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Made In Japan [Advertisement]
Gifts from Japan! Since 1947, Tokyo-based Gakken has created some of the most sought-after science, music, and engineering kits for kids and adults. MAKE Magazine is pleased to be the only retailer...
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Samsung, Microsoft, DIRECTV and Teen Star Jordan Pruitt Award More Than $2 Million Worth of Technology, Software, Cash ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.----Samsung’s Hope for Education, Microsoft Corporation, and DIRECTV, Inc, along with teen music star Jordan Pruitt, presented Oak Ridge Elementary School in Tallahassee, Fla., with more than $200,000 in technology products, software, cash grants and educational television programming packages at a special assembly today for students, teachers and local dignitaries.
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Aretha Franklin to headline New Orleans jazz festival
The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, tops the list of headliners for the 40th anniversary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, announced today by festival organizers. Tickets for the festival, which takes place April 24-26 and April 30-May 3, go on sale today.
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Author's new book highlighted Sunday 'On the Record'
As comforting as a cup of hot cider while sitting by the fireplace, Lucinda Cockrell's new book, A Victorian Christmas, recaptures the charm of the era from the mid-1830s to the turn of the century. Cockrell, Coordinator of Research Collections at MTSU's Center for Popular Music, will talk about the book at 7 a.m. this Sunday, Dec. 21, with host Gina Logue on "MTSU on the Record" on WMOT-FM ...
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School concerts canceled
The fourth-grade Christmas concert that had been scheduled for tonight at Lowman Hill Elementary School, 1101 S.W. Garfield, has been canceled. It will be held in January.
The Topeka Capital-Journal |
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Downtown nightclub closes
12/16/08 "For Sale" sign goes up on Strand Music Theater, Franklin Street...
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Events for Enterprise tribute album postponed
The “We Are Enterprise” compilation album is on course for release today, but Music City News Media in Nashville, Tenn., said events where artists were scheduled to appear in Enterprise and Dothan have been postponed.
Dothan Eagle |
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Mastersingers by the Sea Present Yuletide Elizabethan Feast
John Funkhouser will be part of the Yuletide Elizabethan Madrigal Feast presented by Mastersingers by the Sea Friday, December 19, and Saturday, December 20, at 6 PM. The event features an old world Yuletide feast and concert to celebrate the holiday season.
The Falmouth Enterprise |
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Ballet Students Present "Land of Sweets" from the "Nutcracker"
Ballet students at the Cape Cod Conservatory will perform excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” on Saturday, December 20, at 5 PM. The show, “The Land of Sweets: A Nutcracker Divertissement,” will feature the best-known music and dances from Tchaikovsky’s ballet. The event takes place at the conservatory, 60 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, and admission is $5.
The Falmouth Enterprise |
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Rising to the Top of the Brooklyn Music Scene
Friday morning I arose to the sound of my intentionally obnoxious alarm. The intoxication form the previous night's escapades had not yet settled. There was still a stumble in my step and an aching in my head. How good was The King Left at Mercury Lounge.
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Popular Noise: Music to Launch To
Popularity wasn’t exactly in progress at 9 though. The venue was peopled by just handful after the set of opening act PWRFL Power but there was enough warmth and anticipation in the increasingly attractive venue as second act, Free Blood began its circulation onstage…
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U.S. President-Elect's Pro-Internet Agenda Outlined
U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama has been hailed as the first president to be created by the internet, largely a reference to his grassroots-led campaign that tapped into the power of new communication mediums—from websites for disseminating information and rebutting opponents claims to organising campaigns, collecting...
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TNA News: Christmas Party Last Night, iMPACT! Tapings, Nash, Styles
TNA tapes the New Year's Eve edition of iMPACT! tonight. TNA had their annual Christmas party last night at the TV tapings. Hastings Entertainment and Music stores are running a buy one get one free sale on select TNA DVDs.
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Theater Review (San Diego): Scrooge in Rouge by Ricky Graham, Jeffrey Roberson, Yvette Hargis, and Jefferson Turner
A queer take on "A Christmas Carol" set in the music hall tradition. Most major urban centers have an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) theater, and San Diego is no exception. The Diversionary Theatre is the third-oldest LGBT theater in the United States. Over the years many theater artists from the San Diego area (and there are lots of them) have trod the boards, as they say, in plays ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Berlin Film Festival to honour Doctor Zhivago composer
BERLIN (AFP) - The Berlin Film Festival said Tuesday it would give French composer Maurice Jarre a lifetime achievement award for his haunting scores in a string of Hollywood classics including Doctor Zhivago.
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Latin-American Christmas dinner set
Latin Americans will be enjoying the Christmas holiday as one on Saturday during the first Latin-American Christmas dinner hosted by the Americas Group, a new coalition of organizations representing people from countries of Central and South America. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Peter Parish, 5001 N. Sherman Ave., and is open to everyone. The evening will start out with ...
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Poetry organization receives $2 million grant
Poets & Writers, a nonprofit literary organization, has received a $2 million donation to support its Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award founded in 2007 for emerging American poets.
Seattle Times |
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Berlin Film Festival to honour Doctor Zhivago composer
The Berlin Film Festival said Tuesday it would give French composer Maurice Jarre a lifetime achievement award for his haunting scores in a string of Hollywood classics including Doctor Zhivago.
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Pastor urges peace at Festival of Lights
Before the congregation of All Saints Lutheran Church joined in a handheld candle-lit chorus of “Silent who,” Pastor Arne Bjelland encouraged the members to imitate the American Indians that live just outside Taos, N.M.
The Fort Morgan Times |
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Julie’s jazzy ‘Nutcracker’ takes stage
Experience the “Nutcracker” is a new way this holiday season when students from Julie’s Dance Studio perform a jazzy version...
Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune |
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Britney Spears tops ET's annual Hot List
Britney Spears has topped ET's annual Hot List according to Music-News.com. The “Circus” singer took the coveted number one spot in the list, made up of the stars who have received the most coverage and mentions on US TV show “Entertainment Tonight” in the past year. "From a historical election to surprising splits, sizzling romances and major comebacks, 2008 was a remarkable year for celebrity ...
Moldova.org |
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Ghana: Newmont Akyem Project Thrills Regional Press
Newmont Akyem Project, one of the leading gold mining companies in the world, last Friday organised a press soiree for media practitioners in the region, to wine and dine.
AllAfrica.com |
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Hot BlackBerry Curve 8320 Warms the Cold Winter Blues With Seamless, Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Access From AT&T
DALLAS, TEXAS and WATERLOO, ONTARIO-- - AT&T is turning up the heat with the ever-popular BlackBerry Curve smartphone. AT&T Inc. and Research In Motion announced today the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone with built-in Wi-Fi, which gives AT&T customers with unlimited corporate or personal BlackBerry service plans free and seamless access to thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi ...
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'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep,' CD of Classical Children's Lullabies Receives Disney iParenting Award
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep," a collection of classical lullabies from Child Music Online Inc., has received an iParenting Media Award, presented annually by the Disney Internet Group.
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Toshiba, SanDisk Slash Flash Output
Japan's Toshiba and U.S. partner SanDisk will cut NAND flash memory production by 30 percent starting in January, as the global economic slowdown hits demand for the microchips used in digital cameras and portable music players. Slumping demand and excess capacity have caused semiconductor prices to plunge.
E-Commerce Times |
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