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Beauty and the release
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterStepping to the front of the makeshift stage, she rolled up her essay on "What Independence Means to Me" into a tight cylinder in her hands. "I'm not going to read my essay," Darlene Escalante said, her eyes watery, her voice a husky whisper. An audience...Tags: Health Treatments, Gang Activity, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Therapies, Drug Trafficking
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On The Scene
By Gail Braccidiferro | Special To The CourantBecause Isaiah D. Cooper was a professional musician before he entered law school at 33, many colleagues assumed he would specialize in entertainment law. He said he wasn't interested and instead focused on tax law and business transactions. In recent...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Hamden, State Budgets, Cinema Industry, Music Industry
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The People's Business, By The Mississippi
'Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" sang Miss Billie Holiday, accompanied by Louis Armstrong in a 1947 movie. Some Connecticut legislators their staff members don't want to find out the answer to Lady Day and Satchmo's question. They're off...Tags: O. Henry, Government, Louis Armstrong, National Government, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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The Free Sheet
Sun reporterGo West The Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks brings a touch of the West to Baltimore. As part of its Wednesday Lunch and Leisure series, the department hosts a Western hoedown. Bring food and listen to a live band play country music....Tags: Bessie Smith, Fells Point, Patterson Park, Painting, Festive Event
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Jypsi: A family band's breakthrough plans
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE STAR-MAKING machine in Nashville does a lot of things well, but nurturing musicians who work outside the box isn't one of them. In the 1950s, Buddy Holly was rebuffed when he first recorded there, and Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings spent most of...Tags: Sony Corp., Django Reinhardt, Jessica Simpson, Paul Simon, Family
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Dixon announces Artscape musical lineup
Sun Pop Music CriticWhile the space for Artscape has expanded onto Charles Street this year, the musical lineup remains interesting and eclectic. At a press conference at Penn Station today, Mayor Sheila Dixon announced the lineup for the main stage of the festival, set...Tags: Cab Calloway, Maryland Film Festival, Popular Music, Joan Jett, Sheila Dixon
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Artscape returns, bigger and greener
Sun pop music criticArtscape expands and becomes a little "greener" this year. But the 27-year-old arts festival, the largest, free public event of its kind in the country, maintains a flavorful and eclectic musical lineup. In a news conference at Penn Station yesterday,...Tags: Cab Calloway, Maryland Film Festival, Bolton Hill, Popular Music, Station North
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No parking, fewer drugs
Sun ReporterEvery day, Derek Kang used to chase 20 to 30 people he suspected of dealing drugs out of the vestibule of Sweet Sixteen, a women's clothing store he manages on Pennsylvania Avenue. Now it's down to just one or two, he said, after Baltimore police began a...Tags: Cab Calloway, Roland Park, William H. Cole IV, Economic Policy, Miles Davis
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Erykah Badu at House of Blues Las Vegas
ERYKAH BADU had song ideas bursting into her brain at such a pace she could barely keep up. If it weren't for her 8-year-old son, in fact, a lot of that material might have been lost. "I was singing into my phone and recording things into the answering...Tags: Paul McCartney, OutKast, Diana Ross, Country Music, Queen Latifah
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Erykah Badu's 'Vortex Tour'
Special to The TimesRoughly three quarters of the way through her triumphant two-hour set Thursday night at the Greek Theatre, Erykah Badu paused to explain the meaning of the word "vortex" to the capacity crowd. According to Badu, a vortex is a "swirling cloud of energy...Tags: Hip Hop, Biz Markie, Nas, Popular Music, Bo Diddley
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