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A Drink with Ed Norris
MAKER'S MARK BOURBON ON THE ROCKS AT BREWER'S ART
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To the drawing board, $300 million later
Good news. Philadelphia is getting a great orchestra hall with a superb acoustic. It will sit in the middle of the city as a sophisticated piece of urban design - a hive of arts activity so compelling it will form the city's newest and busiest public square.
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S.F.'s Black & White Ball is back after hiatus
Anthropologically, it falls somewhere between a fancy street festival and the gala opening of the Symphony. San Francisco's Black & White Ball is one of the city's biggest costume parties, and the classiest to boot. On Saturday night, the ball, a fundraiser...
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Rascal Flatts encourages blood donors
The American Red Cross and Rascal Flatts have teamed up to help bolster the low blood supply, and potential blood donors can register to win one of two pair of backstage passes and tickets to the Rascal Flatts concert at Country Stampede in Manhattan, Kansas on June 28. The drawing will be held on Friday, June 20 and the winner will be notified by telephone by the Red Cross.
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Local & live
Sunday, June 1, 2008 • TRAIL TREK: Upper parking lot, MetraPark. 11 a.m. Cycling, walking, jogging, more up and down Dutcher or Kiwanis trails with entertainment along the way. Barbecue lunch at Earl Guss Park, music by Mojo Catz. Benefits Billings multi-use trail system. www.bikenet.org.
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Jorge Villamizar digs into Colombia roots on his CD
After the breakup of Bacilos, his notably successful folk-pop trio from Miami, Jorge Villamizar found himself drawn to the native country he left behind. "I grew up musically in the Miami scene, with people like Elsten Torres from Fulano, the guys from La Secta, the Spam Allstars," Villamizar said. "But I became more attracted to Colombia. I bought a house there, and decided to collaborate with ...
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Looking for something harder than SIFF? Try STIFF
If SIFF is like film college, then STIFF is like film recess. That's how the organizers of Seattle's True Independent Film Festival explain...
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MUSIC ON TV
Who: Al Green
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Join in the fun at the Pike Place Market Street Festival
Hoyin Lai was in charge of the racetrack Saturday at Steinbrueck Park, but he was not above stepping in as engineer. Zucchini-car aerodynamics are complicated...
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RADIO WAVES
DON'T PLAY THAT SONG: An East Bay reader, Eileen Mitchell, writes: "As a commuter who listens to my car radio two hours every day, it's getting so that I prefer silence rather than listening to 'Stray Cat Strut' for the 30th time that day. ... I used to be a...
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CD REVIEWS: AFRISSIPPI - World music
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Merging the music of West Africa with Mississippi roots music, Afrissippi creates songs that feel perfect in their execution and temperament. "Alliance," the group's second release, emphasizes the bluesy guitar of Eric Deaton and the...
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Letters Words of praise for jazz-education article
Seattle Times jazz critic Paul de Barros detailed the history of Northwest jazz education ("History, honors — and all that jazz,"...
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Elkridge dance fever
Tourism council fundraiser brings out the movers and shakers in Soiree finale When the disco music came on at the wedding of Damon Foreman's daughter last weekend, he and his wife, Mary Ellen Baker, busted out some slick dance moves that had the other guests applauding.
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COMPLETELY IN CONTROL
A remote that surfs; disposable calling; the blackest TV; a gaming throne; and the new player piano Hop-On HOP1800$10; hop-on.comNothing is more inconvenient than traveling abroad and discovering that your supposed world phone doesn't work. The...
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JUNE 1 - 7
This week: The World Wide Web gets a citywide celebration; New York is crazy for Jamaica; art museums take to the streets; female musicians show their 'True Colors'; and grills are fired up at the Big Apple Barbecue. Girls still wanna have fun Jones...
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DOCUMENTARIES STAR AT BLACK FILM FESTIVAL
When entries started streaming in for the San Francisco Black Film Festival, its director, Ave Montague, immediately noticed something different. Lots more of them were documentaries. There were strong submissions on political subjects such as reaching young...
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San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival turns 30
"Chicos, listos?" Zenon Barrón's voice calls out through a sweaty studio in the San Francisco Dance Center. "Última vez, última vez!" Rattling drums. Plaintive flute. Echelons of men march solemnly, their leader leaping fiercely about them. A circle of women...
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Kenny Chesney reinvents country
Kenny Chesney may be the biggest thing country music has ever seen, but the 40-year-old singer who grew up in Luttrell, Tenn., knows he's not your daddy's country singer. "I don't think that I'm what some of the more traditionalists would call three chords...
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THIS WEEK
S EVENT CHILDREN'S ARTS FESTIVAL For kids who need to get their artistic mojo working, Pleasanton's the place to be this afternoon. They can paint, sculpt, make origami figures, do collage and construct three-dimensional creations - with the help of...
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INSIDE COUNTRY'S KENNY CHESNEY
Today's cover story is about Kenny Chesney, who many people know as the man who was very briefly married to actress Renée Zellweger in 2005, but who is actually reinventing country music and becoming one of the greatest country stars of all time. Senior Pop...
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Murphey headlining Missoula gig
MISSOULA - Cowboy song crooner and writer Michael Martin Murphey is lending his voice to the International Wildlife Film Festival and Media Center, with a concert featuring his friend Rob Quist and local country star Shane Clouse.
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SOLO GAVIN ROSSDALE GETS 'WANDERLUST'
Waking up next to a flourishing artist when your music career is in limbo can't be much fun, but Gavin Rossdale never lost focus. The former Bush singer kept on writing and recording in his LA home studio while wife Gwen Stefani was out becoming an...
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BRINKMAN, 33, AND LAGUNA, 28
May 17 - Carianne Laguna's wedding to Derek Brinkman was more than a marriage union - it was a musical extravaganza! It all started when Brinkman, vice president of product management at Contextweb, proposed to Laguna, vice president of Blackheart...
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Teen Activities
Youth Speaks Poetry Performance Featuring poets from HBO's Def Poetry, teen poetry slam champions & all-star poets. At 2 & 4 p.m. Sun., June 1, Free. For more information, call Evy Schiffman at 650-917-6800 ext. 305 or e-mail eschiffman@arts4all.org or visit www.arts4all.org . Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View
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Sony's Rolly dancing egg doesn't do much for too much money
NEW YORK -- For years, Sony Corp. has been scrambling to regain its position at the leading edge of music players. Now, that scrambling has produced an egg -- a $399 dancing egg that flashes, rolls and flaps its plastic flippers to the beat.
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