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Public garden trashed after Facebook party
A MASS water fight organised on Facebook led to an award-winning garden being trashed as hundreds ran riot through a public square.
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For Dodgers' Steinberg, it's all about family
The team's new executive vice president for marketing believes baseball can be an integral part of the lives of fans. Charles Steinberg is a romantic and a pragmatist, a dazzled fan who swept storerooms and compiled statistics for the Baltimore Orioles but earned a degree in dentistry in case the whole baseball thing didn't work out.
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Hot acts at Port Dickson fest
Cosmic Gate will perform at the festival. THE month of May is synonymous with parties on the beaches of Ibiza in Spain. Although Malaysia may not be up there with Ibiza yet, we certainly have the climate and beaches to make it a clubbing paradise.
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Gluck Summer Camp for the Arts Taking Applications
The third annual series of free workshops will include hip-hop, Renaissance art and Brazilian music.
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Garth Brooks to be honored at ACM awards
Country music star Garth Brooks will receive the Academy of Country Music Crystal Milestone Award at the ACM awards show in Las Vegas, the ACM said Thursday.The presentation is to be broadcast live from the MGM Grand May 18 on CBS.Brooks is also to perform a medley of his greatest hits during the broadcast.The Milestone Award is given to an artist or industry leader to commemorate a specific, ...
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For Dodgers' Steinberg, it's all about family
The team's new executive vice president for marketing believes baseball can be an integral part of the lives of fans.
Los Angeles Times |
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Record labels' woes deepen Warner losses
US-based music business to scrap quarterly dividends as sales tumble in its home market
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Garth Brooks to be honored at ACM awards
LAS VEGAS, May 8 (UPI) -- Country music star Garth Brooks will receive the Academy of Country Music Crystal Milestone Award at the ACM awards show in Las Vegas, the ACM said Thursday.
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Back from the real world and here’s what’s good
Hello again music fans. Having just returned from an off-season trip which included a week in New York City seeing shows ranging from Nashville country (The Wrights w/ Jerry Douglas), to Heavy Metal (Dead Child), to the most amazing new Jazz (Bill Frisell Septet), to electronic Noise (Black Dice), to South African indie rock (BLK-JKS), and finally a good old-fashioned honky-tonk review led by ...
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Whisking the wind away in San Bernardo
I’m not a fan of the flute. It’s fluttering shrill is like the wind on a gusty day, when it sneaks through the nooks and crannies of your house, making its presence known with a high-pitched howl.
Telluride Daily Planet |
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Fifth time lucky as Benedetti takes top young classical performer prize
NICOLA Benedetti, the Ayrshire-born violinist, finally picked up her first-ever Classical Brit award last night after being named Young British Classical Performer.
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'Games For Health'
BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON -- Four major emerging trends -- exergaming kicks into high gear, video games go to rehab and therapy, major health care providers arrive on the scene, and the rise of video games for first responders and medical professionals -- were highlighted during a telenews event conducted by organizers of the Games for Health national conference at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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MTV Nets: We've got connections
MTV Networks brought out Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart at its upfront to drive home the message that it is building partnerships with Madison Avenue.
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Tanzania tree strikes right note
The national tree of Tanzania, the "Mpingo", used to make musical instruments, is one of the most valuable trees in the world, but it is under threat from illegal logging.
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John Harris on our privately educated politicians
Boris Johnson's election as mayor now means that there are two men with remarkably similar histories at the top of the Tory party: both he and leader David Cameron are Old Etonians who went to Oxford and were members of the same notorious drinking club. But the Conservatives are just reflecting modern Britain, says John Harris - a nation that is now less meritocratic than in a generation
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RIAA: DRM likely revived by subscriptions
Regardless of the movement towards permanent unprotected downloads in online music, digital rights management (DRM) is likely to persist and may also thrive in the near future, the Recording Industry Association of America said today at a Los Angeles media conference. The music organization's technology head David Hughes observes that nearly all s...
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Pangea Day screening set for Whistler
It’s said that more than 200 million years ago, all the Earth’s continents were joined together in one large land mass called Pangea.
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Arts & Entertainment Calendar
n Harry’s Night Club and Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo Beach, hosts live music Friday and Saturday from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. This weekend, the headliner band will be Cory and L.A.’s 70’s Rollercoaster. Cost is $5 at the door.
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Jordan's boozy party night
SHE was a runner-up to Alice Burdeu in Australia's Next Top Model, but brassy brunette Jordan Loukas' recent party spectacle has surpassed her catwalk contender's boozy Logies outing.
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SPERA'S SPIN
Early contender for best show of the 2008 Jazzfest? The bewitching Friday afternoon set at the Acura Stage by Alison Krauss, Robert Plant and their all-star Americana band.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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SPERA'S SPIN
To his credit, saxophonist John Ellis does not take his jazz too seriously. At the WWOZ Jazz Tent, he and his Double Wide combo showcased whimsically titled and arranged instrumentals from the excellent new Hyena Records release "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow."
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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SPERA'S SPIN
Aaron Neville's Saturday show in the Gospel Tent wasn't his first hometown performance since Hurricane Katrina: He notched that milestone Friday while sitting in with older brother Art at the Acura Stage.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Global issues drive Kroeker’s art
Singer/songwriter Joel Kroeker might call Vancouver home, but if there were ever someone you’d describe as a citizen of the world, he’d be it.
Whistler Question |
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Oratorio Singers to join symphony
The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte join in to help give the Charlotte Symphony orchestra's Classics season a blockbuster finish. WINE, WOMEN AND SONG One of the most powerful and popular of all choral works grew from medieval poems discovered in a Bavarian monastery centuries after their creation. The poems were the work of a group of free spirits called goliards, whose verses celebrated the ...
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Whoopi Goldberg to host Broadway's Tony Awards
LOS ANGELES - STAGE and screen star Whoopi Goldberg will host Broadway's 62nd annual Tony Awards next month after the show went two years without a single master of ceremonies, organisers said on Thursday.
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