Stardust

Material Science Research About to Get a Big Budget Boost
The future of technology, society and our civilization will be about material sciences. Everything we think we know about building materials, plastics, steel, concrete and the high-tech materials that are used to build aircraft, military equipment and space ships is about to change. Things will never be the same again. We will soon have lighter cars, transportation items and trucks.

On Repeat: High Places: "From Stardust to Sentience" [MP3/Stream] (Pitchfork)
Brooklyn's High Places probably aren't the kind of band that will set their world on fire. They don't write anthems; their live show, though certainly appealing, involves a dude standing over a table full of electronic junk and a woman who sings softly into a microphone and doesn't move a whole lot; their music, released mostly on singles, was initially hard to track down (Thrill Jockey ...

Animal liberationist takes on circus (Daily Liberal)
Stardust Circus’ current tour of Dubbo could be its last if an animal welfare group has its way.

In This League, ?Yer Out? Doesn?t Come From Ump (New York Times)
Little league officials in Connecticut say that a young player is too good to pitch and that other children are afraid to bat against him.

IN BRIEF (Pahrump Valley Times)
The Nevada Outreach Training Organization has openings for the following two positions -- one case manager and one shelter person. Each applicant must have a BSW degree or related field. Bilingual is a must.

Got Plans' Entertainment Calendar For September (The Lakeland Ledger)
monDAY, 1PIONEER FLORIDA DAYS FESTIVAL Dade City

Obama in Hawai'i: Father was ambitious, proud (Honolulu Advertiser)
The first African student at the University of Hawai'i, Barack Hussein Obama, reached Honolulu 11 months before Stanley Ann Dunham and her parents got there from Seattle. He was on the first airlift of Kenyan students brought to study at U.S. universities as part of a program organized by Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya and funded primarily by hundreds of American supporters.

Audiences in for a treat this autumn (Bromsgrove Standard)
AUDIENCES to the Norbury Theatre in Droitwich this autumn are in for a real treat as exciting theatre fires up entertainment for all the family.

Nightcrawlers: Local club scene happenings (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Maunalua, 4 p.m. Kawao, 4 p.m. Henry Kapono, 4 p.m. Gordon Biersch Aloha Tower Marketplace / 599-4877 Friday Edgewater, 5:30 p.m. eight0eight, 9 p.m. Sunday "Sunday Sunset Jam," 5 p.m.

American Dream (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Performer Igor Jijikine says he slept in a park and survived by eating free popcorn before landing roles in movies such as the latest "Indiana Jones" film.

Sharpe's 38 leads Wildcats over Indians (Marion Daily Republican)
MARION — On a day when scores were running high at Kokopelli Golf Club, Marion's John Sharpe held it together and kept his composure in a golf match between the host Wildcats and Johnston City Thursday.