ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET COMPANY AT MESA ARTS CENTER FEB. 17

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ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET COMPANY AT MESA ARTS CENTER FEB. 17
December 31 , 2005 by Editor

Mesa Arts Center presents the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17 in the Piper Repertory Theater at the Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St., downtown Mesa.

Described as “A breath of fresh air!, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is a company of 12 classically trained dancers who perform an eclectic repertoire by some of the world’s foremost choreographers. Celebrating its eighth season this year, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performs year-round at home in Aspen and Santa Fe, and on tour throughout the United States.

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In 1995, at the invitation of Aspen Ballet Company and School founder Bebe Schweppe, Jean-Philippe Malaty and Tom Mossbrucker moved from New York City to embark on a vision of creating a professional dance company based in Aspen.

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At the beginning of the new millennium the company entered a co-venture with a presenting organization in Santa Fe and now performs under the name Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. This special partnership between two cities that are known for their talented artistic communities creates a unique cultural product and a strong dance presence in Aspen and Santa Fe.



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Activities and opportunities
in January Winter session class registration
Through Jan. 6
Classes begin week of Jan. 16

Office update Exhibitions
Vihel Center for the Arts will be closed on Jan. 2 in observance of the New Year's holdiay.
Vihel Center also will be closed on Jan. 16 in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday.
Annual Ceramic Research Center Exhibition
Jan. 6 - April 7
U.S. Post Office
500 S. Mill Ave.
(5th Street & Mill Avenue)

Studio Artists Exhibition
Through Jan. 6
U.S. Post Office
500 S. Mill Ave.
(5th Street & Mill Avenue)

Featuring instructors from the Studio Artists program.

The Bug Line
Through March 31
City Hall Gallery
31 E. First St., first floor

Cafe V: The Journeys of Cuban Artists
Through March 3
Tempe Public Library
Lower Level and 2nd floor galleries
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The Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. Awards Grants in Phoenix Area; Funds Will Support Local Art and Culture Programs

The Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. Awards Grants in Phoenix Area; Funds Will Support Local Art and Culture Programs

PHOENIX ARIZONA Dec. 21, 2005--The Principal Financial Group Foundation Inc., in support of community needs in the Phoenix area, provided a grant totaling $1,450 during the third quarter to the Phoenix Symphony. This grant will support the Symphony Connections music program, which aims to make the arts more accessible by engaging college students, faculty, staff and community members from surrounding neighborhoods.


"By supporting art-related educational and cultural outreach programs, The Principal is able to bring a variety of diverse cultural elements to communities where they may otherwise not be available," said Libby Jacobs, community relations director, the Principal Financial Group(R). "Providing these funds to organizations across the nation, ultimately improves the communities where our employees live and work."

This grant was provided as part of the quarterly charitable grants program of the Principal Financial Group and the Principal Financial Group Foundation. The third quarter grant cycle focuses on art and culture programs offered by a variety of not-for-profit organizations in targeted communities.

The Principal Financial Group and the Principal Financial Group Foundation awarded a total of $623,050.00 in grants during the third quarter to communities where The Principal(R) has a significant employee presence, including Cedar Falls, Des Moines, Mason City, Ottumwa, Iowa; Grand Island, Neb.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Spokane, Wash.; and Wilmington, Del. For a full list of 2005 grant recipients, visit www.principal.com/about/giving.

About the Principal Financial Group Foundation

The Principal Financial Group Foundation provides grants on a quarterly basis in the following categories: Health and Human Services (first quarter); Education (second quarter); Arts and Culture (third quarter); and Recreation and Tourism (fourth quarter). The Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. was formed in 1987 to help support communities in which the Principal Financial Group has a major employee presence. For more information about the Foundation grants program, visit www.principal.com.

About the Principal Financial Group

The Principal Financial Group(R) (The Principal (R))(1) is a leader in offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement and investment services, life and health insurance, and banking through its diverse family of financial services companies. A member of the Fortune 500, the Principal Financial Group has $188.4 billion in assets under management(2) and serves some 15.3 million customers worldwide from offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Principal Financial Group, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PFG. For more information, visit www.principal.com.

(1) "The Principal Financial Group" and "The Principal" are registered service marks of Principal Financial Services, Inc., a member of the Principal Financial Group.

(2) As of September 30, 2005

Contacts


The Principal Financial Group Foundation Inc.
Laura Dunn, 515-246-4907
dunn.laura @ principal.com
or
Rhonda Clark-Leyda, 515-247-6634
clark-leyda.Rhonda @ principal.com


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Marc Scher Named New Chair of the Phoenix Pride Commission

Marc Scher Named New Chair of the Phoenix Pride Commission
December 26 , 2005 by Editor


Marc Scher, vice president of government affairs and information technology, Phoenix Association of REALTORS®, has been named by the mayor and City Council as chairman of the Phoenix Pride Commission.

Scher has been a member of the commission since 2001 and was chairman of the Walk of Pride Committee. The Phoenix Pride Commission was created in 1991 to foster a sense of community pride among Phoenix and Valley residents. Several of the positive programs initiated by the commission include Sunday on Central, the Points of Pride competition and the Walk of Pride program.

Prior to joining the Phoenix Association of REALTORS® in 1994, Scher was an aide for former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson, for whom he was a constituent advocate and spokesperson. As a representative of the mayor, he helped introduce a unique multi-city program, “The Arizona Holiday DUI Task Force,” which was a recipient of the U.S. Conference of Mayors/Century Council “Community Partnership Award.”

Scher is past legislative relations chairman of the University of Arizona, Phoenix Alumni board of directors. He also authored and lobbied the passage of Arizona H.B. 2226 re. Small Claims Court during the 1995-96 legislative session, is a former member of the Public Affairs Professionals of Arizona, served on the 2006 Phoenix Citizens’ Bond Committee Arts and Culture subcommittee and sits on the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee and Airport subcommittee.

Scher earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Arizona. He is married to Stephanie and has two sons, Spencer and Ethan.

For more information about the Phoenix Pride Commission, visit phoenix.gov/pride or call 602-262-7176.



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Christmas Eve Carnival of the Recipes #71

Christmas Eve Carnival of the Recipes #71

The 71st Edition of the Carnival of the Recipes for Christmas Eve is being hosted at World Famous Recipes

It includes cookie recipes, candy recipes, cheesecake recipes and fudge recipes for the holidays as well as a "guess the ingredients" quiz, some quick meals, some condiments, a funny story, and even a recipe for “Fart Fuel”

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Apple May Be Holding Back The Music Biz

Apple May Be Holding Back The Music Biz
Critics say iTunes-only downloads and inflexible pricing are hurting song sales

Once again, Apple's iPod is expected to be the hottest gift of the holiday season. That should be great news for the recording industry, right? After all, many of the 10 million or so new iPod owners surely will rush to Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL ) iTunes Music Store to load up on songs.

Not necessarily. As has been true since the start, iPod owners mostly fill up their players from their own CD collections or swipe tunes from file-sharing sites. Now legal downloads may be losing their luster. According to Nielsen SoundScan, average weekly download sales as of Nov. 27 fell 0.44% vs. the third quarter. Says independent media analyst Richard Greenfield: "We're not seeing the kind of dramatic growth we should given the surge in sales of iPods and other MP3 players."

Which brings us to a grand irony: Apple, which launched the digital music revolution, may now be holding it back. Critics say Apple's proprietary technology and its refusal to offer more ways to buy or to stray from its rigid 99 cents a song model is dampening legal sales of digital tunes.

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Jenna Jameson Says That Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross May Have Been Misled

Jenna Jameson Says That Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross May Have Been Misled by Advice from ''a Hired Gun for the Religious Right'' Who Wants to Shut Down Her Cabaret

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona Dec. 8, 2005--Actress and cultural icon Jenna Jameson is concerned that Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross and the City Council may have been misled by "a hired gun for the religious right" who is trying to impose his beliefs on the city of Scottsdale.


Ms Jameson is part owner of Babe's Cabaret in Scottsdale that would be put out of business under a proposed change in city ordinances governing "sexually oriented businesses." Ms Jameson said Manross used city funds to employ Scott Bergthold, "a well-known hired gun for the religious right to rewrite city laws and try to ram through an unconstitutional ordinance that would shut down a business that has been operating peacefully and legally for over 20 years in the same location."

The Scottsdale City Council will vote December 12th on the proposed ordinance change, which would bar serving alcoholic beverages at Babe's. It also would force dancers -- even if they are almost completely covered -- to perform on an elevated stage no closer than six feet from patrons and it will effectively bar the lap dances that are a popular feature of adult nightclubs.

Bergthold is a Chattanooga attorney who drafts and defends municipal adult-business regulations around the country. He is said to be the director of the Community Defense Counsel, an organization reportedly sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal firm established by more than 30 Christian ministries to help defend "family values" and work against the American Civil Liberties Union.

Ms Jameson issued the following statement:

"Mayor Manross and the council have been misled by a small but vocal group of moralists who want to impose their beliefs on the city of Scottsdale. City funds were used to employ a Tennessee lawyer named Scott Bergthold, a well-known hired gun for the religious right, to rewrite city laws and try to ram through an unconstitutional ordinance that would shut down a business that has been operating peacefully and legally for over 20 years in the same location. Bergthold's proposal for Scottsdale is also in direct conflict with Arizona State law. Courts have rejected his narrow idea of free speech rights and inevitably his proposals will meet the same fate here, too. In embracing the Bergthold crusade, Mayor Manross has seized on my fame as an entertainer and author to launch a politically motivated campaign against strip clubs. We intend to fight this form of censorship to protect our First Amendment rights.

"Whatever their moral beliefs, I think most Americans cherish the knowledge that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression when they are being practiced legally. Erotic dancing has been declared a legal form of artistic expression in court after court, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Whether you want to watch erotic dances or not is entirely up to you, but no one has the right to impose their own narrow moralism on the rest of us, and that is exactly what Mr. Bergthold is advising Mayor Manross to do. I urge everyone who cares about our freedoms to join me at Scottsdale City Hall on December 12th at 5 pm to show the City Council and the mayor that we care about the Constitution and we don't want to be pushed around when it comes to our freedoms."

About Jenna Jameson: According to New York Magazine Jenna Jameson is a "cultural icon." Her book about her life and adventures from the ReganBooks imprint of HarperCollins, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, has been a New York Times and Amazon bestseller. Ms Jameson has debated at Oxford University in England, been profiled by The E! True Hollywood Stories, has made countless radio and television appearances and has appeared in thousands of newspaper and magazine artic />Sexual Abuse Prevention
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BENNY GOODMAN TRIBUTE “SING! SING! SING!” STARRING KEN PEPLOWSKI

BENNY GOODMAN TRIBUTE “SING! SING! SING!” STARRING KEN PEPLOWSKI
December 08 , 2005 by Editor

In January, Ken Peplowski and The Kingdom of Swing Big Band will revisit Benny Goodman’s famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert, which opened the door for jazz to be appreciated as the true American art form. The band, which features a number of Benny Goodman Orchestra alumni, will perform such hits as “One o’clock Jump,” “Stompin’ at the Savoy,” “Don’t Be That Way” and “the climactic finale “Sing, Sing, Sing.”, “Sing! Sing! Sing!” will appear in the Ikeda Theater at Mesa Arts Center at 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 14 as part of the Performing Live! series. ----

The late great Mel Tormé once said, “Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.”

The New York Times, reviewing a concert of his, quoted that Peplowski is “Goodman Straight Up With a Twist of Lighting.” His musicianship being compared to magic and lightening only captures a bit of Ken’s virtuosity and musicianship on both the clarinet and Saxophone. Ken is not only an outstanding musician; he is a charismatic entertainer that has been delighting audiences for more than 30 years with his warmth, wit and humor.

“When you grow up in Cleveland playing in a Polish polka band, you learn to think fast on your feet,” said Peplowski.






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