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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Baba Yaga
Todd found the witch-like mythical old woman called Baba Yaga in Russian folklore to be similar to the stepmother in Cinderella or the witch in Hansel and Gretel. While the children from Russia sent notes explaining their likes, Kody Lowery, 7, said ... Former Urban Stages program director Lori Ann Laster and Stanton Wood, who provided Urban Stages with productions of The Snow Queen and The Magical Forest of Baba Yaga , adapted the original play penned by Nobel Prize-winning author Maurice ... Grandfather Frost comes all the way to a wintry forest from Russia, which means snow is certain to appear. Then there is also the wise woman Baba Yaga and her mischievous cat. Tales are spun and songs of Russian holiday traditions. The puppets are ... He led works by two of the composer's teachers: the dark-hued "Baba Yaga" by Anatoly Liadov and a rhythmically spinning dance from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "The Snow Maiden." Although the crowd seemed aptly thrilled by the end, it was a shame that the ... Daniels was co-artistic director and a co-founder of Theater Under Ground and Baba Yaga Productions, and recently was associate artistic director at Capitol Hill Arts Center. From 1999 to 2002 she was artistic director of Theater Schmeater. She has ... Daniels has been artistic director of the local companies Theater Schmeater and Baba Yaga, and was recently associate artistic director of Capitol Hill Arts Center. She is also on the faculty of the Cornish College for the Arts drama program. ... At last year’s Holiday Port Festival gingerbread competition, Flip Breskin won first place in the individual adult category for her elaborate take on Baba Yaga’s hut. The house, standing tall on chicken legs, comes from Russian folklore and was a ... She is glad that some of the members of Baba Yaga are back with the group Only Horses Can See Them, although with some new members. Trash Can Alley is also back for the third year in a row. The youths usually push the boundaries, she said, laughing at ... Eventually, Nini jumps down the infinite hole, not looking for a rabbit but for one of those words, and in doing so meets some fantastical characters along the way, including a matronly (though usually frightening) Baba Yaga. This production is ... Noon - Lecture, "The Many Faces of Baba Yaga: Russia's Enigmatic Witch," Judith Rypma, WMU English faculty member. 1 p.m. - Lecture, "St. Serafin of Sarov and the Imperial Family," Dr. John Norman, WMU associate ...
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