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Web site helps families organize carpools
The roads are full of parents driving their kids to summer camps, sports practices, music lessons, the list goes on ... Carpooling sounds like a good idea, especially with today's gas prices. But organizing a carpool can be a logistical nightmare.
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Music and movies festival returns to Stillwater
It's music, it's movies and it's super-cheap. The Square Lake Film and Music Festival (which is something of a biking and camping festival as well, since you're also encouraged to do those things) is back for its seventh year this weekend.
Pioneer Press |
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KIRKLAND: More little-known facts about well-known people
This just in: More and more local folks are showing up in our search for facts about their lives — hidden agendas, secret pasts and plentiful plans. For the latest, here is today's tell all about some people you may know or thought you knew, with additional facts thrown in that may surprise you.
The Lufkin Daily News |
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Animal protection group to hold benefit
Coins 4 Critters is holding a bean supper and silent auction at 6 p.m. Thursday at the NSU-Muskogee Administration Building on West Shawnee Bypass. There will be live music and door prizes.
Muskogee Phoenix |
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Garden club promising a blooming good time
JAZZ music, flowers, stalls and sculptors will draw hundreds to the Ulladulla and District Garden Club’s extravaganza at Ulladulla Civic Centre later this month.
Milton Ulladulla Times |
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Last Long Grove concerts scheduled
The last two concerts sponsored by the Long Grove Arts and Music Council will be held on the next two Sundays.
Daily Herald |
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Food and Dining: Local Briefs for Wednesday August 13, 2008
Vinita winery will hold harvest party Aug. 23VINITA — Summerside Vineyards & Winery plans a Catch the Crush Harvest Party VII from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 23. A continental breakfast, vineyard tour with the winemaker, harvesting of grapes, brunch and live music are planned. Cost is $45 plus tax per person. The winery is just off Interstate 44, exit 289, on historic Route 66. For information or ...
The Oklahoman |
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Three student bands debut at Venice School of Rock
Several years ago, Greg Byler, a former mechanical engineer, decided to focus on what made him happy: teaching music. Byler's latest endeavor is Greg Byler's Venice School of Rock.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Guitar whiz has reason to play blues
When Tallan “T-Man” Latz was 5, he saw Joe Satriani playing guitar on TV. “I turned around to my dad and said, ‘That’s exactly what I want to do.’”
Lawrence Journal-World |
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It's no blarney ... Oklahoma City pub's owner plans old country atmosphere
Sean Cummings opened his first Irish pub 20 years ago in his hometown of Kansas City, Mo. Now, having lived in Oklahoma City for almost a decade, he's opening a very different Irish pub where his successful Boca Boca restaurant offered upscale food to an appreciative clientele for almost nine years. Cummings has learned a lot between that first pub and Sean Cummings' Irish Restaurant & Pub, set ...
The Oklahoman |
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Girl mimed song at Olympics opening
THE little girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony last Friday was miming and only put on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough.
Daily Dispatch |
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Tillie Moreno to Make Waves in Toronto
Versatile singer Tillie Moreno takes center stage at the three-day Filipino Making Waves Festival II at Ontario Place in Toronto.
Philippine Daily Inquirer |
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Disney star Vanessa Hudgens sued by music producer
Singer-actress Vanessa Hudgens of the made-for-kids TV hit High School Musical is being sued by a producer who claims she reneged on a deal to share her earnings with him after he helped make her a star.
Independent Online |
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Northeast State Opens Its New Performing Arts Center
A new performing arts center at Northeast State Technical Community College will boost the services offered to students and the community, officials said.
Bristol Herald Courier |
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Madonna Videos
Let’s face it – based on her music alone, Madonna would not be as recognised, revered, emulated or influential as she is today on the world’s stage. She is the whole package – voice, visual spectacle, fashion icon, dancer, trend setter, sex goddess and queen of controversy.
RainbowNetwork.com |
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Upcoming reunions
o Marion High School Class of 1968 40th reunion will be Aug. 22, informal get-together at 7 p.m. at Bogey’s, 1520 Chapel Pike; and Aug. 23, 6 p.m. at the Hostess House, ., speaker Oatess Archey, music by Johnny Kirkwood, cash bar by Folkie’s; cost is $25 per person, please pre-pay, checks payable to MHS Class of ’68, send to 1417 W. Chapel Pike, Marion, Ind. 46952; dress is dressy casual.
Marion Chronicle-Tribune |
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Examining Facets of a Beloved Composer?s Life
The curators of ?Prokofiev and His World? at the Bard Music Festival are concerned with exploring aspects of the composer?s life.
New York Times |
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Joss Stone backs Obama
Joss Stone is recording a song for US democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The 'Fell in Love With A Boy' singer was reportedly asked to lend her voice to the song - which will be used as a theme to Obama's election campaign later this year - because she will appeal to voters of all races.
Undercover |
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Richland One gets ready for new year with convocation
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Teachers, administrators and staff packed the Carolina Coliseum Tuesday morning for a back to school convocation. There was music provided by a special employee choir and there was a parade of champions featuring representatives from each school in the district.
WIS News 10 Columbia |
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Arts notes
It will be the biggest heavy-metal tour of the Fall/Winter season, and it's coming to Newark. The Prudential Center has booked Metallica for a Jan. 31 concert.
The Star-Ledger |
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Rock this way, Aerosmith fans
Guitar Hero Aerosmith offers something that is sort of new . . . the chance to beat a dead horse with a plastic guitar.
The Florida Times-Union |
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Local News
If you’ve become an old pro at video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and thought about taking up the real deal, you’re hardly alone.
Lethbridge Herald |
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Comeback for gospel group
ENDUMISWENI Gospel Group has released a comeback album following a three-year break from the airwaves. This is the group’s fifth album, released under their music label Tsin Music Production, and it is called Leli ka Yehova ihlabathi.
Daily Dispatch |
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8-year-old guitar wiz has reason to play the blues
ELKHORN, Wis. (AP) -- When Tallan "T-Man'' Latz was 5, he saw Joe Satriani playing guitar on TV. "I turned around to my dad and said, 'That's exactly what I want to do.'''
The Charleston Gazette |
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Acclaimed duo to entertain at the Alexander
CATCH a vocal and piano adventure next week with the show Both of Me at the Alexander Playhouse in Cambridge. The show, featuring Rory Rootenberg and Jeremy Quickfall of Handful of Keys fame, will run from August 20 to August 23.
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