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| Flood Threatens MoTab Houston Concert |
| Officials of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are scrambling to
find a new venue for the choir's planned concert Friday, June 15th in the
wake of flooding this past weekend. The floods, caused by heavy rains, hit
much of downtown Houston, flooding three major theaters in the city's
Theater District, leaving as much as 6 feet of water in basements. Jones
Hall, where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was to perform, the Wortham Theater
Center and the Alley Theatre were all closed because of the flooding. |
| MoTab Houston Performance Will Happen Tonight |
| After days of scrambling for a new place for the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir to perform, Houston's Society for the
Performing Arts managed to find a place for the choir to sing. The
previous venue, Jones Hall, was flooded this past weekend in heavy
storms that also flooded other major theaters in downtown Houston,
making it difficult to find alternative venues. Tonight's concert
will now be held in the Reliant Arena (called the Astroarena in the
Deseret News) at 8pm. |
| Guess Who To Do Benefit |
| A benefit concert to help raise money to help victims
of last year's fatal E. coli crisis in Walkerton, ON, will see The
Guess Who as the main attraction. |
| Lion House Statue Replaced, Finds New Home |
| After 150 years of rain, snow, wind, and blazing
sun, the lion that stood watch on the Lion House balcony has retired to a
more comfortable home in the Museum of Church History and Art. His
replacement is a 900 lb. sandstone replica of the original lion before the
elements eroded many of the details. |
| New Products: New and Old Novels, and a Martin Harris Biography |
| Recently published LDS books include a number
of novels aimed at the LDS market and a biography of Martin Harris
that the publisher says is the most complete account of his life. The
novels include a new edition of an early Lee Nelson novel, the
complete, unabridged version of Gerald Lund's most recent novel, and
a novel based on the well-known poem, The Touch of the Master's Hand. |
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