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Westowne students perform black American culture dances
The culmination of several months work will be on display Friday when 19 students at Westowne Elementary School take the stage for 75-minute performance scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Catonsville Middle school sixth-graders Ryan Ritzes and Luke Pound,...
Tags: Concerts, Students, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Teaching and Learning
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Parishioners honor a passionate man of the cloth
People packed the pews and filled the balconies of Baltimore's historic Bethel A.M.E. church Sunday morning to honor a man they credit with reviving the house of worship — one of the city's most influential — and bringing unabashed passion...Tags: Druid Hill, Peace Corps, Sheila Dixon, Kwame Kilpatrick, Labor Day
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'The Voice' recap: The first live show
A major change took place tonight in the second season of NBC’s “The Voice”: The live shows began, and for the first time, the fate of the artists is not just in the coaches’ hands — viewers can vote for who they want to...
Tags: Adele (music artist), NBC (tv network), Adam Levine, Concerts, Opera (genre)
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Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the late, iconic Apple leader
Few nonfiction writers think bigger than Walter Isaacson, who has taken on subjects like Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. But when Apple founder Steve Jobs invited him in 2004 to write a complete and frank biography, Isaacson held...
Tags: China, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Albert Einstein, Pixar Animation, Bill Gates
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PBS treats Baltimore's Cab Calloway as an American Master
It's not often in judging the biography of a great artist that you can just pick up the phone and call one of the people who knew him best — and remains a principal keeper of the historical flame.
But that is exactly the case with Cab Calloway, the...Tags: Music Industry, PBS (tv network), Dance, Duke Ellington, Concerts
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Seniors' talents have Cow Palace shaking
One singer crooned like Sinatra. One twanged in true Conway Twitty style and another gave a credible gravel-voiced impression of Louis Armstrong. And, of course, an Elvis entered the Cow Palace at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium with a guitar...Tags: Animals, Baltimore County, Timonium, Television, Conway Twitty
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Film helps African-Americans remember a lively Carr's Beach
Decades ago, a trip to segregated Ocean City presented far too many challenges for African-American families. Instead they went to a sandy peninsula near Annapolis, known as "the beach," for a day's outing.
Carr's Beach — its proper name —...Tags: Annapolis, Arts, Fats Domino, Otis Redding, Reginald F. Lewis Museum
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Perry Hall musician keeps Zim Zemarel's Big Band sound alive
It takes a Big Band sound to battle the disco, punk, thrash rock, heavy metal and country-pop now dominating national soundtracks.
But that's exactly what the Zim Zemarel Band has done in the greater Baltimore area for the better part of 50 years.
And...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Annapolis, Music Industry, Perry Hall, Dance
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A reunion to remember
It took 62 years to happen but the Class of 1949 of Havre de Grace Colored High School finally had an official reunion earlier this month.
The reunion brought eight of the surviving members together at Bulle Rock's Red Room on Aug. 7. Pat Cole, whose...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Arts, Havre de Grace, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Schools
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Billie Holiday
Sun ReporterBillie 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: Dining and Drinking, Human Accomplishments, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Bars and Clubs
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SONiA of Disappear Fear
Sun StaffHometown: Baltimore Current members: SONiA Rutstein Founded in: 1988 Style: Folk and acoustic pop Influenced by: Phil Ochs; Louis Armstrong, Stevie Wonder Notable: SONiA recently reconstituted her band Disappear Fear (same name, new members), and...Tags: Stevie Wonder
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Fort Monmouth communications operations coming to Harford base
Sun reporterInside locked laboratories here, engineers are arming commanders in the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq with technology such as cell phone service, instant messaging and Microsoft Power Point. The fort's specialty is battlefield...Tags: Alternative Energy, National Security, Employees, National Security Agency, Telecommunication Service
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