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The performance is the final show of this year's JAZZ at the Arsenal series which includes some of the best Jazz ensembles in the Boston area, many headed by faculty members of the Berklee College of Music. Read More

You know it's summer when the South Cobb Arts Alliance kicks off its annual Candlelite Summer Concert Series at the Barnes Amphitheatre. Read More

Why Go: Now in its 36th year, the carnival is an exciting event for kids of all ages. Read More

The cause was multiple organ failure as a result of sepsis, Tom Goldfogle, his manager, said. Read More

If you've been dying to get a look at anything from "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," a trailer will run during the pre-show for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards on June 3. Read More

If you've been dying to get a look at anything from "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," a trailer will run during the pre-show for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards on June 3. Read More

Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter , and check out the events calendar to make sure you don't miss a thing happening this weekend in the Hudson Valley. Read More

When/Where: Followed by Third Friday events on Main Street. Read More

As a great-great-grandmother, Lillette Jenkins-Wisner typically has a full house every Mother's Day.

And for the legendary, classically trained 88-year-old concert pianist, it will end the way it always does — with a celebration of music.

"I'd play right up until I gave birth," Jenkins-Wisner recalls of her first captive audience, "and I could feel them kicking around in the womb. They were dancing while I was playing."

Today — after raising five children, who gave her four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren — the woman they all call "Gram" hopes she will leave a family legacy that comes as effortlessly as breathing.

"Music and laughter are the two most important things every human being possesses, whether they recognize it or they don't," she says. Read More

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Cab Calloway

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One of the great entertainers, Cab Calloway was a household name by 1932, and never really declined in fame. A talented jazz... Read the full Cab Calloway bio.