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Shubbak festival a refuge for Arab culture at a troubled time
These are troubled times to be putting on a festival celebrating a culture that is, on several levels and in different regions of its rich geography, tearing itself apart. Three "cradles" of our many regional civilisations ...
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Joni Mitchell plays rare performance at Luminato tribute
Joni Mitchell waves to the crowd during her 70th birthday tribute concert as part of the Luminato Festival at Massey Hall in Toronto on Tuesday. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian ...
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John Studzinski The banker marrying business and the arts
Nick Clark is the arts correspondent of The Independent. He joined the newspaper in June 2007, initially reporting on the stock markets. He has covered beats including the City, and technology, media and telecoms and made the switch to arts in December 2011. He has also contributed articles to the sports ...
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Newcastles Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism
Norgas House in Killingworth, built in 1965 by Ryder & Yates, was empty for more than five years and suffered from criminal damage before its demolition. Photograph: Kristen McCluskie/Ryder ...
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Ryder Architecture - in pictures
Newcastle's Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism Its founders trained with Lubetkin and Le Corbusier. But while some of the company's important early buildings are protected, some are being pulled down to make way for new ...
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Lil Red puts a modern musical spin on a classic tale Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Li'l Red" is not exactly the Brothers Grimm's storybook version of "Little Red Riding Hood." In Richard Kinter's modern adaptation of the classic fairytale, which opens the summer season for Johnny Appleseed Children's Theatre at Apple Hill Playhouse, the wolf that frightened the little girl on her way to see her grandma is more "cool dude" than ...
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No CBI probe into Saradha scam at present stage HC
chit fund scam at the present stage. A division bench comprising Justice A K Banerjee and Justice M K Chaudhuri, passing its order on PILs seeking CBI probe into the scam, refused the prayer at this stage. The bench, however, kept the matter pending before it, while passing some directions to the state on the modus operandi of investigation, which is at present being done by the West Bengal ...
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Austrian cinema a province shaped by past masters of pessimism
Roland Emmerich , etc - are there to uphold the gleaming castle of entertainment, I like to think there's a shadowy league ranged against them, beyond the mountains of the Old World. No bodacious starlets for this cabal, no multimillion-dollar CGI sprees; no high-octane street racing, or talking mammoths, or cheap affirmative morality. Nope, for the Austrian League of Extraordinarily ...
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Kuwaits acting oil minister says prices fair
Kuwait's acting oil minister said on Wednesday current oil prices were "fair" and that the Gulf Arab state was producing around 3 million barrels of crude per ...
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Lanes closed on Middlebrook Pike Broadway
n Through July 26, utility work along a section of Middlebrook Pike between Webster Avenue and Proctor Street will reduce traffic to one eastbound and one westbound lane. Additionally, Partners Place will be closed to through ...
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Theatre review Patti LuPone wreaks vengeance on Andrew Lloyd Webber
has plenty to say about Andrew Lloyd Webber in the show that she and New York pianist/interviewer Seth Rudetsky have brought to the Leicester Square Theatre this week.Some of what LuPone "says" goes unspoken. A flared nostril or narrowing of the eyes communicates all we need know about her ongoing feelings towards the man who famously fired his one-time Eva Pern from the Broadway run ...
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Penguin Design Award 2013 - in pictures
This year's Penguin Adult Prize for design invited students to come up with a new cover for Raymond Chandler's 1939 classic The Big Sleep. From smoking guns to smoking ashtrays, click your way through the ones that made the ...
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Musical spectacular to open first-ever Asia Pacific Special Olympics
Asia Pacific Games in December, with well-known Australian performers to take the stage in a two-hour spectacular of music, dance, theatre, lights and fireworks. Details of the gala event, planned for Dec 1, 2013 at the 30,000-seater Hunter Stadium in Newcastle were released on Wednesday. Aussie singers Anthony Callea, Marcia Hines and Marina Prior are among the line-up of entertainers, which ...
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Blair leaves Anger Management
Selma Blair has officially left TV comedy Anger Management amid speculation of a bitter feud with co-star Charlie Sheen. Bosses from Lionsgate, the production company behind the show, have announced that the actress will no longer appear in the series as Dr. Kate Wales. A statement from the studio reads, "We are confirming that Selma Blair will not be returning to Anger Management and we ...
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Tatum Foxx team up in funny video
New dad Channing Tatum, his White House Down co-star Jamie Foxx and a host of famous faces have teamed up to shoot a racy new sex anthem. The duo appeared on U.S. comedian Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscars show in February and ad-libbed their way through comedy song (I Wanna) Channing All Over Your Tatum - and they were game enough to shoot a promo for the suggestive song, which debuted on ...
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One Night Only Hot Live Girls On The TV Land Stage Wednesday Night
NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TV's hottest, funniest cast - Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White - are live on Stage 19 at CBS Radford Studios tomorrow night, Wednesday, June 19th at 10pm ET as TV Land's hit sitcom "Hot in Cleveland" premieres its summer season with a LIVE episode! This must-see event will lead into the brand new seasons of ...
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BNA Acting General Director presides over Joint Meeting of Executive Committee on the GCC Strategy and the Petroleum Media Specialists Panel
Riyadh: June 19 -- (BNA)-- The Bahrain News Agency (BNA)'s Acting General Director, Mr. Mohannad Suleiman, emphasized the significance of the coordination and cooperation meetings between GCC media organizations in various vital sectors to serve the progressive march of GCC countries and citizens' welfare. This came as Bahrain News Agency (BNA)'s Acting General Director chaired ...
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Crying 4 Kafka Unveils Punk-Rock Musical June 21
/small-ad --> The average age of Crying 4 Kafka's band members might not immediately gain them any street cred, but their vast experience backs the authenticity behind their lurid subject matter and punk bravado. Take, for example, their new ...
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Saudi prisoners stage hunger strike
Political prisoners have taken action in protest of their incarceration without charge or trial, as well as the conditions in which they are being ...
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LIVE BJP MLAs stage walkout from Bihar Assembly say trust vote useless
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday moved a trust motion in the Bihar Assembly to prove his government's majority after snapping ties with the BJP over Narendra Modi's elevation.The BJP MLAs entered the House shouting slogans in favour of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.As the debate began on the confidence motion, Leader of Opposition Nand Kishore Yadav said Nitish ...
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Very well hung the ICAs Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition
With its bulging bikers and its penises waving flags, the ICA's Keep Your Timber Limber show takes an unblushing look at sexuality in art. Welcome to beefcake ...
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Tom of Finland and friends battle of the beefcakes – in pictures
Keep Your Timber Limber at the ICA pulls together boundary-pushing drawings by eight artists that challenge gender, sexual and political stereotypes and highlight issues of war and censorship.From Tom of Finland's erotically charged bikers and sailors to Judith Bernstein's penis flagpoles, here's a selection of images that use the simplest tools to defy the most ingrained ...
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Theatre review Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandages play The Cripple of Inishmaan
Now, in Michael Grandage's highly adroit revival of this dark, politically incorrect 1997 comedy by Martin McDonagh (the third production in the Grandage Company's fifteen-month season at the Noel Coward Theatre), Radcliffe takes on the challenge of portraying the 17-year-old title character.Billy is a bookish, romantic soul, orphaned in mysterious circumstances and raised by two ...
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Minnesotan makes Top 20 on So You Think You Can Dance
Alan Bersten Minnesotans have someone to root for on TV this summer, and his name is Alan Bersten. On Tuesday's episode of Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," the 19-year-old ballroom dancer from Minnetonka and his older brother Gene were two of 33 dancers waiting to find out if they had made the show's Top 20. But Gene -- whose audition in Boston with his wife, Elena, ...
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Goodwood Rd should become Adelaides Broadway Urban Myth Theatre artistic director says
URBAN Myth Theatre artistic director Glenn Hayden wants Goodwood Rd to be Adelaide's Broadway. Well, little Broadway at least. The company has received a $30,000 interest-free loan from Unley Council to finish an upgrade of the Goodwood Institute. "It will mean the Goodwood Institute is a very, very well serviced, professional standard venue for South Australia," Mr Hayden ...
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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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