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Acadiana Arts Council festival draws crowds, raises funds
The Acadiana Arts Council held its second annual Gulf Brew, a southern beer tasting festival, July 19 at Parc International.
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Coastal Community Briefs - July 27, 2008
O'side Elks hold bingo OCEANSIDE ---- Oceanside Elks Lodge 1561 will hold bingo at 1 p.m. July 27 at 444 Country Club Lane. Profits are used only for charitable purposes. Call (760) 433-1561.
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August Calendar: Austin Ice Cream Festival and more
Dates and sites may change. Before attending an event, contact the chamber of commerce or tourist office to verify details. Austin Ice Cream Festival , Austin, Aug. 16. Event features a truck with a giant melting cone on top, along with prizes for ice cream eating, ice cream making, frozen ice-stick sculptures and plain old screaming.
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Reggae vibe draws thousands to city
Some came to listen to feel-good reggae music.
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Local road race calendar
New Paltz Summer Cross Country Series Blueberry Run, July 28, 7 p.m., Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 4-mile run starting at the lake and going around the lake and old golf course. Fourth race in the five-race series. Children's --mile and mile races begin before adult races.
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Television - Entertainment
In the last of our special stories for Maori Language Week, we are looking at a Maori composer who helped make songs in Maori popular with a much wider audience.
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Students' play will recreate Moses' freeing Israelites
The Biblical story of Moses setting his people free will be recreated in dance, music and storytelling by youngsters performing Let My People Go 7 p.m. Thursday at Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church in Perrine.
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Loud music, sexual lyrics in the workplace disturb employee
DEAR AMY My workplace recently installed broadcast music. We work in cubicles, and there are various job functions going on in the same area. I have to read heavy documents and hold discussions with vendors about products vitally important to our company.
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Saxophonist Johnny Griffin -- the `Little Giant'
Johnny Griffin, a tenor saxophonist from Chicago whose speed, control and harmonic acuity made him one of the most talented American jazz musicians of his generation yet who spent most of his career in Europe, died Friday at his home in Availles-Limouzine, a village in France. He was 80 and had lived there for 24 years.
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Meet the players
AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE Instrument: Trumpet Age: 26 Born: Oakland Raised: Oakland Lives now: Manhattan Educated: Berkeley High School, Manhattan School of Music, University of Southern California, Thelonious Monk Institute CDs: "Prelude to Cora" Has played with:...
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Bay Area prodigies at Stanford Jazz Festival
The Bay Area prodigies are coming back, and the Stanford Jazz Festival's got 'em. It's an old story, really. Aspiring jazz artists, so the script goes, won't hit the big time unless they move to New York to make it in the jazz capital of the world. In recent...
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Unruled song market
VietNamNet Bridge – The market for songs appeared in the early years of the 21 st century. This market has been expanded recently and currently it opens periodically in Hanoi and HCM City .
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'She wanted to make it her way'
Mourners recall groundbreaking DJ Khia Edgerton as determined, hard-working and talented The thousands of fans who filed into Morgan State University's auditorium for Khia Edgerton's funeral yesterday could recite her accomplishments: recording artist, radio personality, leader of an underground music movement.
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THIS WEEK
S THEATER SAN FRANCISCO THEATER FESTIVAL One hundred chunks of drama in a six-hour stretch on 14 stages at Yerba Buena Gardens. What's the point? You can pick and choose among Bay Area Rep's "Shakespeare's Lost Masterpieces," Cellar Door Theatre's "Vampire...
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FRESH
THEATER All Shook Up , Peninsula Youth Theatre, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Sat.-Aug. 10). MOVIES Opening Friday: American Teen (PG-13), documentary. Baghead (R), Ross Partridge, Greta Gerwig. Bustin' Down the Door (not rated, documentary),...
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Fun with the sun and science
Whoever said science isn't fun hasn't been to the solar eclipse sleepover at the Exploratorium. Today's cover story by Delfín Vigil focuses on the party, which includes movies, music, hands-on activities such as telescope making and stargazing, and Dragon...
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'Dead Symphony' fits with lively orchestra
BALTIMORE -- When the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra warms up Friday, the musicians will be clad in their usual summer attire: white dinner jackets and bow ties for the men, white tops and black skirts or slacks for the women.
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THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS
CLASSICAL MUSIC • The next "Music at St. Luke's" program will take place at 11:30 a.m. today in St. Luke's Church, 107 E. Broadway, Granville. Organist and choirmaster Scott G. Hayes will perform J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor , among other works, and discuss pipe and digital organs. Admission is free. Call 740-587-0167.
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Pop hits seldom spin enough story for a winning musical
Jukebox musicals get no respect -- maybe because they're so hard to pull off.
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Filipina singer Catherine Loria wins in WCOPA 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA—Vocalists from the Philippines and Jamaica were awarded top honors in the 2008 World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) or the Hollywood Olympics' grand finals night held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel on Friday, July 25. Junior contestant Catherine Loria from the Philippines and senior contestant Andrew Clarke from Jamaica were proclaimed Grand Champion Performers ...
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`Oz' cast gives acting lessons to youngsters
REDLANDS - As a part of the Children's Summer Music Festival workshops, local children were treated to a crash course in acting courtesy of the cast and director of "The Wizard of Oz.
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Narken rolls to big lead
SAUGERTIES - Music teacher Ingrid Narken found the right tempo and rarely missed a beat Saturday while shooting eight-over-par 78 in the opening round of the 50th annual Ulster County Women's Golf Association Tournament.
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Garage Band Idol
Let us listen to your original song, and we'll tell you if it sucks or not
Toronto Sun |
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A festival of Indian dance and music
Vyjayanthi Kashi: Poetry in motion. Photo: Jason Borg. India's top dancer Vyjayanthi Kashi believes dance is like poetry. "Just as when you're fluent with your grammar, you make poetry instead of words," she says. "Dance is something so natural to me that it becomes my poetry, my breath.
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Benjamin-Beechwood Hosts Block Party at Arverne By The Sea
Benjamin-Beechwood showcased it's award-winning 2300-unit, $500 million Smart Growth Community, Arverne by the Sea, in the Rockaways on New York's Queens/Nassau border, on July 19th with a block party and fund raiser for New York City's 100th Precint Community Council. (PRWeb Jul 27, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1145614.htm
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