Home Grown Jamaican
The News Review:
- Home Grown Jamaican
- Sharapova hits bitch of a hitch in Olympic bid
- We cowerin’ timorous English
- Capitol Music celebrates 50th anniversary.
Home Grown Jamaican
Jamaica Observer – Jan 23, 2005
“Last year was a very good one for me. I formed a band, Distinguished Personalities and was still able to compile my CD, Home Grown Jamaican,” Pinkney said. The CD will be officially launched in March when Pinkney plans to not only launch his CD, but also to celebrate his birthday in style. “Yes, March will be special. I plan to launch, officially that is, my new CD and plans are also in place to celebrate my birthday on March 20 with a special concert presentation featuring a number of great Jamaican artistes. I cannot yet say who will be on the show but when the line-up is announced, I’m sure there will be good support from the public,” Pinkney said.
Sharapova hits bitch of a hitch in Olympic bid
Times Online – Jan 23, 2005
Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow, called her “an example of the finest Russia has to offer the world and the perfect symbol for our bid to host the Games”. Others are less enthusiastic. Last year Anastasia Myskina, a home-grown tennis star who won the French Open, attacked Sharapova, accusing her of feeling more comfortable in America. She questioned whether Sharapova had visited Russia since she was 10. Myskina’s remarks were echoed by Elena Dementieva, the French Open finalist from Moscow. She claimed that Sharapova “was not really Russian”. Relations grew so bad on the tennis circuit that Myskina threatened last year to pull out of the national squad if Sharapova, who has never played a major tournament in her home country, were included.
We cowerin’ timorous English
Telegraph.co.uk – Jan 23, 2005
It’s all-too-easy to look north for inspiration instead. For example, little ever seems to be organised to celebrate home-grown poets or writers. England has blessed the world with more great writers than anywhere, yet when do we ever hear of a Dickens Night or Shakespeare Supper? A Keats Feast or a Hardy Hooley?Meanwhile, each January, Burns becomes more difficult to avoid. Suburban golf clubs now hold Burns Suppers. Classic English country houses host “traditional” Burns Nights too. Take Loseley House, near Guildford, Surrey, which for £47…
Nowhere is the rise of the Mock Scot more marked than in my home-town, Cranleigh, England’s “largest village”. With its mixture of mock-Tudor and pony paddocks, the contrast with the wild grandeur of the Grampians could hardly be greater. Yet each August, the Pipe Band is the star of the Cranleigh Show and the drone of bagpipes swirls over its orderly fields. The tartanisation spreads relentlessly. Children born in England are christened with Scots names, such as Angus, Cameron and Archie. Kilts in the colours of long-forgotten great-grandparents are worn to almost every English wedding. Cars with “Scotland” – or even worse, “Ecosse” – stickers on them fill the spaces in every southern car park.
Capitol Music celebrates 50th anniversary.
Free with registration – Montgomery Advertiser – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 23, 2005
23–Capitol Music Center, a home-grown Montgomery music dealer with a national clientele, is turning 50 this year. And after half a century in business, the store and its o…
From the store’s location in the heart of downtown, Darby and his wife, Grace, had a front-row seat to much Montgomery history, including the Montgomery bus boycott and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. In 1987, the Darbys moved Capitol Music to its current location just off Perry Hill Road at 3834 Harrison Road, the former site of a grocery store. Curtis Hollinger, a.