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...over the nation have come here to see good news in the making-and, if you look on the walls of the administrative offices, to be photographed. Plans are afoot to capture more of the tourist dollar, through art and guided tours of Gooniyandi country. "The demise of trad-itional communities is due to structures, such as the [defunct] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comm-ission, that have been imposed from afar by governments," says school principal Len Boyle. "It's far better now that the money, and responsibility, is in the hands of local comm-unities." Independently...
...www.wwoz.org Broadcasting from the heart of New Orleans, local community station WWOZ plays the finest cuts from the city's rich musical heritage. The station opens and closes most days with trad and modern jazz, and serves up a simmering sonic gumbo of Bayou blues and Cajun in the afternoons and evenings...
...Illinois, alleges that after the Bell breakup, AT&T failed to adequately inform customers of their options to lease, purchase or return their old telephones. Customers who took no action continued to be charged for renting their phones, a fee recorded on their bill in vague line items like TRAD ROT DSK MISC (traditional desktop rotary). Several former AT&T and Lucent employees say the companies pressured them to keep people leasing. AT&T says the suit has no merit and promises to defend itself "vigorously," and on Friday the Federal Communications Commission issued a call for public comment, which...
...least four generations are represented (along with voices from much further in the past): bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley, veterans such as Norman Blake and John Hartford, neo-trad practitioners like Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, and the Munchkin-voiced Peasall Sisters (average age eight and a half). But the years fade away as the artists converge on an old-timey repertoire of sparsely arranged, vocally oriented songs that hark back to a pre-commercial time when singing was as integral an element of people's lives as work, love and religion, all of which it encompassed. This isn't folk...
...Wall Street. The Kirk is for Kerkorian, 82, the reclusive Beverly Hills billionaire with a knack for doubling his bets and winning. The rival moguls took center stage when Kerkorian's MGM Grand bid $17 a share, or $3.4 billion, for Mirage, which only the day before had been trad- ing at $10 a share and change...