Would you like to expand your classical music library or learn more about a favorite composer? Would you just like to listen to a classical music stream as you work at your desktop?

Try Classical Music Archives.

Earth Day (Oak Ridge) Saturday, April 12 @ Bissell Park in Oak Ridge 12-5 PM.

Hector Qirko Band, R.B. Morris, Todd Steed and The Suns of Phere, Carl Snow's Summer of Love, Lonetones, BFT. For the younglings: Hominy Mammas, Sean McCullough and Phil Pollard, Nancy Brennan Strange and Joni Lovegrove.

Organic Foods, Educational Booths, Environmental Speakers and lots of activities for the younglings and their elders (animals, bugs, outdoor games, prizes).

Zero waste event. Check website for updates. Rain or shine

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Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65.

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"If you didn't think about the danger, it looked like a performance," he said. "It was beautiful, like fireworks. War is beautiful if you don't get killed. But because you know it's going to kill, it's no longer beautiful."

The Iraq War is an abomination, as was the Vietnam War. Why must it continue?

Pran was certainly a courageous man. May he rest in peace.

Free market!!!

It's just a little surprising these 2 guys don't feel a little guilty about accepting this $19 million in stock when so many of their customers won't be able to keep their homes.

"It's perverse for Bank of America to reward the principal architects of the bad business practices that caused this housing crisis," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, said in a statement.

It's even a little more ridiculous that BOA is willing to pay one of these guys $28 million to "stay with the company".

Why would they want him to stay? That's like asking George Bush to stay for a second term. Oh, wait. The majority of Americans apparently did ask him to stay. Are we a "Confederacy of Dunces"?

The Museum of Appalachia will end it "Thank You Tennessee Month" Monday afternoon at 4:00 PM. You can see pictures from the Museum of Appalachia on their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

It’s a way to thank state residents for supporting the Museum through the years; to introduce the Museum to those who haven’t been here before; and to fulfill the Museum’s mission of passing the Appalachian heritage to the next generation.

“Many folks tell us they visited the Museum years ago,” said Elaine Meyer, executive director. “Now we’d like them to come back—and bring their children and grandchildren to share the experience and learn more about their Appalachian heritage.”

For a great family time, music, and chicken and dumplings, this is the place to go!

Support your galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community.

Sherrie