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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Seabreeze Jazz Festival to Sizzle Northwest Florida Gulf Coast with Stellar Weekend of Smooth Jazz ...Jazz-lovers and sun-seekers across the nation are getting ready to shake off those winter blues --- with a remedy of white sands, beautiful water, and a dose of the best in smooth contemporary jazz. The coastal beach setting of Panama City Beach will come alive for the 2010 ResortQuest Seabreeze Jazz Festival, April 15th-18th at the Pier Park Amphitheater. Celebrating its 12th year on Floridas ...

'Irish' food in Chicago isn't quite so in IrelandWhat, you may well ask, is Irish food? \"The Irish used to have a very rich, complex food culture, but that was hundreds of years ago,\" says writer Coleman Andrews. In The Country Cooking of Ireland (Chronicle Books, $50), he'scollected and refined more than 225 recipes, documenting both a historicand an emerging Irish cuisine. Both are pretty far from Chicago Irish fare.