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Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley puts foot down over false report he wants a UK passport
A Donegal man has been charged with murdering four British soldiers over 30 years ago in one of the most notorious IRA atrocities of the ...
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Milestone Films’ Mary Pickford Rags and Riches Collection The inventor of movie acting
also provides adults the opportunity to reacquaint themselves with "America's Sweetheart." In so far as Mary Pickford is remembered today, the performer whom director George Cukor credited with inventing screen acting tends to be identified with a little innocent girl persona that safely belongs to an earlier, less sophisticated time. Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in ...
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Franklin scraps three more shows
Aretha Franklin has axed another trio of concerts on medical grounds. The Queen of Soul has already scrapped two upcoming shows this week on the advice of her doctor, and she has now cancelled another three - one in her native Michigan and two in Canada (Ottawa and Montreal). Details of what ails Franklin have not been disclosed, but Catherine O'Grady, the director of the Ottawa Jazz ...
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Hilton signs to Lil Waynes label
Socialite Paris Hilton is set to have a second chance at chart success after signing a new deal with Lil Wayne's record label. The reality TV star released her debut eponymous album in 2006 to mixed reviews, and now she has reportedly signed a contract with the rapper's Cash Money Records to work on a house-themed followup. Taking to Twitter to announce the news, Lil Wayne's rap ...
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Henri Dutilleux Modernist Composer Dies at 97
Henri Dutilleux, a French composer known for his superbly fashioned and exquisitely expressive orchestral music, died on Wednesday in Paris. He was 97. His death was announced by Schott Music, his publisher. ...
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Square dance group gathers in S.F. from all four corners
Square is a growing San Francisco titan and disrupter in the world of electronic payments. But the city can look forward to another square-themed organization doing its own seven-figure moving and shaking this summer. This moving and shaking will be literal, as we are referring to the impending annual convention of the International Association of Gay Square Dancers Clubs. Hands up if you even ...
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Summer theater Tunes take the stage across KC
May 23--Here's what summer theater in Kansas City means: Musicals, heat, musicals, air-conditioning, musicals, Shakespeare, musicals, drama, musicals, comedy, musicals and and more musicals. And summer 2013 is shaping up to be firmly in that tradition. The annual mix of elevated language and accessible entertainment known as the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival this year returns to ...
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Bynes lifestyle exposed by tabloid
Embattled star Amanda Bynes' lifestyle and living conditions have been exposed by editors at a U.S. tabloid, thanks to two sneaky snappers who attended one of the Hairspray star's recent all-night parties. The actress' mental health has become a talking point in recent months following a series of traffic violations in Los Angeles and some bizarre behaviour on the streets of New ...
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Houston Grand Opera Embraces Multicultural Chorus of Community Stories
Where can you take in the first Mariachi opera in addition to the "classics"? Jeffrey Brown reports on the Houston Grand Opera's unique mission: to engage audiences from the city's diverse, multicultural community by staging productions originating from the experiences of its ...
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Behind the screens with Paramount Theatres film programmer
May 22--Stephen Jannise has the soul of a cinephile. He has been professionally programming movies in Austin for two years, but the 27 year-old head of the Paramount Theatre's film department has been thinking like a programmer since he was a teenager. When Netflix debuted during Jannise's high school years, the Nederland native considered starting a program were people could go online ...
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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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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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