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Taste of Dubai returns in March 2009
The premier food and beverage festival in the Middle East, Taste of Dubai, is returning to the city from 11th - 14th March 2009.
AME Info |
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Vegas beer pong competition gets (almost) serious
Don't let the smell of beer and the rock music fool you: Beer pong is a serious game. Some dare say a sport. Granted, they tend to be grinning and drinking when they say it. There was plenty of both going on this weekend at the World Series of Beer Pong IV, a loud and sloshy annual tournament that elevates a college fraternity house staple that includes ping pong balls and beer to an (almost) ...
The State |
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Give my regards to Beijing: 'Fame' finds stage in China
BEIJING — "Fame" is going to China. The Broadway musical about students aspiring to stardom is being customized by its U.S. producer for a Chinese audience, with a full Chinese cast talking, singing and presumably dreaming in Mandarin.
Tulsa World |
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What You're Doing Today (and Tonight): Jan. 5
A lunchtime concert at the Cultural Center, a "Dirty Dancing" benefit for the Joffrey Ballet, and a deluxe wine tasting at one sixtyblue.
NBC 5 Chicago |
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The Lazy Person's Guide to Charitable Giving
While "giving back" is always an important life goal, it's often difficult to know where or how to begin. Fortunately, several enterprising organizations are incorporating charitable giving...
NBC 5 Chicago |
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LIVE MUSIC
Springfield Symphony is introducing a Sunday Brunch Concert Series taking place Jan. 11, Feb. 15 and March 15 at College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout.
The Springfield News-Leader |
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Lil Wayne thinks big in concert at The Q
Lil Wayne, Cleveland, 01.04.09 from John Soeder on Vimeo. REVIEW Lil Wayne The Q Jan. 4, 2009 Give it up for the last rock star. Turns out he's a rapper. Go figure. Despite his stage name, Lil Wayne is a...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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Nurturing a musical talent
This year's event could see a child among the Teatru Unplugged line-up, showing off the talents honed through months of free music classes.
Times of Malta |
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Zimbabwe: R & K Mull Comeback
Harare — SUNGURA music outfit, R&K African Sounds, who have been quiet for close to four years, are mulling a comeback. The group last recorded Mhemberero, the album that marked their reunion following an acrimonious split.
AllAfrica.com |
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CRITIC'S CHOICE
DJ Spooky His artwork has appeared at the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale for Architecture, and the AndyWarholMuseum. But what, he asks, is art? Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, explores the intersections between music, art, and literature. At Diesel (5433 College ...
East Bay Express |
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New Ultimate Ears Earphones Put Music Lovers in the Zone
IRVINE, Calif.----So you can listen to music the way it’s meant to be heard, today Logitech announced additions to its MetroFi line of Ultimate Ears by Logitech® earphones. The new MetroFi 170 and MetroFi 220 noise-isolating earphones deliver customized comfort that’s perfect for listening to music on an iPod®.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Vegas beer pong competition gets (almost) serious
Don't let the smell of beer and the rock music fool you: Beer pong is a serious game. Some dare say a sport.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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A good judge of music's power
NEWARK, Ohio -- After the day's last case is done, and the clerks have all gone home, Judge Robert Hoover knows how to shake off the stress of a busy day.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Overseas Vietnamese to enjoy Tet event broadcast
HA NOI — A special Tet (lunar New Year festival) television programme will be broadcast to overseas Vietnamese.
Việt Nam News |
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From 'Idol' to icon
Ruben Studdard plays jazz great Fats Waller in 'Ain't Misbehavin' '
The News Journal |
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Player Piano Roll Production Ceases
boustrophedon writes "The Buffalo News reports that QRS Music Technologies halted production of player piano rolls 108 years after the company was founded in Chicago. QRS continues to make digitized and computerized player-piano technology that runs on CDs. 'We're still doing what we always did, which is to provide software for pianos that play themselves. It's just the technology that has ...
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From throat singing to hip hop
For Eva Aariak, Nunavut's new Premier and a passionate defender of Inuit ways, it seems to be an odd fit - hip hop.But the territory's former language commissioner recently supported funding hip hop workshops as a way to reach Nunavut's large and growing youth population. More than half of its 30,000 residents are 25 or younger, and rap music and break dancing are as popular as Inuit traditions ...
The Globe and Mail |
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Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene
Rep's work expands Berkeley Repertory Theatre isn't exactly diversifying its product line, but its work is starting to show up in book form and on the big screen. "Passing Strange" is the cinematic entry. The innovative autobiographical art-rock musical by...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Sound of 2009 countdown kicks off
Colourful London synth duo La Roux come fifth on the BBC Sound of 2009 list of the brightest new music stars.
BBC News |
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Past catches up with owner of SLO Blues
By Sally Connell -- Steven M. McPherson, who introduced himself to everyone as Stevie Mac when he took control of the San Luis Obispo Blues baseball team in the spring, came to town with big promises and big plans. And they were dreams others already had for local baseball — to make it profitable, to be part of a major successful collegiate league, to fill the stands. Some even acknowledge that ...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune |
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Bands honor teen killed in crash
WESTFIELD - Long before Carlos J. Montes de Oca was killed in a car crash, his fellow Christian bandmate wrote a song with the line, "The day I die is the first day I am alive."
The Republican |
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Donald Sutherland, Howard Shore launch Olympic campaign
Canada's Olympic broadcasters unveiled the first stage in a six-phase advertising series today, promising the largest Olympic campaign ever fielded by a media company.Dubbed BELIEVE, the campaign features heavyweight talent including actor Donald Sutherland and composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Silence of the Lambs).
The Globe and Mail |
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Deaths elsewere: Lee Young
Lee Young, who emerged from a family with musical roots deep in New Orleans jazz, drummed for greats like Ellington and Basie, became a pioneering black man in music's executive suites - and survived his musician brother, Lester, by a half-century - died on July 31 at his home in Los Angeles.
The Indiana Gazette |
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Tickets will go on sale today for Titans train
Tickets will go on sale today for the Music City Star's express to the Titans' playoff game Saturday.
The Tennessean |
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Organists bring holiday music to Frederick
'It beats flipping burgers '
The Frederick News-Post |
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