North Carolina regional favorite Simplified was named Best Rock Band at the third annual Charlotte Music Awards in November at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center's Booth Playhouse.
-- Philadelphia InquirerPHILADELPHIA -- On West Lancaster Avenue in Wayne, Pa., local businessman Robert Lail runs what he calls "YouTube for business."
"Most people don't know how big the corporate video market is," said Lail, who sold corporate training videos in the 1970s and 1980s before launching a telemarketing firm, MarketMakers, for technical products. "I think it's bigger than traditional media. There are 13 million companies out there. Some of those companies have their own TV studios."
The winners are Andrea Adams, Kandice Edwards, Melissa Ethridge, Kelly Lail, Alisha O'Lague, Jennifer Pearsall, Aurelien Quillet, Amber Sims and Renee Thomas.
Lail, a nursing major, said she was shocked to have been selected. "I live in Chickasha so I will probably use the money for transportation."
From the Charlotte Observer:Sixty-five years ago, two teens from the same North Carolina community waited off the coast of France for the start of an invasion that turned the tide of World War II.Read more.
The friends were aboard different ships. But knowing someone from home was close by comforted each of them.
Pete Lail and Bill Brown had gone to Oak Hill High School in Caldwell County, joined the Navy together and sweated through boot camp side by side.
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the 19-year-olds steered landing craft toward Omaha Beach at Normandy. On June 7, when their boats happened to pass, they recognized each other and waved.
"I'll take you out," Angela Lail responded angrily. "In the hallway. C'mon!"
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