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Episode One Of Penny Arcade Game Available Now For Playstation 3
This version of Episode One features newly-implemented PLAYSTATION 3 system features such as trophies, score ranking and background music (BGM) support
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Skate It and Skate 2 Soundtrack Details
Track List Boasts Songs from Some of the Biggest and Most Influential Artists of All-Time Including Black Sabbath, Public Enemy, The Clash and Wu-Tang Clan
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Merl Saunders, rock keyboardist, dies
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Merl Saunders, a keyboardist known for playing with Jerry Garcia, died at a San Francisco hospital almost seven years after a crippling stroke.
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Press Quotes
”... People keep saying the blues is dead, but there’s plenty of life in it with artists like Hooker on the scene!” Blues Revue “It's extremely difficult to do what J.L.H. Jr. has done here: confront both the blessing and the burden of being heir to one of the music's most daunting legacies, while still retaining one's own identity.”
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Pinkwater fantasy novel optioned for movie
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- New York's Tiny Dancer Films production company says it has optioned author Daniel Pinkwater's fantasy novel "Lizard Music" for the big screen.
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Jazz News: Clifford Brown Honored on Philadelphia's Walk of Fame
On Thursday, October 23, 2008, a long overdue plaque honoring the great trumpet player Clifford Brown was dedicated on Philadelphia's fabled “Walk of Fame," a series of “stars” laid in the pavement on either side of South Broad Street (the Avenue of the Arts), surrounded by the Academy of Music, the Kimmel Center, the Merriam Theater, the Levitt Auditorium, and the University of the Arts. Five ...
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News week in review: Fake antivirus, iGoogle changes, and jumping votes
Our news week in review runs down this week's top tech stories, including DOCSIS 3.0 news, a new cloud-based music service from Lala, more on the RealDVD lawsuit, and "jumping" votes. Read More...
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A Cure for the Long-Gone Lonesome Blues
Jett Williams never met her father, Hank. Then she came across his lost recordings, and she heard him laugh at last.
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Article: Ask iLounge 10-24-08
This week's Ask iLounge topics: Importing folders with M3U files, AV cables with 2008 iPods, Moving iTunes libraries between computers, Unknown albums after importing music, Newly added tracks don't show up on iPod
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Luchsinger to host ladies retreat in Atoka
Susie (McEntire) Luchsinger, Reba McEntire’s sister, has sung Christian country music for more than two decades, having traveled across the nation and into Canada and even Australia to perform her internationally acclaimed music.
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Greg Sandow on the future of classical music
(We could also call this "Solutions 3," another in an occasional series of posts -- here and here -- that offer solutions to classical music problems.)
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Disabled persons to top two million in a few years
Sri Lanka Medical Association, President Prof. Lalitha Mendis on Thursday said that there will be nearly two million disabled persons in Sri Lanka during the next few years.She said the Government and other organisations currently engaged in social service activities will have to play a vital role to meet the requirements of the community and uplift their social status.
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Khemadasa Master's funeral tomorrow
The funeral of internationally renowned music maestro Premasiri Khemadasa will take place at 4.00 p.m. at the Independence Square, Colombo tomorrow. The funeral arrangements have been made on the directives of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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One Of The Most Exciting & Original Big Bands In Jazz
“Greatness is greatness, whether on the East Coast, the West Coast, in Tokyo, or anywhere else in the world. I think you will find it in this magnificently variegated, consistently exciting example of one of outstanding jazz orchestras of our time."
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Jaffna well stocked for Deepavali
Hundreds of sailors despite the inclement weather unloaded essential foodstuff that was sent for the Deepavali festival to the Jaffna peninsula by the merchant vessels, Nimalawa and Ruhuna which came under attack by the LTTE last week in the northern seas.
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Turkish prime minister's attempt to lift ban on headscarves ruled anti-secular
Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempt to lift a ban on wearing headscarves in universities was anti-secular, the country's highest court said today in a ruling that could reignite tensions between the country's secular and pro-Islamic factions. In July the Guardian reported that the constitutional court stopped short of disbanding Erdogan's Justice and Development party ...
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Taj Mahal: senior statesman of the blues
The esteem in which Mahal is held by other artists is evident on his latest album 'Maestro,' on which big names like Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Ziggy Marley and Los Lobos lend their talents.
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Nashville's honky-tonk music may be squelched
NASHVILLE (AP) — Metro Council members are deciding whether to squelch the music in Music City USA.
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‘Last Thursday’ provides pre-party festivities for Homecoming Pep Rally
The Lockhart Business Cooperative has finalized plans for October’s Last Thursday/Music on the Square event, which will be held on Oct. 30, 2008.
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Big turnout for Harpersville farm festival
Thousands of people converged Saturday on Old Baker Farm in Harpersville for the annual Cotton Pickin' Celebration. The two-day event showcases life on the working farm. Highlights include an antique tractor show, bluegrass music, a cotton maze, a pumpkin patch...
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Taylor Swift writes her future
Composer of 'Love Story,' from her upcoming CD 'Fearless,' the precocious country singer-songwriter has quickly found success. Taylor Swift doesn't bat a blue eye at rewriting history.
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Auditions Monday, Tuesday for ‘Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas’
Auditions for the Albert Lea Community Theatre production of “Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas,” will be held at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Marion Ross Performing Arts Center, 147 N. Broadway Ave.
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Were the World Mine
Metro Weekly Rating: (5 out of 5) CRITIC'S PICK! THOSE WHO ATTENDED the 2004 Reel Affirmations shorts program ''Growing Up is Hard'' might recall an odd 20-minute musical from director Tom Gustafson entitled Fairies.
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Soderbergh plans 3-D rock'n'roll Cleopatra musical
Steven Soderbergh, who is already working on a biopic of Liberace with Michael Douglas, is also developing a musical on the Egyptian queen, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Paisley: Toddler son delivered baby news
NASHVILLE, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. country music singer Brad Paisley says he learned his wife was pregnant for a second time through an unusual delivery from his young son.
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