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The Kimmel Center's Fresh Ink Series ended particularly wet and inky Thursday with a visit from New York's Bang on a Can All-Stars, performing a Glenn Branca piece finished 10 days ago, and with Czech ...

Using satellites, data from buoys and computer models to study the Earth's oceans, U.S. scientists have concluded that more energy from the Sun is being absorbed in Earth's atmosphere than is emitted back to ...

Mass MoCA is "Becoming Animal" this summer and fall with a major exhibition and live and film events that explore the relationship between human and animal life.

What are the three most important things to bear in mind when telling a joke about the Space-Time Continuum? Location, location, location... ... ... ... ...And timing.

THE KIMMEL CENTER'S Fresh Ink series has been presenting some of the most innovative and hippest acts in music, and the Bang On A Can All-Stars qualify on both counts.

By Jackie Childs The debut from Eastern Sun draws you into an intriguing web of solitude in the tradition of ambitronica masters like Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and Future Sound of London.

Fox Theatre, 303-443-3399. By George Swartz Published: Thursday, April 21, 2005 As Renaissance men go, Paul Miller, better known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid may not be much of a scientist, but he's ...

"Oops! I Did It Again": The Original by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra THE FUNNY SITE OF THE DAY -- From SuperMasterpiece.com: "'Oops! I Did It Again' was recorded in April, 1932, in a Chicago studio, most ...

The following, courtesy of the Vatican Information Service, is the complete text of the first message of Pope Benedict XVI, which he delivered in Latin at the end of this morning's Mass with the members of the ...

Years ago in Montreal, I visited an installation by Brian Eno called the Quiet Room.

Airs on New Sounds at 11PM on 93.9 FM 2005 marks the 19th season John Schaefer has been presenting a groundbreaking series of concerts as part of his nightly New Sounds program.

Lately, I've been all about simplifying my life. I've added a dishwasher . I'm wearing my hair shorter .

County board approves grant applications Cloud County board of commissioners, Monday, approved having chairman Richard Chartier sign a grant application form and a licensing agreement for the health department.

Associated Press Hollinger Names Successor to CFO Lane 03.14.2005, 01:06 PM Daily newspaper owner Hollinger International Inc.

Operating under the ''constructed persona" DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Paul D. Miller has become a college and art-gallery favorite, as much for employing highbrow literary theory as for his introspective, ...

At the 1964 New York World's Fair, the story goes, a machine translated Russian to English and vice versa.

For the first time, Guilford is choosing 2005-2006 speakers around a predetermined theme.

Fred Deakin, the former illustrator who started Lemon Jelly with his producer friend Nick Franglen, shares his London pad with 20,000 records.

The result is a CD entitled 'Bang on a Can Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing', released at the end of 2004 and selling for US $15. 'Kyaw Kyaw matches his mastery of an ancient drumming technique with the edgy 21st century ...

When Langston Hughes Jr. visited the White House seven years ago, it was his famous name that got him face time with President Bill Clinton.

Kathryn Walker will direct her own adaptation of Robert Fagles' translation. Also in the cast are Maeve Kinkead and Griffin Mathhews.

Max Fresen looks like a guy who doesn't sleep much. In fact, when he trundles into the Thirsty Scholar Pub in Somerville, a mere stone's throw from where he lives but 40 minutes late nonetheless, his matted ...

With his first outing as leader, Greg Wall (Hasidic New Wave) has crafted nine thought provoking instrumentals.

Grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through "Fear X" like a toxic mist.

Robert Fripp and Brian Eno released their two previous collaborations, No Pussyfooting and Evening Star, in 1973 and 1975, respectively.

Tali's meteoric rise thru the global drum and bass ranks is well documented, born and bred in New Zealand it was in Christchurch alongside DJ Mosus as part of Scientific she first developed her skills and ...

An ambitious work of music-theater, Bang on a Can's Lost Objects, performed recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, fused an eclectic array of musical ensembles including a 30-piece baroque orchestra, a rock ...

Where have Akasha been hiding for the five years since their Cinematique debut? Well between them Charlie Casey and Damian Hand have been remixing a couple of tracks for Groove Armada and having their early ...

Though much of Fehlmann's solo work (that work which is beyond his contributions to The Orb) pushes a somewhat predictable sound, the baker's dozen of tracks on Lowflow are more in line with his groundbreaking ...

The Walt Disney Co. and Hong Kong government have pushed forward the opening of its newest park, Hong Kong Disneyland, to Sept.

They didn't call MacHeath "Mack the Knife" for nothing. He was a nasty piece of work, a cold-blooded thief and a killer who was perfect for the lead role in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's dark 1928 satire "Die ...

Liz Mueller originally wanted to play Grace Farrell, Oliver Warbucks' personal assistant in Grain Valley High School's production of "Annie." However, after auditioning, she deciding she wanted a different ...