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One Night With Janis Joplin

Saturday, October 6th, 2012
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around

“People won’t admit it but they want their blues singers to be miserable. They also want their blues singers to die.” Janis Joplin Janis Joplin

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Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin
Gives Voice to Cancer Survivors

Saturday, October 6th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin recently performed during the John Theurer Cancer Center 4th Annual Life and Liberty Celebration for cancer survivors and caregivers. Nearly 4,000

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Woman Around Town: Mary Bridget Davies’ Dream Role
One Night with Janis Joplin at Arena Stage

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
by Alex DiBlasi on Woman Around Town

Mary Bridget Davies is living out a lifelong dream: performing on stage the music of one of her most beloved singers, Janis Joplin, in One

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Jazz Appreciation Month Recalls Sinatra the Activist

Saturday, April 7th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

The act of a single person—even through music—can influence history. The Smithsonian We remember Frank Sinatra as perhaps the greatest singer who ever lived. Overlooked

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If New York is a Big Apple, Cleveland is a Plum

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
by Lina Zeldovich on Living Around

Staycation, a post-financial crisis neologism, had firmly rooted itself in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary changing the American tourism scene for a long time to come if

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Accessorize….Your Hair!

Friday, August 12th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around

Rapunzel, Rapuzel, Let down your hair! Really?! In the country, in the Autumn, in the hairdressers…with a great cut and no humidity…If it’s long enough

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