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Laurel Leader wins press association awards
The Laurel Leader won five awards, including two first-place awards, in the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association's 2011 editorial contest. The awards were for newspapers in Division D, non-dailies with a circulation more than 20,000, and were...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Howard County, Laurel Park, Newspapers
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'Glee' recap: Extraordinary Merry Christmas
All I want for Christmas is a black-and-white "Glee" holiday special .. .and a purple Christmas tree.Â
This year, Gleeks were treated to a show within a show. The glee kids, because of some cancellation of a yuletide log special on a local channel, are...Tags: Family, Glee (tv program), Mariah Carey, Religious Festivals, Tameka Cottle
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Inez Alice Chappell, manicurist
Baltimore Sun reporterInez Alice Chappell, a former Pennsylvania Avenue manicurist and thoroughbred racing fan, died Nov. 2 of heart failure at Seasons Hospice at Northwest Hospital Center. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 86. The daughter of an arabber and a homemaker,...Tags: Pikesville, African Americans, Flip Wilson, Heart Failure, Pimlico Race Course
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Kennedy Center play explores racism and the Nat King Cole television show
On Nov. 5, 1956, the American network television audience was graced with the soothing, rich and perfect-pitch baritone voice of one of the first African Americans to have his own variety series program. The "Nat King Cole Show" debuted that day on NBC at...Tags: Jackie Robinson, African Americans, Civil Rights, Mel Torme, Advertising
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'American Idol' recap: Top 12 guys perform
Reality CheckOK, everybody, this is it. Not the Finals IT, or the Top Twelve IT, but the First Live Show IT. Will Steven Tyler be as awesome when he’s not whittled down to sound bites? Can Jennifer Lopez still be sweet......Tags: Stefano Langone, Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, Luther Vandross, American Idol (tv program)
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'American Idol' recap: Songs from the movies
Reality CheckJanell reports on last night's American Idol, which was songs from the movies, but should have been "[Most of] the Contestants Ignore Jimmy Iovine.":Did you hear? Pia got eliminated last week! I know, like, whoa. If I can summarize some......Tags: Sammy Hagar, David Bowie, Norah Jones, Miley Cyrus, Boomerang (tv network)
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Javier pitches woo in promising debut
Sun Pop Music CriticThe so-called "neo-soul" field is already crowded with wannabe-smooth brothers who croon sweet nothings over hip-hop-laced grooves, injecting their sound with heavy Stevie Wonder-isms and Donny Hathaway inflections. A new artist, Javier (pronounced hav-e-...Tags: Radio Industry, Dionne Warwick, Otis Redding, MC Hammer, Dominican Republic
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Arena Players ready for next act
Special to SunSpotIn 1953, nine African-Americans gathered in a Northwest Baltimore living room to discuss offering quality theater to the community. Their goal seemed simple. "We just wanted to do plays," said Ed Terry, the company's associate artistic director who...Tags: Coppin State University, African Americans, Family, Theater, Colleges and Universities
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Cole Porter tribute offers triumphs and missed opportunities
Why do Cole Porter's songs still get under our skin? For starters, his lyrics show a degree of poetry, wit and insight unattained before he began penning hits in the late 1920s and rarely has been matched in American song since (though Stephen...
Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, Music
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Remembering the 'Little Giant,' jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin
Ask anyone who loves jazz to the name the top tenor saxophonist of all time, and he or she probably will answer in a flash. To many, it's Sonny Rollins, at 82 still a giant. Or Gene Ammons, the long-gone, soulful player from the South Side of Chicago....
Tags: Howard Reich, Lionel Hampton, Colleges and Universities, Music Industry, Thelonious Monk
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Bebo Valdes, Cuban pianist and composer, dies at 94
Bebo Valdes, the legendary Grammy-winning Cuban pianist, composer and father of his equally accomplished pianist son, Chucho Valdes, has died in Sweden at 94. During his artistic prime, in the 1940s and '50s, the elder Valdes ranked among the key...
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Deirdre Capone softens a notorious icon
What's in a name? If you're a Chicagoan and your surname is Capone, everything. There is perhaps no more notorious name associated with the city (except perhaps Gacy, or for a time, Bartman). Growing up, Deirdre Marie Capone lived what she calls a "shame-...
Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Insurance, Newspaper and Magazine, Scarface (movie), Authors
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