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Like many urban downtowns, inner-city Philadelphia has been undergoing a renaissance of late. Crumbling warehouses emerge from their construction cocoons sporting wings of modern condo loft apartments for a growing influx of young working professionals. The once-deserted evening streets buzz with nightlife — the area’s denizens ever on the lookout for the latest in trendy eateries and clubs.

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Linkin Park have never been a band that’s easily pigeon-holed. The band’s innovative mélange of musical styles has garnered them a fan base that spans hip hop, metal, rock and pop, and their cutting-edge, interactive communication with those fans has resulted in a loyal following few other groups can match.

Radnor, PA – Now in its 13th year, the Radnor Hunt Concours d’Elegance offers classic car buffs the opportunity to admire a selection of the world’s most exotic vehicles, presenting 100 motor cars in an event billed as Honoring The Art and Colour of General Motors, Zagato and BSA Motorcycles. Recalling the great tradition of the classic French Concours d’Elegance in Paris, the event includes a high-end fashion show and black tie dinner reception. Sound for the event’s sprawling grounds was provided by Community R.5 loudspeakers.

It was the best of halls, it was the worst of halls. This grand old Spanish Colonial-style theater has been through many incarnations since its opening in 1927, beginning life as the Hollywood Playhouse, one of four major legitimate theaters built in the heyday of Tinseltown’s vaudeville era. In 1942 it was renamed the El Capitan (when the original El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard was renamed the Paramount), and converted to a radio studio theater, hosting such immortal broadcast fare as Ken Murray’s “Blackouts.”

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On Easter Sunday 1980, Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, California held its first public service, with just over 200 people in attendance. Twenty-eight years later, Saddleback is touted as one of the nation’s largest congregations, with a weekly attendance of over 22,000 and more than 200 ministries serving the church and community.

This Solomon award winning church reaches beyond the block

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The moment you catch sight of the Temple of Greater Beth-EL (TGB), Solomon Award winner for “Best Design, Implementation and Operation: Video Equipment/System” at WFX (Worship Facilities Conference & Expo) 2008 in Houston, you know to expect the unexpected.

The massive Lincoln Memorial-inspired structure is an anomaly amongst the modest, single-story homes in this older, working class west Phoenix neighborhood, but the building is set so far back from the street that you could almost drive right by it. It’s a modesty that belies the global reach of the organization behind it, and the powerful technology inside.

For several years, Saatchi & Saatchi have sponsored World Changing Ideas, an awards ceremony celebrating innovations with the potential to impact our world. The panel of judges, which includes Edward de Bono, author of Lateral Thinking, musician and activist Peter Gabriel, Jordan’s Prince Hassan and Malcolm McLaren, evaluates ideas from contributors ranging from scientists to schoolchildren; this year’s finalists included a collapsible wheel, a brain-computer interface, $100 laptops for impoverished children and the winner, a portable water purification device called LifeStraw.

Among German-speaking music fans, Herbert Groenemeyer commands nothing short of legendary status. A talented, powerful musician and outspoken activist, Groenemeyer has sold over ten million recordings since his debut in 1979, each of his twelve albums garnering platinum status along the way. His current tour in support of his new release Zwulf (“Twelve”) brings the eight-member band and six-piece string section to sold-out stadia of 60,000 and more throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The high-tech concert production is overseen by Hanover-based Rocksound, and features large-screen video with integrated graphics and live camera feed, a 50 meter (160 foot) long runway into the audience, and a massive sound system featuring more than 100 loudspeakers.

The Celtic Woman saga is as much of a fairy tale as one can imagine in today’s jaded, seen-it-all music industry. The trend-eschewing group’s eponymous debut album stayed atop Billboard’s World Music chart for an unprecedented 81 weeks, finally ceding that position only to its follow-up, A Christmas Celebration. With their third release, A New Journey, the group commanded the top three spots on the World charts and number 4 on the Billboard 200, with a record 95 consecutive weeks atop the charts. Their live PBS special has aired nearly 4000 times across the US since its March 2005 debut, and the group’s tours have sold out dates across three continents.