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Mobile and Landline Deals to Update Service in China
China Unicom, a cellphone service provider, agreed to sell a wireless network to the country’s largest fixed-line operator and buy a fixed-line company of its own.
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Internationally-known performer to contribute to Carmel arts center
Carmel will be able to add a big name to its performing arts center. The center is scheduled for completion in 2010.
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Today's new music and DVDs ‘Semi-Pro' and new stuff from Weezer
Ashanti, “The Declaration” Weezer, “Weezer” Disturbed, “Indestructible” Fleet Foxes, “Fleet Foxes” Jewel, “Perfectly Clear” Journey, “Revelation” Ladytron, “Velocifero” Bret Michaels, “Rock My World” Opeth, “Watershed” Radiohead, “The Best Of”
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Micro-robots Dance On Something Smaller Than A Pin's Head
Microscopic robots crafted to maneuver separately without any obvious guidance are now assembling into self-organized structures after years of continuing research led by a Duke University computer scientist.
Science Daily |
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Snap Judgment - Pussycat Dolls - "When I Grow Up"
3 years after their debut album PCD put them on the pop music map, the Pussycat Dolls are back! "When I Grow Up" is the first single from a...
About.com |
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Elvis Presley backup singer dies at 78 in Atlanta
A funeral home says one of Elvis Presley's backup singers has died in Atlanta. Hugh Jarrett was 78. Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory says the former member of The Jordanaires died Saturday at a hospital in Atlanta of injuries from an auto accident. The funeral is scheduled for Friday in Roswell. Jarrett had lived in the Atlanta area since the 1960s after a music career in Los ...
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Minglewood takes new tune to the troops
TRURO — Matt Minglewood hopes his first concert since being rocketed in Afghanistan is a little more peaceful.
The Truro Daily News |
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Justin Timberlake's ring search
Singer Justin Timberlake reacts as he holds two of his awards for songs "My Love" and "Until the End of Time" during the 25th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, April 9, 2008.
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Rock Pioneer Bo Diddley Dies At Age 79
Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock & roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died after months of ill health.
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Don't tell Coon Rapids guitarist he doesn't "know Diddley"
The music world is mourning the loss of a legend. Bo Diddley, a rock 'n' roll legend and pioneer, passed away on
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State’s new multi-arts trail draws tourists, locals
ABOVE : Kay Redman and her father, Gene Redman look at the works of Jane Chilton at the Old School Gallery near El Morro National Monument during a stop on the Ancient Way Arts Festival. Chilton's diplayed work was done in pastels and depicted areas of the Zuni mountains and west central New Mexico.
The Gallup Independent |
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Vienna State Opera says Seiji Ozawa out for 5 weeks with back injury
VIENNA - THE Vienna State Opera says music director Seiji Ozawa is out for five weeks with a back injury. The prestigious opera house says Ozawa has canceled all of his June dates there, as well as a concert that he had planned to conduct Thursday evening at Vienna's Musikverein.
Straits Times |
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Bo Diddley, Rock's Pulse
APPRECIATION He never quite reached the commercial heights of his counterparts, but his place in the pantheon was never in doubt.
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Jazz stage to be Plum addition
The big names will grace the Main Stage at the Blue Plum Festival, but that’s not all the music to be heard downtown this weekend. Those seeking a different sound, or just a different scene, can spend a little time at Blue Plum’s Roan Stage and the new Jazz Stage.
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NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM: 414 East Clark St., Vermillion, S.D.; http://www.usd.edu/smm / or 605-677-5306. Open Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. Suggested admission donation (includes free audio tour) $7 adults, $3 students.
Colorado Daily |
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Musicians push for better sound online and on disc
As more listeners turn to music downloads and the compact disc seems headed for history's scrap heap, a growing number of artists are making a renewed effort for better-sounding tracks, online and on disc. It's generally accepted that regular MP3 music files compromise CD sound quality for convenience and portability. (Some listeners argue that even CDs are less than optimal.) Last year, Amazon ...
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Yoko Ono Imagines Legal Defeat
Like the rest of us, Yoko Ono has to live in a world that's one with the fair-use doctrine. John Lennon's widow has lost her bid to keep her late husband's song...
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Start your view at the huge blue cube
From Genesis to Shrek to music for the Hebrew alphabet, the first exhibits in the Contemporary Jewish Museum's new building are unusual, imaginative and noteworthy: They are "In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis," "From the New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig" and John Zorn's "Aleph-Bet Sound Project."
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Hugh Jarrett, Bass Singer For Elvis Backup Group, Dies
Hugh Jarrett, a backup singer for Elvis Presley, has died as the result of injuries in an an auto accident. He had lived in metro Atlanta since the 1960s, following a music career in Los Angeles and Nashville.
News Channel 5 Nashville |
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Mobile and Landline Deals to Update Service in China
China Unicom, a cellphone service provider, agreed to sell a wireless network to the country?s largest fixed-line operator and buy a fixed-line company of its own.
New York Times |
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As traces of Bonnie Raitt's screaming guitar licks and Al Green's silky vocals fade into memory, concert organizers and business owners are still counting the cash that came in over the Memorial Day weekend from the fourth annual Sonoma Jazz Plus Festival.
Sonoma Index-Tribune |
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Live at the Apollo: Smokey Robinson & The Washingtons
Smokey Robinson has been a living legend to music fans for years. Now it's official: The 68-year-old R&B icon was inducted into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame. He joins a roster that includes Gladys Knight, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald and Little Richard.
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Chimoio victims remembered
EIGHT hundred Zimbabwean delegates are in Chimoio for a tour of former liberation war camps and shrines in honour of the country’s gallant sons and daughters who were massacred by Rhodesian forces during the liberation struggle.
The Herald |
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley dies
A rock 'n' roll pioneer, he influenced music for generations -- from Elvis Presley to U2 -- with a style all his own.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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MTV Movie Awards: Johnny Depp, Ellen Page, 'Transformers' -- And Hilarious Displays Of Ego -- Win Big
It was a night of big stars (Tom Cruise), big winners (Will Smith, Johnny Depp), big music numbers (Coldplay, Pussycat Dolls) and big, tongue-in-cheek displays of ego. The stars who big-upped themselves at the 17th annual MTV Movie Awards Sunday night were kidding, although Robert Downey Jr. just might have been serious — have you seen the box-office figures for Iron Man?
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