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Florida ramping up death penalty warrant signings
Rick Scott has ramped up execution orders of late, approving three death penalty warrants in less than a month, officials said. Scott signed off on only six death penalty warrants in the first three years of his term. Critics say the governor is trying to burnish his law-and-order credentials ahead of his re-election bid next year. Scott's office denied the charge, saying he'd done ...
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New Music The National Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums
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Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps
The Metropolitan Opera has decided to disband its resident ballet company, whose roots date back to the ...
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How one theatre is guaranteeing audience satisfaction – or their money back
Mnemonic Theatre Productions artistic director Caleb McMullen in the company's rehearsal space in Vancouver, May 16, 2013. (Jeff Vinnick for The Globe and ...
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Opinion Stage fright aside Kandie is a consummate professional
Phyllis Kandie may, nay, will surprise many in the manner that she will execute her mandate as Secretary for Commerce, Tourism and East African ...
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Theater Review White Hot by Tommy Smith at the Flea Theater
There are so many meant-to-shock moments in ...
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More love First Date Broadway casting announced
First Date ,'; a 2012 co-production of the 5th Avenue Theatre and ACT. Producer Junkyard Dog was smitten, too; it was announced in March that the show would be heading to Broadway. Now, it’s time for casting news: Zachary Levi, of TV’s ';Chuck,'; will make his Broadway debut as Aaron, the male lead; Krysta Rodriguez (TV’s ';Smash,'; Broadway’s ...
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Sinbad files for bankruptcy again
Comedian Sinbad has declared himself bankrupt with more than $10 million in debts, according to a U.S. report. The Jingle All The Way star, real name David Adkins, filed for bankruptcy last month, claiming he has just $131,000 in assets but owes $10.9 million to firms including American Express and Bank of America. According to legal documents, obtained by TMZ.com, Sinbad also has unpaid ...
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Patti LuPone Seth Rudetsky Set For Musical Show At Londons Leicester Square Theatre
Despite a white-hot stage and screen career spanning more than four decades, Patti LuPone has no time for nostalgia -- and with good reason. The powerhouse performer is once again on a professional roll, having ...
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Critics Notebook Tertulia Concert Series at Hardings and Other Restaurants
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Dance Review Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Joyce Theater
Finding a balance between individual and group expression is important for any dance troupe. But for repertory companies, which lack the cohesive vision of a single choreographer, the challenge is especially acute. In the first of two programs that Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is performing at the Joyce Theater, four works by different choreographers explore this tension in ways both distinct ...
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Music Review Crash Ensemble at Carnegie Hall
Early vocal music like Gregorian chant often uses a melismatic style, in which a single syllable of text is sung between successive notes. Arabic, fado, flamenco and Balkan genres are also rooted in melisma, as is sean-nos, which translates as ...
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Man survives fall onto Broadway theater marquee
Broadway theater and landed on the facility's marquee. Fire officials said the man, whose name wasn't released, was at the Lyceum Theater to see "The Nance" ...
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Television Review The Ghost Army on PBS About the 23rd Headquarters
World War II has provided an endless number of true stories in recent years, as ...
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Music Review Look and Listen at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Look and Listen is the title of a festival of new music performed in art galleries that kicked off its 12th season with a concert at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery on Friday evening. But during a performance of Lewis ...
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Late night TV viewers dying off
Back in the days when dinosaurs ruled the airwaves and the Internet was a toy for a few scientists and geeks, late night talk shows were big news. The change of every Tonight show host commanded the front page of newspapers, at a time before entertainment news was actually considered "news." And when David Letterman got stabbed in the back by NBC, and was passed over for Jay Leno as ...
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Bernie Taupin arrested for DUI
Musician Bernie Taupin arrives for the opening night premiere of "The Union" during the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York April 20, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas ...
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Carol Burnett had her State Theatre crowd in stiches
Carol Burnett was still such a rock star? The adoring fans who gobbled up tickets fast to the legendary TV comic’s sold-out appearance Friday at the State Theatre came bearing gifts and even wearing Irish green Scarlett O’Hara dresses (with curtain rods, no less!). They had a whole lot of stories to share with Burnett, too, many of which involved some kind of ailment or sad story ...
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Loudon Wainwright III On Mountain Stage
in 1988 -- at that time, he was already regarded as one of America's finest singer-songwriters. Since that time, Wainwright's sardonic, poignant wit has helped him win armloads of awards and countless more fans. Wainwright describes his newest ...
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The Violet Hour at the Lobero Theatre
T.S. Eliot referred to as "the violet hour." For her latest aerial dance production, the director of Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Arts, Ninette Paloma wanted to capture the beauty and suspense of that moment between day and night. Last Friday evening at the Lobero Theatre, her company La Petite Chouette presented The Violet Hour, a nuanced performance in three acts. Indigo lights ...
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Swons take TV stage again tonight
May 20--Who are the Muskogee brothers who will perform on NBC's "The Voice" today? The Swon Brothers, Zach and Colton, who are now in the top 10 on the popular music competition television show, are much more than rising country music stars, their family, friends and fans say. The brothers took a few minutes before rehearsal late last week to talk about their early start as ...
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Its alive Cinema from the slums A love of cult movies has turned into a semi-regular night of great bad films
By Tony Clayton-Lea It might be a tad ironic to have Slum Cinema as the umbrella title for an adventurous night of movie entertainment, but 24-year- old Canadian, Dublin-resident Anna Davies may just have hit a particularly hard and recession-driven nail on the head by doing so. Davies' love of cult movies was nurtured during her teenage years in her native Calgary, Alberta, as she soaked ...
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Cannes 2013 The musical side of the Coens Inside Llewyn Davis
May 19--"He had to be believable as a musician, because this is not the kind of movie where you hear a few bars of a song; they play out in their entirety," Joel continues. "But the character is in every scene, so he has to be a very accomplished actor. It's not easy to find that in the same person, so we were very frustrated until Oscar walked in." "Now it weirdly ...
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Father and son team up to provide soundtrack for Graceland Steven Schoenberg has a long career of providing musical scores but nothing like his new effort.
By RICHIE DAVIS The Recorder Father and son team up to provide soundtrack for 'Graceland' Steven Schoenberg has a long career of providing musical scores, but nothing like his new effort. By RICHIE DAVIS The Recorder NEW SALEM, Mass. - Say 'Schoenberg' and music together around these parts, and people tend to think less of atonal composing giant Arnold Schoenberg and more of ...
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Mars blasts off again
Los Angeles rockers Thirty Seconds to Mars couldn't have anticipated just how high their new single, Up in the Air, would go. Literally. Would you believe the International Space Station as the first commercial copy of music ever to be sent into space? "I wanted to do something different, something special And what better way to do it then to put your music on a rocket and send ...
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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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