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After mingling and enjoying hot cider and cookies, those present listened to fellow attendees sing and read news articles and anecdotes about Shepard. They were also led in nondenominational group prayers...
...Annie and see a moppet belting out show tunes. Brooklyn-born rapper JAY-Z, whose latest release debuted last week at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, saw something altogether grittier. "I watched the movie and was mesmerized," he says, referring to the scene in which the orphans sing Hard Knock Life. "They're too strong to let life bring them down. That's the ghetto right there." Inspired, Jay-Z sampled the song on his new album's title track, Hard Knock Life. Needless to say, the tune's original author was somewhat surprised by its new incarnation...
...floor with our babies, our attention focused on a woman strumming an autoharp. While none of us would openly admit it, the truth is we were all there hoping to give our children an edge. Why else would we sign up our newborns for a class called Sing 'n Dance? It hardly mattered that my eight-week-old daughter Rachel had not yet mastered holding her head upright and was nowhere close to rolling over. She was considered the perfect age for the weekly program that promised a meaningful learning experience through rhythmic games, finger play and songs...
...however, the latest news about the brain did little more than remind us of other ways we can screw up--only this time it isn't just diaper changing on the line; it's the emotional and intellectual growth of our newborns. Cathy Smith, my daughter's teacher at Sing 'n Dance, says lots of moms seem preoccupied with the social and cognitive development of their babies. More than ever, they're asking to sign up two- and three-month-olds to be in classes with six- to 11-month-olds, believing that their infants' cognitive skills will be boosted...
...identify and quote from. Who can forget, and indeed consistent radio play makes it hard to forget, the lines "All I wanna do is have some fun," Everyday is a winding road" and "If it makes you happy..."? Crow shaped the songs on her first two albums around these sing-along lyrics and a host of fictional characters, relating anecdotes about a promiscuous neighbor in "Oh Marie," a bored and nosy bar chick in "All I Wanna Do" and a struggling working-girl in "Sweet Rosalyn...