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Best bet Realism Rouse Company Foundation Gallery in Howard Community College's Horowitz Center will present an exhibition of work by young artists of the Taller de Grafica Popular, a workshop founded in the 1930s for printmakers whose work reflected...Tags: Dance, Classical Music, Theater, Wanted, Country Music
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Blood drive set for Sept. 4
The Town Center Community Association will sponsor a Red Cross blood drive to help replenish the local blood supply from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 4 in the ballroom of Historic Oakland, 5430 Vantage Point road. Information or to schedule an appointment:...Tags: Carl Orff, Dance, Vantage Point, Classical Music, Wii
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Columbia Pro Cantare auditions begin next month
The Columbia Pro Cantare will hold auditions for all parts in its 32nd season of concerts. Among the works to be performed are Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, Brahms' Requiem, and a Tribute to Paul Robeson, with baritone Lester Lynch and the...Tags: Carl Orff
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With Rhodes scholarship, medical degree in sights, Seminoles' Rolle isn't all ball
By David Whitley Orlando Sentinel Myron Rolle is used to getting questions about his sport, his priorities and his future. After all those, he was happy to get this one from a little girl. "What's a pancreas?" she asked. "Don't worry," Rolle said....Tags: Medical Research, Florida State University, Deion Sanders, Virginia Tech, Game Playing
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FSU's Rolle on cutting edge of more than just football
Sentinel ColumnistMyron Rolle is used to getting questions about his sport, his priorities and his future. After all those, he was happy to get this one from a little girl. "What's a pancreas?" she asked. "Don't worry," Rolle said. "You'll learn all that by the end of...Tags: Medical Research, Florida State University, Television, Deion Sanders, The Seminole Tribe
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Firth no longer looks down his nose at Austen, ABBA
Tribune NewspapersLONDON—There was a time in Colin Firth's youth when he regarded the music of ABBA with the same disdain he saved for, say, a Jane Austen novel. Austen? "Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole," he said. "It seemed girl stuff." And ABBA, the...Tags: Benny Andersson, Woody Guthrie, ABBA, Jimi Hendrix, Folk Music
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'In Search of the Black Fantastic' by Richard Iton
Special to The TimesJuly 10, 2008 When Paul Robeson declared, at the height of Cold War tensions, that black Americans would never fight for a nation that had "oppressed us for generations" in a war against the Soviet Union, the actor and civil rights advocate ignited a...Tags: John Wayne, Culture, Political Candidates, Demonstration, Disasters
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Chicago teen fatally hit by car in Des Moines
Chicago Tribune reporterA Chicago Public Schools student was visiting his mother in Des Moines, just days after his 17th birthday, when he was struck by a car and killed while in-line skating, authorities said Monday. Marcus Harrington was on his way to the store during his...Tags: Vehicles, Chicago Public Schools, Schools
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Vintage musicals aging well
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- "Finally my mother can see something I've done," said opera singer Nathan Gunn, "that she actually likes." The 37-year-old baritone was speaking of tonight's concert version of the pioneering musical "Show Boat," the centerpiece of a season-...Tags: Los Angeles, Culture, Marilyn Horne, Classical Music, Irving Berlin
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Bursting the AP bubble
I'M AN AP DROPOUT. When classmates in my Advanced Placement U.S. history course take the AP exam Friday, I won't be with them. When they pick up their pencils and start filling in those little bubbles, I'll be reading the words of George Kennan, Lillian...Tags: Wars and Interventions, History, Midway, High Schools, Harry S Truman
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Student stabbed in Brooklyn high school
A student was stabbed by a classmate Friday at a public high school, which was locked down after the confrontation, the city's second school lockdown in as many days. The 18-year-old was wounded in the right shoulder at about noon in the basement of Paul...Tags: Police, Police Arrests, High Schools, Police Investigations, John Dewey
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Homage to the blues in 'Honeydripper'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comSet in rural Alabama in 1950, John Sayles' latest is a golden-hued fairy tale about the moment when a jolt of electric current turned the front-porch blues into modern rock and roll. In this mythical version of the South, the freight trains moan like...Tags: Music, Manhattan (New York City), Charles S Dutton, Alabama, John Sayles
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