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Regional arts and entertainment events
Sunday Bard times two The invaluable Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival presents a Bard double bill: one familiar, one not. Sure, you may be able to recite the lines along with the actors, but the tragic love story Romeo and Juliet is always worth seeing, even if
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Creative project hopes to revitalize Holyoke
Last month's University Gallery sponsored by the Public Art Symposium acted as a facilitator and brought artistic minds who work in the public spectrum together to share their national and international projects.
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Arts & Living Articles
The first order of business before practice begins is to roll up the pads in Boyden's wrestling room. The team works together to push the two large mats across the room and rest them along the far walls.
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Web sites compete with class reunions
Ten years after graduating from Taylor High School in Katy, Texas, Tina Lee Naro learned some surprising things about her former classmates. One committed atheist became a Mormon. A tightly wound "business school" type became a laid-back bartender at a...
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Book bonder
MARTINSBURG - Joyce Paden beams with pride when talking about the local children who call her ''the book lady.'' The title fits Paden, who has been Martinsburg Public Library's director since 1978. Paden chose to take a full-time job once her three daughters were grown after working 10 to 12 hours a week for most of her life.
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News Articles
A 23-year-old University of Massachusetts student died on May 8 due to what is believed to be a heroin overdose. Darby Fassett, a Groton, Mass., native and resident of Hadley, was found unresponsive outside his home. According to Hadley Chief of Police Dennis J.
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Time to Tie a String Around That Strad
Why do musicians keep getting separated from their precious, often priceless instruments?
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Encores! For Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein is coming back to New York City Center as part of a celebration of what would have been his 90th birthday.
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Strains of Humor in a Classical Vein
Music has a hard time being funny, especially music of the last 100 years. Gyorgy Kurtag?s piano pieces, as played by Mitsuko Uchida, come close today.
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Mozart and Schubert With Pipe and Slippers
Isaac Babel said that ?if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.? Something similar drew me admiringly to Paul Lewis?s evening of piano music.
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5 lessons for parents from a kindergarten school teacher
MILWAUKEE - Lisa Holewa was amazed by how easily her daughter's kindergarten class moved from one project to another. There was no whining, no tantrums.
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Child's illness inspires charity
Neither Lynn McCarthy nor Fred Brooke has had cancer or a life-threatening illness.
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Community Milestones
□ The first Brain Art Contest for ages kindergarten-grade 2 and grades 3-5 was held recently as a part of Brain Awareness Season 2008 in Winston-Salem. More than 125 entries were received from several area schools. The theme for grades kindergarten-2 was: "My Brain Helps Me ________." The winners were: First place: Ta'Mauri Miller of Gibson Elementary School; second place: Zach Baugher of Middle ...
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UC Davis partners with iTunes U
UC Davis is among the first colleges in the nation to launch the new iTunes U site. iTunes U allows users to gain free access to files, including music, podcasts, event highlights and campus news.
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RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Bold Smartphone
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RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Bold Smartphone
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Celebrities - Underwood joins Grand Ole Opry
NASHVILLE — Carrie Underwood is the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. The singer joined the cast of the long-running country music show Saturday. Garth Brooks handled her formal induction and Vince Gill sang a duet with her.
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Underwood joins Grand Ole Opry
Carrie Underwood is the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. The singer joined the cast of the long-running country music show Saturday. Garth Brooks handled her formal induction, and Vince Gill sang a duet with her. “This really seems like a great family to be part of,” Underwood said, as she fought back tears. “I promise I’ll do everything I possibly can to not make you regret it.” The ...
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Save some money, save the world
Jackson Madnick doesn't expect people to make a cleaner greener world from the goodness of their hearts or because they saw Al Gore's movie. Instead, he hopes to convince skeptics they can save lots of money and the world by embracing new technology to heat their homes, seed and water their lawns, and clean up lakes and rivers.
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Tour plans to make splash
ACWORTH - The city of Acworth is preparing to start the summer with a few tricks, flips and a big splash as the city welcomes a professional wakeboarding event.
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World languages at risk in Hempfield Area
Barbara Rebon directs her Stanwood Elementary kindergarten classes through commands such as "Levantarse!" and "Mire y escuche!"
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BlackBerry Bold official, beats iPhone to 3G
Research in Motion tonight revealed the BlackBerry Bold, the next generation of its full-size smartphones. The black-and-chrome device is RIM's first to support 3G on GSM networks with HSDPA access, and is also the first to build in a higher-resolution display: at 480x320, the screen is as sharp as today's iPhone. The Bold's interface undergoes a...
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DR. MURRAY JARVIK
Co-inventor of nicotine patch Dr. Murray Jarvik , a pioneer researcher of smoking addiction and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, has died. He was 84. Jarvik died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long struggle with congestive heart failure, said Mark Wheeler, a health sciences spokesman at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the early 1990s, Jarvik, a UCLA ...
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Making waves
Horns started blowing a little after 1 p.m. Sunday, blasting across the parking lot at Burle Business Park.By 1:20 or so, it was a
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