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Carpenter Performing Arts Center announces 2013-14 season
The Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach has announced its 2013-14 season, which will include a typically eclectic offering of dance, music, cabaret and more. The center is located on the campus of Cal State Long Beach. The season will feature...
Tags: Hal Linden, Kris Kristofferson, Arts and Culture, Music Theater, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program)
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UPJ to host award-winning poet
Our Town CorrespondentThe 10th annual Esther Goldhaber Jacovitz Poetry Reading is scheduled to take place March 20 at the Whalley Memorial Chapel on the Pitt-Johnstown campus. This year’s featured speaker is George Bilgere, an award-winning poet whose work is...Tags: John Carroll, Authors, Poetry, Billy Collins, Library of Congress
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Greek, Gibson 2013 concert schedules unveiled
Los Lobos, Carly Rae Jepsen, a symphonic tribute to Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, Diana Krall and a complete performance of English prog-rock band Jethro Tull’s “Thick as a Brick” Parts 1 and 2 by the band’s frontman Ian...
Tags: Cyndi Lauper, Cinco de Mayo, Alice Cooper, Guster (music group), Culture
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Onion to People's Daily: 'Exemplary reportage' on 'sexiest man'
The Onion declared North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un the "Sexiest Man Alive," and People's Daily said yes, yes he is. The Chinese state news outlet missed the point entirely, which media everywhere gleefully pointed out. "The Onion dupes again," said U....
Tags: Dunkin' Donuts Coffee, Kim Jong Un, Washington, DC, Onions, North Korea
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The kind of education you can't get from books
In her delicious memoir "The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker," Janet Groth recalls her more than two decades (1957-1978) as a receptionist on the 18th floor of America’s most storied magazine. During her early years at the publication...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Manhattan (New York City), Human Interest, Fiction, State University of New York
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Shepherdstown historian self-publishes book of town stories
richardb@herald-mail.comJim Price, Shepherdstown’s official historian laureate, has self-published a book titled “And so I did stories of Shepherdstown.” It comes out Nov. 11. Jim Price, Shepherdstown’s official historian laureate, finally finished his...Tags: Diabetes, Authors, Newspaper and Magazine, Libraries, University of Oklahoma
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Don't touch that NPR dial
For a confederation of supposed liberals, public radio can be awfully conservative. Ask someone to name a public radio show, any public radio show, and the chances are the answer will have been around during the Reagan administration: "A Prairie Home...
Tags: Time (magazine), Media Industry, Sherwood Anderson, Vehicles, NPR
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Grammy, Pulitzer winners, TV star among highlights of upcoming Zoellner season
Lehigh Valley MusicA Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, the world premiere of a song cycle based on poems by Carl Reiner’s daughter, dazzling international dance ensembles, circus arts and perhaps America’s premier storyteller will highlight the 16th season of... -
Singer-songwriter-fiddler Sara Watkins to open for Jackson Browne at Luhrs
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comSinger-songwriter and fiddle player Sara Watkins is known best for being one-third of the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band Nickel Creek. In 2007, the band decided to take a break. But Watkins' career was by no means on hold, and decided to launch...Tags: Artists, Fiona Apple, Music, Music Industry, Fine Artists
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Guitarist Doc Watson dead at 89: A 1-2-3 video primer
Pop & HissGuitarist Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89, leaves an extensive legacy that documents his wide-reaching influence in the world of guitar playing and folk music. Here are three video examples of his artistry in different settings.... -
At 75, State Fair Still Spry and Surprising
![<a href="http://www.alaskastatefair.org/">The Alaska State Fair,</a> slated to open Thursday, is celebrating its 75th birthday this year. The 12-day event brings a panoply of playful fun that’s become a late-summer tradition back to the Mat-Su Valley.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-08/64216251-24161527.jpg "<a href="http://www.alaskastatefair.org/\">The Alaska State Fair,</a> slated to open Thursday, is celebrating its 75th birthday this year. The 12-day event brings a panoply of playful fun that’s become a late-summer tradition back to the Mat-Su Valley.")
KTUU.comThe Alaska State Fair, slated to open Thursday, is celebrating its 75th birthday this year. The 12-day event brings a panoply of playful fun that’s become a late-summer tradition back to the Mat-Su Valley. Fair organizers are hoping to draw even...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Charlie Daniels, Craig Morgan, Hamburgers
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Storyteller Bill Harley debuts new "Jack and the Beanstalk" at Symphony Hall
Lehigh Valley ParentingWhat happens when you take a well-known English folk tale and folk music from Europe and America, combine it with a full orchestra and put the whole thing in the hands of a children’s storyteller known for his wit? You get “Jack and the...
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