Music: It's In Your Head, Changing Your Brain

Source: 10news.com San Diego

(CNN) -- Michael Jackson was on to something when he sang that "A-B-C" is "simple as 'Do Re Mi.'" Music helps kids remember basic facts such as the order of letters in the alphabet, partly because songs tap into fundamental syst ...
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Tom Walsh: Could Detroit revival finally get traction?

Source: Detroit Free Press

Is Detroit finally emerging from its long Sisyphean period of punishment and frustration? Sorry for the reference to obscure Greek mythology, but I couldn't resist. Blame it on Tom Wilson, president and CEO of ...
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WKNO keeps alive 'creature feature' tradition with campy late-night horror show

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal

With the notable exceptions of Cookie Monster and The Count on "Sesame Street," monsters, vampires and ghouls aren't the typical stars of American public television. That changes Friday night when WKNO-TV Channel 10 launches "Professo ...
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Source: Boston Herald

Katie Couric celebrates Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee by chatting with Prince William and Prince Harry in ABC’s “The Real Queen: By Her Own Royal Family with Katie Couric” Tuesday at 9 p.m. on WCVB (Ch. 5). What if mermaids existed? Would they sin ...
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He’s in mourning for Donna Summer and Robin Gibb, but Nile Rodgers survives against all the odds

Source: The Scotsman

IBIZA is hosting its annual gathering of the great and the good of dance music and Nile Rodgers is due to give the keynote address – yet more evidence of his status as the king of disco. But at three o’clock on his b ...
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Fleur-de-Links: Saturday, May 26

Source: Canal Street Chronicles

Brian de la Puente ‏Big thanks to the armed forces that keep us safe both past and present!I really appreciate all that you do! #usmilitary #thankavet Courtney Roby ‏Good morning ...
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Gerade Links: My Train Of Thought Goes Off The Rails

Source: Publishers Weekly

This led to a discussion of the marriage storylines, which led to the recent third marriage with Valerie. (at which point I noticed that there were a lot of teenage cartoons on the air in the early 1970s, whic ...
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Review: ‘Aliens (The Puppet Musical)’ takes sci-fi parody to its outer limit

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

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Canadian Brass: Tiny Desk Concert

Source: NPR

If you said the Canadian Brass represented the "gold standard" among brass quintets, you'd be right on the mark. Aside from performing on 24K gold-plated instruments, the group, led by its avuncular tuba master (and sole original member) Chuck Daellenbac ...
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