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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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Ke$ha slammed over urine stunt
Ke$ha is facing a backlash from officials at America's Parent Television Council (PTC) after footage of her drinking her own urine was shown on TV. The TiK ToK hitmaker was caught on camera guzzling her pee on 'Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life,' which aired on MTV in the U.S. on Tuesday. Campaigners at the PTC are fuming over the "disgusting, vile" scene, and are now ...
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Holloway promising more dance moves
Ian Holloway hopes to strut his stuff at Wembley next Monday - just as long as no one is filming him.The Crystal Palace boss celebrated his side's 2-0 play-off semi-final at arch-rivals Brighton last week with a crazy dance routine in the dressing room to the delight of his players.Unfortunately one of them, winger Yannick Bolasie, captured the moves on his mobile phone and then posted the ...
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Germany celebrates composer Wagners 200th
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner with the unveiling Wednesday of a monument in the composer's birthplace of ...
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Spanish opera singer to give concert in occupied lands
Spanish operatic soprano will give a concert in occupied lands of Azerbaijan. Spanish operatic soprano Montserrat Caballe will give a concert in occupied lands of Azerbaijan. Caballe will give a concert in Khankandi on 4 June and in Yerevan on 9 ...
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Ai Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China
BEIJING -- Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers - and even sits on the toilet - in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.The video accompanying the visual artist's heavy metal single "Dumbass," released Wednesday, is meant to reconstruct his 81-day detention in 2011, which was part ...
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U.S. Myanmar sign trade framework agreement
Thein Sein . The agreement will create "a platform for ongoing dialogue and cooperation on trade and investment issues between the two governments," the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said on its website. It was signed Tuesday in Washington by acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis and Myanmar's Deputy Commerce Minister Pwint San. The agreement calls for ...
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Opera Aida is comin back around at Cairo Opera House
i s a standard in the Cairo Opera House repertoire. Usually performed once a year, this the large opera work by Giuseppe Verdi returns to the stage for the second time this ...
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Pickler takes home the Mirror Ball trophy
She may not have won "American Idol," seven years ago, but Kellie Pickler now has a dancing career she can fall back on. The country singer, who mastered every routine and stunned the judges with her military-like precision, took home the "Dancing With the Stars" Mirror Ball trophy with partner Derek Hough Tuesday night. Although Kellie and Derek’s final dance (an ...
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Ryanair EU acting bizarrely
Ryanair has accused the EU of acting bizarrely and making decisions on a political and not a commercial basis. In its annual report, the no-frills airline declared that it had offered a more comprehensive remedies package for Aer Lingus than the package offered by British Airways for British Midlands. "It is bizarre that the EU can wave through BA's offer for British Midland in phase ...
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Harold Shapero 93 American Neo-Classical Composer Dies
Harold Shapero, a composer who was a central figure of American Neo-Classicism, a school of composition that thrived in the 1940s and ...
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Aleksei Balabanov Russian Film Director Dies at 54
Aleksei Balabanov, a Russian director whose films fused grisly violence, sardonic humor and rock music to convey a darkly compelling vision of his chaotic society after ...
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Bernard Waber Childrens Author Is Dead at 91
Bernard Waber, a ...
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Building upon a legacy of dance
With the legendary Beryl MacBurnie at its helm, the Little Carib Theatre (LCT), in the early 40s was a vibrant institution where talented and legendary dancers from this country executed their craft to appreciative audiences. The theatre, still the preferred home for a number of practitioners in the arts, has lost for the most part, the core of its foundation - dance. That is about to change ...
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COSON stars dance for God
Pastor Chris Okotie's church, Household of God, Lagos, hosted an unusual number of musicians on Sunday when the Copyright Society of Nigeria held a service there to mark the beginning of its 'COSON ...
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Sydney dance school teacher facing more sex charges
Chiswick 2046 A Sydney dance teacher accused of grooming teenage girls and possessing child abuse material is facing new charges of sexual and indecent assault.Grant Davies is a founder and former co-director of the RG Dance Studio at Chiswick in Sydney's inner-west. The 39-year-old was arrested last Friday night, accused of sending indecent material to two girls aged 13 and 14. Police ...
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Extra charges for dance teacher
A KIDS' dance teacher accused of grooming his young students for sex and taking illicit photos of underage girls will be charged with another six ...
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Ai Weiwei Dumbass – music video
Music video for Dumbass, a new heavy metal song by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. He says making the video, which shows him in a prison cell, helped him come to terms with the impact of his 81-day detention in 2011. The track comes from Ai Weiwei's forthcoming album, Divine ...
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Rare Harry Potter first edition fetches record auction price
Tue May 21, 2013 10:20pm EDT (Reuters) - A unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" annotated by author J.K. Rowling has sold for a record 150,000 pounds ($227,421) at a London charity auction, Sotheby's said on Tuesday. The 1997 book, featuring handwritten notes, 22 original illustrations and a 43-page "second thoughts" commentary by the author, ...
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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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