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Fort McMurray postal workers stage wildcat strike over outsourcing parcel delivery
About 50 postal workers in Fort McMurray walked off the job Wednesday in protest of Canada Post’s intention to bring outside contractors on in October to take over parcel ...
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Quebec gives dance community a boost
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, centre, Élaine Ayotte, left, a member of the executive committee with responsiblity for culture for the city of Montreal, and provincial culture minister Maka Kotto, chat while posing for a photograph outside the Wilder building in Montreal, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, following a news conference announcing funding to help renovate the ...
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The Perfect Gentlemans variety show at Covina Center for the Performing Arts San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The Perfect Gentlemen, national a cappella champions, headlined the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on May 17 and 18 where they delivered a family-friendly show with comedy, unique instruments and impressive vocal harmony. The center, located at 104 N. Citrus Ave. in Covina, was packed this past weekend with eager viewers ready for a fun night. They weren't disappointed. Phil Gold, ...
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Arts tax redux Deadline extended to June 10
PORTLAND, Ore. – Do you still need to pay your Portland arts tax? The city has now extended the deadline to June 10 after its website crashed on the night of the first deadline. A spokesman for Mayor Charlie Hales said ...
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Appellate Court Decision in Hart v. Electronic Arts is a Win for Athletes and Entertainers Everywhere
s that the First Amendment does not definitively protect Electronic Arts's unlicensed use of college football players' likenesses in commercial video games -- not even where the video games include creative elements apart from the players' ...
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Martial arts fighter says sex balm hurt his sex life
A mixed martial arts fighter is suing a Philadelphia adult shop, saying a product he bought to enhance his sex life had the opposite effect. Michael Waylon Lowe alleges in court papers the Kama Sutra Pleasure Balm Prolonging Gel left him with scars on his penis, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Wednesday. He filed a lawsuit May 14 against The Mood, the store on Philadelphia's trendy ...
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Sports Briefing | Cycling Visconti Wins Another Giro Stage
Giovanni Visconti claimed another solo victory by winning the 17th stage of the Giro ...
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Lydia Davis wins $93K Man Booker International Prize
Lydia Davis, an American writer of short stories --some of them just a single line long -- has won the 60,000 ($93,230 Cdn) Man Booker International Prize. She was named the winner in London Wednesday, coming out ahead of nine international contenders. Davis, 65, has written nine collections of short stories and one ...
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Jolies aunt has breast cancer
Angelina Jolie had extra reason to undergo a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer – her aunt is currently battling the disease. The Salt star underwent the preventative surgery in February after she tested positive for the "faulty" BRCA1 gene, which increases a woman’s likelihood of contracting breast and ovarian cancer, the latter of which ...
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Mary Ward Brown 95 Award-Winning Short Story Writer Dies
Mary Ward Brown, a small-town ...
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The Zervos Picasso Catalog Is Resurrected
Staffan Ahrenberg, a Swedish collector of contemporary art, was walking along Rue du Dragon in Paris one day in 2010 when he noticed Cahiers ...
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Television Review Does Someone Have to Go on Fox
Perhaps the least expected and appreciated gift of reality television is its capacity for redemption. Sure, people go on TV to get their hearts broken or to fight over meaningless things, but for every villain, there are many more heroes. And if individuals can be lionized by reality television, then why not companies? In this way, ...
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Scene City Scene City | MoMA Garden Party
In three decades of doing self-portraits, Cindy Sherman has dressed up as everything, including the Virgin Mary and Coco Chanel. On Tuesday night, for the Museum of Modern ...
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Movie Review The Hangover Part III With Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms
The Wolfpack rides again. Or rather, it limps exhaustedly over the tundra in what is billed as the final edition of the ...
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Art Basel Hong Kong Opens on Thursday
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Dance Review American Ballet Theater Presents A Month in the Country
Although you applaud the dancers, ...
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Music Review Wayne Horvitz and Royal Room Collective at the Stone
The keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz lived and worked in New York City for most of the ...
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Books of The Times Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich
What ethically challenged billionaire would not welcome the journalistic cosseting of Ben Mezrich? With each new book, Mr Mezrich becomes increasingly adept at how to use his kid gloves. He is expert at making up conversations he did not hear, sexing up parties he did not attend, pumping up the thrills of getting rich quick and playing down the legal liabilities of characters who may have done a ...
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Music Review Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Beacon Theater
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Behind the Curtain St. James Theatre being used for new Keaton flick more
Although the St. James Theatre on 44th Street is vacant, its marquee is advertising "Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," which was adapted by, directed by and stars Riggan Thomson, who actually looks a lot like Michael Keaton. Well, it actually is Keaton, and the sign is just being used as part of the filming of "Birdman," in which Keaton plays ...
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Giro dItalia lead unchanged as Giovanni Visconti wins 17th stage
Italy Italian Giovanni Visconti soloed to victory in the 17th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday to hand his Movistar team its fourth win of the race.Overall race leader Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) retained the pink jersey with a one minute, 26-second lead on Australian rival Cadel Evans (BMC) intact after the 214km ride from Caravaggio to Vicenza.It is Visconti's second stage win ...
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Arts center set for topping off
The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts will mark a construction milestone with a ceremony Thursday, lifting the highest beam in the community theater into place.Guests and local officials will sign the 60-foot, 12,000-pound beam before a crane lifts it atop the Alexis ...
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Google Launching New Fund for Later-stage Tech Investments
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - Google is launching a new fund through which it will make later-stage investments in technology companies, a Google executive said Wednesday. The fund, to be called Google Capital, will be announced this summer but has already made three investments to date, said Mike Pearson, a general partner at Google Capital, at ...
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Television Review Save Me NBCs New Comedy Stars Anne Heche
Is floundering NBC crying out to a higher power with the titles of its new shows? A recently announced drama is to be called ...
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Music Review Noah Preminger at the Jazz Standard
Noah Preminger played a cadenza on tenor saxophone near the end of his first set at the Jazz Standard on Tuesday night, and within its tight dimensions there were traces of almost everything that makes him special. Starting out in a gallant midregister before fluttering around his foghorn depths and ethereal upper reaches, he conveyed patience and composure, along with fluency, prudence and ...
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Morocco recieves aid as part of EU ties
Morocco has taken another step forward in its several years long pursuit of closer ties with the EU, receiving a vote of confidence from the continent’s organizing body in the form of aid, which will be used to pursue areas of development needed to modernize and reform the country.
Morocco is to receive Euro 580 million (roughly MAD 6 billion) from the European Union over the next four years, according to a joint agreement that was signed between Morocco and the EU recently, which it is hoped will provide the country with the means to further integrate itself with the European economy. Read more
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