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Family fun for less than $50
Detroit News - What: Enjoy a real family affair when the fifth annual EBONY Black Family Reunion Tour stops in Detroit for one full day of lifestyle activities and entertainment perfect for the entire gang. Fun for the kids includes an inflatable play area, and ...

Summer camp for Hindu kids blends fun, spiritual instruction
Houston Chronicle - RICHMOND -- The American teens in shorts and jeans eagerly questioned the Hindu holy man in saffron-colored robes. "Swami," a young man said, "in Texas people say if you don't believe in Jesus Christ you will go to hell. In Islam they say there is ...

Children have summer fun
Greeley Tribune - Wearing fluorescent yellow rimmed masks and air tanks strapped to their backs, six girls chatted and giggled Friday in the shallow end of the indoor pool in west Greeley. Rachel Kinney, 12, of Sarasota, Fla., ventured into the deep end and plunged to ...

Friends find fun at Ranch
Rapid City Journal - For Chris Roberts, Tyler Hippen, Ryon Rypkema and Cody Weyer, the Ranch Rodeo is as much about friendship as it is about horsemanship. The four friends competed for Kjerstad Realty/Orwig’s MLS Livestock Tub in the Ranch Rodeo preliminary round ...

Fun, flashy remake of 'Italian Job' benefits from perfect casting
Springfield News-Leader - Tonight's Must-See: "The Italian Job" (2003), 8 p.m., NBC. Here's the ideal heist film — something that is fast, fun, flashy and perfectly cast. The movie starts with a spectacular theft — complete with speedboats. It ends with a second heist, this ...

There's plenty of summer fun going on this weekend
Herald-Dispatch - August is here come Tuesday, and that means you best be squeezing into that swimsuit and heading to Dreamland, or hitting Camden Park or the county fair because summer is going, going -- gone, and school is on its way in a hurry. Here's a look at ...

Rhythm of a Gentle Bossa Nova: NYC Shout! Revue Conjures Female Pop ...
Playbill - From left: Erin Crosby and Marie-France Arcilla are part of the ensemble in Shout! The Mod Musical . photo by Ben Strothmann Shout! The Mod Musical, boasting hip-swiveling hits that made household names of Petula Clark, Lulu and Shirley Bassey in the ...

Short hopping: Papi shows some pop
FOXSports.com - With the final out of the Astros-Cardinals game Sunday night, Major League Baseball began its annual three-day mid-summer break. All-Star participants coordinated their travel plans to make their way to Pittsburgh for the festivities, while all other ...

Woman braves challenges in quest to help others
Poughkeepsie Journal - For years, volunteers have been raising money for Shriners hospitals by collecting the small "pop tops" found on soda cans and redeeming then at recycling centers. Elaine decided to launch a pop-top collection in southern Dutchess County. She ...

Councilman's soda-tax proposal all fizzle, no pop
Aurora Sentinel - In regards to Councilman Bob FitzGerald’s proposal to have a tax of one cent put on every can and bottle of soda sold in Aurora, I am concerned about a couple of items. I believe he is taxing the wrong containers of soda. I believe the tax would ...

Take a pop quiz for pop trivia
St. Paul Pioneer Press - In "The World Series of Pop Culture," a partnership between VH1 and magazine Entertainment Weekly (which publishes regular pop culture quizzes), 16 teams of three contestants each vie for a $250,000 jackpot. Pat Kiernan and Lisa Guerrero are the ...

Oldest 'Idol' can translate into success
Myrtle Beach Online - The very things that made Hicks so endearing and engaging to a television audience might be a hard sell in the pop world. First of all, there's his advanced age - well, advanced for "Idol." At 29, he's the oldest winner, and while the pop world has ...