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Old hands, novice directors vie for Cannes diversity award - Feature
Cannes - This year's Cannes Film Festival will shine the spotlight on 20 movies in its second most prestigious section with a host of veteran and at least six novice filmmakers competing for the Un Certain Regard prize. Apart from many French directo...
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Colorful dancers twirled around the stage at the Performing Arts Center on Saturday night, spinning in perfect step to a mariachi band as they celebrated the fifth annual Folklor de Mexico music and dance concert.
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For those who dread upcoming birthdays because they think its another year closer to the end of their lives, or those who freak out at the sight of a new wrinkle because they think their face resembles a prune, "Young @Heart" serves as a friendly reminder that just because the body gets old, it doesn't mean the soul has to too.
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Children's 'peace mural', music, sculpture to shape arts benefit
NASHUA -- Children will paint a "peace mural" as customers listen to live music and, with their purchases, support the visual arts in a benefit planned for Wednesday at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Daniel Webster Highway. ... - By PATRICK MEIGHAN Staff Writer
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Students 'join hands' to benefit community
Students at Northstar Middle School will spend Friday working on a number of community service projects as part of a national service day linking youths with adults.
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
JavaOne starts today in S.F. Sun Microsystems will kick off its annual JavaOne Conference at San Francisco's Moscone Center today with a most unlikely keynote speaker: classic rocker Neil Young. Young will join a group of Sun execs on stage to "do a special...
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Community begs Hempfield board to save arts
Hempfield Area students, parents and taxpayers pleaded with school directors to avoid proposed cuts to arts programs through passage of a preliminary budget with a 1.68-mill tax increase.
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Six ways to help keep your hands pain-free
W e are sooo attached to our fingers. It's too bad we don't think much about them until they start to hurt. For example, 30 percent of computer users gripe about hand paresthesias (numbness or stinging sensations).
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?70s Quartet Reunites to Celebrate Messiaen
Tashi, the contemporary-music quartet, reunited to play Town Hall on Sunday afternoon.
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Korean history, fashion and music on display for Culture Night
After more than six months of planning, organizing and rehearsing, the seventh annual Culture Night hosted by the Korean Student Union (KSU) and the Korean Student Association (KSA) debuted on Saturday amid a kaleidoscope of music, dance and fashion.
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Taking Names
Put film directors Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese in a room together with composer-conductor John Williams and add a fleeting glimpse of Tom Cruise with wife Katie Holmes, and its Hollywood on...
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Madison Miscellany -- May 5, 2008
'lt;i'gt;Public Enemies'lt;/i'gt; comes to the Capitol Square, Dane County and the MPD squabble over the Zimmermann 911 call, weekend crime reports, lamenting the decline of the Mifflin Street Block Party, weekend live music pics, Louisianne's, Etc., UW athletics one step from winning another Border Battle, and much more can be found in this latest round-up of online social media in Madison and ...
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Smoking bans on councils’ agendas
Smoking would be against the law in bars throughout Columbia and Richland County under separate measures being considered this week. County Council members will consider a ban tonight that would apply to all workplaces in all unincorporated parts of the county — a proposal that is expected to pass, council chairman Joe McEachern said. That would include bars. McEachern, who is sponsoring the ...
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Emmanuel Jal Week: Day 2 "Vagina"
This week we have a Day in Rock first as a hip-hop artist gets the spotlight. But Emmanuel Jal is no normal hip-hopper, as you'll soon discover when he tells us the stories behind the songs of his new album "Warchild".
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Oddball electronics, audience participation at Pearl Street
Thursday night the Pearl Street Clubroom became a sweaty mass of bouncing bodies as Dan Deacon brought his high-pitched brand of nearly danceable oddball electronics to the Pioneer Valley.
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Arts & Living Articles
Austin, Texas, is quickly becoming a hotbed for upcoming musical talent and a launching pad for a plethora of indie rock acts. At the forefront of this artistic movement is Jonathan Meiburg.
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Longtime Scott news junkie made people laugh, think
William R. Steigerwald, the affable and wisecracking patriarch of a family of well-known Pittsburgh broadcasters and journalists, died Sunday, May 4, 2008, of complications resulting from a heart attack.
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Polaris Lebanon wins gold at regional LG forum
Polaris Public Relations agency, part of The Holding Group of marketing communications companies, earned the Gold Award at the LG Marketing and Public Relations Forum held recently in Istanbul, Turkey for displaying exceptional PR results by utilizing effective & innovative methods during 2007.
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Microsoft's Tellme launches BlackBerry voice search
Microsoft ( web news quote ) Corp.'s Tellme subsidiary launched an application for the BlackBerry on Tuesday that lets people speak commands into their smart phones to search for businesses, look up movie times, check traffic and make other queries.Once users download the program, they can push on their phone's green "talk" button and say either the name of a business, type of business, or ...
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Art appreciation
The chairwoman of The Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka is producing "Gift to America," a play that celebrates the murals that adorn St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale.
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May 6: Scenes from the Arts-burgh
Offerings from Pittsburgh's cultural arts and entertainment events.
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HONORED TEACHER TOUCHES MANY LIVES
When Rufus E. Payne Elementary School Principal Pearl Roziers called kindergarten teacher Cleo Jones into her office about a week ago for a chat, it seemed just about the right time for one of those "one more year" talks.
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Music From Around the World and Inside a Computer
The indie-rock outfit Firewater and the electronics duo Matmos continue their respective explorations of the world of sound on their new albums, which are out today. The New York-based Firewater, led by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Tod A., injects a healthy dose of Eastern culture into its already exotic ramshackle rock on "The Golden Hour" (Bloodshot). And the now Baltimore-based Matmos — ...
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Daily Digest of Business
RETAIL Wal-Mart expanding low-price drug program Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced...
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Cisco's Chambers May Disappoint Investors Again With Forecast
May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Chambers may roil investors for a third quarter in a row when the largest maker of networking devices announces its earnings and outlook today.
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