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Vocal artist Patti Austin will pay tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and "a lost tradition" in a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra pops program. - The summer campers formed two single-file lines and practiced a hip-hop dance move exercise – kick-step-step, kick-step-step – from one side of the classroom to the other as pulsating beats reverberated off the walls.
- In an effort to raise awareness of those statistics, the department's Prevention and Health Promotion Administration has teamed up with other advocacy organizations to host a "Youth Sexual Health - HIV Prevention Summit" next week.
- Performing in front of large crowds seems to come natural to Laurel resident NicKayla Tucker, 16. Last year, she was a cheerleader at Laurel High School, and when she was only 4 years old, Tucker won three nights at the Apollo Theatre's Amateur Night Competition in New York and came in second overall. In 2007, when she was 11, she starred on Broadway in "The Lion King." Tucker played the role of the young Nala, the best friend of the lion cub Simba. She wowed audiences four times a week for more
- Shirley Reingold, who wrote the 1948 hit song "It's Too Soon to Know" and managed the Orioles, an early rhythm-and-blues vocal group, died of heart disease Oct. 10 at Aventura Hospital in Aventura, Fla. The former Baltimorean was 89.
