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R Kelly faces jurors in child sex tape trial
Six years after R Kelly was charged with filming himself having sex with a girl as young as 13, the rhythm and blues superstar's child pornography trial has started with jury selection.
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‘Jungle Book’ a pleasing high school play
At a time when the arts are struggling just to stay part of local schools’ curricula, Parkrose High has a vigorous and imaginative drama program, and one example of that is about to appear on stage – open to the public – and you are invited.
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Local Leaders Worry About Economic Agency Changes
A coalition of business and trade organizations fighting for upstate development is worried that the changes the governor plans to make to the Empire State Development Corporation could affect the businesses and jobs coming to our area.
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Emporia Man Pre-Trail Hearing Set on Accusations of Shooting Another Man to Death
An Emporia man accused of shooting another man to death will have a pre-trial hearing early next month. Our radio partner KVOE reports Ferman Hernandez waived his preliminary hearing today.
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Antonio Colombo M.D.
Antonio T. Colombo, M.D. 89, of Long Island, New York, passed away on Friday, April 25, at NYU Medical Center in New York City. The son of Guiseppi and Salvatrice Colombo of Sicily, Italy and Brooklyn, N.Y., he was born in 1918 in their apartment on the lower east side of Manhattan.
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Men At Work's Colin Hay performs at Opera House
From the hills of Scotland, to the land Down Under and around the world, Colin Hay continues to make his mark in the music industry and in the hearts of his fans.
Boothbay Register |
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Critics' Picks
What you need to see, read, do this week: A lavish gay TV wedding, a moving movie memoir, the sound of schoolyard heartbreak.
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Top Peformers At Writers And Readers Festival
Getting in the groove for NZ Music Month, we are very pleased to confirm that Dave Dobbyn and Victoria Girling-Butcher will each perform a song from their new, unreleased albums as part of a discussion on the craft of songwriting with Hip-Hop/R’n’B star John Chong-Nee (bottom left) and Play It Strange CEO Mike Chunn (MC).
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Singing career moves forward for Hyde
It all started when Summer Medrano heard Kelcy Lee Hyde sing. It was a talent show at RCMS and Medrano was convinced Hyde had the kind of talent needed to open for Daryl Worley, the headliner kicking off the 2007 Fall Festival.
Pahrump Valley Times |
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Preliminaries For Pilihan-Akira Talentime 2008
Bandar Seri Begawan - Pilihan-Akira Talentime, the only singing contest in English organised by Radio Television Brunei through Radio Brunei Pilihan FM (English Broadcast) 95.9 & 96.9 FM with strong support from the private sector, aims to scout the talent of singing in English of its target audience, Bruneians and non-Bruneians, promote the collaboration of local artistes, musicians and music ...
BruDirect.com |
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Jerome County Spring Fair This Weekend
Can’t wait for the summer fair season to start? Don't worry the Jerome County Spring Fun Fair is this weekend.
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Video: Renowned Swiss Artist Illuminates Washington National Cathedral
Swiss lighting artist Gerry Hofstetter projected images ranging from abstracts of the Cathedral's stained glass windows to faces of people of all races onto Washington National Cathedral as a call for national and global unity in a project entitled "Lighting to Unite."
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Washington DC
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - The Peninsula Symphony performs works by great Romantic composers Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler in concerts next week.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Sam Whiting
Article History This is the latest version. (Courtesy photo) Tom Rigney & Flambeau kick off Redwood City’s “Music on the Square” concert series May 30.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Kira Plastinina: From Russia with style
The 15-year-old wunderkind designer throws in her lot on Robertson Boulevard with a new shop. SHE STRUTS into the Ivy with leg to spare and a long ponytail swinging behind her. She's working a super short, silver polka-dot dress, which she designed herself, and some seriously gooey lip gloss. She's got a makeup artist in tow, along with two publicists and a bodyguard who's not afraid to stand ...
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David Lister: The Week in Arts
There is an illness that afflicts leading lights in the arts, an illness that you rarely encounter elsewhere. I call it "cultural paranoia". It involves major celebrities taking popular and populist stances, and then convincing themselves that they are being persecuted for doing so. Vanessa Redgrave suffered from this debilitating disease for several decades. And this week the celebrated actor ...
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A month of Ol' Blue Eyes
It will be 10 years on Wednesday since Frank Sinatra closed his ol' blue eyes for the last time. The singer who started as the swoon king to bobby soxers of the '40s became the legendary entertainer with more than 70 movies and hundreds of evergreen songs to his credit. Every Sunday and Wednesday though May, Turner Classic Movies will herald Sinatra's contribution to the cinema ...
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South Park Farmers Market Seeking Vendors
Organizers of the weekly South Park Flea Market have obtained approval from the Department of Agriculture to add a farmers market to the Sunday event and are working on lining up vendors.
Los Angeles Downtown News |
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Revisiting the sounds of our states
Ask a bunch of Carolinas musicians and writers for their best music stories, and what do you get? Tales of N.C. native and jazz legend Thelonious Monk's only major engagement in his home state. James Taylor's Chapel Hill boyhood. The birth of beach music. You learn about Charlotte rockers Gina Stewart and Hope Nicholls. And Gullah gospel. You even get Observer columnist Tommy ...
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LAMBRUSCO
Lucia Fantini was once in love with life. The emotional heart of her husband's village restaurant Aldo's, Lucia fed her many customers' hearts even as the wonderful food fed their stomachs.
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ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS
Rhonda Farr, 23 years old and on her way to a job interview in her Vermont hometown of Pike's Crossing, stops at Pat's Mini Mart ostensibly to fill her gas tank. In actuality, she is hoping to run into Peter, the childhood friend she has always loved.
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Steven Pressfield
In January of 1966, when Mr. Pressfield was on the bus leaving Parris Island as a freshly-minted Marine, he looked back and thought there was at least one good thing about this departure.
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Right on! So, is it finally cool to be a Conservative?
Joan Collins's face may be falling, but for once it's not at the state of the Conservative Party. Boris Johnson's victory over Ken Livingstone last week was the first shake of the champagne bottle that uncorked a week-long Bacchanalian fiesta of fine plonk, posh grub and celebratory glad-handing for supporters of Britain's newly-successful Opposition.
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Police honor fallen officers
More than 300 law enforcement officers from throughout Wisconsin assembled on the Capitol Square Friday, with squad cars and horses, as they honored three fallen comrades in the annual Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony. Those honored this year included Officer Jackie Ryden of the Prescott Police Department, Deputy Frank Fabiano Jr. of the Kenosha County Sheriff's office and Deputy Jason S. ...
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CMA Music Festival (Fan Fair)
Basics When/where: June 5-8, downtown Nashville, Tenn. Getting there: From Charlotte, take your preferred route to Asheville. At Asheville, take Interstate 40 West to Nashville. It's about a seven-hour drive (422 miles), one way. Early events June 2 (Monday) 5th Annual CMA Global Artist Party (6 p.m.) Unofficial kickoff to the festival, has performances by ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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