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Things to do, places to go ...
The Paper Mill Playhouse's Children's Theatre Series offers the musical "Madeline & the Bad Hat" today at 11 a.m. ArtsPower National Touring Theatre will perform the shows, which are recommended for children ages 5 to 7. "Madeline & The Bad...
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Mozart Music Club sponsors annual Festival of Choirs
The annual Connellsville Festival of Choirs will be held Nov. 23 at Wesley United Methodist Church in Connellsville.
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Performing arts calendar
“Nutcracker,” Dec. 12-14 by Asheville Ballet, Diana Wortham Theatre, Pack Square, Asheville. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. School shows at 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Wednesday; preview dress at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Call 258-1028 for tickets.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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'1,000 Recordings' include some Pittsburghers
Tom Moon is the author/compiler of "1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die," a 1,007-page volume that offers just that. His reports are brisk descriptions and critiques that judge the recordings in an artistic fashion and in terms of their roles in a musical heritage.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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These days, selling songs is survival, not selling out
Ad campaigns built around the misrepresentation of a catch phrase from a pop song are common.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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CD reviews: Sax men offer lively takes on their instruments
Adam Niewood and Shawn Maxwell take creative and energetic looks at their instruments and jazz on "Epic Journey" and "Originals II."
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Songs of LOVE
Nebraska-born singer-songwriter Laura Love opened her career with a particularly memorable debut performance. It wasn't held at a church or club or outdoor amphitheater; Love first took the stage at Nebraska State Penitentiary. She was 16."I was in high school and some professors at a nearby un...
Lancaster Online |
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Here and there
• British composer and recording artist Bob Chilcott will be on hand Sunday, Nov. 23, for a performance of his choral work "Circlesong" at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, 42 N. Prince St., in downtown Lancaster. The 3 p.m. concert is part of the academy's Next Generation Series, and admi...
Lancaster Online |
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A ‘Night of Lights’
Nov. 21 Gala To Aid Hands On! Museum JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas inside the halls of the Hands On! Regional Museum. And, for a moment, it also looked that way on the street. Last week, as Kristine Carter, the museum’s marketing manager, tried to get everything in line for the current “Festival of Trees,” she happily gazed on Johnson City’s Main Street ...
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A celestial symphony experience
The Lancaster Symphony concert Friday night might have been focused on the Gustav Holst masterpiece "The Planets," but Uruguayan-born composer Miguel del Águila was the evening's shining star.The 51-year-old composer, who moved to the United States in 1978, received the symphony's 48th annua...
Lancaster Online |
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UFC 91: Brock Lesnar knocks out Randy Couture
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Diahann Carroll Pens New Biography
“The Legs Are the Last to Go” by Diahann Carroll, 2008, Amistad, $24.95/$26.95 Canada, 273 pages: The alarm clock is not the noisiest thing in your bedroom each morning. Every day when you get up, your hips creak. Your spine groans. Your fingers clatter like piano keys in a “Bugs Bunny” cartoon. As you make your way to the kitchen for a cup of sustenance, your body protesting the whole way, you ...
Bristol Herald Courier |
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Sound Garden cues up its move
Armory Square anchor The Sound Garden is closed today. Monday, too. It re-opens Tuesday on new turf nearby, an Armory stalwart true to its roots. The retro-hip music, movies and more retailer slips from it Walton Street base to its new home in the former Music & Arts Center at 310 W. Jefferson St.
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Animated T-shirts make great geek gifts
The holidays are almost upon us and once again I go into my gift buying mode to help you find that perfect holiday gift for the techno-person in your life. A great place to start discovering some of the coolest technology gifts is from the folks at ThinkGeek.
Erie Times-News |
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Atchison Returns to its "Roots"
Its an historical effort to bring American music to your ears. The Atchison County Historical Society in Kansas is bringing "American roots" music to the area.
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Airwaves
Station sounds like Christmas Christmas music already is the sound at some stores. It's the same for a Loris radio station and full time on its Web site, WLSCRadio.com. WLSC-AM 1240 kicked off its 24-hour "Christmas Channel" format online Nov. 1 with Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas."
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Club News
Cross Creek Cycling Club Organized Group Bicycle Rides: Every Saturday at T&H Brake Shop, 357 Dunn Road. Start times change during summer and winter seasons to allow for hot and cold weather conditions.
The Fayetteville Observer |
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Thousands turn out to cheer veterans at UDT-SEAL Museum Muster
The sacrifices made by military veterans were honored in a ceremony at The National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce this weekend. Saturday's Muster and Veterans Day event attracted about 6,000 visitors with vibrant military band music, explosive Navy SEAL Team demonstrations, and a jump presentation by a Navy parachute team called the Leapfrogs.
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Jensen Beach's Pineapple Festival draws crowds
Guests visiting the festival Saturday afternoon roamed streets filled with music, food and crafts from local and international vendors, many of whom were artists.
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Proposed TIF district has opportunity knocking on Seventh Street
With its decades-old image as a haven for vagrants and crime, there are as many empty storefronts and crumbling facades as there are vibrant businesses along Seventh Street on the edge of downtown Rockford.
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Students get taste of big productions
MARTINSVILLE — “The Nutcracker Suite,” “Annie,” “Seussical” (about Dr. Seuss), “Under the Sea” and “The Wizard of Oz” are usually huge musical productions for the big screen or the big stage in the big cities.
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Bledsoe: Music snobs shouldn't fear enjoying Swift
"Fearless," Taylor Swift (Big Machine)It's easy to look at both commercial country music and teen/tween acts as artistic deserts. When the Who's Pete Towns-hend wrote about a "teenage wasteland" he had no idea it would be populated with such pretty faces singing vapid lyrics that sound like they were written by marketing majors who have once read somewhere that there might be something called a ...
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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Handy fest honored
The W.C. Handy Blue & Barbecue Festival has been designated as one of the Top 20 Events for June 2009 by the Southeast Tourism Society, according to a news release from the Henderson County Tourist Commission.
The Gleaner |
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New Jersey’s WBGO-FM Presents Champions of Jazz Awards to Lorraine Gordon, Others
More than 400 attendees joined WBGO and sponsor Prudential Financial last month at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark for the 2008 Champions of Jazz Gala. Village Vanguard owner Lorraine Gordon received the Champions of Jazz Presenters Award.
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Growing pains at ODU pits residents against rowdy off-campus neighbors
NORFOLK In the four years since Joanna Jenkins moved to a house not far from Old Dominion University, her block of 38th Street has come a long way.
The Virginian-Pilot |
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