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Gallagher slams talent show
Noel Gallagher has hit out at The X Factor, claiming it has "absolutely nothing to do with music".
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Country music awards canned for this year
The Wairarapa Country Music Club has canned their celebration awards this year after more than two decades of annual hoedowns and showdowns in Masterton.
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Buckingham to showcase solo endeavor
Lindsey Buckingham certainly knows how to mark his territory. The rock prodigy will play at Northampton's Calvin Theater tonight, making it his second stop at the venue in the past year.
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Eternal question: What lies at the heart of art?
He Yunkai's sculpture On the Road, seen here at Beijing's 798 Art Festival, is a significant event in Chinese contemporary art. Jiang Dong What is art? To answer this, it may be appropriate to first ask: "What is not art".
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‘Bone-fied’ musicians coming to town
ST. LOUIS - The rattle of bones during the month of October usually conjures up visions of ghouls, skeletons and ghosts for Halloween.
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DTH Archives
Chancellor Holden Thorp will narrate excerpts of Abraham Lincoln’s speeches to accompany a symphony performance tonight. The UNC Symphony Orchestra, mostly composed of students, performs its first concert of the year as part of the Music on the Hill series at Memorial Hall.
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Bush signs anti-piracy bill
The US president has signed a bill which toughens penalties for copyright infringement, music and movie piracy and creates a high-level position of intellectual property czar.
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Bartlett library gets $2,500 grant
The Bartlett Public Library has received a $2,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host The Big Read in the Bartlett community. It is one of 208 libraries, municipalities and arts, culture, higher education and science organizations to received the grant.
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Jazz show to honor doctor's work
When the great jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who lived in Englewood, was diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago, he was treated by oncologist Dr. Frank Forte at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
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Striking a chord
Nothing to do in Bowling Green? From Thursday to Monday night, two annual music festivals and two new ones provided ample entertainment through the weekend.
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Starry Night festival successful in its first year
"Welcome to the first annual, and I'd like to stress annual, Starry Night Music Festival!" Bryan Grace, creator and organizer of Starry Night, has been a busy man for the last few months. In June, he realized that residents in Bowling Green were looking for a new musical outlet.
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RevFest draws crowd to DUC South Lawn
It started out an overcast day on South Lawn beneath the visage of Guthrie Bell Tower, the seventh annual RevFest commenced. Opening with jam band Birdswim, the festival was created to help raise money for The Center for Courageous Kids, located in Scottsville.
College Heights Herald |
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Best of Bowling Green benefits youth art program
Local musician Jordan Pendley wanted to put together a show to benefit Kaleidoscope, a youth arts program that recently lost its state funding. He also wanted a show that would serve as a mixing ground for the eclectic artists in Bowling Green to interact and to play together to one crowd.
College Heights Herald |
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More Iraqi Christians flee
BAGHDAD -- The music store owner had too many mouths to feed to consider joining other Iraqi Christians fleeing violence in Mosul. That decision cost him his life as he became at least the 10th Christian slaughtered by suspected Sunni extremists in the northern city so far this month.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
♦Ladies Bible study, 9:15 to 11 a.m., St. James Lutheran Church, 1206 N. Miller Ave. ♦Calvary Seniors, 10:30 a.m., Calvary Baptist Church, 201 E.N. “A” St., Gas City. Music for entertainment; lunch will be served.
Marion Chronicle-Tribune |
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ECC exchange program ends with a feast
A "Sound of Music"-like atmosphere, complete with schnitzel, apple strudel, lederhosen and waltzing descended on Elgin Community College recently. Only the Alps were missing.
Daily Herald |
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High-tech video contest
Sixth-grade class produces music video about importance of technology
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Having a ball
The 33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band provides lively music for Saturday evening’s costume ball at the 11th annual Shadows of the Blue and Gray re-enactment festival at the City-County Park north of Princeton. Dancers of all ages and levels of expertise participated in the Civil War ball. (BCR photos/Donna Barker)
Bureau County Republican |
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Injury ends Lyons' career
Tease: * Normalize * Toggle preview Story: LEXINGTON -- Dicky Lyons Jr. was supposed to be the vocal veteran leader to bridge the gap between a dynamic passing attack that won two straight Music City Bowls and a cast of young but talented replacements. But that plan was derailed Monday morning with an MRI that showed Lyons tore two ligaments in his right knee while making a catch during ...
The Gleaner |
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Orchids & Onions 10/11
Onions: Virginia Blue Bag violations. My folks (from Britt) were charged with a violation! Dad died over a year ago. Mom’s been in a nursing home for over a year with Alzheimer’s. The notice of violation was mailed to Britt, then forwarded to me the daughter.
Mesabi Daily News |
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Arts count on endowments to weather the financial storm
Investors may be careening on a roller coaster now, but for the area's major cultural organizations, it's not such a white-knuckle ride.
Pioneer Press |
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The whole world in your claws
In Maxis’ latest god game, you’ll be creating entire worlds and watching species grow from single-cell organisms into mighty galactic civilisations.
The Star |
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Obituary: Nurse instilled a love of music in her children
By MARTHA DELLER ARLINGTON — Lisa Marie Nibling Lomax Trewitt was born singing. She was humming hymns in church before she was 2 and winning local talent shows by the time she was 7. Mrs. Trewitt became a nurse, not a professional musician. But she passed her love of music on to her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Her last outing with her daughter Melissa Jeffrey and grandchildren ...
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Short Takes/Celeb Birthdays: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008
→Actor Roger Moore, 81. →Country singer Melba Montgomery, 70. →Singer Cliff Richard, 68. →Singer Justin Hayward (Moody Blues), 62. →Actor Harry Anderson, 56. →Actor Greg Evigan ("My Two Dads,” "B.J. and the Bear”), 55. →Singer Thomas Dolby, 50. →Singer Karyn White, 43. →Actor Jon Seda ("Homicide: Life on the Street”), 38. →Country singer Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks), 34. →Singer ...
The Oklahoman |
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Radio Rabbitt
Disc jockey Johnny Rabbitt has been spinning the hit tunes of music stars on the St. Louis airwaves for 54 years, longer than any local broadcaster.
The Telegraph |
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