Bowie High students claim discrimination over 'religious' parking spots
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kxan ^
| Sept. 12, 2018 | Tom Miller
A special perk for seniors at Austin’s Bowie High School is feeling like a punishment for some after the students said they were told to change — or were denied — the designs they wanted to paint on their reserved parking spots. One
student, who asked to not be named, said Principal Mark Robinson told her to make it obvious her painting of the Taj Mahal was not a mosque. The student, who is from India, said the painting was previously approved by school staff well before school started, but Robinson only recently told her it was not allowed. Another...
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"Heroes" - instrumental David Bowie cover, by Yours Truly
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Me, via YouTube ^
| 8/16/17 | Me, as "Hopalong Ginsberg" (performance), D. Bowie and B. Eno (song)
Rest in peace, Maestro. For a free download of "Heroes," click here, click on More, and choose Download.
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David Bowie and Bing Crosby Sing
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YouTube ^
| 12/24/16 | self
David Bowie and Bing Crosby sing The Little Drummer Boy
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Contact Juggling - His Skills are Totally Hypnotizing (Video-Like David Bowie in "Labyrinth")
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Youtube ^
| Kuma Films
Chinese kid performs the art of "contact juggling," which was made famous by David Bowie in "The Labyrinth."
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B-Troop to highlight Fort Bowie celebration
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Sierra Vista Herald ^
BOWIE — Fort Bowie will celebrate its 2016 Centennial of the National Park Service on Saturday, Sept. 3. The
public has been invited to experience Fort Bowie’s role in westward expansion
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Bowie deal falls apart in implosion ( War on Coal : Colorado )
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Grand Junction Media ^
| April 13, 2016 | Dennis Webb
Bowie Resources Partners’ purchase of Peabody Energy Corp.‘s Twentymile Mine in Routt County has fallen through, and Peabody has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Peabody,
the world’s largest privately owned producer of coal, joins other major coal companies including Arch Coal, owner of the West Elk Mine in the North Fork Valley, in going bankrupt. Arch Coal also is in Chapter 11 reorganization. Bowie, owner of the Bowie No. 2 Mine near Paonia, had agreed to buy Twentymile and two mine properties in New Mexico for $358 million. But Peabody previously had said Bowie was still trying to find...
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Texas town Bowie says it has world's largest knife
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chron ^
| April 8, 2016 | Matt Levin
The larger-than-life Bowie knife was unveiled on Thursday in a park in Bowie – a small North Texas town (pop: just over 5,000 residents) north of Fort Worth, off U.S. 81. The
sculpture features some admirable measurements. The entire object is 20 feet, 6 inches long and weighs 3,000 pounds. The blade is made of stainless steel. The monument was designed to tolerate winds up to 90 miles per hour, an inch of ice and seismic activity. The project almost didn’t come to pass. Fundraising for the Bowie Knife Project started in 2013. However, by the end of 2014, organizers...
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Bowie, Texas hopes sharp new landmark brings in tourists
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WFAA.COM ^
| 07 APRIL 2016 | WFAA.COM
OWIE, Texas — Word spreads quickly around in the City of Bowie, Population: 5,000. So
when a large statue covered with blue tarp showed up off of Highway 81, just about everyone in the city already knew what was underneath it. "I think it will put Bowie on the map," said local Bill Enlow. "I hope it does." People driving by noticed the crowds surrounding the statue Thursday afternoon, and they also heard the applause after the Montague County city unveiled what will be its new landmark.
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Bowie shuts down coal mine ( Jobs & Energy : Colorado )
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Grand Junction Media ^
| February 26, 2016 | Dennis Webb
The North Fork Valley is now down to one operating coal mine after Friday’s announcement that the Bowie No. 2 Mine near Paonia is being idled. Kentucky-based
Bowie Resource Partners said in a news release that the action is occurring “as a result of continued market deterioration.” “The mine will remain idle while the market for Bowie No. 2 coal is evaluated,” the company said. The mine employs 108 full-time employees and one contractor. Bowie said it expects that 68 positions will be eliminated ... Just a few years ago, Bowie No. 2 employed more than 300 miners ... Another...
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How the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and David Bowie Ran From The Taxman.
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Ultimate Classic Rock ^
| 4/2015 | Frank MAstrapolo
Tax season is unpleasant for everyone (except for the IRS, that is). But
imagine the plight of many popular British bands in the ’60s. In the U.K., the new millionaires had to pay a whopping 95 percent of their income in taxes. The Beatles’ George Harrison wrote “Taxman†to protest the unfair split: “There’s one for you, 19 for me.†“‘Taxman’ was when I first realized that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes,†Harrison said in 1980’s I Me Mine. “It was and is still typical.†Many rock stars...
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A Christian Investigation of David Bowie's "Blackstar"
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Secular Humanism Examined ^
| 1/24/16 | Faith Presses On
What's in "Blackstar" (To make it easier to follow the song/video description below, I've given numbers to different areas of the song/video. ) 1. The
video begins by showing close-ups of an unmoving human being apparently in an astronaut suit, which is patched up here and there with duct tape. Then from a greater distance, the astronaut is shown, lying motionless against a rock. He is in a world which resembles an alien planet or a moon. It's very rocky, barren and cold looking, and a large "black sun" or "blackstar" is in an equally black, star-filled sky. Just as...
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David Bowie had coke-fuelled closet threesome with Mick Jagger, claims late legend’s bodyguard
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Daily Mail ^
| 2/7/16 | Lucy Buckland
David Bowie had coke-fuelled closet threesome with Mick Jagger, claims late legend’s bodyguard But they barred ballet icon Rudolf Nureyev from joining in, says ex-minder. Closet
relationship: David Bowie is said to have had a threesome with Mick Jagger David Bowie’s former bodyguard has claimed the late glam rocker indulged in druggy threeway sex inside a walk-in wardrobe with Mick Jagger and a famous female singer. Stuart George says he stood outside while the warblers went at it – but barred ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev from joining in, despite the Soviet begging to be let inside. Stuart, 71 – who...
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Not a Fan (Bowie)
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takimag.com ^
| 16 Jan 2016 | Theodore Dalrymple
Not a Fan by Theodore Dalrymple January 16, 2016 One should not speak ill of the dead, of course, especially of the recently dead, but it does not follow that one should speak well of them, or speak of them at all. Personally
I was astonished at the amount of coverage given to the death of David Bowie. One might have thought he was really a figure of world historical importance such as David Beckham or Leonard DiCaprio. On the day after his death, the supposedly serious newspaper that I take most often when I am in Britain, The Guardian,...
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The Death and Vanity of David Bowie
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IFB ^
| 1/15/16
How tragic it is when a fallen human being gives themselves totally over to the base and lawless practices of this little fallen world and sell their souls seeking to find satisfaction and contentment by living a godless and lawless life. In
the end of one's godless vanity there is an ETERNAL price to be paid which has now become a HORRIFIC SOBERING REALITY (Psalm 14:1-3, Mark 8:36-37, Rom. 3; 5:12-21, Gal. 6:7-8, Jude 1:11-13, Rev. 20:11-15). For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a...
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David Bowie, Icon or Abuser?
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Townhall.com ^
| January 15, 2016 | Brent Bozell
When David Bowie died after a very private fight with liver cancer, obituary writers churned out words like "icon" and "legend" and "subversive." Despite
a life of very fluid explorations of musicality and sexuality and spirituality, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano celebrated Bowie as "never banal," displaying an "artistic rigor" which seemed to contradict the sexually "ambiguous image" he presented to "attract the attention of the media." This star-struck eulogy ignored Bowie's 2013 album "The Next Day." His "artistic rigor" included a nasty anti-Catholic video, starring actor Gary Oldman as an angry priest. It begins with this priest punching a...
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David Bowie's best song, "Five Years"
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BBC ^
| 1972 | David Bowie
JMO, David Bowies's greatest song, especiallsy where he sang "the queer got sick at the sight of that".
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David Bowie fan attempts suicide after his idol’s death
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New York Post ^
| January 12, 2016 | Sophia Rosenbaum
A diehard David Bowie fan in Japan took the rock icon’s death to heart, attempting suicide because of it. Tomoki
Shiota, an unemployed 25-year-old, was found outside a shipping company in Sapporo, a village in northern Japan, Monday afternoon, shouting and waving a box cutter around.
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David Bowie dies of cancer aged 69
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BBC ^
| January 11, 2016 | bbc
Singer David Bowie, one of the most influential musicians of his era, has died of cancer at the age of 69. A
statement was issued on his social media accounts, saying he "died peacefully, surrounded by his family" after an "18-month battle with cancer". Tributes have been paid from around the world to the "extraordinary artist" whose last album was released days ago. Sir Paul McCartney described him as a "great star" who "played a very strong part in British musical history". Bowie's son Duncan Jones, who is a Bafta-winning film director, wrote on Twitter: "Very sorry and sad to...
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David Bowie and Freddie Mercury a capella version of "Under Pressure." Must listen!
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Superstar Magazine ^
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"One day in 1981 Bowie reunited with Queen in a recording studio in Switzerland, with the intention of doing vocals for the song “Cool Cat†. David
got bored and suggested writing a new song from scratch. According to Mark Blake, author of a biography of Freddie Mercury, they began a 24 hours marathon of wine and cocaine and ended up with this musical gem. This is incredible! Back in the day when auto-tune wasn’t needed. You’d never hear this from most ‘singers’ these days."
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Bowie's Last Video
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David Bowie ^
| January 11th, 2016 | David Bowie
As far as I know this is David Bowie's last video and if you can say nothing else about the man you must admit he went out with style. Grand,
spooky style.
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