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Dance industry needs greater scrutiny former teacher
Chiswick 2046 A former colleague of a Sydney dance teacher charged with possessing child pornography and grooming teenage girls says there needs to be greater scrutiny of the dance industry.Grant Davies faces a total of 10 charges, including possessing child abuse material and multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault of a person under 16.Davies and his sister Rebecca together set up RG ...
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Sport picture of the day blazing a trail in the Alps
Dwarfed by the peaks of the Italian Alps, trail-runner Susan Sauze is scarcely noticeable at first glance as she pounds gallantly up the unforgiving terrain towards the camera. Accentuated by the soft colour spectrum and the effect of lens flare, it's a wonderful landscape image in which the detail is as breathtaking as the ...
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Sergio Garcia said Tiger Woods fried chicken remark not racist
Sergio Garcia walks off the 2nd green after missing a putt for birdie during the second round of the Masters at Augusta National on April 12, 2013 in Augusta, Georgia. UPI/Kevin ...
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Fatal FBI shooting in Orlando linked to Boston bomb suspect
Boston Marathon bombing suspects, a friend who knew him said. The suspect, identified by the friend as Ibragim Todashev, 26, was from Chechnya, WKMG-TV, Orlando, reported. A former FBI agent who now works for a news organization told WKMG the FBI was trying to re-question Todashev at his Orlando apartment when "something went wrong." The FBI has confirmed a shooting took place but ...
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Man of Steel Directed by Zack Snyder
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Man of Steel Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again
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82 Years of the Arlington Theatre
Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre celebrates its 82nd birthday! The Arlington Theatre opened in 1931, but before the theatre, Arlington meant the finest in hotel accommodations. For over 130 years the name Arlington 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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Broad Avenue district gets grant for outdoor arts venue
An artists rendering of the proposed outdoor arts venue at the Broad Avenue Water Tower Depot. The Binghampton Development Corporation and Historic Broad Business Association has received a $350,000 grant from ArtPlace for the creation of an outdoor arts venue at the Broad Avenue Water Tower Depot. According to the ArtPlace America website, the grant will be used to, "transform an active ...
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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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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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