' to return with 1st director, 90
Get ready to rumble. "West Side Story" returns to Broadway in 2009. The classic New York musical loosely based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" about the Sharks, the Jets and the ill-fated love affair involving a young man and woman caught between the...
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S.F. singin' the blues at annual festival
The world's longest-running blues bash will serve up another rich stew of music on the Great Meadow at Fort Mason on Sept. 27 and 28, when the 36th annual San Francisco Blues Festival brings forth Texas guitar demon Johnny Winter, the rocking Louisiana...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Movie review: 'Mamma Mia!' a musical vacation
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Mamma Mia!: Musical comedy. Starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Amanda Seyfried. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. (PG-13. 108 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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For immediate release: the arts are marketable
Each week, I'll post an interview with someone far more knowledgeable than myself on specific marketing and publicity subjects. This week, multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose on performing in, marketing himself in and making a living in the classical, Broadway and indie rock worlds.
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Date Lines
More Music@Menlo The sixth season of the chamber festival Music@Menlo, which begins today and runs through Aug. 8 in Atherton and Palo Alto, returns to the chronological format of its inaugural season. Planned by artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han,...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Opera review: This 'Trovatore' goes a bit flat
Smaller opera companies try to mix their offerings between the unusual fare that keeps things lively and the tried-and-true repertoire that brings subscribers in. For the Festival Opera in Walnut Creek - which has largely mastered that delicate balancing act -...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Italian Festival Starts Out Hot
People going out for the first day of the festival battle the heat and poor air quality.
WKBW-TV Buffalo |
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Trace Adkins coming back to Coliseum, this time with Alan Jackson
BLOOMINGTON -- What could be one of the bigger country shows in Bloomington-Normal history is coming this fall: an October marquee-buster headlined by Alan Jackson, with a little help from his good buddy Trace Adkins — the latter making his third Bloomington appearance in less than two years.
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Minnesota rock classics to be reissued
The Replacements' last four albums -- "Tim," "Pleased to Meet Me," "Don't Tell a Soul" and "All Shook Down," originally issued 1985-91 on Sire Records -- will all be resold with six to 10 bonus tracks apiece.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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He ain't heavy... Italy's metal brother
He's not your normal heavy metal rocker, though he does have long hair. Italy's heavy metal brother is a Capuchin monk.
MSNBC |
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He ain't heavy... Italy's metal brother
MILAN (Reuters) - Dressed in his traditional brown robe, sandals and twirling the rope around his waist, 62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.
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