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  • Daily Kos Editor Says Global Warming Skeptics Should Commit Suicide

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    This is how the left treats those with whom they disagree, folks. Daily Kos contributing editor and Examiner.com writer Steven Andrew has suggested that anyone that disagrees with the globaloney of global warming should commit suicide in a 'Soylent Green world.' In his examiner column headlined, 'Studies Show Dramatic Decrease in Plankton,' Andrew ...

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  • Rutgers annual jazz camp showcases talented youths

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    It's a summer camp on the leafy Rutgers campus for youngsters aspiring to New York City night life.

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  • Brass band of characters something to see, hear

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    NORTHWEST LIBRARY, 2280 HARD RD. Members will wear costumes, play music and perform skits in "Looney Brass Cartoon Show." SHOWTIME 7 p.m. Friday ADMISSION free Say, is that Inspector Clouseau on trombone? And the Pink Panther on alto horn? And Donald Duck is playing the tuba - not to mention Fred Flintstone on cornet.

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  • Come in, Ms. Tact

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    “Before the shoot, I Googled female rock singers like Courtney Love and Patti Smith, everyone I could think of, to check out their image. They all had bangs and this disheveled, unplanned look.” [Daily News]

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  • Bear Valley Music Festival

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    The 42nd annual Bear Valley Music Festival begins Friday and will run through August 15th.

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  • Interlochen Ensemble to perform in Petoskey Saturday

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    The Interlochen Ensemble will perform an eclectic mix of musical selections at the Little Traverse Historical Museum in Petoskey, on Saturday, July 31, at 5 p.m. The performance will feature a wide variety of music for brass quintet, ranging from traditional classical to tango to new compositions.

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  • See optimisticme49's full profile

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    We can't calculate a score because you aren't logged in. Two-way match 0% Summary Her narratives View details Why should you get to know optimisticme49? Looking to love, laugh and be myself! I am caring, funny, patient, sociable and honest.

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  • Classical and klezmer

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    Boulder`s Colorado Music Festival at Chautauqua wraps up this week with several programs.

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  • Punch Brothers: Hints of bluegrass but so much more on tap for Cain Park concert

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    Punch Brothers, featuring former Nickel Creek star Chris Thile, is at Cain Park's Evans Amphitheater tonight.

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  • The Best Tweets of Kanye West's First 24 Hours on Twitter

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    Even as we write this, Kanye West is cruising through New York in a Maybach , listening to Andre Rieu's recording of the "William Tell Overture," talking about the genius of classical music and the hardship of dating models .

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  • Multimedia

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    Exhibits, presenters and workshops abound in "choosing the good life," at this year's 12th SolWest Renewable Energy Fair, at the Grant County Fairgrounds in John Day, July 23-25. Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Full Story >>> Slideshow: Fiery, Fun Finish Flames leapt from the engine of the 1971 Dodge Polara.

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  • Concerts

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    Independent Rock Series, with Dawes, an up-and-coming alt-indie-folk-rock foursome inspired by the California sound of the Eagles and folkie Neil Young.

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  • Eight-Year-Old Violinist Brianna Kahane Wows Crowd at 10th Annual Starkey Hearing Foundation Gala

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    COLLABORATES WITH HONOREE AND LEGENDARY SAM MOORE ON HIS CLASSIC HIT "SOUL MAN," GARNERING A ROARING STANDING OVATION On Thursday July 29, 2010, 1:12 pm EDT ST.

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  • this Weekend

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    Avery Ainsley and sister Annalee tussle over their dad's desk in "Auctioning the Ainsleys." Images CLASSICAL MUSIC Music@Menlo: The eighth season of the annual summer chamber festival continues with a program devoted to the music of Vienna.

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  • Ashley in the Rear-View Mirror

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    Robert Ashley's 1983 opera Atalanta is actually three operas: one about the painter Max Ernst (uncle of Bob's wife), one about the jazz pianist Bud Powell, and one about Bob's uncle Willard Reynolds, the family story-teller and, as Bob calls ...

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  • We're breaking through

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    (Via Anastasia Tsiouclas.)

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  • World renowned guitarists in Bethany

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    In the spirit of Andres Segovia and Charlie Byrd, classical guitarist Larry Snitzler and jazz guitarist Rick Whitehead will combine their talents in the second concert of the summer season presented by Concerts at the Beach.

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  • 12 Hottest Politiciansa Wives

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    With the power and authority of government office, you might imagine that hotties would be falling over themselves to get their hands on the great and good.

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  • Condoleezza Rice and Aretha Franklin Team Up for the Arts

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    Politics makes strange bedfellows, but music makes even stranger ones- especially if the musicians in question are polar opposites politically.

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  • Sudnya Mulye cultivates Bharata Natyam, an ancient Indian classical dance

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    By Matthew Hoekstra - Richmond Review Published: July 29, 2010 7:00 AM Updated: July 29, 2010 9:28 AM Justin Bieber could learn a few things from Sudnya Mulye.

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  • Rio Clemente Lights Up the Night with His Jazz Performance

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    Tuesday night was the perfect combination of ambience, excitement, and electricity at the Kasschau Memorial Shell Ampitheater.

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  • Aretha Franklin Takes To The Stage With Condoleezza Rice

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    Aretha Franklin put aside her political views to perform with U.S. Republican politician Condoleezza Rice for a charity concert on Tuesday .

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  • Panjabi by Nature - Crowd Pleaser

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    Ironically not for everyone, but sure to appeal to PBN’s existing audience.

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  • Vagabond Opera puts genres into a blender

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    Vagabond Opera will wander into Baltimore Friday night, bringing with it a reputation for delivering genre-bending, sometimes madcap entertainment.

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  • William McDuffie Johnson

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    William M. Johnson, 76, died unexpectedly on July 27, 2010, in Bangor after a long and courageous battle with heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

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  • Women's Works looks inside

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    The fifth annual Women's Works production of original dance pieces will take place Friday and Saturday, Aug.

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  • Spinning history: Music box museum captures classic sound

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    The tiny Porter Music Box Museum has its origins, indirectly at least, at the gargantuan Shelburne Museum.

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  • Retribution Gospel Choir: Fast Is The New Low

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    Alan Sparhawk is known largely for his work in the famously slow-moving band Low, but he doesn't always drive 55. His side project, which also features Low bassist Steve Garrington, boosts the tempo to cathartic effect. Hear Retribution Gospel Choir's full in-studio set at The Current in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

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  • GroundWorks DanceTheater undergoing changes; company performs in Akron Friday and Saturday

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    GroundWorks DanceTheater, which will perform at Glendale Cemetery in Akron this weekend as part of the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival, has gone through some interesting changes of late.

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  • Another Brick In Th... - Pink Fl...

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    Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits.

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  • "Opus" at the Fountain Theater

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    Classical music mavens and theater enthusiasts alike will savor "Opus," an insightful look into the emotions and angst of a string quartet at the Fountain Theatre.

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  • EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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    HIGHLIGHT With a program of nine theatrical productions that examine emotions and relationships, the 2010 Taipei Arts Festival begins next week.

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  • Veronica - Rush

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    Veronica simmers instead of sizzling.

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  • Happy Birthday Olga Borodina

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    The “phlegmatic diva” is 47 years old today.

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  • Popcast: Ricky Skaggs on God and Music and More

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    An interview with the bluegrass singer.

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  • Live Friday: Jesca Hoop In Concert

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    Jesca Hoop isn't lacking imagination. Her new album, Hunting My Dress, is about as quirky and experimental as you can get without getting well, weird. Listen to Hoop perform songs from the record Friday at noon ET from WXPN and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

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  • Quite a stretch: The hard work behind ballet

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    Comment about "Quite a stretch: The hard work behind ballet" Phone Comment 0 Published Today, 15:21 Quite a stretch: The hard work behind ballet Kristina Chetcuti Watching ballet can be quite misleading ballerinas tend to look so floaty and graceful that you would never guess all the hard work behind the act.

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  • Aretha and Rice make music at Philly concert

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    The Queen of Soul and a former U.S. secretary of state have teamed up in a rare joint concert in Philadelphia to raise money for inner-city youth.

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  • Motion Sickness in Virtual Worlds

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    This ScienceLives article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

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  • Jim Gilchrist: Delving into 2010's Fringe programme offers treasure trove of musical riches

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    TO MISQUOTE an old Incredible String Band song, the Fringe comes sneaking up when it thinks you're not lookinga Yes, it's that time already, and as Auld Reekie breaks into its annual cultural lather, with the Fringe opening on 6 August, here are a few pointers to folk, jazz and related antics taking place.

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  • Travie McCoy - Lazarus

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    An unmemorable collection of clichéd rap numbers from the Gym Class Heroes vocalist.

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  • Boyle Arts Fest

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    The Boyle Arts Festival takes place in July every year. It programmes events across all art forms, with the visual arts and music continuing to form the cornerstones on which the festival has established its reputation.

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  • 'Tolomeo' a wacky spectacle: Glimmerglass delights with comic baroque opera

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    For its fourth offering of the 2010 season, Glimmerglass Opera is presenting the first professionally staged production in North America of Handel's comic opera "Tolomeo." In two acts and in Italian with English projected titles, the company's opening performance provided a colorful, amusing, quite wacky, and beautifully sung spectacle.

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  • Lara St. John: A Little Skin, Lots Of Violin

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    Violinist Lara St. John was once described as having "a controversial sense of fun." Billy Kass Violinist Lara St.

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  • Violinist Lara St. John was once described as having "a controversial sense of fun."

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    Violinist Lara St. John was once described as having "a controversial sense of fun." Lara St.

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  • Comfort Music

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    While listening to music with an ear toward perfection, one can lose sight of the simple fact of sound's power to move the listener: to calm the enraged, comfort the suffering, to make one forget even for a brief time the travails of life. In times of personal crisis, people turn to music of all kinds, but for me it is historical music of the Christian liturgy that ends up in my ears. At such ...

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  • Still in the clouds

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    Continuing (with apologies for letting it drop yesterday) my catalogue of reasons why Heather Mac Donald thinks classical music is in a golden age. Here's her essay to that effect, and here and here are my previous comments on it.

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  • Robin And Linda Williams On Mountain Stage

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    Robin and Linda Williams are no strangers to Mountain Stage; they have appeared on the show more than a dozen times. The Williamses, along with members of their "fine group," take the stage again to play songs from their latest album, Buena Vista.

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  • Der ferne Klang (Clinton-era staging)

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    Thaddeus Strassberger, who is directing the production of Schreker's Der ferne Klang that opens tomorrow at Bard, had considerable success with Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in the same venue last summer. Zachary Woolfe, of the Capital site, talks to Strassberger about ...

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  • Turning 27, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival keeps adding to the family

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    Consider for a moment how much work is required over the course of a year to set up a four-week chamber music concert series on the East End in the summer.

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