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...Every time I come to Boston, I rejoice,” said Roy “Snap Crackle” Haynes as he stepped up to the stage for his birthday concert at Scullers Jazz Club last Friday night. Back in his hometown once more, the legendary jazz drummer offered glimpsed memories of growing up in the city. At the age of seven, he was entranced by the lady next-door playing Gershwin on Sunday nights. As a teenager, he was sent to the principal’s office in Roxbury Memorial High for drumming incessantly on his desk...
...senior Ariel Delgado, this is exactly the break she experienced, as she travelled to her hometown this weekend to compete in the San Diego Crew Classic...
...ought to be in his element. The 55-year-old Chinese writer (Mo Yan is a pen name, Guan Moye his real one) is in his hometown of Gaomi, Shandong province, a place he has described as the wellspring of his creativity. It's also the location of most of his vivid, at times brilliant, novels. Local Communist Party officials are honoring the town's famous son with a lavish lunch, but as the dishes are served - three kinds of fish, oysters, sea cucumber - the author looks increasingly surprised. "I had no idea that Gaomi had a restaurant of such...
Your article brought back many memories. An especially personal one was the sniper ambush of the 3rd Marine Division on Guam. A Veterans Affairs grave marker for one of those 3rd Division Marines rests in my husband's hometown cemetery. His brother was a victim of those snipers. I look forward to seeing The Pacific. Thank you, Tom Hanks, for sharing the emotional experiences of my generation with today's generation...
...Democrats' embattled Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, to keynote the Tea Party movement's national-tour kickoff event, set firmly and deliberately on Reid's turf. In a taunt to the Silver State's senior Senator, thousands of angry activists from around Nevada and the country swarmed his hometown to make it clear they have placed his defeat for re-election at the top of their 2010 to-do list, and Reid's droopy poll numbers make it a real possibility...