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Deaths in Central Florida
Brevard JOHN BURNACK, 92, Merritt Island, died Thursday. Beckman-Williamson Funeral Home, Cocoa Beach. RON C. JANKS, 64, Palm Bay, died Wednesday. Palm Bay Funeral Home. ROBERT JOHNSON, 87, Melbourne, died Sunday. South Brevard Funeral Home, Melbourne....Tags: Ocoee, Death and Dying, Clermont, Eustis, Altamonte Springs
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Boys roundup: Connell paces Smithtown
Brendan Connell took first in 15:54 to lead Smithtown tp a 17-40 victory over Patchogue-Medford at Sunken Meadow State Park. Jason Santos finished second in 16:08 and Matt Knott third in 16:48. Floyd 27, Middle Country 30: Robert Johnson took first in a...Tags: Sunken Meadow State Park, Smithtown, Smithtown
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B.B. King Museum to honor bluesman as a gem in poverty-stricken Mississippi Delta
Associated Press WriterINDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) _ Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi...Tags: Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Values, Muddy Waters, Music
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Orlando takes up gay rights, Parramore, cleanup
Sentinel Staff WriterOrlando leaders made some big decisions Monday as they sought to revitalize Parramore, clean up cancer-causing pollution near downtown, help gay city employees and find a solution to controversial development proposed on the edge of Lake Eola Park....Tags: Lake Eola Park, State Budgets, Property, Patty Sheehan, Minority Groups
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Downtown makeover? City to decide on Parramore project
Sentinel Staff WriterOrlando leaders will decide Monday whether to hand a $17 million financial-incentive package to developers working on a project in the heart of Parramore: an 11-story office-and-retail building anchored by a community theater. The city money would pay...Tags: Citrus Bowl, State Budgets, Interstate 4, Physical Fitness, Regional Authority
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Musi "Big Poppa" Faisel mixes his World Trade Center experiences with blues at Tobacco Road
South Florida Sun-SentinelNot to be missed: Musi " Big Poppa E" Faisel, a Muslim and self-described Vietnam "killing machine" who lost a brother in the World Trade Center, mixes his own experiences with the traditional blues of Leadbelly and Robert Johnson 10 p.m. Sept. 29 in a...Tags: Notorious B.I.G.
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Bob Dylan's heartfelt soul-searching
Los Angeles TimesBob Dylan's latest collection of material from his musical back pages, "Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8," is a rich, revealing look at how this master songwriter put together one of the most dramatic creative renaissances in pop history....Tags: Theft, Music, Folk Music, Organized Crime, Minnesota
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Classical Music
Special to The Morning Call'YOUTHFUL VISIONS' As an infant, Frédéric Chopin was said to react to music with floods of tears, much to the distress of his musical parents. It was only when he was 4 or 5, as he began to pick out tunes on the piano, that they realized he had been...Tags: Allentown Symphony Hall, Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Music, Muhlenberg College, Colleges and Universities
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Blues guitarist David Jacobs-Strain wrestles with tradition
McClatchy/Chicago Tribune newspapersBy Len Righi ALLENTOWN, Pa.—As a young man working in a genre that reveres tradition, blues guitarist-singer-songwriter David Jacobs-Strain could make it easy on himself. "I could either try to be a blues revivalist and play old songs note...Tags: Bo Diddley, Music, Taj Mahal, Richie Havens, Mississippi
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Yolo's O Lounge and other new nightlife scenes
"We're blessed with free will, so we choose to be ill."
— Talib Kweli
I stumbled across these words while researching the South Florida soundscaper Adam Foster, who presents them as a personal, musical code on his Web site (twilight notes.com)....Tags: Road Accidents, Music, Notorious B.I.G., Stan Getz, Beach Vacations
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B.B. King's 'One Kind Favor' and another: a blues museum
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterB.B. King is full of it. Humility, that is. Listen to what the blues master has to say about the $15-million museum bearing his name that's slated to open Saturday in the small Mississippi Delta town where he sweated for a few cents a day picking...Tags: Robert Plant, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Robert Cray, Music, Rock and Roll Music
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Only U.S.-born F1 champ dies
29-PBBRIEFS.ART Only U.S.-born F1 champ dies IN BRIEF AUTO RACING: Phil Hill, the only American-born Formula One champion, died Thursday of...Tags: Vehicles, Road Accidents, Jimmy Collins, Injuries, Chicago
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