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INTERNATIONAL FEST: After hiatus, event is back this weekend
After a two-year hiatus, the International Festival is back.And this weekend, it’s being expanded into a two-day affair, with free all-day events, music and food vendors at Gill Creek Park in an effort to win back the audience that may have forgotten about the event.
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Organ Donation: Canada $35 Million - NZ $0
Canada is the latest country to advance its organ donor system by announcing a $35 Million injection into a new organ donor register this week.
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Tour Toasts Motocross
Music fans should prepare to get dirty in Perris this weekend.
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Music Review: JJ Grey & Mofro - Orange Blossoms
This is music that speaks to you no matter where you come from or where you've been. It's easy to form false impressions of places by basing them on the superficial information available today. From recollections of people's holidays in online photo albums to what we see of them in television and movies, we're inundated with images designed to entice us to spend our tourist dollars. Air ...
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Cellphones still for talking despite other uses like music and Web surfing
MONTREAL - Cellphones are still for yakking, no matter how many things they can do.
Canoe Technology |
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Updated 7/30: Smashing Pumpkins frontman sues
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan of Highland Park is suing a Gurnee filmmaker for more than $100,000, claiming the man is keeping concert footage hostage.
Gurnee Review |
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
A live music “vending machine” entertains passersby in Queen’s Square, Yokohama. For 200 yen, you can choose a song from the list and the gentleman plays it.
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Magic wand: Ravinia lets anyone conduct
For only a few weeks, Ravinia and UBS are offering families the opportunity to conduct a professional symphony orchestra at Ravinia Park.
Highland Park News |
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Teen Spirit: Casting Announced for Broadway's 13, A New Musical
The baker's dozen of teen performers in 13, the new Broadway musical about high-schoolers in Indiana, have been announced. You've probably never heard of them — or the understudies or the on-stage kid musicians — but consider them stars of tomorrow.
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The Melvins' Sonic Sludge Invades Brooklyn
It doesn't really matter who's actually in the Melvins, or when the last time you bought a Melvins album. If you like the Melvins, you're going to head out and see them, and that was exactly the case last night (Aug. 13) at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg: A sea of black shirts and black hair gathered under the venue's dim lights, representing all levels of Melvins experience, from ...
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FSU's Antone Smith hopes senior season salvages career
Following his career-high 156 rushing yards in last season's Music City Bowl, Antone Smith reflected on his career.
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Magic wand: Ravinia lets anyone conduct
For only a few weeks, Ravinia and UBS are offering families the opportunity to conduct a professional symphony orchestra at Ravinia Park. Using a Nintendo Wii wand, music lovers can conduct a "virtual" orchestra to manage the tempo and volume of an orchestra playing any one of three pieces of classical music-- ones by Tchaikovsky, Berlioz or Rossini.
Highland Park News |
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Lake County Fair celebrates 80 years
A performance by country music star Josh Gracin, along with rising country star Ashton Shepherd, will highlight a week of entertainment and fun at this year's 80th Lake County Fair, slated for July 22 - 26. Gracin, a former American Idol finalist and ex-Marine, will hit the stage at 8 p.m. July 26. Shepherd will open for Gracin. "This is the first time we've had such a large musical act ...
Highland Park News |
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Customer Service
NEW YORK - New Chris Brown music has been popping up on the web - and the singer is not happy about it. The 19-year-old is frustrated that fans have been listening to a song called "Electric Guitar" that's supposed to be off his third album, due out next year.
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Catch Di Riddim
Male singing group, LUST, is back on top of the charts. The group's impressive reading of Air Supply's 1985 nugget Just As I Am, has already taken pole position here in Jamaica as well as on the New York and Canada Reggae charts.
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Plaza presents Lorrie Morgan
Lorrie Morgan remembers all too well what it was like as a 13-year-old to perform on the Grand Ole Opry stage with her dad.
The Glasgow Daily Times |
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Game Slams Jesse Jackson -- Twice -- On New Tracks With Lil Wayne, Nas
"It's a hundred different messages you can take from the song," Game said on Monday afternoon, cruising through Houston on his way to a radio station.
Vh1 |
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Chris Brown upset over leak of unfinished song 'Electric Guitar'
NEW YORK - New Chris Brown music has been popping up on the web - and the singer is not happy about it.
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Cassandra Wilson takes a fresh look at standards for new album
NEW YORK - There's nothing standard about the way Cassandra Wilson went about making her first album of standards in nearly a decade. On "Loverly," she goes back to the roots of jazz in West African rhythms so she can chart a new path to the future.
Jam! Showbiz |
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Springsteen's '57 Chevy to be enshrined in New York
Among the exhibits at a downtown Manhattan annex of the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame will be Bruce Springsteen's '57 Chevy.
The Star-Ledger |
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Music Review: The Midnight Meat Train Original Motion Picture Score, Music by Robert Williamson & Johannes Kobilke
Solid horror score that will suck you into its eerie atmosphere. Last Fall I saw a trailer for this weird looking horror movie. I saw Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, and even Brooke Shields. The trailer made this movie look uber-creepy, dark, and violent. Then the title appeared: The Midnight Meat Train, complete with that spooky trailer voice. The title made me chuckle, but in a good way. I did ...
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Drugs killed 2 who died at Mich. music festival
HART, Mich. (AP) — The Oceana County medical examiner's office says drug overdoses killed two people at the Rothbury music festival.
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How sweet it is: It'll be another feast to remember as corn lovers converge on the Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival
Minnesota humorist Garrison Keillor once famously observed, "Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn." If that's true, it will be a love feast as 100,000 people gather this weekend to eat 70 tons of corn on the cob at the Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival. "The biggest thing we say about it is, have fun in your own back yard," says Ann Smith, executive director of the Sun Prairie Chamber ...
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Northbrook High alums plan all-school reunion
It has been more than 55 years since Northbrook High School closed its doors. Yet the loss of the physical building hasn't diminished the enthusiasm many of its 900 graduates feel for their alma mater. The high school's eighth annual all-school reunion is planned for Aug. 15 and 16 at Chevy Chase country club, 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave., Wheeling.
Northbrook Star |
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Bay Area concerts
Newly announced shows and upcoming gigs at major area venues.
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