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Crowds put own twist on Cinco de Mayo
Blue plastic kiddie pools filled with Jell-O shots, beer cans and handles of liquor surrounded about 600 people's muddy feet as some jumped off the roof, cannonballing into a pool Saturday. Music, which could be heard from blocks away, blasted through speakers starting at about 10:30 a.
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Free Times - Ohio's Premier News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly
All of us in America, except for the tribes we've shuffled into specially reserved little corners of the landscape, are either immigrants or descended from them. But since the Sept. 11 attacks, racial stereotyping and fear have held sway as if that weren't our history.
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Free Times - Ohio's Premier News, Arts, & Entertainment Weekly
Get Down! Holiday party, sometime in the '70s. Cleveland-area music business people, from record companies, retail outlets and radio stations. John Gorman, program director for rock station WMMS, is there.
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Activists raise funds for immigrant march
One of Rocio Guido-Ferns' students missed an appointment with her last week because his aunt was shot and killed at the Mexico-United States border. "This is so close to us," Guido-Ferns said. "… We can't stand still and not do anything." Poverty and domestic violence motivated the Chico State alumna to organize the Immigrants' Rights March, an event that could bring thousands of ...
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Big Band concert is May 11
The Arizona Jazz Academy will hold it’s fifth annual Mother’s Day Big Band Concert on Sunday, May 11, at the Tucson Temple of Music and Art. The concert will feature the academy’s award winning big bands including The Kenton Band, The Basie Band, The Ellington Band and The Fletcher Henderson Band performing music of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.
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Hillstomp to bang out beats on pickle buckets
One man's trash is another man's instrument. At least for Portland, Ore., blues duo Hillstomp. The unorthodox band will be playing at Nick's Night Club tonight with Aubrey Debauchery and The Puke Boots. Drummer John Johnson - yes, that's his real name - sets himself apart from other musicians by playing on cardboard boxes, plastic buckets and a Weber grill lid instead of a typical drum ...
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Jazz X-Press to groove for benefit at Nick's Night Club
Graffiti is welcome in few places on campus, but associate professor Rocky Winslow proudly displays his decorated office walls, tagged by distinguished jazz musicians including Bobby Shew and Lori Bell. Winslow is the director of the jazz studies program and the student ensemble Jazz X-Press.
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Weekend
Art Nouveau-inspired ceramic tile by Marina Bosetti is on display at the N.C. Crafts Gallery, 212 W. Main St., Carrboro. A reception will be held Friday, May 9, from 6 to 9 p.m. as part of the monthly 2nd Friday Artwalk.
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Siejak’s skill, attitude wins audiences
Mary Siejak knows what it takes to be a true performer. The Holy Redeemer High School senior said it takes knowledge and skill, the ability to take on the character of a dance and portray it, and the ability to connect with each member of the audience. Her ability to make that connection made her a finalist in the Performing Arts category.
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"Radio City Christmas Spectacular" holds dancers audition
Dancers take part in open auditions to become a Radio City Rockette for the annual "Radio City Christmas Spectacular" show in New York City, May 6, 2008. Hundreds of young aspiring dancers waited in line to audition at Radio City Music Hall for one of the coveted spots on the famed Rockette dance line that headlines the annual Christmas show that has run for 75 years.
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Wits & Wagers
[Xbox Live Arcade] Wits & Wagers is a trivia party game where you don't need the right answers to win. For each question, bet on the answer you think is closest to the truth, whether or not that answer is your own.
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Top Scoops
Why is Israel an apartheid state? What are the similarities between it and the old South African regime? Is the separate Palestinian state talked about by Bush and the foreign policy elite of both Democrats and Republicans a real solution?
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Music Review: Robert Forster - The Evangelist
The former Go-Between mourns the loss of his onetime band cohort. When it comes to the Go-Betweens, it has never been precisely clear where the band's two singer/songwriters, Robert Forster & Grant McLennan, began and ended. As with many great bands, a big key to the Brisbane art poppers' success was in the way the 'Tweens' two major creative forces jostled against each other. So when...
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Monterey Music Summit Confirmed
The Monterey County Board of Supervisors today overwhelming approved the Monterey Music Summit to proceed with their plans to hold their 3 day music and art event
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Whitireia Arts, Manila to Porirua
It was cold and clear last night (Tuesday 6 May) at the new arts building on the edge of Porirua Harbour.
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Microsoft and Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group Partner to Develop In-Car Infotainment
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 -- SEOUL, South Korea -- Microsoft Corp. and Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group (HKAG) entered into a long-term agreement to co-develop the next generation of in-car infotainment systems, the companies jointly announced today.
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DON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST
College is an ideal time to try out “the band thing.” It starts with a dorm-room jam session, then legitimate rehearsals and some house-party gigs.
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I Left My Heart in a Donut Shop
Iggy Scam, famous among Mission District punks as a 'zine writer, musician, and activist, has grown older. He changed his name back to Erick Lyle, for example. He hasn't changed much else, though: His book, On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City, is pro-junkie, anti-cop, and maintain ...
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The Kids are Alright
Children's art, like children's literature, can be downright profound in its simplicity, not to mention refreshing for the lack of guesswork and determined contemplation the adult art world can demand. (Those knowing laughs at avant-garde performances aren't fooling anybody anyway, so why not give y ...
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Summer in the City
No need to limit your al fresco arts activities to Stern Grove. The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival ensures that you can get some fresh air and take in a few of the Bay Area's cultural treasures year round — sometimes even on your lunch break. The festival features over one hundred free events, ra ...
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Qtel’s MyTones service a big hit
doha • Qtel's MyTones service, launched last month, is proving to be a huge hit with customers. Over 110,000 customers have already purchased some 200,000 tones. Arabic and Islamic tones are proving to be the most popular, especially those by artists Mohamed Abdo, Samy Youssef, Amr Diab and Elissa.
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Berkeley Rep's Figaro is light entertainment
It's hard to imagine a work of art more redolent of the cultural establishment than Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. The staple of international opera houses and "Top 10 Operas of All Time" lists has become so closely tied to the petrified world of "high art" that people forget the work's anarchic r ...
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3G launched in Chiang Mai
CHIANG MAI : Advanced Info Service (AIS) yesterday staged the commercial launch of third-generation (3G) mobile broadband services in Chiang Mai under a 600-million-baht plan. The country's largest mobile operator has a head start in 3G and plans start offering service in Bangkok in mid-June.
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Local High Grad Returns To Share Musical Career With Students
A local high school graduate who’s forging a career in music took some time Tuesday to share what he’s learned with students at his alma mater and in the process learned a little himself about the district’s commitment to the fine arts.
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Wallpaper brings the ‘80s party as it spoofs a new decade of greed
The music comes crashing out of your speakers like shoppers out of a Macy's sale starting line. The band is Wallpaper, its trashy synth-pop riding garage-sale drum machine beats as a singer wails about "going big on the weekends." You turn it up, bobbing your head at the lyrics. They're vague, biza ...
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