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Ann Patchett's retro Nashville bookstore
Jacket CopyBestselling author Ann Patchett will open a traditional bookstore in Nashville later this year.... -
Ranking Musikfest's headline shows: None for the ages, but a lot of very good
Lehigh Valley MusicMy bad news about the headliners at Musikfest’s main Steel Stage venue this year: None of them blew me away. Steely Dan at Musikfest: The best this year I didn’t have a single concert experience that had that spark to...... -
A don't-miss program about Chicago history
Change of SubjectTonight at 8 p.m. on WTTW-Ch. 11: The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, a renown weekly broadcast on Chicago's WLS-AM from 1924 to 1960 and on WGN AM until 1971. The narrator is public radio's Garrison...... -
Huey Lewis, Steve Martin, Pat Benatar, Elvis Costello Top The Schedule At Meijer Gardens in Summer Concert Series
FOX 17 News Web ProducerThe complete schedule of the Meijer Gardens Summer Concert Series features Comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin is on the 2011 Summer Concert Series schedule, live on June 26. It is the first time Martin has appeared at the venue. Three other...Tags: Los Lonely Boys (music group), Max Weinberg Experience, Buddy Guy, Lyle Lovett, Peter Frampton
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Visitors to this charming Wisconsin town get more than stunning views of Lake Superior
McClatchy-TribuneFirst thing visitors to Bayfield notice is the view of Lake Superior. Its gleaming blue waters practically wrap the town, which, after all, is why many people visit in the first place. Other signs that this is among the sweetest of Midwest small towns...Tags: Whitefish, Travel, Arts and Culture, Virginia, Festive Events
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Charm City gets Second City treatment
Let's face it. Baltimore is ripe for satirizing. We've probably got more offbeat people, more distinctive edifices, more colorful history and habits per block than any metropolitan area in the country. Oh yeah, and some crime.
The folks at Second City...Tags: New York, Politics, Lombard Street, Andrews Sisters (music group), Improvisational Comedy (genre)
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TICKETS ON SALE THIS WEEK
Studio 4 Dancers: Believe 2011 - various times June 4-5; Burnsvillle Performing Arts Center, Burnsville, Minn. Xtreme Muzik the Tour: Big and Rich with Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy and Two Foot Fred - 8 p.m. July 8; Deadwood Mountain Grand, Deadwood....Tags: Career and Workplace, Unions, Arts and Culture, TD Ameritrade Holdings Corp., Jerry Douglas
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Book review: 'Everyone's a Winner'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWe're living in an age of prize proliferation. It might not feel like it — especially with so many families hit hard by economic turmoil in the last few years — but it still exists, according to Joel Best's "Everyone's a Winner," a book that...Tags: Human Interest, Awards and Prizes, Stephen Colbert, Inflation and Deflation, Book
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Homemade potato salad -- a summer classic
McClatchy-TribuneRepeat after me: No more yellow muck! No more yellow muck! It's time to stand up for all that is right with homemade potato salad. Now I can't take credit for starting the no-more-yellow-muck movement, but I warmly embrace humorist Garrison Keillor's...Tags: Garlic, Facebook, Parsley, Onions, Lemons
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O.C. Register's classical-music critic to cover celebrity beat
Culture MonsterAnd so another classical-music journalist falls in the forest. Timothy Mangan, who covers the classical-music beat for the Orange County Register as a critic and reporter, wrote on his personal blog Wednesday that the newspaper has re-assigned him to the.... -
Poetry Slam Friday night at Atlantic Center for the Arts
Orlando Arts BlogMy colleague Tod Caviness — he writes the Weekly Books Roundup on this very blog — is one of the judges Friday night at the Atlantic Center for the Arts' seventh annual poetry slam. And the other two judges will be familiar, too: local writers... -
Public radio's 'Marketplace' gets bookish
Jacket CopyThe show "Marketplace," which is heard on public radio stations nationwide, is collecting all its books coverage in a new section of its website, dubbed the Big Book. "Marketplace" includes the flagship weekday show, a 10-minute morning show and...
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