05/24/11 When La Monte Young performed with the Forever Blues Band at the Kitchen in 1993, he played a two-hour set without stopping. The song--more of a movement--was "Young's Dorian Blues in G," composed of the familiar 12-bar chord progression of the titular genre, beaten into nonrecognition through Young's strange tunings and the resonance of his Korg synthesizer playing against the electric guitars ...
05/20/11 Baseball-JCCCCAA State Championships First round Ohlone 8, Santa Ana 0Ohlone 100 060 010-- 8 8
05/19/11 MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - May 19, 2011) - Leading online retailer Viva La Diva has one of the biggest ranges of shoes, boots, handbags and accessories in the UK, and has just expanded their product offerings for summer 2011 with a new selection of big brands and designer names.
05/19/11 Alexandra Lee Wipf of Solano's Bistro sets out food samples last Sunday during the Farm to Table fundraiser that benefited Slow Food Desert Cities. Chefs from throughout the desert converged to present samplings of dishes made using sustainably grown produce from local farms.
05/18/11 RAY MANZAREK & THE ROY ROGERS BAND Diesel, Thurs. 8 p.m. $25-$35. 1-877-435-9849. KRISTOFF KRANE Garfield Artworks, Thurs. 8 p.m. $7. 412-361-2262. FAREWELL CONTINENTAL/GOLD MOTEL Club Cafe, Fri. 7 p.m. $12. 1-866-468-3401.
05/18/11 Women entrepreneurs from around the world, guests of the international Center of the Capitol Region visited Columbia County with assistance from the Columbia Hudson Partnership on May 9.
05/08/11 Three Louisiana State University Tigers, including one with Major League bloodlines and another who played in a local Babe Ruth World Series, have all been signed to play for the Cowlitz Black Bears wood bat baseball team this summer.
05/05/11 Laurel: To Rich Fitzgerald & Mark Patrick Flaherty. The Democrats seeking the nomination for Allegheny County chief executive have gone negative with their campaign ads. Among other things, Mr. Fitzgerald attacked Mr. Flaherty for practicing supposedly "Republican" economics while Flaherty attacked Fitzgerald for, among other things, being a spendthrift. At this rate, we'll be publishing the ...
04/22/11 Loading Photo Galleries ... Indio's Ayana Murrell (right) leaps over a hurdle Thursday during a track meet between Indio and La Quinta high schools. The Rajahs won 68-59. More photos at mydesert.com/hss.
04/22/11 MP3: Damon and Naomi: "Walking Backwards" -- On May 9, slowcore duo and former Galaxie 500 members Damon & Naomi will release their latest full-length, False Beats and True Hearts , on 20/20/20 . Michio Kurihara of Ghost guests. Listen to a track from that album, "Walking Backwards", above. -- Tied & Tickled Trio , the avant-electronic outfit that includes the Notwist's Markus and Micha Acher ...
04/22/11 APRIL 23 Easter Festival 10 a.m.-1 p.m. April 23, Fellowship Assembly of God, 5224 Augusta Road, Garden City. The festival includes an egg hunt, petting zoo, bouncing games, refreshments and more. Ages 1-fifth grade. Free. For information, call 912-964-4243. Easter Egg Hunt 10 a.m. April 23, Sergeant Jasper Park, Red Dam Road. Red Dam Baptist Church will be hosting an Easter egg hunt for ...
04/21/11 The Randolph Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a general luncheon meeting at noon at LaStrada Restaurant, located at 1105 Route 10 east in Randolph. The guest speaker will be Tim Smith of Tim Smith Consulting. He will present ideas and techniques for setting a business apart from competition.
04/21/11 Michelle Madoff likes to tell how, in 1969, at the first gathering of the Group Against Smog and Pollution in her Squirrel Hill living room, she went to the kitchen to get cold drinks for everyone and returned to find she'd been elected its first president.
04/12/11 The compressed natural gas (CNG) ambulance at Fire Station 71 in Palm Desert uses this nozzle to fuel up. There are five locations in the Coachella Valley for crew members to fill the ambulance with CNG. / Crystal Chatham The Desert Sun
04/12/11 Los Angeles Clippers announcer Ralph Lawler shows off a gift at his La Quinta home on March 29. He is holding a basketball given to him after his 2,000th Clippers broadcast in 2005. Lawler celebrated his 2,500th broadcast this season.
04/12/11 Have $20? Then have we got a meal for you. The red and golden beet salad at Peekskill Brewery. / Xavier Mascare?as/The Journal News
04/11/11 When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hired Margaret Garner in 2005 as the first black woman contractor to build one of its stores, she was hailed as a symbol of the benefits local businesses and minority communities would reap from the retail giant's push into Chicago. Six years later, her company is bankrupt, crushed by cost overruns on Wal-Mart's first Chicago store, located in the Austin neighborhood on ...
03/30/11 A First World War soldier killed in action nearly a century ago can finally rest in peace following the identification of his remains and his burial last week in France. This resolution was possible due to a novel combination of identification disciplines, including Z Corporation 3D printing technology.The remains of the solider, now identified as Private Thomas Lawless of Calgary, Alberta, were ...
03/24/11 A 19-foot-long piece of steel that was once a part of New York's World Trade Center will arrive on a flatbed trailer in Chatham County on Saturday.
03/12/11 (CNN) -- An explosion at an earthquake-struck nuclear plant was not caused by damage to the nuclear reactor but by a pumping system that failed as crews tried to bring the reactor's temperature down, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Saturday. | 
