California Ballroom - Discover the history of this long gone venue. Information on bands who played there and memories of people who went there. Includes photographs and memorabilia.
The Winston Churchill - Details of upcoming gigs and events, plus a discussion board.
Dunstable Rep Theatre Club - Community theatre offers a look at its current season, how to join, and photos from previous shows. Includes a webcam.
Eleanors Gallery - Supplies framing and artwork to Dunstable and the surrounding area. Carries a display and stock original works and prints.
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-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
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-- Wallace Stevens Arts and Entertainment
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
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-- Lynn When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
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Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Epperson's law:
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God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
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-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
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