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Miguel memes explode after singer accidentally leg drops fan
Miguel is getting the kind of publicity money can't buy this week after giving one memorable -- and apparently quite memeable -- performance at the 2013 Billboard Music ...
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Pitt Aniston marriage a dark time
Actor Brad Pitt (R) escorts his then-wife actress Jennifer Aniston during red carpet arrivals for the screening of German director Wolfang Petersen's 'Troy' at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, May 13, 2004. REUTERS/Eric ...
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Brown girlfriend in car accident
Embattled R&B star Chris Brown suffered more car trouble on Tuesday when he accidentally hit another motor vehicle while driving through Beverly Hills with his on-again girlfriend Karrueche Tran. After crashing his Porsche into a wall back in February, Brown was taking down insurance details again after he reportedly rear-ended a black Mercedes. Brown and Tran were on their way to the ...
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Oncolytics cancer drug meets mid-stage trial goal shares rise
(Reuters) - Oncolytics Biotech Inc said preliminary data from a mid-stage trial showed that its cancer drug, Reolysin, met the main goal of reducing the size of tumors in patients with metastatic melanoma, a type of skin cancer. Shares of the Calgary-based company rose as much as 11 percent to C$3.14 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Its Nasdaq-listed shares were up 10 percent. ...
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When culture is treated as commodity no wonder its temples are sold off | Owen Hatherley
public speech as culture secretary last month to insist that funding for the arts will have to be justified by returns. If, in her words, culture is a commodity, albeit a "commodity worth buying into", then what happens to culture that doesn't pay "healthy dividends", as she delicately puts it?As luck would have it, a test for the policy comes with the mooted closure of ...
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Short Story Theatre to perform at Cellar Gate Winemarket
Susan Block, the co-founder of Story Teller Theatre, and is scheduled to be one of four participants in its May 23 show at Cellar Gate in ...
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Death of musical heroes a reminder of our mortality
Ah. Of course. Ray Manzarek. The name may not light up the average brain as fast as the name Jim Morrison does, but without Manzarek, a native of Chicago's South Side who co-founded one of the great rock bands of all time, Morrison's name might not be legend either. When I heard that Manzarek had died, my mind immediately broke into the opening piano riff to "Light My ...
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Talks over Vimpelcoms Djezzy at delicate stage source
MOSCOW/CAIRO (Reuters) - Russia-focused telecoms firm Vimpelcom's talks to sell a controlling stake in its Algerian mobile business Djezzy to Algeria are at a delicate stage but have not failed, a source with knowledge of the discussions said on Wednesday.Algeria wants to nationalize Djezzy and has pushed Vimpelcom into discussing a sale of a 51 percent stake.A report by Dow Jones earlier ...
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Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals
FILE - This Nov. 5, 2012 file photo shows John Mellencamp performing during a campaign rally at the American Civil War Center at the Historic Tredegar Ironworks, in Richmond, Va. More and more singer-songwriters from the rock and pop world are turning to the stage. Mellencamp, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Edie Brickell, David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello and The Flaming Lips ...
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4-D cinema opens at Beijing airport
/enpproperty--> A 4-D cinema opened at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Monday, making it the first airport in China with such a facility to help passengers pass time while waiting for flights, www.carnoc.com reported. The 4-D cinema combines a 3-D movie with physical effects. The cinema, in the domestic departure area of Terminal 3, shows films of 10 to 15 minutes. The ticket ...
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Dance industry needs greater scrutiny former teacher
Chiswick 2046 A former colleague of a Sydney dance teacher charged with possessing child pornography and grooming teenage girls says there needs to be greater scrutiny of the dance industry.Grant Davies faces a total of 10 charges, including possessing child abuse material and multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault of a person under 16.Davies and his sister Rebecca together set up RG ...
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Sport picture of the day blazing a trail in the Alps
Dwarfed by the peaks of the Italian Alps, trail-runner Susan Sauze is scarcely noticeable at first glance as she pounds gallantly up the unforgiving terrain towards the camera. Accentuated by the soft colour spectrum and the effect of lens flare, it's a wonderful landscape image in which the detail is as breathtaking as the ...
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Sergio Garcia said Tiger Woods fried chicken remark not racist
Sergio Garcia walks off the 2nd green after missing a putt for birdie during the second round of the Masters at Augusta National on April 12, 2013 in Augusta, Georgia. UPI/Kevin ...
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Fatal FBI shooting in Orlando linked to Boston bomb suspect
Boston Marathon bombing suspects, a friend who knew him said. The suspect, identified by the friend as Ibragim Todashev, 26, was from Chechnya, WKMG-TV, Orlando, reported. A former FBI agent who now works for a news organization told WKMG the FBI was trying to re-question Todashev at his Orlando apartment when "something went wrong." The FBI has confirmed a shooting took place but ...
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Man of Steel Directed by Zack Snyder
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Man of Steel Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again
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82 Years of the Arlington Theatre
Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre celebrates its 82nd birthday! The Arlington Theatre opened in 1931, but before the theatre, Arlington meant the finest in hotel accommodations. For over 130 years the name Arlington has been embedded in the history of Santa Barbara. Michael Redmon, director of research at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, provides a look ...
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Broad Avenue district gets grant for outdoor arts venue
An artists rendering of the proposed outdoor arts venue at the Broad Avenue Water Tower Depot. The Binghampton Development Corporation and Historic Broad Business Association has received a $350,000 grant from ArtPlace for the creation of an outdoor arts venue at the Broad Avenue Water Tower Depot. According to the ArtPlace America website, the grant will be used to, "transform an active ...
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Harry Potter auctioned off for $227421
An annotated edition of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' has become the most expensive J.K. Rowling book ever sold after raising $227,421 at auction. The unique first edition, which featured notes from Rowling throughout, was the star attraction at the First Editions, Second Thoughts sale at Sotheby's in London on Tuesday. The novel was at the centre of a bidding ...
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Jaden Smith regrets 2012 rap video
Will Smith's enterprising son Jaden regrets his 2012 skateboarding video venture - because he gave critics the ammunition they needed to attack him for his fashion and rap choices. The Karate Kid star showed off his skateboarding prowess in the promo for Pumped Up Kicks (Like Me) and he tells Nylon magazine he's still trying to play the video down. He explains, "It was probably ...
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Ai Weiwei releases heavy metal video
Ai Weiwei has always had something of the rock star about him. Now his hotly anticipated musical debut has finally emerged blinking into the glare of international attention: the self-proclaimed heavy metal single Dumbass.The 55-year-old said his first foray into music was "a kind of self-therapy" helping him to deal with the impact of ...
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Jupiter Venus and Mercury prepare for Dance of the Planets
17/07/2012 00:25 CET There is to be a rare celestial choreography in the night sky from May 24 until the end of the month involving three of Earth’s neighbours in the Solar System. Mercury, Jupiter and Venus will all be aligned in the same field of vision, each seeming to spin and move around the others in a phenomenon known as ...
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HKs first Art Basel fair to lift arts status
The first Art Basel fair to be hosted by Hong Kong boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city's new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wealth in mainland China. The four-day annual show is the world's premier art fair and has until now only been held in Switzerland and the United States. On Wednesday wealthy VIPs flocked to the ...
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Peking Opera Theater of Beijing starts European tour in Hague
Artists perform Peking opera at the Lucent Danstheater in Hague, the Netherlands, May 21, 2013. Peking Opera Theater of Beijing started its European tour in Hague on Tuesday. It will also perform in Linz of Austria and Milan of Italy. (Xinhua/Jin ...
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Everybody dance now B-boys battle it out in Beiruts B018 night club
bomb shelter-like night club called B 018 , and mingles with the sweaty odor of 200 young people, mostly dudes amped up on free energy drinks.B-boy Ralph stands back stage alongside 15 other semifinalists, a scruffy-faced lineup of young men in muscle shirts and fitted caps. They are vying for the title of Lebanon's break dance champion in this ...
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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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