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Mayor Wants You To Hike, Bike, Boogie
Mayor Jerry Abramson is adding a little extra to his Hike & Bike event, and participants will also get an opportunity to enjoy an international festival on the holiday weekend.
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Photograph by Jory Sutton © 2007 Frozen River Productions, LLC. NICKLED AND DIMED: Melissa Leo plays a low-wage clerk and a stressed-out mother who turns to crime in 'Frozen River.'
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Music teacher in jail over child porn
A Fresno music teacher is in jail after being charged wtih 100 counts of possessing child porn.
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Music: Nine Inch Nails
Wed., Aug. 13... By Alicia Wages No band quite does industrial rock like the pioneers of the sound, NINE INCH NAILS. Currently on the road to promote their latest release, The Slip, a much-needed return to the moody and electric melodies of their past, NIN will team up with local fave Deerhunter Wed., AUG. 13. Expect nothing short of a breathtaking stage show, where NIN will take the Lights in ...
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Music: Blackberry Smoke
Sat., Aug. 16... By David Lee Simmons When they're not out on tour with ZZ Top, performing on a Rock Boat cruise, or maybe even lending their cars and backs of heads for CL Summer Guide cover photos, the men of BLACKBERRY SMOKE sometimes find the time to come back and rock their hometown. And that's their plan for Sat., AUG. 16, at the Star Bar. The band bills itself as "too country for rock, ...
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Music: Witch Hats
Mon., Aug. 18... By Chad Radford Melbourne, Australia, quartet WITCH HATS carry the torch of noisy and primal post-punk/blues damage from the land Down Under. It's hard not to compare them to fellow Aussie Nick Cave and his pre-Bad Seeds antics with the Birthday Party. Witch Hats even wrangled Birthday Party drummer Phill Calvert to produce their forthcoming full-length for Memphis label In the ...
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Music: Faun Fables
Tues., Aug. 19... By Chad Radford Dawn "the Faun" McCarthy, who's best-known as the voice behind mystical folk outfit FAUN FABLES, brings it back home with her latest EP, A Table Forgotten, Tues., AUG. 19. The darkly whimsical songstress turns her gaze away from the magic forest to offer a fairy-tale trip into the kitchen, where she cooks up ethereal atmospheres that are all about cake and how ...
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Upcoming: Short List
Kingsized, Save Our Bookstore and more... August 15 Friday Wordsmiths Books doesn't mess around when it comes to reliably cool events. And its SAVE OUR BOOKSTORE fundraiser weekend is no different. Friday night's "Saving Bookstores Is AWESOME!!! Night of AWESOME!!!" features a reading by Jack Pendarvis, a performance from Atlanta indie rockers Sealions, and a silent robot auction – the ...
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Richard Kaufman
Cinematic orchestrations... By David Lee Simmons Richard Kaufman will serve as guest conductor when the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs passages from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Singin' in the Rain, Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, North by Northwest and King Kong on Sat., Aug. 16, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre. The event, which features scenes from the movies, will be hosted by Turner ...
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Carrie Underwood’s "Before He Cheats" Experience
Aug. 13, 2008 — Carrie Underwood won a Grammy Award and the Country Music Association’s Single of the Year honor for "Before He Cheats," and there’s probably a good reason why she sang the song with such anger and conviction: She’s gone through the emotions the song conveys.
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Martina McBride’s "Happy Girl" Outlook
Aug. 13, 2008 — Ten years ago, Martina McBride peaked at No. 2 with "Happy Girl," a song so energetic and uplifting that it remains a staple of her live shows. The song was originally penned by singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman shortly after she’d undergone a personal transformation. Martina related very much to its message of evolution, even if her progress has come in small steps instead ...
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Taylor Swift’s Olympic Moment
Aug. 13, 2008 — Taylor Swift’s new song "Change" was scheduled to be used last night by NBC for the highlights reel during the Olympics, appropriate since she finished writing it shortly after her olympic moment as a 17-year-old Horizon Award winner at last year’s Country Music Association Awards.
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Brooks & Dunn: Expect the Unexpected
Aug. 13, 2008 — During production of the GAC special Brooks & Dunn: Cowboy Town, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn allowed producers to shoot major sections of their typical concerts and to see how a tour comes together from a backstage perspective. But they also shot some performances in a number of locations wwhere the most-successful duo in country music history would not be expected, including on ...
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Buck, Cash, Haggard: Hall of Famers Make News
Aug. 13, 2008 — The U.S. Postal Service, an old prison album, a cancer scare and a Flower Pickin' Festival all have members of the Country Music Hall of Fame making headlines this week. Late performers Buck Owens, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings are being remembered in several different ways. Living Hall of Famers Vince Gill and Kitty Wells have projects on the docket at the museum in downtown ...
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Gabby to hold concert
FOLLOWING the release of his self-titled album under Warner Music Philippines, actor Gabby Concepcion will showcase his singing prowess on stage in a one-night concert this coming Friday.
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Buck's Birthday Bash
Country music, nostalgia, great food and a sell-out crowd at what would have been Buck Owens' 79th birthday.
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Review: Everything right with Radiohead
The title of the final song Radiohead played to finish off its dazzlingly dynamic show at the sold-out Susquehanna Bank Center on Tuesday spoke to the exactitude of the performance that preceded it: "Everything In Its Right Place."
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Blige Sued in Song Row
R+B star Mary J. Blige has been accused of stealing songs from a California hip-hop label in a new lawsuit filed on Wednesday. Drama Family Entertainment bosses claim Blige's hit single Work That was taken from their catalogue of songs.
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Bearfoot concert moves indoors
Inclement weather has forced the relocation of this evening's concert by the bluegrass group Bearfoot indoors. The concert will be held at the Community Council for the Arts building at 400 N. Queen St. The doors open at 5 p.m. The music begins at 5:30 p.m.
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Shopping Maul
The former Dillard's location at Hickory Hollow Mall will soon be transformed into an urban gang-themed playland, where scary characters lurk in the shadows and every sense must be on high alert, developers say. "This place will be full of pounding rap music, atmospheric haze and ominous ...
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Angel in the Shadows
Kitty Wells is an inimitable, bedrock American singer, and she dwelled in this country's post-World War II shadows like any other product of that fractured era. As The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's new exhibit Kitty Wells: Queen of Country Music demonstrates, Wells is a pioneer w...
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Conor Oberst, Festival, Bon Iver and more
Oberst-ing with mediocrity Parking on Cannery Row Friday night was unbelievably heinous. By the time we'd walked the three blocks from our parking spot on Gleaves (which smelled vaguely of piss), Oklahoma's Evangelicals had nearly wrapped their brief semi-psychede...
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High Lonesome Sound
For Jamey Johnson, 2006 had its ups and downs. First, the Alabama-born singer-songwriter and his wife of four years split up. Then his record label, for which he had scored the Top-20 hit "The Dollar" the year before, dropped him. So he did what he always does when things go wrong: He tur...
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Secret Ingredients to My Success
When Iron Chef America host Alton Brown shows up at the Gaylord Opryland Resort this week, it won't be his first time in Nashville. The frenetically nerdy host of Good Eats and author of I'm Just Here for the Food logged a lot of time in Music City in the '90s. That was back ...
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Happy Accident
Nashville's African-American theater community has been surging. Startup organizations, however modest their resources, continue to produce shows, homegrown acting talent improves with every new opportunity, and writers are stepping up and crafting original works. This committed spirit has defini...
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