Month: January 2010
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Come Wrock in DC with Sonorus!
In a week’s time, the city of Vienna, Virginia will be overrun wizard rockers and fans alike. The city is playing host to Sonorous – Virginia’s first wizard rock festival – organized by Matt Bufford and Grace Kendall.
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Happy #MuggleMusicMonday, Lewis!
Happy #MuggleMusicMonday! I was originally going to write about this band last week but, due to a lack of money, decided to wait until this week so I could purchase the full album first. My reason for this? At first I just went to the iTunes page for their album to listen to the previews……
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Helping Haiti Heal! Wow!
Okay, I’d like to start this with one big fat WOW! For those of you who weren’t privy to the onslaught of tweeting yesterday or who were unable to make it to the Helping Haiti Heal event organized by the HP Alliance, you missed out! But you don’t have to stay out of the loop!…
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Weekly Wrock Wrap Up
Welcome to this week’s Wrock Wrap Up! Don’t forget to keep us updated on your Wrock news! General Into the Pensieve is now on Twitter. Follow them @intothepensieve. The Whomping Willows Street Team needs your help to find venues that the band can return to year after year. For more information check out the band’s…
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#WrockWednesday Checks out Bands Helping Haiti
Happy #WrockWednesday everyone! Today, I’m going to focus on two bands. Each of these bands is quite well-known, but I wanted to bring them to the forefront because both of them are doing what they can to help raise money for Haiti. In fact, both of them are giving of their own profits in one…
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Question Tuesday
It’s getting closer to that time again… the Wizard Rock Peoples’ Choice Awards are coming up (no dates specified yet!), so I figure it’s better to start reflecting on the Wizard Rock of 2009 now, wouldn’t you say? With that in mind, I’d like to ask the question: What was your favorite live Wizard Rock…
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Why Harry Potter is Important by Morgen Bocci
About the Author: I am seven years old and live in Michigan with my mom, dad and two little sisters. I like to read, swim, play piano and go to Brownie meetings. I am afraid of dogs. My favorite Harry Potter book is Goblet of Fire because it’s kind of scary, but it’s very sad…
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Light Through Darkness
Live episode of Potterwatch tonight (Wed, January 13) at 8:30 pm EST with the theme of light through darkness!! In these dark January days where the winter blues can make us feel as though we’ve suffered a dementor attack, it is as they say, far, far better to light even the smallest candle than it…
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Little Kids (W)Rock!
Many of us made resolutions at the beginning of this year. If your resolutions included helping children in need, then you need to check out Little Kids Rock. As a middle school orchestra teacher myself, this program hits really close to home. I have seen music programs in my district get their budgets cut, and…
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Question Tuesday
We are just shy of two weeks into 2010, so I’d like to hear about your experiences so far. So here’s the question: What’s the most exciting thing that has happened to you (or that you’ve done) so far this year? The most exciting things I’ve done are… well, I swam the local Polar Bear…