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FAMU death: Brutal rituals defied ban, band members say
It's 7 p.m. on Aug. 22, 2011. A thunderstorm is passing through Tallahassee as 350 members of the Florida A&M University Marching 100 assemble for the first time inside the school's cavernous band-rehearsal hall.
The students are seated in a semicircle...Tags: Crimes, Music, Entertainment, James H. Ammons, Abusive Behavior
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Heart of Gold: Mountain Heart performs on Jan. 6 at Infinity Music Hall & Bistro
There are traditional bluegrass acts, and then there are bands like Mountain Heart. While it’s true that, since the late 1990s, when banjo player Barry Abernathy and fiddle player Jim Van Cleve started playing with singer Steve Gulley (who left in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Jason Moore, Customs and Tradition, Alison Krauss
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Saluting the rapists: America's culture of silence on sex
Remember that awkward silence that fell across the nation back in '94 when Bill Clinton's surgeon general used the M-word?
Jocelyn Elders, speaking at an AIDS conference at the U.N. about reducing the risk of sexually transmitted disease, said that...Tags: Sex Crimes, Arts and Culture, Sexual Misconduct, Customs and Tradition, Religion and Belief
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Holiday Around the World fills Pioneers Museum in Imperial
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterIMPERIAL — From the ancient gong and drum of the five-horned dragons in the Chinese “lion dance” to the exquisite ethnic cuisine of countries rich in culture, the Pioneers Museum & Culture Center’s Holiday Tour Around the World...Tags: Entertainment, Travel, Arts and Culture, Holidays, Holiday Vacations
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Thousands look for Black Friday bargains at Imperial Valley shops
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterMegan Jones didn’t bother to go to sleep Thursday night as she left her family’s Thanksgiving lunch and drove out to the Old Navy store in El Centro. This year the Holtville resident had to get up earlier than ever to try and keep the first-...Tags: Walmart, Christmas, Black Friday (shopping), Arts and Culture, Holidays
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Thousands Spend Christmas Eve With The Cowboys
CW 33 NewsOn Saturday, thousands of Dallas Cowboys fans descended on the parking lots outside Cowboys Stadium to take part in a not so traditional Christmas Eve. "We're part of the Christmas, part of the holiday spirit, but yet, we gotta root the Cowboys on," said...Tags: Entertainment, Christmas, Religious Festivals, Arts and Culture, Music
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Pope kicks off Christmas with Mass
Pope Benedict XVI decried the increasing commercialization of Christmas as he celebrated Christmas Eve Mass on Saturday night, urging the faithful to look beyond the holiday’s “superficial glitter” to discover its true meaning.
Benedict...Tags: Christmas, Religious Festivals, Vatican City, Arts and Culture, Holidays
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100,000 crowd into Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas
Tens of thousands of tourists and Christian pilgrims packed the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations Saturday, bringing warm holiday cheer to the traditional birthplace of Jesus on a raw, breezy and rainy night.
With turnout at...Tags: Travel, Religious Festivals, Christmas, Tourism and Leisure, Christmas Music (genre)
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Do not dread seeing your relatives during the holidays
In popular culture, it has become fashionable to mock Christmas gatherings. All of our families are so dysfunctional, comedians say, that just getting through Christmas is a relief. Once we survive a few difficult hours with our nutty relatives, we're...Tags: Religious Festivals, Arts and Culture, Holidays, Customs and Tradition
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Marriottsville humanitarian hopes for change in North Korea
He was born into freedom in Pusan, South Korea, 60 years ago. Still, Jong C. Jang of Marriottsville spent much of his boyhood hearing his father, Ok Kyun Jang, rhapsodize about growing up in a place about 350 miles to the north.
Families were close-...Tags: Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Rights, Bodies of Water, Civil Unrest
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Exhibit of landscape paintings opens Jan. 6 at Centre College
jbrummett@schurz.comWorks by Willie Robertson will be exhibited throughout January in the AEGON Gallery at Centre College. The exhibit is titled “Kentucky Landscape Paintings: Image/Object, Depiction/Abstraction.” Judith Pointer Jia, the Charles T. Hazelrigg...Tags: Artists, Painting, Artists, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Rethinking the Baltimore art scene for 2012
In the past 12 months, some especially high-energy creators have relocated from other metropolises and set up shop within city limits. While a scrappy inventiveness isn't new here — far from it — it could be that the city is reaching a...Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Walters Art Museum, Customs and Tradition, Dance
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