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Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival
Tonight Opera, "Madame Butterfly" Frank Paul Fetta, artistic director and producer. Louis Lebherz, stage director. The compelling story of a young, faithful geisha bride and the U.S. Navy officer who abandons her, then returns three years later to claim their son. Co-sponsored by Northrop Grumman Employees Charity Organization and Target.
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Local calendar, August 1
TONIGHT Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival presents "Madame Butterfly," 8:15 p.m. at the Redlands Bowl.
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PGA Championship Tee Times
© 2008 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Michigan State University's women's golf coach, Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, a Kentwood native, allegedly illegally downloaded and distributed copyrighted music, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week.
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Kevin Allocca: This Week in Rap Music: Ludacris Is a Problematic Advocate for Obama
Annotated lyrics to help you be angry about his new Obama rap song.
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World's Top-Grossing Concerts And Festivals
An uncertain global economy hasn't kept music fans from flocking to see their favorite performers.
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Billboard's Hot 100 Turns 50
The most venerable of American music charts, the Billboard Hot 100 turns 50 this week. It was first unveiled the first week of August 1958. The #1 single...
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Billy Bob Thornton Rocks Mobile
Oscar winning actor and his band played a packed house at Soul Kitchen More
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Jordan Page: Revolution March Blacked Out By Media
We need to be aware that we live in a country where the only individuals who are allowed to be viable candidates for president are those who fit into the picture that corporate interests.
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Coffee without the Bible
Coffee, the Internet, music and art all come together in a new venture for a Santa Cruz church.
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'Big River' is big fun at theater festival
REDLANDS - "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; Persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; Persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
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String Band Music Festival Underway
Appalachian music takes center stage through Sunday.
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‘Unity’ at heart of Umoja festival
The 12th annual UMOJA/Unity Festival takes place Aug. 8 and 9 at Freedom Hall, bringing the event’s usual diverse array of music, African drumming and dancing, stilt walking and storytelling, as well as food and craft vendors, a children’s carnival, medical screenings and more.
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Chicago Latino Music Festival Gets Ready to Cover Six Centuries
John Von Rhein--Chicago Tribune. This year Chicago music is moving to a Latin beat--a Latin classical beat, that is--as never before. And you will want to put on your dancing shoes and join in.
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BLOTCH: The Weekender (Anthony Mariani)
Fans of good-ass music are gonna be torn tomorrow (Sat), especially fans of good-ass alt-country-ish stuff. At The Moon (2911 W Berry St, 817-926-9600), there’s Telegraph Canyon .At Lola’s Saloon (2736 W 6th St, 817-877-0666), there are local Tarrant-County killers the Whiskey Folk Ramblers and bluegrazz (that’s “bluegrass” and “jazz”) a-picker and a-grinner Darrin Kobetich , who both are ...
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BLOTCH: August 2008
"The Weekender": Anthony Mariani Fans of good-ass music are gonna be torn tomorrow (Sat), especially fans of good-ass alt-country-ish stuff. At The Moon (2911 W Berry St, 817-926-9600), there’s Telegraph Canyon .At Lola’s Saloon (2736 W 6th St, 817-877-0666), there are local Tarrant-County killers the Whiskey Folk Ramblers and bluegrazz (that’s “bluegrass” and “jazz”) a-picker and a-grinner ...
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Review: Strange Music by Laura Fish Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
Review: Strange Music by Laura Fish Review: Blonde Roots by Bernardine EvaristoHelen Oyeyemi on stories of slavery that refuse tragedy its utter darkness
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Religion Notes
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville presents special music by Still on the Hill at 11 a.m. Sunday. Courtney Montgomery-Burnett of The Green Sanctuary Committee will speak.
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Civil War group coming Aug. 9
A Civil War encampment is coming to Centennial Park noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9. The free event is being presented by The Holland Museum and sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. Among the offerings will be a Union Company drill, a period fashion show, music, an orator doing a recruitment speech and presentations on period medicine and foods.
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Catch: Music of the Night in Ipoh
THE Perak Society Of Performing Arts’ (PSPA) International Ensemble is back on Aug 15 with Music Of The Night, a new repertoire featuring eight internationally acclaimed musicians from the United States, South Korea, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
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Music Director Sentenced In Rape Of 12-Year-Old
The former music director of an influential Baltimore church is sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl.
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Music Director Sentenced In Rape Of Minor
A music director has been sentenced in the rape of a 12-year-old.
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Hip hop political convention kicks off in LV
Barack Obama may be deleting Ludacris from his iPod playlist after calling the rapper's new pro-Obama rhyme "outrageously offensive," but one nonprofit organization is using hip hop to motivate twenty- and thirty-somethings to get involved in politics.
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Blueberry Festival WBNG-TV Binghamton, NY Local Top Stories
It's a sweet celebration in Montrose. The 29th annual Blueberry Festival kicked off this morning. The community says it's ripe for good fun, good music, and of course a good blueberry.
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Christian bookstore to close
Cornerstone Books and Music is closing its doors at the Hills Plaza. Paul Grabill's Pray Tell blog reports details.
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Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
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