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More school time? Just what to do?
With 300 additional hours of school time each year, students could fit more music, art, and physical education classes into their schedules. There could be more time for individual teacher instruction and maybe even less homework.
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Telfair Museum of Art
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Music, influence of Bach highlighted
In the finale of the "Bach to Bach" series for the season, Mark Russell Smith and the Richmond Symphony presented a very interesting musical sandwich at Bon Air Baptist Church on Friday night.
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Madonna keeps on adapting
Timbaland and the Neptunes are so dominant as producers, they can sometimes upstage the artist they're working with ... unless that artist is Madonna.
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Better memories eclipse the sad this Mother's Day
I don't think about her every day. And I don't cry for her anymore. I can look at pictures of her young and smile. I can read what she wrote in my baby book and not fall apart. I can even listen to the record she made for my father when I was 9 and she was 31 - "Happy ...
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Scoops for the week of May 9-15
Jessica Thompson spent the past four years organizing shows that linked the city's music and visual arts scenes. She also wrote the arts blog Contessa Says . This month, Thompson is moving to Austin to take a job with a marketing firm.
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Gazebo Players hold auditions for MacBeth
The Gazebo Players of Medfield , a non-profit community based theater organization located in Medfield, Massachusetts, will hold open auditions for their sixth annual "Shakespeare In The Park” production of William Shakespeare’s MACBETH.
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The Bad Plus performs here May 17
The Churchill Arts Council presents a performance by one of the most eclectic and innovative ensembles in contemporary music, The Bad Plus, at the Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., May 17, at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. and there will be a no-host bar.Tickets are $17 for CAC members, $20 for non-members and $10 for children/students and they are available at Jeff's Copy Express, Postage ...
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Record turnout boosts battle against cancer
GREENVILLE - Unlike last year's disappointing rain-out, this year's Relay for Life went off without a hitch, thanks in part to the magnificent Friday evening weather.
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Herald invites community to 'Cram the Van'
The New Jersey Herald has started a "Cram the Van" project at its Newton office, with the goal of filling an entire van with donated food before May 17.
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Hard-hat mom balances shift work with single motherhood w/VIDEO
Brandy Voorhies mixes chemicals at the BASF Fina Petrochemical plant in Port Arthur. She has had to adjust to shift work while handling her responsibilities as a single parent.
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Two chosen as Digicel Rising Stars
Adafih Padmore and Erica Samuel were the first two artistes chosen by public voting in the Digicel Rising Stars competition. Padmore a singer with the Lydians choir was ecstatic when she heard the news last week.
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Greek festival offers food, music, dancing
PISCATAWAY:You don't have to be Greek to sample the homemade Greek food and pastries, wine and gyros, or to enjoy the ethnic folk dancing, live music and singers that will all be part of the 35th annual Greek Festival at the Saint George Greek Orthodox Church in Piscataway.
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Linked by Martin Girard on Tue 12th Sep 2006 13:57 UTC
You must remember the period where various electronic devices, from phones to radios, were available in transparent cases. You may have found them utterly cool.
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Exam keeps P-Central engineers home from contest
PORTAGE -- Portage Central High School seniors Alex Martin, Gina Cosgrove and Ken Chong spent much of February designing and constructing a model suspension bridge that led them straight to the finals of a national engineering contest.
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Washington Sunday Bulletin Board
An exhibition of the work of Ray W. Forquer, who has been named 2008 Artist of the Pike by the Frank L. Melega Art Museum, will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. next Sunday ...
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Walk to help babies' needs
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The March of Dimes hosted a walk-a-thon Saturday morning at Morgan's Grove Park to raise money for the medical needs of babies, with an emphasis on studying premature births.
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Jeff Kaiser profile
PERSONAL: Born Oct. 21, 1985. FIRST STARTED GOLFING: Age 6. HOBBIES: Golf, Wisconsin football, USC football and friends.
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Car Research
The lowered ride height and unique fascia actually gives this Yukon the edge over its gasoline-only brethren when it comes to looks. (Daniel Barron/AUTONET) Related article
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Acoustic supergroup making stage debut
[ Violinist extraordinaire David Blackmon says his newest group, the traditional acoustic quartet Curley Maple, takes its name from a pair of very significant sources.
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Roberta Flack to play Cleveland School of the Arts benefit
Roberta Flack hasn't put out a proper studio album in more than a decade. Her next one should be a doozy, however. "I've been trying to finish an album of Beatles songs," the R&B chanteuse says, reached at home in New York City.
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Marwa becoming more conservative
The Lebanese artist Marwa revealed that she is considering appearing more conservative in her music video clips and her concerts. Critics have described Marwa’s attire as indecent.
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Ruckus All About 'Good Fun'
Bristol’s Danny Rhymer and his seven-year-old son Daniel witnessed a "Ruckus" Saturday night at the Washington County Fairgrounds. In fact, they were among the early arrivals for the fifth edition of the "Ruckus in the Cage" mixed martial arts program.
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Betts Jones
The marriage of Miss Eleanor Windsor Jones of Richmond, Va., to James Andrew Betts Jr. of Raleigh, N.C., took place in a candlelight service the evening of Saturday, December 29, 2007, at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Richmond. The Reverend David T. Anderson of St. Stephen's and the Reverend Arthur Ross III of White Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh officiated.
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Crockett Philp
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wood Crockett Sr. of Midlothian announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Carly Elizabeth Crockett, to Mr. Gerald Martin Philp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jon Balfour Philp of Richmond. Miss Crockett and Mr. Philp are graduates of James Madison University. In May, Carly will receive her master's degree in Nutrition and Physical Activity from James Madison University where she ...
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