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Who will the Stones bring on stage
Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards of British rock band The Rolling Stones perform during their "50 & Counting" worldwide tour in Anaheim, California, May 18, 2013. REUTERS/Mike ...
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Is Bynes finally getting help
Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Someone, God willing, has finally put a net under Amanda Bynes, halting the actress' emotional free fall of almost a year's duration. Despite her arrest in New York on Thursday night -- fright wig and all -- Bynes may finally get the help she has so obviously needed for a long time. The arresting officers took the actress to hospital for a ...
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Italy Culture Czar Wants More Support for Arts Cinema
ROME – Italy’s newly-installed Minister of Culture said his priorities in office will include strengthening government funding for the arts, including a renewal of the cinema tax credit industry players have been calling ...
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Palace Theatre collects $58000 at fundraising event
Holly Brown, general manager of the Palace Theatre. A fundraiser generated $58,000 for The Palace Theatre in Albany, NY, officials said. The May 9 fundraiser, called Salute to the Palace, featured a live performance by Sandy Hacketts Rat Pack Show. The fundraiser is an important event for the non-profit theater, which is on track to finishing its second consecutive season with a surplus after ...
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Broadway producer getting Loop star
will receive a star on the STL Walk of Fame on June 11.Landesman is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and just finished a term as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.He is the son ...
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Out and Riding High in Nashville
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Dachshunds strut their stuff as UN bosses
, a Festival TransAmriques show featuring dozens of dogs impersonating members of the United Nations. The event is the brainchild of Bennett Miller, an Australian visual artist, who expanded the idea after premiering it at a theatre festival in Melbourne. Miller auditioned scores of local weiner dogs to see if they would make the cut. The artist says he choose dachshunds to represent global ...
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Bieber Kim K. slammed by fellow celebs
Musician Justin Bieber accepts the 'Milestone Award' onstage during the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Steve ...
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Candelabra ends better than it starts
Early in "Behind the Candelabra", Scott Thorson, played by Matt Damon, tells his step-mother, "My eyes are open, I promise." But how could they have been? Scott, after all, was becoming Liberace's lover. Could anyone's eyes be open enough? Behind The Candelabra, which debuts Sunday on HBO Canada, chronicles the real-life romantic relationship between famous ...
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Manchester send us one photo showing the city at its best
How would you sum up Manchester in a single photograph? Is there a place, a building, a view or a person that represents the city at its best? Throughout the Manchester International Festival we'll be inviting readers to submit their favourite images celebrating the city via GuardianWitness. To show us your best shot, either use the 'contribute to this article' links above and ...
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Old masters at the Ashmolean - in pictures
exhibiting works on paper by some of the greatest artists of all time , from Raphael to Da Vinci, Michelangelo to Rembrandt. Below is a selection of the finest, including a desolate landscape from Caspar David Friedrich and a vision of Dante by William ...
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Old master drawings on show at Ashmolean
Ashmolean museum in Oxford to compensate for some distinctly second rate paintings, is going on display to celebrate the 330th birthday of one of the oldest ...
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Artist Kapoor draws on Berlins dark history in new show
Fri May 24, 2013 1:00pm EDT * Anish Kapoor stages first major exhibit in Berlin * Includes many artworks created for the show * Kapoor attacks British government for not supporting arts By Sarah Marsh BERLIN, May 24 (Reuters) - Blood-red bricks of wax are shifted by conveyor belts up metal chutes towards the centre of an atrium before thudding down and splattering like entrails, in a monumental ...
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Robert Bateman Centre to promote more than artists work
Celebrated Canadian nature artist Robert Bateman is opening a new gallery in Victoria this weekend, but the artist says the aim is to do much more than showcase his work. The Robert Bateman centre, whose doors open on his 83rd birthday, will display the largest exhibit of original works by the popular wildlife artist. There will be 10 galleries in the centre, including one devoted to his ...
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Rolling Stones to rock with Mississauga choir
Cawthra Park Secondary School Chamber Choir has been recruited to provide the chorus for the song. The Stones selects one choir to sing with them in each city they visit. Choir director Bob Anderson said someone at University of Toronto had recommended the choir after being approached by the Stones' management. "I got an email from a lady in London who's been asked by the Stones ...
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Canadian buskers offer a glimpse into the life of a street artist
Some Canadian buskers jump through fire as part of their act, but the uncertainties of street-performance are the unseen hoops that many of them worry about leaping through. (Photo: ...
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Jaden Smith follows dads footsteps
Through most of human history, career choice was never an agonizing concern. Basically, you did what your parents did -- whether they were princes or peons. It's why people still have jobs for names -- Taylor, Cooper, Barber, Baker, Gardner, Miller, Potter and, um, Smith. Which brings us to Will and Jaden Smith. By the tradition of pre-industrial societies, Will would be teaching his son ...
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Hangover star helps sick passenger
Ken Jeong arrives for the European premiere of the film The Hangover Part III at the Empire Cinema in central London May 22, 2013. REUTERS/Luke ...
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Mariahs dress pops open on TV
Mariah Carey suffered a major wardrobe malfunction on live TV on Friday morning after her dress popped open as she prepared to perform on Good Morning America. The hitmaker donned a sequin Versace frock for her appearance on as part of the program's summer concert series in Central Park, but the zipper to her form-fitting gown split down Carey's back as she spoke with anchor Lara ...
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David Hockney on assistants death I nearly gave up
sudden death of his young assistant earlier this year.The 75-year-old artist told the Guardian that he had stopped working for a while following the shock death in March of Dominic Elliott, 23, whose family said he was like a son to Hockney. Grieving and "very upset", Hockney put on hold plans to document the seasons in the east Yorkshire wolds in 2013 - a ritual he has carried out ...
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The future of virtual reality want to conquer vertigo or have a go at surgery
Inition , it feels like you have entered the gadget-strewn lair of James Bond's Q branch. Its bright white walls are lined with cameras and screens, egg-shaped experience pods and glowing motion-capture units. A 3D-printed brain stands to one side, while across the room a holographic image of a watch spins in front of a monitor. Violent grinding noises erupt from behind a door in the corner ...
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Manchester International Festival 2013 | The art of command
For two decades, maverick art movement Do It has been issuing surreal, witty instructions. As a new exhibition opens at MIF, Sarah Lucas and Hans-Ulrich Obrist explain its ...
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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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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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