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SPORTS HEADLINES
ROTHBURY — With six weeks to go before thousands of campers swarm the Double JJ Ranch in Oceana County for the Rothbury national music festival, the artist lineup is one of the main topics of conversation.
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Sting vs. Elvis Costello in a race to betray their punk roots
There is a portion of Police and Elvis Costello devotees who have single-mindedly followed both artists' careers through three decades, tenaciously collecting each cherished release and carefully housing them in clear vinyl slipcases. There's also a large contingent of mutual casual fans — th ...
Phoenix New Times |
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The Brother Unconnected: A Tribute to Sun City Girls
For many, punk rock was/is an end in itself, an opportunity to rock fast 'n' loud and/or dress up funny. For others, punk was a door to limitless cultural possibilities, a way of denying obstacles to artistic expression. The UK's Pop Group and the Raincoats embraced, to varying degrees, the avant-ga ...
Phoenix New Times |
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Neva Dinova
The jaunty, strummed rhythm of "Squirrels" counters the sentiment at its center; frontman Jake Bellows notices a squirrel doing "backflips for change, for a lady who vacuums her heartache away," before the brokenhearted singer confesses, "I just keep writing the same song." It's a boon if true, beca ...
Phoenix New Times |
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Can Woody Out-Jazz Aretha in Montreal?
Woody Allen and Aretha Franklin headline summer's Jazz Festival in Montreal.
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U.S. Releases Seized Iranian Dulcimers to Legendary California Music Professor
The very mention of the word 'Iran,' can often trigger a reflexive enforcement response by the U.S. Government. But in the case of Manoochehr Sadeghi, an internationally renowned musician and retired UCLA professor of musicology, reason prevailed, and U.S. officials allowed Professor Sadeghi to take possession of musical instruments that otherwise might have been embargoed under U.S. trade ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Apple looking at greeting/gift card combos?
An Apple patent application, newly published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, suggests that the company may be interested in expanding the reach of its gift cards. Most of its iTunes cards use generic images, concentrating primarily on music; future cards, however, could depict specific artists, albums, games, movies and TV shows, something ...
MacNN |
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Coral Gables
theater group performs musical in June The Miami Acting Company, a nonprofit community theater organization, will present the long-running, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, A Chorus Line, June 6-8 and 13-15 at the Riviera Plaza Theatre, 1560 S. Dixie Hwy., Coral Gables. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinee performances are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults; $20 for ...
Miami Herald |
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Nonprofit puts on `Chorus Line'
The Miami Acting Company, a nonprofit community theater organization, will present the long-running, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, A Chorus Line, June 6-8 and 13-15 at the Riviera Plaza Theatre, 1560 S. Dixie Hwy., Coral Gables. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinee performances are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults; $20 for seniors and students. Visit ...
Miami Herald |
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Lemper to Sing Weill's Seven Deadly Sins at Carnegie Hall
Actress-singer Ute Lemper, seen on Broadway in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, will join the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for an evening at Carnegie Hall Oct. 4.
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Top 10 Memorial Day getaways
Even though summer doesn’t officially start until a month or so after the Memorial Day weekend, most of us treat this three-day holiday as if it did mark the onset of the season. Of course, it helps that it’s the first warm long weekend in months, which means barbecues in the back yard, al fresco concerts, picnics in the park, hitting the links — you name it, so long as it’s outdoors!
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Nebraska boy, 11, wins National Geographic Bee
Akshay Rajagopal, a US sixth-grader who has just won a $25,000 scholarship, has been hailed by the organisers for "knowing more geography than most of the nation".
The Times of India |
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SPECIAL EVENTS
MAY FESTIVAL OF ARTS through June 1 in Eureka Springs.
Fayetteville Free Weekly |
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15:15 (BST), 22/05/2008 Golden Joystick Awards 2008 Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS 22/05/08 – Future, the ...
22/05/08 – Future, the special-interest media group and organisers of the Golden Joystick Awards, is calling for the UK games industry to get behind the 26th Annual Golden Joystick Awards to make it the biggest and best yet.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Shaker Guiro instruments recalled
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of West Music Shaker Guiro instruments, due to a excessive lead paint.
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Expanded service for Carnival, A's Baseball
BART operates longer trains Sunday, May 25 for people attending the “Carnaval San Francisco” 30th Anniversary Grand Parade and music fest or the A’s game. The Carnaval Grand Parade is the biggest multicultural event in California. Parade organizers are expecting 400,000 revelers this year.
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U.S. Releases Seized Iranian Dulcimers to Legendary California Music Professor
WASHINGTON----The very mention of the word 'Iran,' can often trigger a reflexive enforcement response by the U.S. Government. But in the case of Manoochehr Sadeghi, an internationally renowned musician and retired UCLA professor of musicology, reason prevailed, and U.S. officials allowed Professor Sadeghi to take possession of musical instruments that otherwise might have been embargoed under ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Guitar Hero World Tour
Hot on the heels of Konami’s Rock Revolution reveal last week, we have the first video and screenshots for Guitar Hero: World Tour. Guitar Hero: World Tour is being developed for Activision by Neversoft, the crew most famous for the Tony Hawk games and Guitar Hero III. World Tour will be the third game on the market to feature singer, guitar, bass and drums – apparently music is the new FPS.
Games Radar |
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Tiverton musicians take Florida by storm
TIVERTON — Five Tiverton High School performing arts groups returned from Orlando, Fl., recently with laurels for placing first in competition against similar groups from seven other communities in the country.
Sakonnet Times |
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Shetland's midsummer festival
Many events will be taking place throughout the islands, enticing visitors to explore and see Shetland in a new light. There is a special emphasis on the islands of Unst and Whalsay which have particularly strong Hanseatic connections.
Shetland Today |
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Shaker Guiro instruments recalled
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of West Music Shaker Guiro instruments, due to a excessive lead paint.The shakers are a bead-filled percussion instrument with ridges, producing sound as the user rubs a wooden stick across its corrugated surface.They are cylinder-shaped, 5 inches long and 2 inches wide.About 6,500 shakers were sold at West Music retail ...
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Alamo Theater to receive Blues Trail Marker today
Beloved singer Dorothy Moore and talent producer Jobi Martin are among the speakers at today's unveiling of a Mississippi Blues Trail Marker honoring the Alamo Theater and Moore, who got her start at talent shows there.
The Clarion-Ledger |
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Royal Palm art teacher uses school as her canvas
Before Gloria Parlade came to Royal Palm elementary, the West Miami-Dade school had mostly drab, pasty white walls. Now there isn't a hallway void of Parlade's artistic mark.
Miami Herald |
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D'Amico and Olson Are the Franks in L.A. Run of Parade , Starting July 11
Casting has been announced for the Los Angeles area professional premiere of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's musical, Parade, to play The Neighborhood Playhouse in Palos Verdes Estates.
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Gordon Johnson on "GJ4"
Twin Cities bassist Gordon Johnson is out with another "Trios" album. This is the fourth in a series of recordings featuring Gordy, along with a variety of different jazz pianists and drummers.
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