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Celebrity Birthdays
Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 11-17: May 11: Comedian Mort Sahl is 81. Singer Eric Burdon (The Animals, War) is 67. Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo ("24") is 56. Actor Boyd Gaines is 55. Drummer Mark Herndon of Alabama is 53. Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is 49. Actress Natasha Richardson is 45. Country singer Tim Raybon of the Raybon Brothers is 45. Bassist Keith West of Heartland is 40. ...
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Featuring local artists
Well we brought you the antics of our Meridian Star Newsroom Diva Ida Brown for several weeks on our Meridian 360º video promos that are posted on The Meridian Star Web site, www.meridianstar.com, as well as the Meridian 360º Myspace profile at www.myspace.com/meridian360.
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UFAH kicks off annual fundraising campaign
If a hearty stew feeds the body, then a hearty stew of the arts feeds the soul.
La Crosse Tribune |
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Foundation's All-District Art Show ready
Woodland Hills Academic Foundation's Woodland Hills All-District Art Show begins with an opening reception this Friday and runs through May 18
Woodland Progress |
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Open-mic event at Braddock library
The music hall at Braddock Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock, will be the site of "15104," the fourth part of the "Wordsmiths' Guild Presents" open-mic series, at 7:30 p.m. this Friday.
Woodland Progress |
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For Stephen Marley, reggae is still a family affair
'I don't want to be just another artist." Those were words of Stephen Marley. Granted, the 34-year-old only recently released his debut solo effort, "Mind Control." But this is, after all, the son of the late Bob Marley — the same son who joined his siblings, The Melody Makers, onstage when he was only seven years old.
The Post and Courier |
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Jepson Center kicks off monthly music series
Savannah -- The Telfair Museum of Art will hold its music series Jepson Live from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday. The monthly music series features live music at the Jepson Center for the Arts on the second Friday of each month. Admission is free to museum members and $10 for the general public. For more information, call 912-790-8800.
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Music Notes
The Police say this is it. Or it will be in August when the band plays what it's calling its last-ever show in New York City. The exact date and venue haven't been announced, but the concert will benefit the production of arts programming for public television stations Thirteen/WNET and WLIW New York. . . . Prince's 21-night stand at London's O2 Arena last year will be commemorated in a book ...
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LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
Regular readers might have noticed I exhausted last week’s column on the earth-shaking observation that “ Wicked was overhyped.” Well, no duh! – or, should I say, no d’oh!
Orlando Weekly |
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Briscoe takes baton one last time
The Central Jersey Symphony Orchestra will be led for the last time by its longtime music director and conductor Dr. Roger Briscoe, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the Nash Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College in North Branch.
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GRAFFITI JAM
During the afternoon of April 26, spray cans were buzzing in outdoor downtown for a grass-roots graffiti party with guest writers from other parts of the world.
Orlando Weekly |
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Saturday music festival in Martin County to benefit breast cancer patient
A music festival on Saturday aims to help a local family that has given much to the community. Sharon Jewett was diagnosed with stage four breast and liver cancer in early February. She has worked as a respiratory therapist for about six years at Martin Memorial Medical Center. She is undergoing chemotherapy, and she might need to give up some work to battle the cancer.
TCPalm.com |
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 11-17
May 11: Comedian Mort Sahl is 81. Singer Eric Burdon (The Animals, War) is 67. Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo ("24") is 56. Actor Boyd Gaines is 55. Drummer Mark Herndon of Alabama is 53. Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is 49. Actress Natasha Richardson is 45. Country singer Tim Raybon of the Raybon Brothers is 45. Bassist Keith West of Heartland is 40. Actor Coby Bell ("Third Watch") is 33. Actor ...
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Public invited to 'A Night of Peace'
BRIDGEWATER -- Students in the Commercial Art & Design, Landscaping and Horticultural Technology programs are busy preparing for a special celebration,A Night of Peace.
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Can SlideShare make PowerPoint sharing interesting?
A group of investors thinks so. The San Francisco start-up lands a $3 million investment from Venrock, Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban and Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams.
CNET |
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The Art of Clairtone: The Making of a Design Icon, 1958-1971 set to Open at Design Exchange
Miss Canada 1966 poses with a Clairtone. TORONTO.- For a decade, in the 1960s, Clairtone Sound Corporation captured the spirit of the times: sophisticated, cosmopolitan, liberated.
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Online ‘Rookie’ episodes helping series-starved ‘24’ fans cope
An agile, young agent from the Counter Terrorist Unit slyly infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel to free a captured colleague, aided by images from tiny “marshmallow cams” and graphics sent to his cell phone. There’s the familiar ticking clock, windows showing what every character is doing, and lots of people saying “Copy that.” We’re watching “24,” right? Close. It’s the Fox series’ online ...
The State |
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Coldplaying Soccer on ESPN
ESPN's going to try promoting at the speed of sound. The 24/7 sports network has enlisted Coldplay in its ongoing efforts to promote soccer in the U.S., in particular its live...
E! Online |
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Listen up – it’s the jazz professor
SPECIAL guest Marc Duby on double bass will be joining Alan Webster on sax, pianist Kingsley Buitendag and drummer Steve Ellis for a jazz session at Smokey Swallows this Saturday.
Daily Dispatch |
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Metropolitan Opera Season Preview: Now Hear This
With one Met premiere, one work not heard here in more than a century, and others last performed decades ago, the 2008–09 season allows top singers to show new sides of their artistry.
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News > Regional
Sunnyside Community Services is offering a free, three-session workshop on string quilting in collaboration with instructors from Elder Craftsmen, Inc. The workshop began on Friday, May 2, and will continue on May 9 and 16 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Each participant will create their own quilted pillow.
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Agoura Relay touches home
As events unfolded last weekend at the fifth annual Relay for Life fundraiser in Agoura Hills, it seems everybody had a story to tell about how cancer has touched their lives. Since "cancer never sleeps," neither did the participants.
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by Theron Martin,
Four final tales of mushi and mushi-shi Ginko present themselves for consideration. In “The Sound of Rust,” a 14-year-old girl has remained silent for years after it became apparent to her that some quality in her voice was attracting a crippling rust-like mushi to her village.
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Best Music Poll 2008
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Scott Schwartz's My Antonia , with Stephen Schwartz Underscoring, Begins CA Run May 8
The Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA, presents the Southern California premiere of Scott Schwartz's My Antonia — an adaptation of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — beginning May 8.
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