Syd Barrett

Understanding Down Syndrome - "God's Special Children"
Down syndrome or DS affects approximately one out of every eight hundred babies that are born. It is a condition that is caused by a genetic abnormality inside the child's body and can lead to a number of complications. To fully understand exactly what DS is, you need to first understand this abnormality.

2008 ACTING SCHOOLS AND CLASSES LOS ANGELES (Backstage.com)
September 11, 2008 This, the biggest and most broadly defined listing, includes all kinds of class types, sizes, and approaches, from Stanislavsky nuts-and-bolts to cold reading and audition prep.

VH1 Presents a Slate of All-New Music and Pop Culture Series, Events, Documentaries and Specials for Fall 2008 (Broadcast Newsroom)
"100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs," "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew: Season 2," "Eddie Griffin: Going for Broke," "Gotti's Way: Season 2," "New Kids On The Bl...

Thursday Happenings (Bostonist)
Wikispeak -- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks on "Free Speech, Free Minds, Free Markets: Competition and Collaboration" as part of the Ford Hall Forum. The talk will be followed by discussion. C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, 6:30pm. Free. (KS) Jazz -- It's the final installment of Harborwalk Sounds, the ICA's summer series featuring Berklee musicians ...

VH1 Presents a Slate of All-New Music and Pop Culture Series, Events, Documentaries and Specials for Fall 2008 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Although the weather is beginning to cool off, VH1 remains hot with the new fall line-up beginning September 2008. The autumn slate will include some returning favorites as well as the premieres of some brand new programming, reflecting our nation's insatiable appetite for music and pop culture.

Lose yourself (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Ty Segall does punk, and an array of other pet sounds, right

Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians (Prairie Public Broadcasting)
In the early '80s, a record-store clerk in a sleepy Southern college town discovered Robyn Hitchcock via the English singer/songwriter's band The Soft Boys. While a product of the punk era, The Soft Boys trafficked in a deeply unfashionable blend of psychedelia and jangly '60s-style pop.

Tom Stoppard's 'Rock 'n' Roll' at ACT (San Francisco Chronicle)
"This whole Czech thing about me has gotten wildly out of hand," Tom Stoppard said in a Paris Review interview 20 years ago, at a time when his work on behalf of Czech dissident writers was generating some press attention. "I wasn't 2 years old when I left...

New onstage (San Francisco Chronicle)
OPENINGS MORE STORIES BY TOBIAS WOLFF Word for Word, the company that brings short stories to life verbatim onstage, returns to the author of one of its most acclaimed programs. The new evening includes Wolff's "Firelight," "Down to Bone" and "Sanity."...

Pink Floyd - Syd Barrett Never Wanted Fame (ContactMusic)
PINK FLOYD legend Syd Barrett never wanted fame and consciously withdrew from the music industry, according to his sister Rosemary.Barrett became a ...

Pink Floyd - Barrett Quit Music After Drugs Explosion (ContactMusic)
The late PINK FLOYD star SYD BARRETT retired from the music scene after LSD caused an "explosion" in his head, according to his sister Rosemary. The singer left the band ...