Archive for October, 2009

THE WORLDS OF STAGE (The Electric New Paper)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

MICHAEL Jackson's This Is It comes out today and is sure to be a real treat for all pop music fans.

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News in Brief: Music for a Good Home, Voodoo Experience, Performa, BRMC (Pitchfork)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

-- Artists such as Clinic, Four Tet, Pram, and Can's Damo Suzuki have contributed rare and unreleased material to Music for a Good Home , a benefit compilation for anti-homelessness charity Shelter . It's limited to 300 CD copies, but you can also buy it digitally. -- The Voodoo Experience festival will go down in New Orleans this weekend, October 30-November 1. The list of artists playing is ...

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Local events for the week of Oct. 30 to Nov. 6 (The Fresno Bee)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Creation Festival rolls into town 7 p.m. Tuesday / Northside Christian Church, 2709 E. Nees Ave. /

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Local events for the week of Oct. 30 to Nov. 6 (The Fresno Bee)

After Dark: Get into spooky spirit with Halloween parties (The Capital)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

It's the last weekend of October and Halloween is on everyone's minds. Courtesy photo The Clones of Funk will be performing at the Halloween party at the American Legion Cook-Pinkney Post 141 at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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Stewart Lee in Wrexham to stand-up and be counted (Denbighshire Free Press)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

A RAMSHACKLE student act at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1987 started Stewart Lee’s rise to one of the finest alternative comics Britain has ever produced.

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Singer dies after coyote attack (Victoria Times Colonist)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Taylor Mitchell was on the cusp of a dream: At 19 years old, she had just released her first record, learned to drive, bought a car, packed her guitar and drove east from Ontario for a series of small performances in the Maritimes.

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Review: ‘This Is It’: What might have been (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

After a dazzling solo run-through of "Billie Jean" that had the backup dancers watching below the stage whooping and hollering, Michael Jackson said humbly and sweetly, "At least we get a feel of

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Toronto singer dies in Cape Breton coyote attack (Vancouver Province)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Taylor Mitchell was on the cusp of a dream: At 19 years old, she had just released her first record, learned to drive, bought a car, packed her guitar and drove east from Ontario for a series of small performances in the Maritimes.

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Toronto singer dies in Cape Breton coyote attack (Vancouver Province)

U.S. Secretary of Aging tours local senior centers (San Antonio Express-News)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Kathy Greenlee, assistant secretary of the U.S. Administration on Aging, visits senior programs in action.

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Toronto singer killed by coyotes was on cusp of dream (Ottawa Citizen)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Taylor Mitchell was on the cusp of a dream: At 19 years old, she had just released her first record, learned to drive, bought a car, packed her guitar and drove east from Ontario for a series of small performances in the Maritimes.

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Toronto singer killed by coyotes was on cusp of dream (Ottawa Citizen)