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Marisa Treviño: Latina Teen Pregnancy Rate Deserves Recognition as National Crisis
Today's Latino teen pregnancy statistics underscore the need to start opening our eyes to what has the potential to change the economic course of the future of this country.
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Thrill of discovery
NEW local music getting exposed is always a good thing. As an online presence, the Nokia Independent Artist Club (IAC) has presented exciting and diverse new local music to the masses as well as given opportunities for established names to build a network base through IAC's regional reach.
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Radiohead Extends Remix Voting as Entrants Bellyache
Sour grapes or sound reasoning? The "Nude" remix contest earns the wrath of some participants.
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Portishead back after 10-year hiatus with their 'Third' album
INDIO, Calif. - As Portishead finished its meticulously sparse evening performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the typically reticent Beth Gibbons suddenly leapt off the stage and ran a 100-yard dash along the fenced-in crowd, exuberantly shaking their hands.
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Jazz in the White House
Who Let Them In!
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Man of principle
PASIR Mas MP Datuk Paduka Ibrahim Ali has often been described as a “frog” because he has jumped from one political party to another.
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Piping to the beat of their own drummer & drum major
ALLENTOWN - The family that plays together stays together. Members of Allentown's Owens family are closer than ever since they started sharing their passions for music.
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Local auditions set for 'One Night on Broadway'
The new Millstone Performing Arts Center, 5 Dawson Court, in the Perrineville section of Millstone, will hold auditions for "One Night on Broadway" on May 12 and 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. and May 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The show will be a compilation of Broadway highlights.
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New grants encourage creativity in the aging
The National Endowment for the Arts has new grant guidelines to actively engage olderAmericans in the disciplines of literature and/or music. Approximately 15 grants will be awarded in the amount of $15,000 or $25,000 and require a one-to-one match. Applications must be submitted via www.grants.gov by May 23 for project support that would begin after Jan. 1, 2009.
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News Corp. Profit Triples on Gain From DirecTV Sale (Update3)
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- News Corp. , the owner of the MySpace Web site and Fox television, said third-quarter profit tripled on a $1.67 billion gain from the sale of its stake in DirecTV Group Inc. and advertising from ``American Idol'' and the Super Bowl.
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Setting the right mood
Patrons of the Borneo Rainforest restaurant at Bandar Sunway had a swinging good time on Monday night when the popular jazz band Mood Indigo gave a sneak preview performance during a stopover on its way to the Miri Inter-national Jazz Festival.
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At 63, Rod Stewart not ready to slow down
CHICAGO - Hall of Fame rocker Rod Stewart is 63 years old, but nowhere near retirement as he considers a wish list of future projects that include a movie, an R&B album, and maybe even a fling with country and western music.
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Store scoops to conquer
Pediatric cancer could be the most heart-rending illness imaginable, which is one reason why Edy’s Grand Ice Cream and the Stop & Shop supermarket chain paired up on a “scoop day” at all Stop & Shop stores.
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Rachael Stirling
According to Rachael Stirling, there are certain books that, as a young woman: "capture a little part of you and you`ll remember them forever".
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Stiffer penalties for pirates on the way
New legislation which toughen penalties for software piracy (including music, movies, and computer programs) passed a big test in the House recently . The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved the new propsal known as the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (Pro-IP) Act, sending it to the floor of the House for debate and a vote. (That debate ...
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Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Piers Morgan, broadcaster and former editor
Piers Morgan, 43, was the editor of the News of the World and the Daily Mirror. He helped to launch the children's paper First News, and is now a judge on Britain's Got Talent. His book on celebrity, Don't You Know Who I Am? is out in paperback. He is a supporter of npower's Climate Cops Campaign for schoolchildren to become more green (www.npower.com/GreenSOS)
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JavaOne '08: Sun starts delivering
At JavaOne in San Francisco, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service in development. And Neil Young touts Sun.
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Grade 9 Student Enjoys Spectacular
EDMONTON—Arts student Erik Hamilton really enjoyed Tuesday evening’s performance of Divine Performing Arts’ Chinese Spectacular at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. &...
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Minnie adventure: Miss Driver turns her attention to country music and motherhood
Minnie Driver is having a spot of bother with her guitar. "I don't need a strap any more," she laughs. "I can just rest it here." She lays the instrument on her pronounced bump and pats her belly affectionately. There's no disguising it: Driver is six months pregnant and expecting her first baby in August. But before that comes, the delivery of her second collection of songs on an album called ...
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JavaOne '08: Sun starts delivering
At conference in San Francisco, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service in development. And Neil Young sings Sun.
CNET |
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The Pet Shop Boys/Madness, Heaven, London
The Pet Shop Boys' stock has been gently sinking for 15 years. Since perfecting their English art-disco with Very, the consistency of the sleekly subversive pop singles that made them dance culture's Kinks has been lost. How much Neil Tennant confirming he was gay also contributed to their commercial slide is a matter for their audience's consciences. But in Heaven, the often gay nightclub, the ...
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Police Blotter
These items are from Des Plaines Police Department incident reports. The Des Plaines Journal publishes this police blotter every Wednesday and Friday. If anyone has information that can help solve a crime, call the police department at 847-391-5400 or Crimestoppers at 847-699-STOP.
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Hooray Henry! Loving the limelight
When he described himself as the "queen of Sloanes", Henry Conway appeared to be flirting with public hatred in a way that could easily spiral out of control. It was January and it had emerged that the son of the Tory MP Derek Conway had been paid £32,000 of taxpayers' money by his father, while studying at London's Courtauld Institute of Art.
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May 7: Calendar
Liquidity in Hot Glass exhibit by Pendleton resident Fran Carrico — runs through May 31, Artworks Gallery, 301 S. Walnut St., Muncie. For more information call (765) 288-2221.
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New Video: Scarlett Johansson, "Falling Down"
"It's disappointing if people expect the characters I play to relate to my real life or my music," Scarlett Johansson said in the May issue of Spin magazine, discussing her forthcoming album of Tom Waits covers, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head . And with the music video for the record's first single, the broken-heart groucher "Falling Down," off Waits' 1988 opus Big Time , the vast ...
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