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Nashville's youth helps drive economy
Nashville can attribute at least part of its economic vitality to the area's youthful spirit.
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Morgan remembered
BUNKER HILL - Early afternoon rain may have put a slight damper on the annual Morgan Cabin Festival in Bunker Hill Sunday, but that didn't stop local residents and visitors from having fun, feasting and learning a little about local history in the process.
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Lawrence House Fire Sends Residents Running
The Lawrence Douglas Fire Department says they were able to quickly extinguish the fire in the basement of the home at 2310 Orchard Lane.
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Band strikes chord
Backstage, a stand displayed sheet music with quarter notes highlighted in neon yellow. Nearby, an ancient gold spray-painted Royal typewriter and candelabra set on a table as percussion maestro Michael Carl prepared for his solo.
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AUDITIONS/SUBMISSIONS
ARTS AT SHANDON PHOTO CONTEST AND EXHIBIT: “Celebrating Creation: Nature, Life and Art,” June 1-8, Shandon Presbyterian Church, Woodrow at Devine St. Entries due Tuesday through Thursday. Awards: $50 for best of each topic; $75 for best in show. Children’s division also available. (803) 771-4408, ext. 27; www.shandonpres.org ARTS “DAMN YANKEES”: Through May 31, 8 p.m. ...
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Almost All Americans Believe They Are Safe Drivers, Yet Almost . Three-Quarters Guilty of Distracted Driving, Finds ...
Three-Quarters Guilty of Distracted Driving, Finds Survey from Nationwide 19/05/2008 04:01:00 Business Wire US4282361033 Nationwide Insurance today released its second annual DWD (Driving While Distracted) study, which found that, while 98 percent of Americans claim to be safe drivers, a vast majority also admit to DWD.
InfoBolsa |
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$10M condo project poised for Music Row
Haury & Smith Contractors Inc. has started construction on a $10 million boutique condominium development on Music Row.
BizJournals |
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City theatres organise children’s drama month
VietNamNet Bridge - City theatres this month will stage several new dramas featuring fairy tales and magic to entertain children during their summer break.
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Youth Orchestra Sparkles In Premiere
If a world premiere, the presence of a leading American composer and a packed house full of parents were enough to make members of the Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra jittery, they didn't show it Sunday during their long-awaited spring concert at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center.
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Hanska pride shows in parade
HANSKA - Casual clothes and something to sit on were the order of the day in Hanska Sunday as people started lining Broadway, the town's main drag, to watch the annual Syttende Mai celebration's parade. They weren't disappointed. This year's parade featured about 80 entries which provided about 40 minutes of show time.
The New Ulm Journal |
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Q and A: Students bring art to village with new gallery
A senior project for a group of Buffalo State graphic design students has turned into Kenmore’s newest art gallery.Students Jodi Wroblewski, Jeremy Dolph and Ryan Hirliman opened Designosaurus Gallery just down the street from the municipality building, in the heart of Delaware Avenue’s business district, and have been drawing some interest from businesses and residents alike.
Tonawanda News |
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Liquid Assets
The license plate reads BIODZL, and for almost a year now, Dean Schmelter's dark Mercedes sedan has run almost exclusively on chicken fat. Schmelter and his business partner built a $3.5 million plant on the former Navy base in North Charleston, where a dozen workers chemically convert the poultry goo into fuel. Dubbed Southeast BioDiesel LLC, the facility mixed its first batch in July 2007 and ...
The Post and Courier |
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Army of Broken Toys a study in broken hearts
Walter Sickert and Edrie Edrie were playing with broken glass the night before the Herald visited Edrie's Allston apartment. "We put it in a bucket and stomped...
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Mt. Pleasant teacher honored for part in the arts
Dianne Pyda remembers being awestruck as a little girl, watching her mother use pencil or watercolors to capture a scene on canvas.
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Smooth sounds
Jazz musicians will tell you that a long-standing gig in the same place smoothes out their sounds. Sharon LaMotte and Bill Gerhardt have mellowed over time at Café on the Square, 1 Biltmore Ave., Asheville.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Connellsville educators prepare for possible school closings
Editor's note: This is the second installment in a four-part series concerning the upcoming vote by the Connellsville Area School Board to closed three elementary schools and reconfigure the grade levels into an intermediate school with grades five through eight at the junior high buildings.
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Tuesday Who knew?
We thought CSO stood for Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but it turns out we were wrong. Find out what a CSO really is at the Nashua Public Works Expo from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in the third-floor auditorium in Nashua City Hall at 229 Main St. in (where else?) Nashua. ...
The Nashua Telegraph |
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Celebrating a century
Every morning at about 6, a handful of Jewish men from Eastern Europe used to gather in the back of a Concord drugstore to recite their daily prayers. Then they would start the day's work as peddlers or "junk dealers."
Concord Monitor |
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Q&A with Brian Greene, Co-Founder of the World's Biggest Science Party [Scientific American Magazine]
Was Jason Bourne’s amnesia neuroscientifically accurate? What does science have to say about morality or about basketball rebounds? If nothing else, the upcoming World Science Festival (worldsciencefestival.com)--running from May 28 to June 1 in New York City--breaks through the abstruseness barrier. Some three dozen events--panel discussions, science-inspired music and dance performances, and ...
Scientific American |
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Studios produce big city sounds affordably
Knoxville recording studios have boomed over the last decade as advances in digital technology allow aspiring producers and engineers to construct studios relatively inexpensively. And, the quality of the sound from studios in East Tennessee has brought artists from all over the country to record here.
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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China Mourning Suspends Entertainment Web Sites
China began three days of national mourning for the victims of the May 12 earthquake, restricting access to entertainment...
PC World |
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Almost All Americans Believe They Are Safe Drivers, Yet Almost Three-Quarters Guilty of Distracted Driving, Finds ...
Nationwide Insurance today released its second annual DWD (Driving While Distracted) study, which
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Hot Sounds: Metro Station
The first studio album from the Hollywood native band Metro Station cranks out high energy songs fueled by bumping beats and lighthearted lyrics. Their self-titled CD is built on ten tracks, each one with a distinctly eccentric sound.
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Vero Beach's Jake Owen a runner-up for new country artist award
Vero Beach native Jake Owen lost out to Texas’ Jack Ingram as Top New Male Artist at Sunday’s Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.
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Youth Orchestra Sparkles In Premiere
If a world premiere, the presence of a leading American composer and a packed house full of parents were enough to make members of the Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra jittery, they didn't show it Sunday during their long-awaited spring concert at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center.
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