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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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Dance Review City Ballets Serenade and Red Angels at Koch Theater
To see New York City Ballet perform ...
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Music Review Handels Rodrigo at Gershwin Hotel
Until recently, a hotel lobby would have seemed an outlandish place to present an opera. But opera on unusual stages has become an agreeably prominent trend, with recent productions offered at quirky spaces, like a nightclub on the Lower East Side. Operamission, a company founded in 2009 by the pianist, harpsichordist and conductor Jennifer Peterson, saw potential in the lobby of the ...
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Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei’s New Musical Protest
We’re looking for the name of a famous Chinese landmark. It’s the big sports stadium in Beijing. The huge 80,000 seat venue is really an entertainment center. It has hosted winter carnivals with tons of imported snow, outdoor operas including a performance of Turandot, and international soccer matches. But it’s most famous as the main venue for the 2008 Summer Olympics in ...
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82 Years of the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara
and the name 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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Music Review Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Mozart at Alice Tully
Despite what prime-time television has conditioned us to expect, not every season-ending program has to conclude with oversize special effects and unanticipated twists. When the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center completed its season on Tuesday evening at Alice Tully Hall, it did so with what amounted to a warm collective hug, in the form of ...
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Wednesday on the NewsHour The Houston Grand Opera Sings to a New Audience
Houston Grand Opera . But there's nothing typical about "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna," or "To Cross the Face of the Moon." Written in 2010 and billed as the first mariachi opera, "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna" tells the story of three generations of a Mexican family in the United States. It's also just part of a grand mission by the Houston Grand Opera to ...
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Music Match If You Like Steve Martin and Edie Brickell Try Their Music as a Duet
Each week, Val Haller, a music-obsessed baby boomer and the founder of the Web site Valslist.com, matches tracks from her generation to those of her 20-something ...
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Canadas Ryan Gosling misses his Cannes film premiere – which got booed
Only God Forgives: Ryan Gosling plays Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld who sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death. ...
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Billy Crystal Returns to TV in FX Pilot
The FX network announced on Wednesday that it was bringing the comedy star Billy Crystal back to television in a pilot for a new situation ...
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Jim Hensons puppets donated to NY museum
New York's Museum of the Moving Image saw its attendance spike when it hosted the travelling exhibit Jim Henson's Fantastic World. The Henson family is now donating nearly 400 items from the puppeteer's collection to the Queens, N.Y., museum. (Richard Drew/Associated ...
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Kim Ks crazy baby shower invite
baby shower invitations are music boxes? TMZ has now obtained a photo of one, which is indeed a music box featuring a raven-haired ballerina that twirls around, as a lullabye version of Kanye West's "Hey Mama" plays. Cute? Or over the top? The invite itself says the party is "given with love" by Kim's mom Kris Jenner, sisters Kourtney and Khloe, and Shelli Azoff, ...
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Rookie Blue writing never dull
Rookie Blue never has been Rookie Blase, and Priscilla Faia is the latest beneficiary. "It makes it exciting, they're always trying to spice it up," Faia says. "This time you have two new regular characters who are going to be there for the season." As you can guess, Faia plays one of those new characters, with Rookie Blue returning for its fourth season, Thursday on ...
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Steinberg puts road days behind him
With a friendly smile and countless stories, David Steinberg seems like an unlikely candidate to hold the record for most hate mail in the history of TV. But such was the case in 1969 when the Winnipeg native effectively put a bullet in the head of the embattled Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour by doing his sermon on Moses and the Burning Bush in defiance of CBS Standards & Practices. It had ...
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Salvaged saints Michael Landys martyrs invade the National Gallery
The Christian saints had a hard time of it, but they were pretty stoical about their grisly martyrdoms. Saint Peter, the 13th-century friar from Verona, was done to death on the road, stabbed after having his head cleaved open with an axe. Not that Peter seemed to notice, or even care about, his bloody death: numerous paintings depict him chatting and hanging about, oblivious to the chopper ...
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Michael Landy unleashes holy terror on the National Gallery – in pictures
Whether it's St Lucy's eyes resting on a platter or Doubting Thomas poking dents in the body of Christ, Michael Landy's congregation of mechanical martyrs - the culmination of his two-year residency at the National Gallery - is a brilliant black mass of the ...
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Video A musical welcome for Harper in Peru
The prime minister was welcomed to Lima, Peru Wednesday by an honour guard playing "O Canada." Stephen Harper is on a four-day trade mission in South ...
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Aretha Franklin cancels Canadian shows
Aretha Franklin is extending her current break and has cancelled performances for the month of June. Spokesperson David Brokaw says the iconic singer will reschedule two shows and resume her touring schedule in July. No other details were provided. The June dates included headlining concerts at the Ottawa and Montreal jazz festivals as well as an appearance in Clarkston, Mich. The Queen of ...
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Ang Lee drops out of TV cable debut
After four years of working on and promoting Life of Pi, which earned Ang Lee his second directing Oscar, he says he needs some rest. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/Associated ...
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Michael Jacksons doctor had no background check AEG lawyer says
There were concerns about pop star Michael Jackson's health before the This is It concert series and his subsequent death, an AEG corporate attorney admitted. (Kevin Mazur/AEG/Getty ...
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Readers most hated buildings
invited readers to nominate architectural aberrations from around the country. Here's what they came up with - from a tower that looks like a bouncer to an arena that looks like an Opal ...
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Colour footage of London in the 1920s
London looks itself and other in this footage. For a 21st-century viewer it is like watching a science-fiction film in which almost everything is the same until you notice little differences that betray a completely alien quality. The past is another country, but ...
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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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