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This Florence, S.C., band delivers stirring Southern pop infused with enough Americana to give it a distinctly rootsy flavor.

Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Thursday, November 19, 2009 Better Than: Remembering the misled late-'90s mainstream notion of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones supposedly epitomizing ska.

From the streets of southeast to the stage at the Apollo and television screens across the county, a D.C. based dance troupe is making moves with their go-go style group.

No, no, no, AT&T. I realize you're trying to fight fire with fire with your new "side-by-side" ad, but when you play with fire, somebody's going to get burned.

A scene in the 1987 movie "The Untouchables" shows Sean Connery as a Chicago beat cop instructing federal agent Kevin Costner on how to play tough in the Windy City.

Few bands know how to show audiences a good time like Less Than Jake . The ska-punk quintet with the killer sense of humor has been hosting high energy, stage-diving concerts for the better part of two decades.

The fourth edition of the recurrent Ska is Dead tour lands at Culture Room on Thursday with a bill straight out of 1997.

If we divide the fundraising goal of $170,000 by the 250,000 Catholic.net subscribers, it amounts to less than $0.70 per user to keep Catholic.net online for another year.

Beginning Thursday, Little Lake Theatre will offer audiences a three-peat performance of "The Foursome." The comedy, which has been performed at Little Lake twice before to sell-out houses, follows a quartet of guys who get together to play golf after reconnecting at their college reunion.

Florida's Less Than Jake has been a favorite in the national ska scene since the early '90s thanks to its infectiously upbeat party pop sound.

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This coming Monday, 9 November, I'll be chairing an "In conversation with the New Statesman " event at Borders, Charing Cross Road in London, with Professor Shlomo Sand, author of The Invention of the Jewish People , and Denis MacShane MP.

The Pet Shop Boys are set to release a Christmas EP featuring a Coldplay cover , they have announced.

Eastern Standard Time kicks in again as of 2am Sunday. Did you remember to roll your clocks backA an hour before going to sleep? It's not officially winter yet but we've officially said goodbye to Daylight Savings time and hello to Eastern Standard TimeA - which means the days will get shorter and darker a little sooner.A If you turned your clocks ...

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GigOptix Inc. , will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter results on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:30PM Eastern Standard Time following the announcement of its quarterly results.

Advance: $15 21-plus, $18 under 21. Day of show: $17 21-plus, $20 under-21. 314-773-3363. The Ska Is Dead 4 Tour may seem morbidly self-aware. After all, ska's third wave crashed at the turn of the millennium when Reel Big Fish went rock, Less Than Jake fired its horn section, and teenagers who once clung to the genre's levity found solace in emo's ...

BURNHAM ska favourites The Communicators make their triumphant return to the Railway Hotel on November 14.

Frankly, the many-membered Boston act Big D and the Kids Table were not, at their inception, among the front-runners for survival of ska's so-called "Third Wave" in the '90s. The band started a little too late - 1995 - to be seen as truly authentic at the movement's peak, around '97 or '98. Its hometown, too, was seen as an also-ran to the big ska ...

October 27, 2009 7:28 pm ET - 5 Comments In discussing the Obama administration's recent criticisms of Fox News, several media figures have argued that Glenn Beck's show and other Fox News' "opinion" programming are separate and distinct from the "news" programming of Chris Wallace and others and should be viewed as such.