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There is a heck of a lot of good music set for this weekend, and it will likely appeal to a wide range of music lovers. First off, we need to send out an alert to all baby boomers. The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon has something special planned for Sunday night — songwriter Chip Taylor will celebrate the release of his latest CD, "Yonkers, NY."  

The Ames Public Library Board of Trustees voted 6-1 in favor of keeping the teen magazine Sex Etc. on display and to continue making ten additional copies of the magazine available to library patrons. Sex Etc. is compiled and published by Rutgers University and features articles by both teen writers and professionals in the field of sex education. Two ISU faculty members, Ray Rodriguez, student health coordinator at the Thielen Student Health Center, and Warren Blumenfeld, assistant professor of curri  

Consider the possibility that "social media" is a crock. Or at least bear with that thought through Defrag , which takes place in Denver over today and Thursday, and for which the word "social" appears seventeen times in the agenda . While the survey is fine for its purposes (mostly probing Twitter-based social media marketing) and I don't mean to give it a hard time, it does a nice job at bringing up a framing issue for social media that has bothered me for some time.  

New York City College of Technology (City Tech)/CUNY recently won several competitive federal grants, totaling close to $3 million. The college was awarded $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF), $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), $514,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and $173,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). "We're making a splash on the national stage," says City Tech Director of Grants and Con  

Maryland officials say the number of people hospitalized because of swine flu is declining. After a spike in H1N1 hospital stays in last month in Maryland, that number is now dropping. John Colmers, the secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, says 260 people were admitted in the week ending Oct. 24, but the state's now on a downward slope.  

When Whitman, Wordsworth and Tchaikovsky Seamlessly Collide. As this verse from the title track of Pink Martini's new album ends, the orchestra moves seamlessly into the swelling opening of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 . I can't think of another band on the planet that could pull this off.  

The Noblesville High School performing arts department will present the musical "Working" at 7 p.m. today and running through Saturday in the NHS auditorium. Tickets are $7 each and are available the nights of the show. Students may purchase tickets during lunch at school.  

Poetry is esoteric. It can be alienating, misleading and downright difficult. Nothing is worse than a poem that beckons our eyes to glaze over.  

The Katonah Museum of Art is presenting Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era through January 24, 2010. Through excerpts of Whitman's writing paired with some of the most important artworks of the mid-nineteenth century , "Bold, Cautious, True" creates an authentic window to America's social and art history, with a poignant view of its bloodiest war. The exhibition includes a handsome 180-page hardcover catalogue written by Kevin Sharp, Director of the Dixon.