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Macclesfield Amateur Dramatics Society - MADS has tickets, season's programme, contact information and past productions of this local theatrical society.
Jane Osmond's Online Gallery - Renowned local artist's etchings and silk screen prints of Derbyshire and East Cheshire, including many well known Macclesfield views.
Macclesfield Festival for the Performing Arts - The annual event invites entrants of all ages for classes in speech, drama and many disciplines of music.
Cuban Nights - Live music venue. Includes calendar, opening times, location map and ticketing information.
Macclesfield Camera Club - Programme of weekly meetings, members photography and other related information.
Silk 106.9 FM - Soft adult contemporary music for Macclesfield and North East Cheshire. Also provides community information and news.
The Irene Goodnight Appreciation Society - Details of the twice-yearly folk music and dancing weekends held at Savio House, Bollington.
Viral Diner - Computer generated, groove based, psychedelic pop music.
The Alderley Edge Orchestra - Gives several concerts each year in Alderley Edge Methodist Church, Macclesfield. Details of programmes, workshops and membership.
King Edward Musical Society - Amateur orchestra and choir in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Information on concerts, rehearsals and workshops.
St George's Singers - Formed in 1956 and based in Poynton, Cheshire, England, the Singers number over one hundred strong and perform a varied and challenging concert programme each season.
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(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My other wife is beautiful. Arts and Entertainment Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Arts and Entertainment There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Arts and Entertainment Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. 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Love is when you r The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Arts and Entertainment I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville Arts and Entertainment "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Arts and Entertainment Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Arts and Entertainment We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Arts and Entertainment Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Arts and Entertainment Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Arts and Entertainment
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