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Carly Patterson struggles in post-Olympics career
Gymnastics gold medalist hasn't had much success with music career. HOUSTON -- Carly Patterson wants to be a rock star. She has aimed her post-Olympic career more toward Madonna than Mary Lou Retton.
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West Side Story, Sadler's Wells, London Spartacus, Coliseum, London
Some things are timeless. In the 1950s, when oily quiffs were a grow-your-own kind of hoodie, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim wrote a song called "Gee, Officer Krupke" that brilliantly anatomised the next half century's circular thinking on the topic of juvenile delinquency. From domestic abuse to drug addiction to drink to laziness, all the causes and cures are wittily anatomised and ...
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The Portrait of a Lady, Theatre Royal, Bath Nocturne, Almeida, London Wink the Other Eye, Wilton's Music Hall, London
Has someone confused Henry James with Leonardo da Vinci? This is The Portrait of a Lady – the novelist's 1881 masterpiece about Americans on the Grand Tour – but it's as if Nicki Frei's new adaptation has been penned in mirror writing.
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Album: Milton Nascimento & Belmondo, Milton Nascimento & Belmondo (Must)
Brazilian singer-songwriter Nascimento's reputation precedes him, so much so that one fears he'll never sound as important as he did with Wayne Shorter 34 years ago.
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Album: Marianne Faithfull, Live at the BBC (Decca)
Faithfull's early pop career was as coolly, poshly, folksily soignée as any early pop career has ever been: a sonic emblem of the unreachability of a certain archetype of feminised English romanticism:
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Album: Hanggai, Introducing Hanggai (World Music Network)
This is music from the Mongolian grasslands, yet it emanates from the hutongs of Beijing, where Hanggai are spearheading a Mongolian folk revival.
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This Weekends Events
Until 27 Sep 2008 An exhibition exploring artists' books and book making, book as subject, object and theme.... more details Until 31 Dec 2008 Resident DJ's playing a wide range of music....
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Peter York On Ads: In an age when music has lost its meaning,will Knock-off Nigel be seen as a bad guy?
In the Seventies, music really mattered. In that marvellous disco line, people were "lost in music, caught in a trap". They believed music could change the world or their own lives and that musicians had mighty brains and magical powers.
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Saving trains will stop teenagers going off the rails, says former locomotive man Pete Waterman
As a catastrophic lack of engineers threatens our railways, music mogul and train fan Pete Waterman challenges the Government to back a national academy offering apprenticeships that will rescue the industry - and scores of young lives.
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Yahoo to compensate music store refugees
Yahoo will compensate customers of its Yahoo Music online store once the company shuts down its servers and prevents customers from renewing their copy protection licenses, the company says. The firm now says that anyone who purchased tracks in addition to their monthly subscriptions to Yahoo Music will be refunded "for whatever [was] paid" for th...
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Sault musician playing for 6 decades . . . and counting
Jerry Wilding has gone through his fair share of guitar strings and pics over the years. The local musician has been playing the instrument at gigs around town for over 60 years. Wilding first picked up a guitar in 1946. "There was something about it that attracted [...]
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Dell Promotes Live Music With Towels on Lake Travis
Over 800 towels were laid out at Carlos’N Charlie’s at Lake Travis for Dell's launch of the six-festival Summer Rocks tour, which kicks off next week at Lollapalooza in Chicago and ends back here in Austin at the 2008 Austin City Limits Festival. The event was part of a series of nationwide towel installations happening today at parks and beaches in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and ...
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Music Cue: Reflecting On Radovan Karadzic
Scott Simon reflects this week on the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in Serbia.
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The US competes in Celebration of Light for the first time
The USA shows its fireworks prowess tonight for the very first time in the Celebration of Light's 16-year history. The Celebration's Kari Kylo says the show should appeal to people who love pop music ...
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Fiddlefest is back in town
Fiddlefest is back in town at Hollins University and the evening concert started at 6 p.m. Earlier Saturday afternoon, bands entertained crowds at the auditorium.
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Festival-goers say kinks have been worked out
Organizers of the Pemberton Music Festival are hoping day two will go a little smoother than day one. Besides yesterday's glitches, where many people had to wait several hours for shuttle buses to take ...
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Arts council boosts Scots at folk festival
will be firmly in the limelight at next weekend's Cambridge Folk Festival, one of Europe's premier events in its field, thanks to a new Scottish Arts Council promotion.
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Taylor Swift Bumps Herself Out of No. 1 Slot
Taylor Swift outdoes herself this week. Literally. Her Beautiful Eyes CD/DVD package (available only through Wal-Mart) knocks her debut album, Taylor Swift , out of the No. 1 spot on Billboard 's country chart that it's occupied on and off for 24 of its 91 weeks in stores.
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Pop star Mika to play 'home town' Beirut
Pop star Mika speaks during a press conference in the Lebanese capital Beirut. International pop singing sensation Mika is set to play to a sell-out crowd on Sunday when he stages his first concert in Beirut, the city of his birth.
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Hats Off contest brings out creativity
NYRA is finally seeing the numbers it's been waiting for. The warm weather haD fans filtering into the Saratoga Racecourse from all across the country.
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Jazzman Johnny Griffin Dead at 80
Jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played with America's greats from Thelonious Monk to Lionel Hampton but chose to live in France, died hours before a concert
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Rosary Tapes gaining popularity
The Rosary Tapes have helped open the centuries-old tradition to other Christian denominations, according to former rock station disc jockey Bill Gildenstern and composer John Giaier, both devout Catholics.
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BC BREAKING NEWS:
Organizer Ryan Sirianni (right) checks out this year’s poster advertising the Mr. Muscle Miss Bikini contest with defending bikini champion Diana Jevons and Mr. Muscle competitor Tom McKay. The contest takes place Aug. 3 at Skaha Lake Park.
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Calendar of Events
Today Arkansas Cattlemen’s Association Summer Conference and Trade Show, 8 a.m. to noon, Tucker Coliseum; National Hay Baling Contest, 3 p.m. Altus Grape Festival.
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Sports Calendar
RHS to host tennis camps Russellville High School will host summer tennis camps featuring Stan and Lisa Gray as instructors during July and August. For more information or to sign up for these tennis camps, call Lisa Gray at (479) 223-0303 or Stan Gray at Tennis Rocks Café at (479) 223-1703.
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