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WMFE Tiny Desk Contest
For local musicians and public radio fans, one of the most coveted stages in the country is the tiny desk of NPR host Bob Boilen and his NPR music crew. Every year, there s a nationwide open call for musicians to submit a desk-based performance to their local public radio outlet, where a panel of local experts determines the most worthy area entrant to be sent on to the national judging. The Sh-Booms almost took it all one year! Submissions are currently open until June 7. The rest of us can then thrill to the videos of the local finalists.
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Maila Nurmi’s Oregon upbringing led to sexy horror icon Vampira; new book captures her intense, tragic life By Douglas Perry, oregonlive.com
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“Who is SHE?” asked Cover Girls Models magazine.
The answer: “She’s new, exciting, exotic. She has the long, clean-limbed look of a dancer (which she is) and the seductive stare of sirens immemorial.”
She was Maila Nurmi, an Oregon girl trying to pose and preen her way to Hollywood stardom in the 1940s.
Sandra Niemi now tells Maila’s story in a new book, “Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi,” from the small Seattle-area publisher Feral House.