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Vikings trade up to take QB John David Booty in fifth round
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - The latest quarterback drafted from Southern California does not have a Heisman Trophy, but John David Booty certainly comes with plenty of polish. Advertisement: MOLSON LAKE LODGE FOURTH OF JULY "BIG BANG" SPECIAL We are offering BIG discounts at our American Plan main lodge & Little Bolton outpost camp locations for a four day/four night fishing trip July 2-6, ...
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Classics Piano Festival returns
IN conjunction with this year’s HSBC Classics Piano Festival to be held at The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) from July 7-13, HSBC recently announced the semi-finalists and also the award recipients of the HSBC Classics Bursary Award.
The New Straits Times |
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Carmen Electra, Paris Hilton frolic at Coachella after-party
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) -- Carmen Electra showed off her fiance and black diamond engagement ring at an excluse Coachella after-party, while the Hilton sisters frolicked with their beaus.
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Column: Imitating Life
It is a widely held belief that art has the responsibility to do more than just entertain. By holding the mirror up to nature, art should give its viewers some perspective on themselves and their world, and this should create some kind of change.
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Ky. helps with twisted serenading
Music lovers, mark your calendars, on Tuesday, April 28, Secondhand Serenade is scheduled to take the stage at the Mad Hatter in Covington, Ky. With so many bands coming out on a daily basis, there is a constant struggle for artists to break through the barrier.
The News Record |
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Arts & Entertainment Articles
Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 91 on April 25, and to celebrate, Playhouse in the Park is having a party. And, my, what a show director Rob Ruggiero's "Ella" is. Forget that the actors prove that as actors; they're singers. You've come for the music, and these tunes haven't aged a bit.
The News Record |
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Jazzfest Plays On Despite Downpour
The festival continues Thursday and runs through next Sunday at the New Orleans Fair Grounds. This is the third festival since Hurricane Katrina devistated the city. more
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Puppets can't portray the full range of 'Don Giovanni'
The Northwest Puppet Center's most ambitious opera yet, Mozart's "Don Giovanni," opened Friday night and runs through next weekend. Unlike several of the center's previous operatic offerings, "Don Giovanni" was not originally written for puppets. While it is full of comedy that lends itself to puppet portrayal, there is also a darker side to "Don Giovanni:" betrayal and anguish, grief and ...
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Wagner's 'Siegfried' in Vienna a treat
Wotan's moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner's "Siegfried" premiered 130 years ago - but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera. For just a second the chief god stoops, picks up a handful of earth and sniffs at it, in a powerfully telling gesture of what is about to come: an end his rule and with it, oblivion. ...
The Charlotte Observer |
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Sean Penn speaks at Coachella, urges youth action
Sean Penn spoke at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, urging the young crowd to involve themselves politically. The Oscar-winning actor, a late addition to the music festival, joking referred to his out-of-place billing among the 125-plus...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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The Blunt truth
He’s been voted one of the most boring artists in Britain, but James Blunt takes it as a compliment.
The Star |
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'Bartered Bride' leaves opera fans waiting for more from Auburn
There is nothing highbrow about Smetana's opera "The Bartered Bride," a story of down-to-earth life and peasant high jinks, all of it sunny-side up. In concert format and with panache, the Auburn Symphony Orchestra performed a chunk of this lighthearted romp Saturday night at Auburn Performing Arts Center.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Hanging in there at Coachella Day 3
Live blogging and photos from a team of Register reporters sweating it out at the Coachella Valley Music &Arts Festival.
Orange County Register |
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People in the News: Winfrey to honor Cruise's career
Tom Cruise returning to Oprah Winfrey's show ... Carmen Electra and the Hilton sisters party at Coachella.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Readiatrics book drive has a week to go
The eighth annual Readiatrics Book Drive, collecting new and gently used children’s books for area children in need, will conclude on Saturday, May 3. Groups collecting books for the drive are asked to contact Readiatrics organizer, Darla Drew Lerdal, at 341-5940, to arrange the drop-off of collected books.
Rapid City Journal |
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Times & Star
THE Dirty Sanchez Boys are heading for Workington next week. The Workington show, on Friday, May 2, will also incorporate interspersed music from the touring DJ who is part of the stage act.
West Cumberland Times & Star |
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Sean Penn urges young to be political
American actor Sean Penn spoke at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, urging the young crowd to involve themselves politically.
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Sporty type
DATUK Kong Cho Ha narrowly retained his Lumut seat, polling 298 votes more than Suwardi Sapuan, his opponent from Parti Keadilan Rakyat in the last general election. Kong garnered 25,698 votes.
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Coachella: Saturday Night Live With Kraftwerk, Portishead, M.I.A. and Yo! Majesty
A slew of performers ranging from Prince to M.I.A. take the stage Saturday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Listening Post is there to photograph Kraftwerk, Portishead, M.I.A. and Yo! Majesty after sunset.
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Shine a Light tix on sale May 1
Tickets for the long-awaited Martin Scorsese film of the Rolling Stones performance event film SHINE A LIGHT will be on sale at selected cinemas this Thursday, May 1.
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Pick of Ryan gives Falcons a franchise face-lift
NEW YORK -- As NFL messes go, this one was about as big as it gets. Your quarterback, the face of your franchise, is in jail. The circumstances that led him there were so despicable, so unthinkable, that the fallout affected everyone and everything in your organization.
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Prince rocks Coachella festival - ‘The Purple One’ covers classics from Radiohead, The Beatles
INDIO, Calif. — “Coachella, I am here.” Prince hit the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with that announcement, heralding his arrival as the much-anticipated headliner of the summer festival.
Johnson City Press |
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Vikings trade up to take Booty in fifth round
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- The latest quarterback drafted from Southern California does not have a Heisman Trophy, but John David Booty certainly comes with plenty of polish.
NFL.com |
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Heavy downpours dampen New Orleans' JazzFest
The crowds that are usually jammed in almost hip-to-hip for each day's closing acts at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival were much smaller on Sunday.
Houston Chronicle |
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Duo present an evening of goulash and Gitanes
Distinguished violinist Ernie Gruner and accordionist/singer Phil Carroll will perform in Perth this week.
The West Australian |
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