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Will R. Kelly Finally Go on Trial?
The R&B star's trial on charges of having sex with a minor has been thwarted several times since 2002. Now he may get his day in court
Time Magazine |
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Native Instruments Announces GUITAR RIG SESSION
GUITAR RIG SESSION is a new recording solution for guitarists, bass players and songwriters that provides studio-quality results at an entry-level price.
Harmony Central |
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Passing Strange 's Stew to Perform at Alice Tully Hall's Opening Nights Festival
Stew – the co-creator and star of the new Broadway musical Passing Strange – will take part in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall Opening Nights Festival in 2009.
Playbill |
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Seminoles woes continue; starting offensive tackle leaves
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- School officials say Florida State's starting offensive tackle is ineligible for the 2008 season.
First Coast News |
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Letter to the Editor: Now’s the time for tickets 05-07-2008
Just a few years ago at school, Pat Carthel said to me. “Bill, community concerts is really your passion!” I have to agree with her that this Plainview cultural tradition is very important to me.
Plainview Daily Herald |
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Furtado to be honoured by RCM
TORONTO - Singer/songwriter Nelly Furtado will be honoured by the Royal Conservatory of Music at its annual gala on May 28, the organization said Wednesday.
Jam! Showbiz |
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Starting Florida St. left tackle Rose ruled ineligible
School officials say one of Florida State's starting offensive tackles is ineligible for the 2008 season.
ESPN |
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Hints of a thaw as a Chinese ensemble plays the Vatican
The China Philharmonic Orchestra performed Mozart's "Requiem" along with the Shanghai Opera House Chorus for Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday, a concert that could signal a thaw in the relationship between the Vatican and the Chinese government.
International Herald Tribune |
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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Girl on the Fridge': Untethered imagination looses tales
"The Girl on the Fridge" by Etgar Keret; Farrar, Straus & Giroux ($12) Intifadas, targeted killings, checkpoints, kidnappings, Qassam rockets, the occasional suicide bombing or massacre. If you follow the news in American media about Israel, you might wonder what's worth celebrating in 10 days, when that harried nation turns 60. One quick answer among many: a vibrant arts culture. The handful of ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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State honors WPMS with high-achieving award
The Nevada Department of Education presented White Pine Middle School with a high achieving award and selected WPMS as one of six model schools to present at the DOE's 15th annual Mega Conference at South Lake Tahoe April 25-27.
Ely Daily Times |
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Coldplay to be featured in Euro 2008 promos on ESPN
ESPN and Coldplay have entered into an agreement to use music from the band's upcoming album as part of the network's promotion of its upcoming coverage of the Euro 2008 soccer tournament, according to The Associated Press. (DIS)
Los Angeles Business Journal |
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Music reduced to beautiful math
It’s hard for anyone to say what music looks like, but a new mathematical approach sees classical music as cone-shaped and jazz as pyramid-like.
MSNBC |
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Art Car Block Party
It’s time once again to shut down Allen Parkway in the name of ridiculous rides. The Art Car Parade will make its way down the thoroughfare tomorrow, but you can sneak a peak at the flower-shaped, cigarette-laced, George Clinton-inspired and other themed-automobiles at the Art Car Block Party. ...
Houston Press |
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Calendar of major business events scheduled for Thursday
The Associated Press May 7, 2008 - 2:17 p.m. NEW YORK — Major retailers report same-store sales for April. WASHINGTON — Labor Department reports on weekly jobless claims.
Canadian Business |
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Dining room with a view
I’ve spent hours enjoying a meal and looking out over the water, whether in a bar in New York, a sandwich cart on the Irish Sea, a restaurant overlooking the River Thames in London, a falafel place on the Mediterranean in Tel Aviv, a cruise ship dining room following a hurricane on the Atlantic or in restaurants along Lake Michigan.
City Pulse |
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Best of Greater Lansing: Readers' Choice
As recent events in Zimbabwe, Russia, Pakistan, Kenya and Michigan have shown, voting is a tricky business. You don’t want disenfranchisement, riots, or Jimmy Carter knocking on your door, ready to scold.
City Pulse |
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'60s Japanese cartoons led to anime, new 'Speed Racer' film
"Speed Racer" careens into theaters Friday, dragging with it a $120 million budget, the bruised reputation of directors the Wachowski brothers - whose careers need a shot of nitro after the flameouts of the last two "Matrix" debacles - and the summer hopes of a movie industry desperately in need of a few winners.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Madonna’s “Hard Candy” goes down easily with music buyers
Madonna fans ate up 280,000 copies of her ”Hard Candy” last week, making it the new No. 1 album. That takes Mariah Carey’s “E=MC2,” the chart-topper the past two weeks, down to the runner-up slot after selling 95,000 copies last week.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Lo-Fi Saint Louis: Music and Culture from River City
This local music site is a labor of love for South Sider Bill Streeter. Streeter, who is a “graphic designer, A/V geek, husband, dad, artist, thinker, human being and some other things,” told me his main goal is to spread the word about unique happenings and bands in St. Louis.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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A conversation with Mohammed Al-Farra of Palestinian Rapperz
As a hip-hop quartet originating in perennial battleground the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Rapperz are currently serving as the archetype for a simmering Middle Eastern rap scene alongside scene patriarchs DAM, a Palestinian trio birthed in the slums of Lod, a small city in the state of Israel. And with ...
Houston Press |
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Analog America: A Four Course Meal of Found Sound
At Hollow Earth Radio's basement digs in north Seattle, station co-founder Amber Kai Morgan keeps a stash of answering machine cassettes in a Mason jar marked "beans." As self-proclaimed salvagers of prerecorded sound, Morgan and her boyfriend, Garrett Kelly, are junkies for this stuff. When the tw ...
Houston Press |
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Calendar of major business events scheduled for Thursday
NEW YORK -- Major retailers report same-store sales for April. WASHINGTON -- Labor Department reports on weekly jobless claims.
The Forex Market |
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Sex at Rice University, Indicted Politicians, McGrady vs McCready
Rice University is the latest campus to get a student sex magazine. It looks like they need it. As part of the inaugural issue of Open magazine, which is as disappointingly classy and nonpornographic as you'd expect from the Rice brainiacs, close to 800 students answered an online sex survey. ...
Houston Press |
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Lithuania offers Baltimore bust of native Frank Zappa; but will they erect it?
BALTIMORE - Frank Zappa, who sang about "Plastic People," has been cast in bronze. Again. In 1995, a quirky bunch of Lithuanian artists and intellectuals managed to erect a bust of the eccentric rocker in downtown Vilnius, the capital of the former Soviet republic.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Schedule set for Memorial Day weekend's Vandalia Gathering
On Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25, the Cultural Center and State Capitol grounds will be the site of the 32nd Vandalia Gathering – the state’s annual celebration of the traditional arts, music, dance, stories, crafts and food of West Virginia.
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch |
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