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A biker checks out someone’s ride at the 2009 Rumble on Noble in Anniston. Motorcycles and music: Rumble on Noble festival returns to Anniston for the 6th year
It won’t be thunder in your ear this weekend, but the rumble of loud pipes and bikers as they pull into town for Rumble on Noble 6, Anniston’s annual bike-friendly street festival.
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Jacksonvile Opera Theatre is performing the children s opera  Daniel and the Dreamcatcher  Aug. 27-29. Photo: Hervey Folsom/Special to The Star Artists in Action: JOT to perform children's tale
How do you watch a dream? Better still, how do you catch a dream? Only the librettist, composer, and troupe of Daniel and the Dreamcatcher, performed by the Jacksonville Opera Theatre, has the key to this adventure.
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Book review: The Cold Kiss
More than 20 years ago, auteurs Joel and Ethan Coen produced a film called Blood Simple that gave way to a new subgenre of Midwestern noir that runs on three principles: isolation, distrust and pure, old-fashioned coincidence.
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Book review: Private Life
Much of what the reading world considers to be contemporary fiction so often relies on an author’s ability to display a mundane scenario and, through intense observation, transform the material into something extraordinary.
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The Ohatchee step group Crunk for Christ performs a dance during the July Super Saturday event. Photo: Kiri Lanice Walton/The Anniston Star Step right up: Ohatchee group dances in the name of God
Hip-hop star Lil’ Jon shouts “Yeahhh” and “Okay!” when he gets crunk. Oscar-winning actor and R&B singer Jamie Foxx tells listeners to “blame it on the a-a-a-a-alcohol” when they are crunk.
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Book review: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender serves up a tart, sometimes melancholy new novel with all the magic and poignancy of her previous works, most particularly The Girl in the Flammable Skirt. Using a conceit brilliantly executed by Laura Esquivel in Like Water for Chocolate as she links food to emotional response, Bender subtly reinvents the coming-of-age novel.
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Artists in Action: Anniston native featured on VeggieTale DVD
by Hervey Folsom
Special to The Star
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Rebecca Walker, a native of Anniston, is the lead voice in the VeggieTale DVD Snoodlerella, a Big Idea production released Aug. 1. This almost-classic story (a twist on the Cinderella tale) is included on the Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart disc, Big Idea's latest VeggieTale. Walker, a singer, now lives near Nashville in Franklin, Tenn.
The right tunes give boost to runners
by Ben Cunningham
Metro Editor
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When 1,200-or-so runners take to Woodstock Avenue on Saturday morning, observers may hear little more than the muffled thud of shoe soles on pavement. But there will also be a cacophony unheard by most, crashing, strumming and thumping with every step.
Musician Lanier returns to Wedowee for annual summer mini-series
by Kiri Lanice Walton
Special to The Star
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She only spent one year there in second grade, but something about Wedowee feels like home, like a piece of her identity is strongly and permanently rooted there.
Book review: One More Theory About Happiness
by Brandon Hollingsworth
Special to The Star
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There is something unique about humans, something that transcends opposable thumbs or the creation of art. Apparently, there is within us a gene that makes us sit down and write our life stories in book form. Thousands of them, big and small, are published every year. And so it goes with yet another: poet Paul Guest's memoir One More Theory About Happiness.
Book review: Backseat Saints
by Steven Whitton
Special to The Star
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With the bestselling Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson established herself as one of the new South’s keen observers of the contemporary, if sometimes unconventional, Southern woman.
Down-under wonder: Carrollton artist brings aboriginal works to Oxford gallery
by Kiri Lanice Walton
Star Staff Writer
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Maybe it’s the accent — he was born in an “itty bitty” English village that no longer exists and then moved to Australia in his 20s. It might be his hands, which are always flying and pointing and clapping to explain the points of his many captivating stories. More than anything, it’s likely the vivid, captivating stories themselves about his extraordinary life experiences.
Book review: A Heart in a Rock Place
by Lance Hicks
Special to The Star
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The American music industry is a wounded century-old beast that thrives on controversy. Even before Elvis Presley’s gyrating hips on The Ed Sullivan Show had parents reaching for the dials, album sales were fed by lyrics that defied anything that was considered to be acceptable behavior.
Book review: The Conqueror’s Quest
by Art Gould
Special to The Star
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Occasional, devotional and sentimental poems are popular mainstays of American poetry: Poems created for a particular occasion like a graduation, or a moment of enlightenment; poems to the glory of God and poems that express what the heart feels.
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