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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, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Music, Entertainment, John Lithgow
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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: Library of Congress, Billy Collins, Authors, John Carroll, University of Akron
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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: Cyndi Lauper, Dru Hill (music group), Charlie Daniels, Marilyn Manson, The Beach Boys
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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: Ferguson Center for the Arts, Audra McDonald, Arts, Arts and Culture, Music Industry
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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: Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffett, Brad Paisley, United Technologies Corporation, Mark Twain
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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: U.S. Electoral College, U.S. Congress, Democratic Party, Politics, Gerald Ford
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Geno Says Good Riddance To Schools Fleeing Big East
The Hartford Courant— Geno Auriemma has watched the erosion of the Big East from the sidelines, just another innocent bystander knowing that there really was nothing he could do to stop it or influence it. As Pittsburgh, Syracuse, West Virginia, Notre Dame, Rutgers...Tags: Marquette Golden Eagles, Louisville Cardinals, College Sports, Religious Education, Parochial Schools
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Onion to People's Daily: 'Exemplary reportage' on 'sexiest man'
The Onion declared North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un the "Sexiest Man Alive," and People's Daily said yes, yes he is. The Chinese state news outlet missed the point entirely, which media everywhere gleefully pointed out. "The Onion dupes again," said U....
Tags: Kim Jong Un, Cyber Monday, North Korea, Black Friday (shopping), Los Angeles Times
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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: University of Cincinnati, Authors, Manhattan (New York City), Chicago Tribune, Travel
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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: Authors, Diabetes, Newspaper and Magazine, University of Oklahoma, Keith Alexander
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Acknowledging our financial blunders
Retire SmartWho among us has not made a costly financial blunder? Come on; admit it -- we all make some dumb moves for which we have to pay a pretty penny. Research by the Consumer Federation of America and Primerica found that two out of three Americans say they...Tags: Finance, Mutual Funds, Economy, Business and Finance, Personal Finance
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Don't touch that NPR dial
For a confederation of supposed liberals, public radio can be awfully conservative. Ask someone to name a public radio show, any public radio show, and the chances are the answer will have been around during the Reagan administration: "A Prairie Home...
Tags: Vehicles, Time (magazine), John Wesley, Media Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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