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Bessie Smith

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    Sep 27, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Madeleine Peyroux: 'Growing toward the sun'

    With a timbre suggestive of Billie Holiday and an intimate style of phrasing that needs only the subtlest twist of a syllable to hook a listener, Madeleine Peyroux has cleared a distinctive path in today's jazz world.
    With a timbre suggestive of Billie Holiday and an intimate style of phrasing that needs only the subtlest twist of a syllable to hook a listener, Madeleine Peyroux has cleared a distinctive path in today's jazz world. That path does not include a lot...

    Tags: Billie Holiday, Arts, Fine Arts, Music Industry, Nellie McKay

    2. Feb 5, 2007 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Billie Holiday

    Sun Reporter
    Billie Holiday April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959 "Lady Day" Considered by many to be the greatest of all jazz singers, her talent was matched only by tragedy. Born Eleanora Fagan Holiday in Baltimore, as a child she was abandoned by her father. She...

    Tags: Achievement Records, Juvenile Delinquency, Billie Holiday, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs

    3. Sep 8, 2000 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. $50 million pledged to fight lead poisoning

    Sun Staff
    Vowing to end the scourge of childhood lead poisoning in Maryland, Gov. Parris N. Glendening and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley pledged yesterday to pour $50 million over the next three years into a major new effort to rid the city of dilapidated housing...

    Tags: Regional Authority, Renovation, Condos and Houses, Annapolis, Emergency Incidents

    4. Mar 14, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Making war against love

    We seem to be living in a time warp. Conservatives are denouncing not just abortion, but birth control. There was the Rush Limbaugh "slut" episode. Actor Kirk Cameron called homosexuality "unnatural," "detrimental" and "ultimately destructive." Meanwhile, Rick Santorum sees Satan lurking in America's bedrooms.
    We seem to be living in a time warp. Conservatives are denouncing not just abortion, but birth control. There was the Rush Limbaugh "slut" episode. Actor Kirk Cameron called homosexuality "unnatural," "detrimental" and "ultimately destructive." Meanwhile,...

    Tags: Rush Limbaugh, American Civil Liberties Union, Philosophy, Republican Party, Civil Rights

    5. Dec 23, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Year-end Top 10 list: August Brown

    Pop & Hiss
    Throughout the week and holiday season, Pop & Hiss will be presenting various top 10 lists from its contributors. What follows are the favorite albums of the year from staffer August Brown....
    6. Nov 9, 2011 |Story| Zap2It

  6. How women such as Darlene Love rocked our world

    Zap2It
    Bessie Smith to Lady Gaga is a wide swath in modern music, and "Women Who Rock" includes them and many in between Friday, Nov. 18, on PBS (check local listings). "Rock and roll is a very wide river," says filmmaker Carol Stein. She and Susan Wittenberg...

    Tags: PBS (tv network), Christina Aguilera, Nancy Wilson, Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick

    7. Nov 17, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Friday's Highlights: 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys' on Sundance

    Show Tracker
    Friday's Highlights: 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys' on Sundance...
    8. Sep 6, 2011 |Story| Associated Press

  8. Once home to Muddy Waters, Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, Miss., attracts blues aficionados

    CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — It's not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn't sleep there.
    Associated Press
    CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — It's not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn't sleep there. But The Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale is widely regarded as a history exhibit ofblues music. And, oh yes.Muddy Waters did sleep there and...

    Tags: Ike Turner, Arts, Hospitals and Clinics, Fine Arts, Music Industry

    9. Jun 23, 2011 | Zap2It

  9. 'The Devil's Music': Blues work their magic on Bessie Smith's life

    Pop2it
    Miche Braden has that rich voice that tickles your soul and wakes up your sins....
    10. Sep 8, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. The Arts on TV: Sister Wendy; Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett

    Culture Monster
    “Grand Canyon Serenade” 8 p.m. Thursday KVCR: A visual tour of the Grand Canyon is set to classical music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Dvorak. “Globe Trekker” 8 p.m. Thursday and 7 p.m. Saturday KLCS; 9 p.m. Monday KCET: Amsterdam...
    11. May 17, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  11. 'Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology' unrivaled in quality and detail. Allentown natives featured.

    Lehigh Valley Music
    By Steve Siegel Special to The Morning Call “JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology” Smithsonian Folkways Singer Mel Torme once commented that both jazz and love are easy to experience, yet are the hardest two things to describe. With jazz, the...
    12. Feb 23, 2011 |Story| LA Canada

  12. Around & About

    EVENTS Slide Show, “Out of the Station Fire Ashes” — Wednesday, March 2, 6:30 p.m. La Caņada resident and mountain cyclist Mike Caley rides regularly in the Station fire burn area, with special permission. A member of the California...

    Tags: Steve Earle, Encore (tv network), Dancing, African Americans, Dance

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