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Urbandale High sells bricks for arts center
Urbandale High School will have a new performing arts center in spring 2009 as part of the high school's reconstruction project. The Performing Arts Booster Club is selling engraved bricks that will be embedded in the wall at the entrance to the new building.
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Chart greets 'Adios' by Mexican group Intocable
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Intocable's "Tu Adios No Mata" debuted this past week at No. 1 on Billboard's Regional Mexican Airplay chart, a feat that hasn't been accomplished since Los Tigres del Norte's "Lagrimas" debuted in the top spot in 1999.
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REDBRIDGE: Is gender really so instrumental?
MOST parent's heart will sink when their teenager says: "I want to learn the electric guitar." But according to a report by the Institute of Education, you're much more likely to suffer such pains if you're parenting a boy.
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Many wireless resellers going under
A few years ago, organizations from Disney to 7-Eleven to the local pinochle club were jumping into the cellphone business, leveraging their brands to appeal to niches untapped by the big carriers.
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The composers can't get a word in edgewise when Paul Lewis plays
For Paul Lewis, the English pianist who gave a forceful but not always persuasive recital in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon, music would seem to be a particularly nuanced branch of athletics - something akin to weightlifting, say, or wrestling. It's a matter of...
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Three cheers for steaming the cell phone
Steve Beck of UC Berkeley is a sound/video wizard/engineer, whose work melds art and science. In other words, he is friend to all things bright and shiny and tech-y. Nonetheless, he e-mailed last week, "A guy was in the sauna recently with his cell phone. And...
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Kenny Chesney to play at Glencoe during Sturgis rally
Kenny Chesney to play at Glencoe during Sturgis rallyTickets to Kenny Chesney’s performance at Glencoe are available at www.startickets.com. Glencoe camping information and additional line-up announcements may be found at www.rockntherally.com.
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Turkish Alevis fight back against religion lessons
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Dancing to express their piety, the young women and men in a solemn circle are part of a Turkish religious community whose members say they are fighting assimilation by the government.
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Exquisite performances by Juilliard graduates at Evening of Classics
Daniel Phillips is in demigod position. His left hand is on violin, his right is suspended with bow at 12 like a wand - he swoops down, creating magic.
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Keeping the faith
Lynette Rodes, wife of Pastor Rodes, spends part of the hour reading the bible. "It's so peaceful in here. I like it kind of quiet. You can read what people write and pray for them and join them in their prayers," Rodes said.
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NEW YORK - Harry Connick Jr. and the Gershwins, George and Ira - Broadway's newest trio. The jazz pianist-singer will return to Broadway in spring 2009 in "Nice Work If You Can Get It," a new musical comedy using Gershwin standards, producer Scott Landis announced Monday.
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Cleveland Institute Of Music Appoints A Star President
It's Juilliard String Quartet first violinist Joel Smirnoff. In addition to the quartet, the 58-year-old Smirnoff is chair of the Juilliard School's violin department."
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of social anthropology at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Bolu. Turkey’s ruling AK Party, which has roots in political Islam, has publicly defended the rights of Turkey’s pious Muslims in officially secular Turkey.
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Discovery charter works out agreement with Moreland School District
Discovery Charter School students were hoping for a school of their own, but they will have to settle for a shared campus during the next two years.
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Turkish Alevis fight back against religion lessons
Dancing to express their piety, the young women and men in a solemn circle are part of a Turkish religious community whose members say they are fighting assimilation by the government.
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Harry Connick Jr. returns to Broadway in `Nice Work If You Can Get It'
NEW YORK - Harry Connick Jr. and the Gershwins, George and Ira — Broadway's newest trio. The jazz pianist-singer will return to Broadway in spring 2009 in "Nice Work If You Can Get It," a new musical comedy using Gershwin standards, producer Scott Landis announced Monday.
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Turkish Alevis fight back against religion lessons
Dancing to express their piety, the young women and men in a solemn circle are part of a Turkish religious community whose members say they are fighting assimilation by the government.
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Turkish Alevis fight back against religion lessons
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Dancing to express their piety, the young women and men in a solemn circle are part of a Turkish religious community whose members say they are fighting assimilation by the government.
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Harry Connick Jr. returns in `Nice Work If You Can Get It'
Harry Connick Jr. and the Gershwins, George and Ira - Broadway's newest trio. The jazz pianist-singer will return to Broadway in spring 2009 in "Nice Work If You Can Get It," a new musical comedy using Gershwin standards, producer Scott Landis announced Monday. Connick will play a Long Island playboy in the show, which will feature a book by Joe DiPietro, one of the authors of "I Love You, ...
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By John Seal
From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex! All times Pacific. 1:15 AM Turner Classic Movies Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1957 GB): Tales of British wartime heroism were as mother's milk to most boys growing up in 1960s England, including this one.
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JoBeth Williams stars in the new comedy `Body Awareness'
At Vermont's idyllic Shirley State College, they are celebrating "Body Awareness Week," but then a photographer shows up, carting his collection of photographs of naked women.
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Like sea, Indian flute calls to retiree
Former prize fighter and gritty British Merchant Marine keeps his life in tune by playing the Native American flute.
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Xavier Perez at All About Jazz
Biography Raised in the Hialeah, Florida area to Cuban parents, Xavier represents two distinct cultures in his musical compositions and life.
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Lee County school district looking to cut $14.6M from budget
Gone are student field trips. Dismissed are dozens of administrators, bus drivers and secretaries. Reduced are funds for high school athletic events, musical instrument repair and marching band uniforms. But the Lee County school district still needs to cut $14.6 million from its budget, and that money looks to come right from the salaries, raises or health insurance benefits of workers with the ...
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