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Inland Community News briefs for Friday, Aug. 22
Free concerts on tap at shopping center CARMEL MOUNTAIN RANCH ---- The final two concerts in Carmel Mountain Plaza's free Friday open-air concert series will be held from 6-8 p.m. Aug. 22 and 29 in the fountain courtyard near Barnes & Noble. Breez'n will perform Aug. 22 and The Cat-illacs on Aug. 29.
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Missionaries defy ban during Olympics
BEIJING -- A Sheridan-based group is among several Christian organizations that have flouted China's ban on foreign missionaries during the Olympic Games.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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Lavigne's Malaysian concert to go ahead
Canadian singer Avril Lavigne will go ahead with her cancelled concert in Malaysia - after winning the approval of the government.
world entertainment news via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Magic City music making
Above: Singers gathered at Southside Baptist Church go through a warm-up exercise before the start of open rehearsals for regular members and those interested in joining the group. Left: The fingers of accompanist Ty Thornton glide across the keyboard as the men sing.
Birmingham News |
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Tobacco message
A Much Music Video Dance is being held Friday at the Timken Centre to promote smoke-free music and music videos. Youth from St. Thomas and Oxford county who work for Smoke-Free Ontario are offering the dance from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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Glassroots fest plans fun with fabric
It’s the last of Tacoma’s summer arts festivals: Glassroots Festival, held annually on the border of Hilltop and downtown. For this third incarnation, Glassroots is getting both uptempo and community-minded.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Down-home tunes drive Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn is still country after all these years and maintains a universal appeal.
ATLANTA – Loretta Lynn is perhaps the only living country artist who will stop an interview deader than roadkill to inquire: “So how are you doin’?”
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Top-notch talent makes up for ‘Fair’ script
Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle traipse South Sound stages once again, this time on Encore! Theater’s outdoor stage at Impact Church International in Gig Harbor. As in the earlier performance this year at Centerstage in Federal Way, I was impressed with many of the principal actors and once again enjoyed hearing those classic Lerner and Loewe songs. But also, as in the earlier performance, I ...
Tacoma News Tribune |
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GALUPO: Today's indie-rockers the laziest men in showbiz
Rock is not dead. However, rock showmanship just might be.
The Washington Times |
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RIFFS: Sparky's Flaw graduates to the big time
Will Anderson knows he wasn't a typical college student. While wrapping up his music degree at the University of Virginia, the singer spent much of his time away from campus.
The Washington Times |
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On Today
Tango Music Festival. Centennial Square, free dance workshop, 6:30 p.m. followed by free concert at 7:30 p.m. with Grupo de Barrio, Kate Rhodes, Alex Olson, Jason Corbett, Tom Ackerman and dancers Robert Crease and Vanessa Winn.
Victoria Times Colonist |
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Famed composer lived in Palm Springs
For 25 years, famed Austrian composer Ernst Krenek and his wife, composer Gladys Nordenstrom, made their home in the Chino Canyon neighborhood of Palm Springs.
The Desert Sun |
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08:31 (BST), 22/08/2008 Sho Online Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS – The winners of the event which was held to ...
– The winners of the event which was held to promote the release of Sho Online’s first expansion, , were announced today. A large number of original entries were submitted ranging in topic from romance to music videos.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Samba de Amigo Wii to offer DLC News
Samba de Amigo on Wii will offer downloadable content when a trio of songs are added shortly after the game launches on 19th September. "Mambo Mambo" by Lou Bega, "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow, and "Are you Going to Be My Girl" by Jet will join the main set-list of over 40 songs on 23rd September.
EuroGamer |
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Keith concert a hit
MEADVILLE -- Johanna Suhoski supported her two favorite men Thursday night. Suhoski made the trip from Pittsburgh to the Crawford County Fair in her No. 7 Pittsburgh Steelers football jersey to show her love for quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
Erie Times-News |
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Casper briefs
Power Plant celebrates No. 50 A community celebration will take place on Saturday in Glenrock to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Dave Johnston Power Plant and to mark the construction of the new wind projects.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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UI to hold auditions for ensembles, productions
Auditions will be held for many of the 2008-09 ensembles and productions for the University of Iowa Division of Performing Arts beginning Monday. Most productions and ensembles are open to all UI students and some are open to members of the public.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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NYC connection is paying off for Future 86
While the New Jersey club scene is knee-deep in cover bands, Future 86 comes from the land of original music -- New York City.
Daily Record |
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Colour Photo: Mathieu Belanger, Reuters / DION RECEIVES DOCTORATE: Canadian singer Celine Dion smiles as she poses with Quebec's mayor Regis Labeaume after she received an honorary doctorate in music from Laval University at the Palais Montcalm in Quebec City on Thursday. Hundreds of fans lined up outside the famed Chateau Frontenac to get a glimpse of Dion, who thanked her family and friends ...
Windsor Star |
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Weekend SC festival celebrates Gullah culture
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Artists from four states will visit Charleston for the Gullah-Geechee Nation International Music and Movement Festival. The festival opens Friday featuring visual arts, music and dances of slave descendants who live on the sea islands of the Southeast coast.
WBTV Charlotte |
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Area yoga instructor stretching her talents
Ad is using Kira Willey's song; 2nd CD in the works. Ad is using Kira Willey's song; 2nd CD in the works.
The Morning Call |
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Brooke Barrettsmith talks Christian rock, 'American Idol'
After making it to the top 40 contestants on the fifth season of “American Idol,” Brooke Barrettsmith became a local music celebrity.
Northwest Herald |
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Rapper tests his academic prowess at Stanford
Ahmad Ali Lewis made a deal with his mother back when he was a high school student: He would go to college unless he got a recording contract for his upbeat rap music.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Second son born to singer Stefani
Singer Gwen Stefani has given birth to her second child, a boy named Zuma Nesta Rock, her publicist announces.
BBC News |
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These days, Chris Daughtry's rarely 'Idol'
When Christopher Adam Daughtry auditioned for "American Idol" in early 2006, he was an obscure musician from Roanoke Rapids, N.C., whose only claim to fame was singing "Achy Breaky Heart" at his grandfather's bar.
New York Daily News |
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