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Here and there Travel Notes
California Sip wine in the reel Midwest It's an ingenious move to join the greats of American winemaking with the glitz of Hollywood. This year, the 19th annual “Culinary Evening with California Winemasters'' wine and food tasting will be spread over a Warner Bros. Studio set designed to look like a Midwestern town center. Participating winemakers at the May 17 event include Au Bon ...
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Portishead back after 10-year hiatus
As Portishead finished its meticulously sparse evening performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 26, the typically reticent Beth Gibbons suddenly leapt off the stage and ran a 100-yard dash along the fenced-in crowd, exuberantly...
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Music review: Andsnes opens Brahms festival
This is a smart move if you're putting together a Brahms festival: Lead off with Leif Ove Andsnes playing the Second Piano Concerto. That way, no matter what else happens in the ensuing weeks, you get things off to a tremendously exciting start. Artistically...
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KDHE Issues Emergency Suspenion Order for Topeka Day Care Home
Tender Hearts Day Care Home in Topeka has been issued an emergency order of suspension. KDHE says a two-hour survey found numerous violations at the home.
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Scottsdale venue gets $14M makeover
The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ long awaited makeover is underway.
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Get a new view of Los Angeles on these tours
Even those of us who don't share San Francisco's petty and rather tiresome loathing of our large neighbor to the south have to admit that Los Angeles can be a tough town to get a handle on. It's so vast and, it seems, amorphic. Where do you start? One good...
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Buy Curious: Help Mom Throw Away the Mom-Jeans
Chillin' Productions 10-Year Anniversary The event combining fashion, art, and music celebrates its tenth year on the scene with a major blowout event featuring sixty fashion designers, one hundred painters/photographers/sculptors, and forty filmmakers.
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Sound minds -- Students learn to repair instruments
RED WING -- Greg Beckwith picked up a rawhide mallet and hit it against the brass of a French horn that looked as if it had seen this kind of abuse before. A fe
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Fox Theatre Foundation names new executive director
Jim Williams started this week as the new executive director of the Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation, which operates the downtown historic Fox Theatre, the foundation announced Friday afternoon.
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Dartmouth High honor society students serve community and beyond
DARTMOUTHThe Dartmouth High School Chapter of the National Honor Society doesn’t merely pay lip service to service.Quite the contrary, the students are out in about in their community and beyond, helping answer a variety of needs.
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May 9: Church News
Glad Tidings Church will present a Mother’s Day celebration with the theme: “Growing in God’s Garden.” This two-day celebration begins Saturday with Lana’s Victorian Luncheon starting at 11:30 a.m. Beginning at 1 p.m., a style show has been planned.
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Mirusia part of Rieu fairytale
BIRKDALE soprano Mirusia was the centre of attention on Friday as the superstar conductor/violinist Andre Rieu swept into town to promote his series of fairytale concerts at Suncorp Stadium in December.
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Jazz Fest same as it ever was (thankfully)
New Orleans' 39th annual music bash drew pre-Katrina crowds with names ranging from Stevie and Jimmy to Buckwheat and ?uestlove.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Live and let DIY
Arts & entertainment: We're told pirates are 'killing' the entertainment biz. But without them we'd have rubbish trainers
Guardian Unlimited |
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Local Jazz Guitarist Honored
Charlie Christian has been inducted into the Lincoln Center Hall of Fame in New York.
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Billboard CD reviews: Death Cab, Black Angels
ARTIST: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
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The private life of a courtier unmasked
Another clutch of slim vols from the Faber Poet-to-Poet series; I picked on this one (others include selections of Pope and Hart Crane) because, well, I felt like it.
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Upstairs Jazz Bar and Grill raise their game with relocation to Jazz Fest central
One of the most interesting jazz-related developments in many moons is that the much-respected Upstairs Jazz Bar and Grill - pretty much the only game in town when it comes to showcasing the full range of jazz musicians, from young up-and-comers to legends of the biz like Sonny Greenwich, François Bourassa and Ranee Lee - will relocate once again.
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K-M music students rated superior
The Kasson-Mantorville Music Department had another successful day at the Section Solo and Ensemble Contest at Randolph High School on Tuesday, April 1st....
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Art students paint signs for Maize
Chickasha High School’s Art 1 class painted signs for “The Maize” an upcoming corn maze and community event to be held at the Reding Farm in September that will include a haunted maze, children’s maze, bluegrass music, a pumpkin canon, and much more.
The Express-Star |
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Where Your Heart Ends
Where your heart line ends could spell success or failure in your love life.
Santa Barbara Independent |
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Jog With Judy honors woman's memory
The third annual Jog With Judy in Woodstock drew some enthusiastic participants, despite the rain last Saturday. The 5K Road Race is held in memory of Judy Nilan, the late Woodstock Middle School social worker was murdered in December 2005 while jogging in Woodstock.
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Barbecue and public art planned for Saturday
BARSTOW — This Saturday, Barstonians can satisfy their desires for art, culture and barbecue at the same time.
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The hot list: China's cultural movers and shakers
Whatever else happens at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, and whoever does or doesn't boycott it, one near-certain thing is that at some point a piano will be wheeled into the stadium for a short, but seismic performance by a young man with tsunami hair, a faraway look and forearms like industrial pistons.
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Halcyon Gallery to Hold First Gallery Exhibition of Bob Dylan Art
One of London's most prestigious galleries, Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair, will present the first ever gallery exhibition of Bob Dylan's artwork, beginning 14 June 2008. The Drawn Blank Series exhibition is the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Bob Dylan's art ever assembled.
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