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SPIKING INTEREST: Fetish-influenced items like this 'burbs heel'from Jeffrey Campbell are all the rage. WITH strappy leather, buckles, zippers and shiny PVC making their way into everyday wear, women's fashion has definitely been on a bad-girl bondage binge lately.
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Lit Local author and University of Chicago professor Neil Harris will lecture on and sign copies of his new book The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age , a look at Chicago’s short-lived effort at producing a magazine similar to the New Yorker. Check out some of the magazine’s cover art and cartoons here . Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Center, 400 S. State St., ...
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Advent Film Group Presents 'Lessons From COME WHAT MAY Movie' at the January 2009 Christian Filmmakers Academy
MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 10 / Christian Newswire / -- The tide has turned for the independent Christian film movement launched by Vision Forum just five years ago with the goal of reforming culture. 2009 marks the entry of feature-length films at the annual San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.
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Verizon to Sponsor 'New Music'
Verizon Wireless is going where no national advertiser has gone before: to HD Radio side channels.
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Don't you just want to strum that guitar every once in a while , I think, watching Big Bear as they rock the stage. Just a big fat C chord once for the kids? But Big Bear's not going to make it easy for you.
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LONDON --
The list of bands whose music is used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo Bay reads like a grim roll call of American pop culture, the Guardian writes.
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Dylan's room at famed hotel preserved
New York City's Buildings Department has halted renovations on the hotel room where music icon Bob Dylan stayed and wrote songs in the 1970s. The New York Post said the new owners of the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan were gutting Room 211, the space where Dylan penned his classic Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, however, the renovation was blocked after the Buildings Department issued a stop-work ...
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Dylan's room at famed hotel preserved
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- New York City's Buildings Department has halted renovations on the hotel room where music icon Bob Dylan stayed and wrote songs in the 1970s.
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Brandy's Emotional Journey
R&B star Brandy Norwood is back on the music scene with her first album in four years, called "Human." "Extra's" AJ Calloway sat down with the Grammy-winning pop star for one of her most candid interviews ever.
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Icelanders face frugal Christmas as economy chills
(By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer) Here are a few things selling briskly in Iceland's capital as Christmas approaches: horse meat, secondhand clothing and used DVDs of "The Sound of Music." Thrift is the new mantra in Iceland, a volcanic island nation just below the Arctic Circle, now trapped in economic deep freeze with rising unemployment, soaring prices and a paralyzed banking system. ...
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Three BHS musicians take state honors at Saturday auditions
On Dec. 6, 2008, 1,091 students from across the state of Missouri met at Hickman High School in Columbia for the Missouri All-State Band Audition. The purpose of the audition is to give the students the opportunity to earn membership in the Missouri All-State Band.
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Wiggins home tour on, concert off
Remodeling and illness have shrunk the number of homes scheduled for a holiday home tour sponsored by the Wiggins School District 125th birthday committee, but it is still on for Saturday.
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Matisyahu brings roadshow to Cleveland's House of Blues
Scott Shaw/The Plain Dealer The tenets of Orthodox Judaism meet the sounds of Jamaica in the music of Matisyahu, who made a splash at the 2006 CMJ/Rock Hall Music Fest. The Hasidic Jewish reggae sensation returns to headline a gig...
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Bradley Foundation awards $14.5 million
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced Wednesday that it awarded more than $14.5 million in 2008 to support local education, arts and grass roots civic organizations.
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Winter music and musings on a singing career
Singer-songwriter Keri Noble questioned her commitment to writing hits when the industry asked her to sound more like Norah Jones. She also talks about her strict Christian upbringing in a Spanish-speaking congregation in Detroit, and how she made it big in Japan.
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City Life with Alexandra Matoshko
Last week music fans of Kyiv were shaken up by an amazing piece of news delivered by the organizers of Chayka Open Air music festival. On Dec. 4 they announced that this summer’s Chayka festival will be headlined by incredible punk rock grandpa Iggy Pop.
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BROACH'DD charity benefit runs this weekend and next
Kincardine's BROACH'DD musical troupe will kick off its Christmas Benefit Show performances at Books and Beans this weekend. The dates of the show are Dec. [...]
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Play Holiday Dress-Up With Sufjan Stevens!
Whether you're trying to momentarily forget the current economic climate or the literal wintertime one that's raging outside right now, boy does Asthmatic Kitty have the thing for you! The lovable label has launched a website full of yuletide diversions , which is in no way whatsoever a cleverly disguised ploy to sell copies of Sufjan Stevens ' Songs for Christmas box set ...
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Amarok 2.0 Rocks the World
Posted by Lydia Pintscher on Wednesday 10/Dec/2008, @09:25 from the wait-don't-tell-me-it's-here dept. After two years of intense development, Amarok 2 has become a reality!
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Maple Grove holiday lights contest winners announced
Maple Grove Community Organization (MGCO) would like to thank all the homeowners, neighbors and friends who submitted entries for the 2008 Holiday Lighting Contest. MGCO hopes everyone enjoys driving around Maple Grove and viewing the many displays throughout the city.
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Chan’s Jawn
If the cover tunes from Cat Power’s recent album Jukebox confirmed anything, it’s that Chan Marshall has the ability to seize on the jewels of the great American songbook and pulverize them into a fine, soporific dust. And that’s not such a bad thing.
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American Library Association names NJIT prof’s Whale Music book a top ten
( New Jersey Institute of Technology ) Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound by NJIT humanities professor, author and clarinetist David Rothenberg, has been named one of the ten best science and technology books for 2008 by Booklist on Line, a publication of the American Library Association.
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Coldplay denies plagiarism accusation
British rock band Coldplay on Tuesday denied virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani's accusation that it ripped off one of his instrumentals, saying any similarities were "entirely coincidental."
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Icelanders face frugal Christmas as economy chills
Here are a few things selling briskly in Iceland's capital as Christmas approaches: horse meat, secondhand clothing and used DVDs of "The Sound of Music." Thrift is the new mantra in Iceland, a volcanic island nation just below the Arctic Circle, now trapped in economic deep freeze with rising unemployment, soaring prices and a paralyzed banking system. "Before, you didn't think about what you ...
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Coldplay denies stealing the song of Joe Satriani
Coldplay issued a statement yesterday insisting that "Viva La Vida" is in fact their own cloying anthem — not lifted from a 12-year-old melody by guitar legend Joe Satriani according to the Defamer. "When we finished the song 'Viva La Vida,' our only hit single, we knew that was good. And I will maintain that till my dying day, that it's not that bad. Although we are being sued by about 12 ...
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