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Arts & Leisure April 10, 2008
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Strange But True
By SAMANTHA WEAVER
      • It was noted wit Oscar Wilde who made the following sage observation: "Biography lends to death a new terror." • You may not realize it, but you have almost certainly engaged in sternutation at some point in your life - and if you're like me, you do it regularly every spring when t...
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RFLTalent Show
      What do you get when you mix a German comic, Liza Minnelli, Elvis Presley, a couple of outrageous doctors and a group of performing nuns? One hilarious night of entertainment!
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Kleinpeter named director of children's summer program at Peacock Playhouse
      If you are parenting a budding actor or actress ages 8 to 18, you will not want to miss the Licklog Players' summer program, Peacock Pride. The Players are happy to announce that Karin Kleinpeter will be returning after an absence of several years to once again direct this program. Under Ms.
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Journal of a Living Lady
By Nancy White Kelly
      You will never hear me complain about birthdays. Living through two major bouts of metastatic cancer makes me appreciate every one of them. Yet, getting older brings limitations. Cutting my own toenails is beyond me now. I can barely reach my toes which are not entirely due to age. While putting...
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English Morris Dancers to visit our area
      Home Brewed, a group of Morris dancers from the Northeast of England will visit Brasstown and Murphy, N.C., at the invitation of Rural Felicity Garland Dancers and Sticks in the Mud Morris of Brasstown following the U.S. groups' successful tour of England in June 2005.
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Why be serious when you can laugh?
By RONDA RICH
      When Ferroll Sams, one of the most beloved writers of Southern literature, was inducted into his native Georgia's Writers of Hall of Fame, he did not let the moment pass without taking the opportunity to underscore one of life's most enduring truths.
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Horoscopes
      ARIES (March 21 to April 19) A little woolgathering is OK. But don't let that dreamy state linger beyond midweek, when you'll want to be ready to take on new workplace responsibilities. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Love rules the week for single Bovines seeking romance. Attached pairs also find n...
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Your Health Matters
By Claudia Parks, R.N.
      Back Pain: In any given group of folks over the age of 25, at some time in their lives 85 percent have had attacks of back pain severe enough to interfere with their activities. Although pain can develop anywhere along the spinal column, the neck (cervical) and low-back (lumbar) areas are most com...
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Theatre Young Harris and the Friends of the Arts Society present The Beauty Queen of Leenane
      Cathy Cox, president of Young Harris College, is pleased to announce that The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh, will be performed April 17-19, 2008, at 8:00 p.m. in the Dobbs Theatre. In the mountains of far western Ireland lives Maureen Folan (forty and still a virgin) with her aging, ...
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YHC Dance Theater
      Young Harris College Fine Arts Division's Dance Theater presents its 2008 Dance Review this Friday, April 11th at 3:30 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. at Clegg Auditorium on the YHC campus. The Review features choreography by Hannah Jones and admission is free.
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