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Birthdays – Aug. 29
29 Aug 2023 05:36 GMT
Actor Elliott Gould is 85. Actor Deborah Van Valkenburgh ("Too Close for Comfort") is 71. Keyboardist Dan Truman of Diamond Rio is 67. Actor Rebecca De Mornay is 64. Bassist-singer Me'Shell NdegeOcello is 55. Singer Carl Martin of Shai is 53. …
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Celebrity-Birthdays-Aug29
29 Aug 2023 06:32 GMT
Celebrity Birthdays for Aug. 29: Actor Elliott Gould is 85. Singer-songwriter Tom Northcott is 80. Chris Copping, bass guitarist and organist with Procul Harum, is 78. Actress Deborah Van Valkenburgh ("Too Close For Comfort") is 71.
Celebrity …
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25 years on, Lilith Fair is a reminder of how one woman's radical idea changed music
05 Jul 2022 09:10 GMT
Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan performs during its 2010 revival in Camden, New Jersey.
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Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan performs during its 2010 …
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 25-31
19 Aug 2019 18:32 GMT
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 25-31:
Aug. 25: Actor Sean Connery is 89. Actor Page Johnson ("Finnegan's Wake") is 89. Talk-show host Regis Philbin is 88. Actor Tom Skerritt is 86. Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter is 86. Singer Walter …
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This Day in History — August 29
29 Aug 2018 05:53 GMT
Today is Wednesday, August 29, the 241st day of 2018. There are 124 days left in the year.
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT:
2005: Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast near Buras, Louisiana, bringing floods that devastated New Orleans. More than 1,800 people in the …
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Jazz star Helen Sung to release vocal album, sets hometown date
20 Aug 2018 14:19 GMT
Helen Sung trained as a classical pianist but fell in love with jazz while attending college.
Helen Sung trained as a classical pianist but fell in love with jazz while attending college.
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Jazz pianist Helen Sung performs Oct. 6 at …
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DC's public schools have gone from a point of pride to one of the city's largest embarrassments
17 Jun 2018 14:02 GMT
WASHINGTON, DC — As recently as a year ago, the public school system in the nation's capital was being hailed as a shining example of successful urban education reform and a template for districts across the country.
Now the situation in the District …
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Meshell Ndegeocello finds a new voice after a dark period
22 Mar 2018 13:53 GMT
Some musicians work out personal problems through writing songs. Meshell Ndegeocello, the veteran singer and bassist, went the other way. Her father died of leukemia in 2016; her mother, who has dementia, later went missing for two weeks in Virginia. …
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PURE Theatre's 'The Royale' comes out swinging
26 Oct 2017 04:33 GMT
There are all kinds of fights going on in playwright Marco Ramirez's 2015 work The Royale. There's the literal fight between Jay "The Sport" Jackson (a thinly-veiled, fictionalized version of Jack Johnson, the first African-American world …
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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women
24 Jul 2017 07:20 GMT
100. Buffy Sainte-Marie
It's My Way! (Vanguard Records, 1964)
Buffy Sainte-Marie, who was born into the Cree Tribe in Canada, released her debut album, It's My Way! in 1964. The cover photo showed Sainte-Marie herself with a mouth bow — an image …