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Connecticut Music Arts School For Economically Disadvantaged Kids Is The Latest Music Empowers Foundation Beneficiary
NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Music Empowers Foundation is proud to announce a $20,000 grant to the Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County. Neighborhood Studios is a multi-disciplinary school of the arts in Bridgeport, CT. Founded in 1977, it provides music and ...
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Kimber Kompany brings a musical range to Musical Chairs
May 23--There are people who play music and there are people who live music. Living the music is an emotion and personality. It's when music becomes more than a hobby -- an expression of the heart. And as far as living the music goes, Dale Kimber is no exception. Music is in his bones, rooted deep down in his soul. Born and raised in Burlington, Kimber moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s ...
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Sony Masterworks Salutes 20th-century Musical Visionaries
It's been a century since Igor Stravinksy's The Rite of Spring ushered in an age of radical musical transformation that changed the face of music. A succession of great twentieth century composers went on to create music that transcended tradition and moved the art form in a direction unlike anything the world had heard before. Now Sony Masterworks celebrates these musical visionaries ...
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Metallica star knocked off stage
Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is recovering after he was knocked offstage by an overzealous fan during a gig in New York on Tuesday. The 50 year old was performing a rendition of Whiplash at the Highline Ballroom with his solo band Newsted when a concertgoer hopped onstage and bumped into the musician during an attempt to crowd surf, sending them both tumbling into the audience. The ...
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Foxy Brown to sue over Jay-Z gossip
Rapper Foxy Brown is threatening legal action against gossip bloggers amid false reports suggesting she has been badmouthing Jay-Z by allegedly accusing him of engaging in gay sex and taking her virginity when she was just 15. The Candy hitmaker was rumoured to have dished on her former mentor's dirty secrets at a recent baby shower she attended, supposedly revealing all about how Jay-Z ...
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Freeman falls asleep on live TV
When actors have a new movie coming out, they typically do a myriad of interviews to promote it, which we would imagine gets pretty tiring. So much so, in fact, that Morgan Freeman actually dozed off during his interview with Seattle's Q13 Fox affiliate. Watch the above video. While "Now You See Me" co-star Michael Caine talks about the movie, Freeman slowly falls asleep right ...
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Antiques Third-Century Cutlery at Auction Schoolgirls Samplers
THIRD-CENTURY CUTLERY RELEASED FOR AUCTION The London silver dealer Jane Penrice Benson How was notorious for ushering shoppers out of her gallery if she suspected that they were uninformed. When one dismissed customer swore never to return, Mrs How replied that that promise ...
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Dance conservatory production adapts classic Cinderella tale
The classic story of Cinderella is the basis for the Downtown Dance Conservatory’s original production of ';The Glass Slipper: A Cinderella Story'; that will be presented at 6:30 p.m. May 31 and June 1 at the Wallace Hall Fine Arts ...
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Jacksonville Opera Theatre to present Mikado
The Jacksonville Opera Theatre of Jacksonville State University will bring side-splitting comedy with a Japanese flair, paired with Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic music, to Gadsden when it presents ';The Mikado'; June 7-9 at Wallace Hall Fine Arts ...
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Weekend Miser Beach Season Begins at Coney Island
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Art in Review Simon Hanta
Paul Kasmin Gallery 515 West 27th Street, Chelsea Through June 22 In the late 1960s the Hungarian-born artist Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) developed a versatile technique called pliage: painting canvases that had been folded and tied, and then unfurling them to reveal all-over abstractions. The unpredictable process was a kind of throwback to Surrealist automatism, which ...
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Art in Review Don Voisine
McKenzie Fine Art Inc. 55 Orchard Street, near Grand Street, Lower East Side Through June 9 Don Voisine has developed his brand of highly synthetic abstraction for more than 30 years, in the process illuminating a rich fusion of Modernist sources with a meticulous exploration of the mechanics of painting. Mr ...
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Art in Review Marc Quinn All the Time in the World
Mary Boone 541 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through June 29 I was prepared to dismiss the British sculptor Marc ...
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Arrested Development Returns on Netflix
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Champions Leagues Biggest Star May Be Its Anthem
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Art in Review Aiko Hachisuka
Eleven Rivington 11 Rivington Street, Lower East Side Through June 14 In the increasingly crowded field of stuffed fabric sculptures, Aiko ...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Changes The Game For Electronic Arts
With much of the gaming world still focused on Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4, there's a brand new gaming device that is out right now. You don't have to wait until this fall to experience the next generation of mobile gaming on the Samsung Galaxy S4. There's a large library of games from top publishers, including Electronic Arts. And many game developers, ...
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Two Major Climbs Cut From Giro Stage 19 Due to Weather
By Alasdair Fotheringham POLSA, Italy (Reuters) May 23 - Two major climbs have been axed from Friday's key stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia because of snow and ice on their descent although the main stage finish at Val Martello remains in place, race organisers said on Thursday. The Gavia and Stelvio climbs, with summits at 2,618 and 2,758 metres above sea level, have been cut from the ...
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Photographer Wayne F. Miller captured black lives in 1940s
Photo of a woman and her squatter's shack, built of cardboard and plywood on Lake Michigan's beach in 1948, was captured by Wayne Miller as part of his series documenting the experiences of Black Chicago residents. (Wayne Miller/Associated ...
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Boos for violent Ryan Gosling film at Cannes
acclaim for the crime heist thriller . It also garnered best-director honours for Refn. However, their latest movie, starring Gosling as a drug-smuggler in Bangkok pressured by his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to avenge his brother's death, has polarized critics at Cannes with its violence. A brutal scene involving eye and ear mutilation had audiences squirming, while another in which a ...
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Zach Galifianakis takes lead
Cast member Zach Galifianakis poses at the premiere of "The Hangover Part III" at the Westwood Village theatre in Los Angeles, California May 20, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on May 23. REUTERS/Mario ...
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Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions
More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000. He passed. Any regrets? Not really, he said. ...
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Nibali Tightens Grip on Overall Lead After Stage Victory
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State of Connecticut Crafts “Special Act” to Hide Sandy Hook Evidence
A Sandy Hook memorial in Delaware. Photo: Jenni C. If the Connecticut General Assembly is successful, we will never know details of what happened at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown on December 14, ...
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Paleface On Mountain Stage
May 23, 2013 The underground singer-songwriter has influenced many contemporary indie-folk and rock acts. Hear four songs from Paleface, recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, ...
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Morocco recieves aid as part of EU ties
Morocco has taken another step forward in its several years long pursuit of closer ties with the EU, receiving a vote of confidence from the continent’s organizing body in the form of aid, which will be used to pursue areas of development needed to modernize and reform the country.
Morocco is to receive Euro 580 million (roughly MAD 6 billion) from the European Union over the next four years, according to a joint agreement that was signed between Morocco and the EU recently, which it is hoped will provide the country with the means to further integrate itself with the European economy. Read more
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