Community Notepad: Nov. 26, 2008 (Pacifica Tribune)
Krista Markowitz, local Pacifica author of Mrs. Tipperwillow's Afterlife Adventures, will speak about the writing process as well as her adventures with self-publishing.
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First fashion faux pas (Hattiesburg American)
WHEN LAURA BUSH AND HILLARY CLINTON arrived at the White House, they brought with them styles that suited their hometowns in Texas and Arkansas, but that wouldn't have held up in any fashion capital.
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Introducing... Flashguns (BBC News)
Like four Harry Potters brought up on The Smiths instead of dark magic and potions - these Brighton-based indie rock boarding schoolers might look angelic but they're no choirboys…
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Dissident poet is allowed to speak, but Egypt's leaders aren't listening (Los Angeles Times)
Iman Bakry has risen to national prominence with her politically barbed verse about repression, corruption and poverty, appealing to the intellectual as well as the illiterate. Iman Bakry has a fortuneteller's voice, husky and cracked. It coaxes you into her colloquial poems, which once were about romance, but have since shifted to a cutting critique of President Hosni Mubarak's government ...
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Bel Canto: Audiences Love It, but What Is It? (New York Times)
Here is one opera lover?s attempt to explain bel canto as I understand it, along with recommendations of a few recordings.
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DSO inspires grand thoughts (Detroit Free Press)
To contemporary ears there was nothing unusual about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's program last weekend, which matched Brahms' First Piano Concerto with orchestral excerpts from Wagner's operas "Tannhäuser" and "Die Meistersinger." Here were beloved staples of the romantic era, peas in a pod, given absorbing performances under conductor Mark Wigglesworth, with pianist and fellow Brit Stephen ...
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Events Calendar (St. Thomas Times-Journal)
Calendar Tip: Click on a date to see what's happening in your community! Add An Event Tip: Keep the community up to date with our shared Events Calendar. You can have your event up and posted in just a couple of minutes with our easy to use Event Information form.
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Local News In Brief (Saint George Spectrum)
ST. GEORGE - Local author, Katherine Wood will have a Book Signing at Little Professor Bookstore on Dec. 12, to coincide with the release of her second book "Gideon Biddle: Shadowwalk." This is the second book in the Gideon Biddle Chronicles.
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Lennon, Simon head list of DVD, book gift possibilities (Nashville City Paper)
Other than the opportunity to attend a live event or acquire some rare recordings, the ideal gifts for the hardcore music lover are either DVDs or books.
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Florida band MOFRO enjoys mixing genres (Nashville City Paper)
For much of this decade the Florida band MOFRO was extremely popular on the blues and soul circuit, with their early discs Blackwater and Lochloosa establishing them as a diverse unit with a charismatic front man in mercurial singer and multi-instrumentalist JJ Grey.
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