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Monday, April 28, 2008
FRAZE SUMMERFEST ANNOUNCED
Ahoy, music fans, this just came in to the newsroom from the Fraze…. If you loved bands in the ’80s, this one’s for you:
It’s the biggest SummerFest ever! We’re excited to announce the great performers coming to the Fraze for the all-day concert event! MIX 107.7 celebrates its tenth year at the Fraze this summer and we’ve lined up ten popular bands to play starting at Noon and continuing until 11:00 PM. Imagine your favorite ’80s bands playing for you at this rock and roll party. Act fast! Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, April 30 at Noon!
Just Announced! Mix 107.7 SummerFest Ten Saturday, July 5 - Noon - 11:00 PM TICKETS GO ON SALE Wednesday, April 30 at Noon P - $75, O - $65, L/T - $45 Limit 4 tickets per person, first day of sale.
The Bands: Night Ranger - “Sister Christian,” “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” Lou Gramm, former lead vocalist and co-writer of Foreigner Survivor — “Eye of the Tiger” Taylor Dayne — “Tell It to My Heart” Howard Jones — “What is Love” Patty Smyth & Scandal — “Good Bye to You” The Fixx — “One Thing Leads to Another” The Romantics — “What I Like About You” A Flock of Seagulls — “I Ran (So Far Away)” Naked Eyes — “Always Something There to Remind Me”
Be sure to check out the Fraze website, www.fraze.com, for more information on this fantastic SummerFest!
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Happy Birthday, Harper Lee!
Today is Harper Lee’s birthday… Down below you’ll find a nice little blurb on her courtesy, as always, of our very good friends at The Writer’s Almanac.
You know, before I offer that I must make the following literary confession: I have never been able to finish “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
I have tried, many times. Five or six, at least, dating all the way back to high school. I’ve seen the movie, of course, and like it. But I have never been able to get through the book. I know it’s good, but I always bog down in the middle. It seems too simple to me, and a bit too goody-goody. I know, I know… I’m awful. I’ve been told. And I’ll probably try it again… But I’m starting to think it might be the book, not me.
BTW, if you haven’t seen the portrayals of Harper Lee in the recent films about her cousin, Truman Capote, in “Capote” and “Infamous,” you definitely should. They’re both worthwhile.
Here’s the bio.
Now I feel bad, just talking about the book. Maybe I’ll try again this week.
It’s the birthday of (Nelle) Harper Lee ) the author of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), born in Monroeville, Alabama (1926), the daughter of a local newspaper editor and lawyer. She was a friend from childhood of Truman Capote, and she later traveled to Kansas with him to help with the research of his work for In Cold Blood (1966). In college, she worked on the humor magazine Ramma-Jamma. She attended law school at the University of Alabama, but dropped out before earning a degree, moving to New York to pursue a writing career. She later said that her years in law school were “good training for a writer.”
To support herself while writing, she worked for several years as a reservation clerk at British Overseas Airline Corporation and at Eastern Air Lines. In December of 1956, some of her New York friends gave her a year’s salary along with a note: “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She decided to devote herself to writing and moved into an apartment with only cold water and improvised furniture.
Lee wrote very slowly, extensively revising for two and a half years on the manuscript of To Kill a Mockingbird (which she had called at different times “Go Set a Watchman” and “Atticus”). She called herself “more a rewriter than writer,” and on a winter night in 1958, she was so frustrated with the progress of her novel and its many drafts that she threw the manuscripts out the window of her New York apartment into the deep snow below. She called her editor to tell him, and he convinced her to go outside and collect the papers.
To Kill a Mockingbird came out in 1960 and was immediately a popular and critical success. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. A review in The Washington Post read, “A hundred pounds of sermons on tolerance, or an equal measure of invective deploring the lack of it, will weigh far less in the scale of enlightenment than a mere 18 ounces of new fiction bearing the title To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Lee later said, “I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers but, at the same time, I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I’d expected.”
