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Interior design ideas mid-century modern – in pictures
This modern, stone-clad house was, before its renovation, an unprepossessing 60s box in a village outside Bristol, built into the side of a steep hill with views over an abandoned wildlife park. It needed some TLC: a glass bay window was sagging and a70s extension had confused the layout.The kitchen was cold, dark and claustrophobic. For owners Peter Flach and Lisa Lloyd-Flach, the contrast with ...
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Pictures of the week Water Memories
Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine's editorial team choose a picture, or set of pictures, that particularly tickle their fancy. This week, their choice is Michel Huneault's Water ...
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Tim Walker a fashion fairytale
He shot his first Vogue story when he was 25, and has photographed everyone from Tilda Swinton to Kate Moss. But Tim Walker has never been interested in clothes. We talk to him about making his dreams ...
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Weekend readers best photographs shimmer
From dogs to egrets: your best pictures on this week's theme, shimmerThe next topic is cycle (to appear June 8). Email a hi-res image (one per entry), plus a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo, ...
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Museums Move to Return Human Remains to Indigenous Peoples
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Prem Nazir lone Malayalam celebrity in cinema centenary stamps
Kerala News: HIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a new set of stamps, depicting 50 iconic film personalities, to be released by India Post to commemmorate the centenary of Indian cinema, Prem Nazir will be the lone Malayalam celebrity to ...
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Les Miserables returns to Broadway Sacramento retooled
May 24--Andrew Varela admits there have been times during "Les Miserables" when he wondered, "Who Am I?" The veteran Broadway actor knows how easy it is to stumble into the wrong lyrics -- and the wrong ...
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BRIEF Modesto Performing Arts seeks talent for 42nd Street
May 24--MODESTO -- Modesto Performing Arts will present the musical extravaganza "42nd Street" from Aug. 10 to 18 in the Foster Family Theater at the Gallo Center for the ...
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French troops stage Niger raid
FRENCH special forces and local troops have raided an army base in northern Niger, ending a hostage seizure by Islamist fighters who had staged twin suicide bombings that killed at least 20 people. Friday's dawn raid came after Signatories in Blood, a jihadist group that claimed the previous day's blasts, threatened to continue attacking Niger until the country withdraws its forces from ...
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Giros stage 19 canceled due to snow on course
DANIEL DAL ZENNARO/EPA PONTE DI LEGNO, Italy (AP) -- The 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia was canceled Friday due to snow along the route and Saturday's penultimate stage was altered for the same reasons, leaving Vincenzo Nibali with a much milder finish to defend his lead. On Friday, organizers said there were "adverse weather conditions and, in particular, snow on ...
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Rapper Tim Dog faked death
An arrest warrant has been issued for veteran rapper Tim Dog - three months after his alleged death. The New York native, real name Timothy Blair, was a longtime diabetes sufferer and was widely reported to have passed away on February 14, following a seizure. However, Mississippi prosecutor Steven Jubera claims he has yet to receive any proof confirming the 46 year old’s death, so he ...
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Tim Curry has stroke report
Rocky Horror Picture Show star Tim Curry has reportedly suffered a stroke. The 67-year-old British actor is recovering after collapsing at his home in Los Angeles on Thursday. His longtime agent Marcia Hurwitz has refuted speculation Curry is struggling to speak after falling ill, telling Britain's Daily Mail, "Tim is doing great. He absolutely can speak and is recovering at this ...
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Nitehawk Cinema Serves Dinner With A Movie In Independent Theater Revival
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- At the Nitehawk Cinema in New York's Williamsburg neighborhood, all the meals are served and eaten in the dark, lit only by the flickering images on the screen. Menu items like mussels, owner Matthew Viragh learned, don't go over so well in the dim lighting. But finger foods? A huge hit. The Nitehawk has been open for less than two years, but already the dine-in ...
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Brooklyn Bridge under construction - picture of the day
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883 linking the two New York boroughs of Manhattan and ...
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Sweden Russia Nato and the theatre of military-industrial complex
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
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Ryan Hart’s Lawsuit Against Electronic Arts And Who Gets The Money From NCAA Games
wrote about the lawsuit against EA Sports, which creates avatars of college athletes that closely match their physical appearance and performances in games, but changes their names so they don’t have to pay up the way they normally would if they were benefiting from their use of a real person’s image. Now, Rutgers quarterback Ryan Hart has won an appeal against EA, after a 2011 ...
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Lois Lerner and the problems with not acting swiftly
IRS official Lois Lerner has been placed on administrative leave following reports she refused to resign as director of Exempt Organizations. But should Lerner be penalized for pleading the Fifth? And what has the public and administration learned from this controversy? The Morning Joe panel ...
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Mount Cashel abuse settlement sets stage for more suits
The Mount Cashel Orphanage, seen in 1989 when a scandal broke about systemic sexual abuse at the instution, was demolished three years later. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian ...
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Bachelors Bachelorettes still on TV
Everyone wonders about their old girlfriends and boyfriends. Are they in love? Where are they now? What are they doing? Similarly, it's hard not to ask the same questions about all the Bachelors and Bachelorettes we've come to know during the past decade. And with The Bachelorette returning for Season 9 Monday, one thing is for certain: even if they've given up on love, ...
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Fitch Downgrades StaGe Mezzanine
U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April. However, even at 15.1%, asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch ...
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Dean Brody Serena Ryder Sam Roberts Band among big names set for Stampede’s Coca-Cola Stage
The Stampede's free Coca-Cola Stage will once again be stacked with an eclectic array of national talent this year -- including some, as usual, that's homegrown. Organizers announced the lineup Thursday night during the Covert Concert event at Flames Central, which featured surprise performances from Dean Brody and Down With Webster.Taking the stage this year are artists that run the ...
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Whole new world for Arrested
The seven-year game of Bluth or Consequences finally has come to an end. Arrested Development, which follows the shenanigans of the Bluth family, is back with 15 new episodes, available exclusively via the internet on Netflix. All 15 instalments will be there for you to watch starting Sunday. Who would have predicted seven years ago that if Arrested Development ever did come back, it would not ...
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Dunham furious over Girls porn
Actress/director Lena Dunham has spoken out against plans to make a porn parody of her hit TV show GIRLS, insisting the video goes against the series' feminist ideology. Executives at Hustler have commissioned an adult film version of the show called This Ain't Girls XXX, with porn stars taking on the characters made famous by Dunham and her castmates. However, Dunham, who created ...
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Viktor Ullmanns opera written in Nazi concentration camp revived in Berlin
Viktor Ullmann wrote The Emperor from Atlantis while at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what is now the Czech Republic. Photograph: Radek ...
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The London art audit how well are female artists represented
How likely are you to see a piece of art in a London gallery created by a woman? An art audit by the East London Fawcett Group has attempted to find ...
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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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