Archive for November, 2011

At just 9, local boy and budding entertainer Murray Rundus has already performed in four professional theater productions, appeared in two independent Colorado Film School movies, and earlier this year appeared in a commercial for the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards alongside actor/comedian Jack Black.

“Do you remember A? Which fingers do we use?” third-grade teacher Judy Toupin asked her class. “One, two and three!” the children recited. Their small hands wrapped around the necks of three-quarter-size acoustic guitars, the children picked out the chords for Chuck Berry’s 1958 hit “Johnny B. Goode.”

SIMSBURY — Dr. Diane Ullman, superintendent of the Simsbury Public Schools, was honored as Superintendent of the Year for 2012 by the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents at a ceremony Nov. 18 in Mystic. The association selected Ullman for the honor based on many additions she has brought to the Simsbury schools, which …

TV chef Jamie Oliver has accused the education secretary, Michael Gove, of letting unhealthy food back into schools, reports the BBC. The row relates to meal provision in academies, some of which are seeking to end the ban on sausage rolls, sweets and other snacks banished by law from school dinner menus in 2008. Academies …

BAXTER — Baxter resident Erin Anderson is high on life. Anderson, the wife of Pastor Hans Anderson of Trinity Lutheran Church, loves so many things, but music is her specialty. Anderson teaches piano to students at her home and at the church three days a week. She also is the part-time music director at Trinity, …

All school pupils are to be given a chance to learn a musical instrument, it has been announced. Ministers said the proposal was part of a plan to give every youngster a cultural education alongside their academic studies. Under the national plan for music education, children will get the chance to learn an instrument for …

When recording sessions kicked off on the project tentatively titled ‘Smile’ the Beach Boys couldn’t have known that the proposed album would take some forty years to complete. Beginning the album as emblems of American youth, one of the most potent pop forces of a generation Beach Boys would eventually end the ‘Smile’ sessions as …

BIG BANG THEORY: The old stadium is closed — time to chip frozen tears off your cheeks and think ahead to the exciting new stadium. It will open with a big bang indeed, but who will be the feature act? Nobody’s talking, but a little birdie told me Bruce Springsteen is doing tour dates next …

24 ноября исполнилось 20 лет со дня смерти Фредди Меркьюри Для поклонников Queen известие о том, что Фредди Меркьюри умер от СПИДа, стало настоящим шоком, хотя слухи о болезни звезды к тому времени периодически появлялись в желтой прессе. Папарацци месяцами осаждали особняк певца в Лондоне в предвкушении сенсационной наживы. Фотографии нездорового на вид Меркьюри вызывали …

Brendan Power, widely known as the Pied Piper of harmonica, will perform at the Cry Freedom Festival in Bangalore on November 26. Brendan Power has worked alongside illustrious artists such as Sting, Van Morrison and Shirley Bassey. Besides, he can also be heard in Hollywood movie soundtracks such as Atonement, Shanghai Noon and Crossroads. Excerpts …