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Carpenter Performing Arts Center announces 2013-14 season
The Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach has announced its 2013-14 season, which will include a typically eclectic offering of dance, music, cabaret and more. The center is located on the campus of Cal State Long Beach. The season will feature...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Entertainment Events, David Benoit, Entertainment
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UPJ to host award-winning poet
Our Town CorrespondentThe 10th annual Esther Goldhaber Jacovitz Poetry Reading is scheduled to take place March 20 at the Whalley Memorial Chapel on the Pitt-Johnstown campus. This year’s featured speaker is George Bilgere, an award-winning poet whose work is...Tags: Entertainment, Library of Congress, John Carroll, Radio, Arts and Culture
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Greek, Gibson 2013 concert schedules unveiled
Los Lobos, Carly Rae Jepsen, a symphonic tribute to Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, Diana Krall and a complete performance of English prog-rock band Jethro Tull’s “Thick as a Brick” Parts 1 and 2 by the band’s frontman Ian...
Tags: Grateful Dead (music group), Music, Arts and Culture, Cyndi Lauper, Entertainment Events
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Chamber music recitals fill the calendar
Two chamber music events — one this month, the other in April — are worth marking on your calendar. Music of Beethoven A brass quintet of Virginia Symphony players will give a free performance of the music of Beethoven. The concert is...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Audra McDonald, Christopher Newport University, Virginia Arts Festival
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Nombran nueva directora para la Casa Twain
El Hartford CourantCuando Cindy Lovell comienza su nuevo trabajo como Directora Ejecutiva de la Casa Museo de Mark Twain, ella no tendrá una gran curva de aprendizaje. Lovell, quien fue nombrada a la posición esta semana, después de una búsqueda a nivel nacional de seis...Tags: Sheryl Crow, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Clint Eastwood, Barack Obama, Jimmy Buffett
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An Elector Prepares To Ratify Obama's Win
The Hartford Courant"Our marriage is like the Electoral College," says the narrator in "Marooned," a Garrison Keillor short story. "It works OK if you don't think about it." At noon Monday, I will be one of those thinking about the Electoral College, as I have the...Tags: Gerald Ford, Elections, John Adams, Government, Richard Nixon
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The kind of education you can't get from books
In her delicious memoir "The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker," Janet Groth recalls her more than two decades (1957-1978) as a receptionist on the 18th floor of America’s most storied magazine. During her early years at the publication...
Tags: Travel, Manhattan (New York City), Periodicals, Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture
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Shepherdstown historian self-publishes book of town stories
richardb@herald-mail.comJim Price, Shepherdstown’s official historian laureate, has self-published a book titled “And so I did stories of Shepherdstown.” It comes out Nov. 11. Jim Price, Shepherdstown’s official historian laureate, finally finished his...Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, University of Oklahoma, Colleges and Universities, Newspaper and Magazine
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Global Coffee Trade Routes Lead to Lindsborg, Kansas
At first, after entering Blacksmith Coffee Roastery in Lindsborg, a visitor might see the burlap bags flopped in stacks on the brick floor and then note a few wooden barrels nearby. The visitor might wonder why the place looks like some cargo ship just...
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Grammy, Pulitzer winners, TV star among highlights of upcoming Zoellner season
Lehigh Valley MusicA Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, the world premiere of a song cycle based on poems by Carl Reiner’s daughter, dazzling international dance ensembles, circus arts and perhaps America’s premier storyteller will highlight the 16th season of... -
Singer-songwriter-fiddler Sara Watkins to open for Jackson Browne at Luhrs
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comSinger-songwriter and fiddle player Sara Watkins is known best for being one-third of the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band Nickel Creek. In 2007, the band decided to take a break. But Watkins' career was by no means on hold, and decided to launch...Tags: Entertainment, Fiona Apple, Music, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture
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At 75, State Fair Still Spry and Surprising
KTUU.comThe Alaska State Fair, slated to open Thursday, is celebrating its 75th birthday this year. The 12-day event brings a panoply of playful fun that’s become a late-summer tradition back to the Mat-Su Valley. Fair organizers are hoping to draw even...Tags: Entertainment, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Hamburgers, Charlie Daniels
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