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Bok Summer Music Series Will Feature Jazz, Rock and 1950s Era Tunes
LAKE WALES The seventh annual Live at the Gardens! A Summer Music Series will kick off with a performance at 7 30 p.m. May 31 at Historic Bok Sanctuary.With a new Bose tower sound system and new stage and theater lighting, seating will be cabaret style in the Visitor Center.
The Lakeland Ledger |
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Mariah Carey's mellow magic to stay forever
Mariah is poised to overtake music icons like Elvis Presley and the Beatles on the singles and album charts
The Times of India |
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Audible Announces BREAKOUT THRILLERS, a New Recommendation Program with the International Thriller Writers
The leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced BREAKOUT THRILLERS, a new monthly co-marketing program with the International Thriller Writers (ITW), the world's leading organization of thriller writers. BREAKOUT THRILLERS is designed to introduce the best thrillers in audio as ...
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Promotions, appointments and hires
His new job: Bobby Padgett joined Henslee Schwartz LLP as a senior associate at the Fort Worth office. He has 15 years of experience in various areas of law, including representing school districts in an array of legal matters.
Fort Worth Business Press |
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Carter Museum: Historic quest of Marsden Hartley
A selection of paintings by one of the most brilliant and complicated of the American Modernists will go on view June 14 at the Amon Carter Museum in an exhibition called Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism.
Fort Worth Business Press |
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Grants
The Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne, in its first quarter of 2008, granted nearly $2.8 million to non-profit agencies in Allen County.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Chesney gets top country award but criticizes vote
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Kenny Chesney won entertainer of the year for the fourth straight time at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday -- but said backstage that organizers had devalued the top prize by making it a "sweepstakes" up for vote on the Internet.
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Audible Announces BREAKOUT THRILLERS, a New Recommendation Program with the International Thriller Writers
NEWARK, N.J.----The leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary today announced BREAKOUT THRILLERS, a new monthly co-marketing program with the International Thriller Writers , the world's leading organization of thriller writers.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Heartstrings pulled, musicians perform for quake victims
The night after a massive quake hit Sichuan province, Chinese violinist Lu Siqing in Beijing called his friend, tenor Dai Yuqiang. "We should do something for the people there," Lu said. The winner of the Paganini Award, an i ...
People's Daily |
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Lambert wins Best Album; Chesney is entertainer of year
LAS VEGAS -- Kenny Chesney is country music's entertainer of the year for a fourth year in a row. Chesney took top honors at the 43rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday. With the win, he ties Garth Brooks and trails Alabama, which won five in a row. Fans' votes determined the award for the first time this year. All other categories are decided by ACM members. Chesney, the leading ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Community Events
Seventh Annual ChoralFest Annual event featuring all choral students from the Mountain View Whisman School District. Co-sponsors: Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View, Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center, and Los Altos-Mountain View PTA Council.
Palo Alto Weekly |
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Manage stress for peaceful life
NT Network Nobody can avoid stress and depression in their life. It is a part of everybody’s life. With the growing demands from family members, schools, girlfriends or boyfriends, most of today’s youth get stressed and depressed and experience anxiety.
Navhind Times |
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Locking Horns For Woody Shaw
In the heat of a great solo, many trumpet players tend to throw their shoulders back and jab their instruments in the air, like a gangster in an old movie hoisting a machine gun on St. Valentine's Day. Hard-bop trumpeters tend to assume this position more than most, mainly because they play more notes and blast them out faster and louder. The late trumpet icon Woody Shaw often played that way. ...
The New York Sun |
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Washington DC
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - These are excerpts from the San Francisco Police Department ’s daily log of activities. Incidents are listed by police precincts and the neighborhoods they patrol.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Woman creates performance art from grocery lists
NEW YORK — It began with an abandoned grocery list, found on the ground outside a market in New York.
The Ithaca Journal |
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Five Reasons We Love One Tree Hill
One Tree Hill has defied the critics, survived the UPN-WB merger and — with a post-high-school jump four years into the future this season — redefined its teen-soap image. Now, as the gang heads out of their fifth season (tonight at 9 pm/ET, the CW) amid a storm of adult angst ranging from Brooke's adoption heartbreak to Haley's music-career breakthrough, it's clear that OTH is one hot spot ...
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Kristi Yamaguchi on Dancing Her Way to the Trophy
Dancing with the Stars' sixth season finale as she faces off against NFL star Jason Taylor and Latino actor Cristián de la Fuente. In what promises to be a fantastic night of cha cha chas and freestyle dances, Kristi and her partner Mark Ballas could be the ones to end the mens' streak — there hasn't been a female winner since Season 1's Kelly Monaco. But this Olympic gold medalist says she's ...
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Band kids may be weirdbut sure have a good time
Some say band kids are the weirdest kids in the school because all we talk about is music and how we can do all this stuff with our instruments. Yeah, I guess that is somewhat true, but we do play some interesting music sometimes.
The Huntsville Times |
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Before Muti, A Stellar Mahler
The downside of the splendid decision by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to engage Riccardo Muti as their new music director is that it underscores the finitude of their current regency, now destined to last only two more seasons. Having two of the world's greatest musical minds, Pierre Boulez and Bernard Haitink, as caretakers, the ensemble could afford to take its time and make the proper ...
The New York Sun |
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YOUTH ARTS CENTER: Hearing set for Wednesday
Town officials want to know whether the public wants a new youth arts center on town property in the middle of the village. The Board of Selectmen will hold a public hearing on the proposed Ridgefield Music and Arts Center (RMAC) next Wednesday, May 21.
Ridgefield Press |
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China observes three-minute silence to mourn quake victims - Summary
Beijing - Most of China's 1.3 billion people stood in silence for three minutes Monday to mourn victims of last week's earthquake in the south-western province of Sichuan, where about 34,000 people were confirmed dead and thousands remained missing. ...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Lockport greener after Earth event
LOCKPORT -- Birds chirped from the trees, as further above them, puffy white and sometimes gray clouds strolled across the sky, sometimes covering the sun, giving a chilling effect on bare skin.
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With her past two albums with Star Records accorded gold and platinum status, her recording label has no qualms in producing another album for the artist reluctantly dubbed as the The Ultimate Multimedia Star.
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High School Softball: Players catch a break with earlier start, earlier finish
Angela Davis will pack her suitcase instead of her softball bag in late July.
The Des Moines Register |
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A mountain of music
BROWNFIELD - Need saved Carol Noonan. Her creation of an intimate concert hall on a dirt road in a secluded Maine hamlet should have failed. Instead, she and her venture, the Stone Mountain Arts Center, have flourished.
The Lewiston Sun Journal |
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