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Police blotter
Unruly party. Police broke up a party early yesterday on Richmond Place and arrested a city man when he dropped a BB gun in front of officers. Capt. Brian McElligott said police were notified at about 2:40 a.m. of loud music and beer cans or bottles being thrown in the street.
Norwalk Advocate |
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High Blood Pressure
Music may keep a condition that increases one's risk of heart disease under control, according to a new study
WJTV Jackson |
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On your mark. Get set. Gorge!
EAST HARTFORD — Few things say summer is on the way quite like a hot dog fresh off the grill … or 22¾ of them in a 10-minute span, for that matter.
Journal Inquirer |
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Washington DC
BEIJING , May 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sohu.com Inc. (Nasdaq: SOHU ), China's leading online media, communications, search, online games and mobile value-added services company, announced today that in response to the announcement by the State Council of the People's Republic of China of a three-day national mourning for earthquake victims from May 19 to May 21 , Sohu suspended its ...
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Music Review: Beach Boys - Stars and Stripes Vol. 1
Brians back, Mike has a good idea and the Beach Boys travel to Nashville. Mike Love had the idea for the Beach Boys to travel to Nashville and provide backing vocals for some of the leading country artists of the day. These country artists would of course sing classic Beach Boys songs. I had doubts about this project before the album was released in 1996 but the results were not half bad. As ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Technically Precious with Merv
Friday looked like a break away but there is still some rough territory ahead to overcome. The $950/$960 area may be formidable. The long term P&F chart is showing the direction of movement now on the up side but still some distance from reversing the P&F bear signal.
Kitco.com |
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PHS students make French connection
PORTSMOUTH — With thousands of miles between them, Portsmouth High School French students came face-to-face with their English-student counterparts in a school in France through the schools' first transatlantic video conference event — and learned that everyone was just as nervous about trying out a new language on native speakers.
Sakonnet Times |
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Memorial Day plans
A week from today, heart strings will be tugged, consciousness raised and American pride tested. Memorial Day does all that and more. Austin’s Memorial Day committee has announced the Monday, May 26, schedule of activities to honor the nation’s war dead.
Austin Daily Herald |
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Dixieland in the air
FOX LAKE—Five bands filled the Fox Lake air with Dixieland Jazz and Big Band sounds this past weekend. People came from across the country to partake in the 2008 Bunny Berigan Jazz Jubilee, which is celebrating the 100th year since Rowland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan was born. "This is the very best crowd we've had since I've been running it the last three years," said Julie Flemming, event ...
Beaver Dam Daily Citizen |
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Art/Culture Review
There now seems to be the realisation that Botswana must also look to its peoples to offer the human aspects of tourism that will add value to the second or third most important national revenue earner.
Mmegi |
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Art/Culture Review
Legendary Afro jazz artiste Lister Boleseng has been holding patrons hostage (literally) at Satchmo's Jazz cafe for two consecutive weekends.
Mmegi |
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Carla Lynne Hall of RockStarLifeLessons.com Presents a Four Week Music Marketing Course for Musicians, Managers and ...
Carla Lynne Hall of RockStarLifeLessons.com is offering a four-week "Music Marketing Machine" workshop in New York City. Participants will get over twelve hours of personal music marketing training from veteran musician and music marketing coach Carla Lynne Hall. This "incubator" styled workshop is designed specifically to create individualized music marketing plans for musicians of all levels, ...
PRWeb |
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OBAMA TELLS TENN. GOP: LAY OFF MY WIFE
WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee's Republican Party: "Lay off my wife." Obama, his party's presidential front-runner, and his wife, Michelle, were asked in an interview aired Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America" about an online video last week by the state's GOP taking her to task for a comment some considered unpatriotic. "The GOP, should I be the nominee, can ...
New York Post |
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Special Features: Hard Rock Park – For those that want to rock
May. 19th, 2008 -- If you’ve read any of my reviews or editorials over the past few years, you pretty much know what to expect, and this article will probably not be any different.
Thrill Network.com |
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State's wedding industry revs up for the big day
Don Gibble posted his Craigslist ad - "gay/lesbian wedding planner" - Friday morning, and then the e-mails started arriving. late Friday, he had spoken with more than 40 couples hoping to sit down in his office next week and plan one of the biggest days of their lives.
Alameda Times-Star |
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Whitton Will Be Hedwig at the Barrow Mansion; Eardley Directs
Directed by Marc Eardley, the John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask musical will play The Barrow Mansion in Jersey City, NJ, June 13-28. MAC Award winner Jonathan Whitton will star in the title role with Louise Stewart as Yitzhak.
Playbill |
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Steinway Acquires ArkivMusic
Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. today announced that it has acquired ArkivMusic, LLC, an online retailer of classical music recordings.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Rock the Coast event numbers climb
MUSKEGON COUNTY -- Organizers of the weekend's Rock the Coast event -- a combination of Christian music concert and amusement park rides -- are still counting the numbers for walk-up and other attendance.
The Muskegon Chronicle |
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Grant helps town enhance firefighting
FAIRMONT — Hundreds of residents helped celebrate the Fairmont Rural Fire Department’s grand opening Saturday with games, food and entertainment.
The Robesonian |
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Music Review: Michael Jefry Stevens Quartet - For The Children
A rediscovered jazz treasure from the not-so-distant past. A new release on the Cadence Jazz label proves that you can sometimes stumble onto a hidden treasure, even one that's been out of sight for over a decade. For The Children, featuring the Michael Jefry Stevens Quartet, was actually recorded in 1995 but has just now been issued as part of Cadence's Historical Jazz Series. The quartet ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Chinese government limits online entertainment
Websites offline during earthquake mourning The Chinese government has limited access to online entertainment during a three-day period of national mourning which starts today, in recognition of the victims of the recent earthquake.
PC Advisor |
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Memorial Day service in Southgate
SOUTHGATE - Memorial Day services to honor fallen veterans will get an early start Thursday night at Southgate's Evergreen Cemetery.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Ghana: Abusing the Right of Reply? (1)
Over the last few months, I have been trying to deal with a number of rejoinders that we have received in reaction to articles published about individuals or institutions. To be honest, I am one journalist who supports a legally enforceable "right of reply" to correct inaccuracy and bias.
AllAfrica.com |
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Parents Check out New Grand Rapids Performing Arts School
If your child wants to be a singer, actor or dancer, Grand Rapids has a new school for you.
WZZM 13 Grand Rapids |
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Simpson, Romo seem happy at wedding
U.S. singer Jessica Simpson and NFL star Tony Romo were very much the couple at Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz's weekend wedding, a source told People.com.Rumors have been swirling that Simpson and Romo had broken up in part because the singer was upset her ex-boyfriend, singer John Mayer, has reportedly been dating actress Jennifer Aniston. However, People.com said Romo was with Jessica Simpson ...
Moldova.org |
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