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Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the musician
Whether a pianist, guitarist or someone who enjoys listening to great sounds, these gifts for musicians will bring a happy note to the holidays.
1. The Otamatone Musical Instrument from Maywa Denki is an easy-to-play electronic musical instrument....Tags: Music Industry, Circuses, Arts, Michael Buble, Music Theater
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'80s superduo Hall & Oates not so out of touch
In the 1980s, the era of Pac Man, hair bands and Flashdance, seemingly anything synthetic and hyper-stylized ruled pop culture. If you were around then, you couldn't escape the sounds of Hall & Oates, the superduo of blond, clean-shaven Daryl Hall and...Tags: Music Industry, Death Cab for Cutie (music group), Ben Gibbard, Television, Kanye West
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Weighing the odds for Maryland
SunSpot StaffMichael E. Busch is the Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates. The Anne Arundel County Democrat was elected to the post in January. First elected to public office in 1986, Busch is a Baltimore City native who has served on the Judiciary Committee...Tags: Executive Branch, Local Elections, Economic Policy, National Security, Lotteries
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A proving ground for Las Vegas entertainers
The place is packed when singer Mark Giovi takes the stage as emcee of the Monday night open-mike at a little roadhouse on a dusty stretch a few miles west of the Strip. Fronting a tight backup band of drums, keyboards and tenor saxophone, the veteran...
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Whitney Houston dies at 48; pop titan
Whitney Houston, a willowy church singer with a towering voice who became a titan of the pop charts in the 1980s and 1990s but then saw much of her success crumble away amid the fumes of addiction and reckless ego, has died. She was 48.
Kristen Foster, a...Tags: Clive Davis, Grammy Awards, Madison Square Garden, Music Industry, Chaka Khan
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After adventures in Las Vegas, former stunt man Lenny Seward returns to Newport News
A show-business chameleon, Lenny Seward has worked as a Hollywood stunt man, Las Vegas lounge singer and private acting coach.
These days, he's returned to his hometown of Newport News to take what might be his toughest gig yet.
He's helping to look...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Dan Aykroyd, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Family
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Tom Garvin dies at 67; versatile jazz pianist, composer
Tom Garvin, a jazz pianist and composer-arranger who was best known as an exceptional accompanist, died July 31 at an assisted living facility in Encino. He was 67.
The cause was cancer, which diagnosed three years ago, said Tom Mitchell, a close friend....Tags: Peggy Lee, Music Industry, Arts, Television, John Gilbert
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A Cooking Jazz Scene in Bethel
Pizzeria Lauretano
291 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel, (203) 792-1500, www.pizzerialauretano.com
Jay Nachowitz books jazz musicians in top-notch venues around the world, but when he tells his artists about an opportunity to play at a pizza parlor in Bethel,...Tags: Ridgefield, Music Industry, Pizzas, Foods and Beverages, Homes
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The Christmas Song: the first carol to cross the color line
The Religion WorldMel Torme, the Chicago-born, Jewish jazz singer, wrote “The Christmas Song” in 1946 based on some impressionistic images by lyricist Robert Wells: Chestnuts roasting…Jack Frost nipping…Yuletide carols…Folks dressed up like.... -
Soap Box Derby film in Ohio get backing boost
A Hollywood venture to help Ohio's financially troubled All-American Soap Box Derby has landed some hometown support and celebrity backing. The Akron City Council voted Monday to provide $25,000 in funding for a film about the derby being made by actor...Tags: Movies, Corbin Bernsen
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Ed McMahon dead at 86
Tribune NewspapersEd McMahon, a television pioneer who warmed "The Tonight Show" couch for nearly 30 years as Johnny Carson's jovial sidekick and announcer, died early Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles hospital, surrounded by family and friends. McMahon, whose role as...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, San Francisco, Detroit, Public Employees, NBC (tv network)
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