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Gwen Stefani’s best and worst pop music moments Northwest Herald
As a solo singer and the frontwoman for No Doubt, Gwen Stefani is one of the most exciting forces in pop music’s last dozen years. Her latest album, “The Sweet Escape” is a mixed bag, but so is her entire career.
Digital December | A gift of music hath charms for almost everyone Miami Herald
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Familiar retail chains going the way of 8-tracks ('bye, Tower). Music sales down. The shiny CD losing ground to downloads. Is this a blue Christmas or what?
Arguing With A Hipster About Tom Waits Blogcritics.org
Tom Waits' Orphans debuted recently, and I, being the obsessive Tom Waits fan that I am (a promo poster for “Downtown Train” hangs over my bed, and I went through a phase where I was dressing like said idol, which, on a girl, is not especially y) was frothing to own it. But, like a character on The Heart of Saturday Night , there’s nothing in my pockets except for small change. Forty-nine
Calendar for Dec. 7-17 Kansas City Star
ALLEGRO COMMUNITY CHILDREN’S CHOIR: Winter Blessings Concert; candle-lit event with professional instrumentalists and children’s choir. 5 and 7 p.m. Dec. 10. Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral. $10. Tickets required. www.allegrocc.com (913-422-0469)
Dressed in a Naked Question Mark The New York Sun
It's one thing to learn a foreign language well, quite another to learn it well enough to be able to feel in it, and harder still, if not impossible, to master an alien idiom so completely as to convey the force of what you feel. A few modern writers have made the leap: Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov in English, Samuel Beckett in French. But all three wrote their best work in prose. I can't
HOT DISH: When Country Hears Hollywood's Call cmt.com
( CMT Hot Dish is a weekly feature written by veteran columnist Hazel Smith. Author of the cookbook, Hazel's Hot Dish: Cookin' With Country Stars , she also shares her recipes at CMT .com.)
Yuletide punch Rocky Mountain News
Bad Christmas albums have been with us for decades. This year, however, is beyond bizarre. A few good ones are mixed in with the new crop.
Scaled-down La Scala Calendarlive.com
FORGET about actors. Los Angeles is a town full of opera singers looking for work. They're your waiters, computer programmers, kindergarten teachers, even your letter carriers. Small companies have been springing up all over town and around the country, some even started by the singers themselves, to give them opportunities — not to mention offering budget-minded audiences an affordable way to
Local look: Neighborhood fearful after duckling slaughter USA Today
At first I was stunned I sat down and I couldn't believe what I was seeing, Tom Breitsprecher says. Whoever did it kind of stomped on them with their foot and pushed them to break their rib cage whatever. A
Paul Martin makes no apologies for short tenure as Liberals pay tribute CP via Yahoo! Canada News
MONTREAL (CP) - Paul Martin made no apologies Thursday for his short tenure at 24 Sus Drive, but instead lauded his record in office and implored federal Liberals to unite under his successor.
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