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Owner of Borderline bar, site of mass shooting, convicted of theft

The man who operated the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, where a gunman fatally shot a dozen people in 2018, has been convicted of misappropriating more $43,000 from a local country music festival.A jury in Ventura found Brian Andrew Hynes, 43, guilty of felony grand theft from the Rotary Club of Westlake Village, with whom he produced the Oak Heart Country Music Festival in 2020. The festival was […]

todayOctober 5, 2023 2

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Toad in Porter Square sold to new owner but will remain a music venue

There’s good news for the local music scene. The Cambridge-based club Toad, which was up for sale and thought to be closing, will survive under a sale agreement that its owners just reached.Toad and the adjacent Christopher’s restaurant in Porter Square have collectively been sold for “roughly” $3 million, according to current co-owner Holly Heslop. Christopher’s closed at the beginning of the pandemic and never reopened. Toad will close on […]

todayAugust 29, 2023 4

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Kingston, Plymouth music store owner recalls CDs’ arrival 41 years ago

It was 41 years ago this week that music consumers first encountered the compact disc."It was on Aug. 17 of 1982, at a factory outside the city of Hanover in Germany, that the band ABBA received a very particular honor," Time magazine reported in a 2015. "…A CD of the band’s album 'The Visitors' was pressed that day. And it wasn’t just any CD — it was the first CD […]

todayAugust 18, 2023 9

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