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1 hr ago | The Press-Enterprise

REDLANDS: Fox Theater to show Hitchcock's "Vertigo"

The Fox Event Center in downtown Redlands is showing three classic movies during the month of June.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Vertigo, Comedy Movies, Crime Movies, A Shot in the Dark, Peter Sellers, Hud, Western, Action Movies, Celebrities, Paul Newman

5 hrs ago | Patch.com

This Weekend in Somerville: Memorial Day Parade, Chainsaw Maidens from Hell, and Boston's Calling

Boston Calling Okay, it's not in Somerville, but it's cool. This two-day festival will feature 18 bands, including Fun, The National, Of Monsters of Men and The Shins.

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Related Topix: Somerville, MA, The Shins, Pop/Rock, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Charlestown, MA

9 hrs ago | The Village Voice

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 5/24/13

If you need even more shows to choose form, be sure to check out our comprehensive and constantly updated New York Concert Calendar.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Shins, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Garden State, Celebrities, Natalie Portman, Zach Braff, Alexander, NY, Music, Entertainment

Thu May 23, 2013

The Plain Dealer

Solo artist Calvin Johnson was indie before it was cool

You can call Calvin Johnson a weird-out. But "low-fi," "twee," "twee-pop" are another story for the singer-songwriter who hits Cleveland on Saturday.

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Related Topix: Beat Happening, Olympia, WA, Music, Entertainment

The Washington Post

White House press secretary Jay Carney discusses favorite band

White House press secretary Jay Carney is questioned by the press during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, May 20, 2013.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Pop/Rock, Guided by Voices, Voices, Jazz, Robert Pollard, Dayton, OH, Music

ABC 27

Battle of Gettysburg stamps go on sale

The stamp is a reproduction of an 1887 chromolithograph by Thure de Thulstrup, a Swedish-born artist who became an illustrator for Harper's Weekly after the Civil War.

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Related Topix: History in the News, Gettysburg, PA, The Postal Service, Lancashire County, England, United Kingdom, Lancaster, PA

Colorado Daily

Boulder and Denver summer concert lineup

T he beauty of the live music landscape in the Colorado summer is, well, literally in the landscape.

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Related Topix: Boulder, CO, The Postal Service, Music, Entertainment

OhNoTheyDidnt

Vanessa Paradis discusses love

Vanessa Paradis isn't bitter about her split from Johnny Depp. The French singer-and-actress and the actor separated last June after 14 years together and Johnny is now in a relationship with Amber Heard - who he starred with in 'The Rum Diary'. Vanessa - who has two children, Lily-Rose, 13 and Jack, 11, with the Hollywood heartthrob - has accepted ... (more)

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Related Topix: The Rum Diary, Pop/Rock, The French

CTV

Vanessa Paradis says romance with Johnny Depp ran its course

This Feb. 24, 2009 file photo shows Johnny Depp, nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a leading role for his work in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," arriving with his girlfriend Vanessa Paradis for the 80th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: The Rum Diary, Celebrities, Johnny Depp, Pop/Rock, The French

Monterey County Herald

Mac McDonald: First City Festival announced for Monterey featuring 30-band lineup

Thirty "Coachella-type" rock bands on three stages over two days in late August at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, that's the enticing recipe for the inaugural First City Festival.

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Related Topix: Monterey, CA, Devendra Banhart, Folk, Okkervil River, Indio, CA

The Austin Chronicle

Ola Podrida Record Review

The general plotline for Ola Podrida's Ghosts Go Blind reads like the sort of indie film songwriter David Wingo is better known for scoring.

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Related Topix: Iron & Wine, Music, Entertainment

Billboard

Perhapst, 'Revise Your Maps': Exclusive Song...

Portland musician John Moen is best known these days as the Decemberists' drummer, but the's been a behind-the-scenes force in the city's music scene even longer.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Decemberists, Robert Pollard

The Baltimore Sun

Eagle Archives: Standard, aka junk, mail goes back to 19th century

The 125 mph winds of the May 1979 Westminster tornado tore the roofs off the Shriver Canning factory buildings at Route 140 and Route 27.

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Related Topix: Westminster, MD, Carroll County, MD, The Postal Service, Watches

News9 Oklahoma City

Post Office Announces Mail Service Alternatives For Storm Damaged Areas

The violent tornadoes that roared through Oklahoma over a three day period sadly resulted in the loss of lives, property and impacted mail service in the delivery areas of Carney, Luther, Shawnee, Newcastle, and Oklahoma City Moore and Santa Fe Stations.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, Moore, OK, Newcastle, OK, The Postal Service

Xenia Daily Gazette

Locals choose their own adventure

Geocache enthusiasts traveled to Greene County Parks & Trails' first "Choose Your Own Adventure," recently that was based at Caesar's Ford Park, 520 S. Stringtown Road.

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Related Topix: Choose Your Own Adventure, Ohio

Brooklynvegan

Destroy This Place

Some of you may remember early/mid-'00s Detroit-area band Thunderbirds Are Now! , who are in semi-permanent hibernation at the moment.

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Related Topix: Thunderbirds are Now!, Pop/Rock, New Grenada, Lansing, MI

Wed May 22, 2013

Houston Press

Cannes Diary: What Are the Women in their Dresses Hoping for?

Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival - a bird's-eye view of a kiss between a young Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward - has been crazy about it.

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Related Topix: Movies, Entertainment, Celebrities, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman

The Press-Enterprise

REDLANDS: Emotions run high at post office meeting

A back room at the post office on Brookside Avenue in Redlands is packed for a community meeting on Tuesday, May 21.

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Related Topix: Redlands, CA, The Postal Service

KTRE-TV Lufkin

FBI: Arrest made in Wash. ricin letter scare

The FBI said Wednesday that agents have arrested a 37-year-old man after a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.

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Related Topix: The Postal Service

Silver Bullet Comics

That's That Shit: 5/22/13: Everyone's Quitting, I Don't Even Know Where to Start

Managing Editors Danny Djeljosevic and Nick Hanover, who pretty much have paper and ink in their blood, and CB Columns Editor Andrew Tan, who got his start in comics late in life through Adrian Tomine and is slowly dipping his toes into the broader aspects of the medium.

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Related Topix: Editors

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