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Cannes hit by second jewelery theft
CANNES - The Cannes film festival was hit by a second suspected jewellery heist on Thursday after a diamond necklace worth 2 million euros ($2.6 million) disappeared during a star-studded party, according to upmarket jeweller De Grisogono. Fawaz Gruosi, the founder of the Swiss firm, said the necklace was part of the company’s 20th anniversary collection paraded by 20 models at the glitzy ...
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Nick Carter in reality wedding TV series
Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter is developing his own reality TV series. His untitled docu-series will revolve around the pop star and his fiancee Lauren Kitt as they plan their upcoming wedding, and the project is already winning over executives at several U.S. cable networks, according to reports. Carter tells blogger Perez Hilton, "It will also be about the growing up phase of my ...
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In praise of … Man Ray
photography , where split seconds make all the difference. Which must make Man Ray, one of the greatest photographers ever, supremely lucky. His career began when the popular view was, in one of his own exhibition titles, "Photography is not art". Philadelphia-born Michael Emmanuel Radnitzky only gave up painting and turned into Man Ray in 1920s Paris. And the people who sat for ...
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Critics Notebook Many Films Still in Running at Cannes for Palme dOr
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Art Review Search for the Unicorn at the Cloisters
The Metropolitan Museum is an excellent place to hunt for mythical beasts. Look in almost any gallery of art made before 1900 and ...
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Dance Review Blush by Gallim Dance at BAM Fisher
In the dim light you can discern a body. ...
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Music Review Gotham Chamber Opera at Le Poisson Rouge
Founded in 2001, Gotham Chamber Opera made its name with nimble, creative productions of older works, occasionally venturing into the 20th century but going no further than Britten and Piazzolla. That makes the ...
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Music Review Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institutes Tunisia Festival
The Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, a gentle firebrand whose song ...
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Critics Notebook Ray Donovan Graceland and 32 Other Summer TV Shows
When it comes to television, ...
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Movie Review Fill the Void Directed by Rama Burshtein
The story told by Rama Burshtein in ...
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Inside Art Retired Maurizio Cattelan in Swiss Exhibition
Nobody really believed Maurizio Cattelan when, on the eve of his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum two years ago, he announced his retirement. It seemed a bit far-fetched that Mr Cattelan, an epic jokester who was just 50 at the time, would stop making art altogether. Now his name is listed among those in the exhibitions opening at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, next ...
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Books of The Times The Art of Controversy by Victor Navasky
Writing last year in Slate, Farhad Manjoo made a convincing case that in the era of Jon Stewart; The Onion; the wiseacres on Twitter and Facebook; and the crowd-sourced humor that appears everywhere on the Web, political cartoons as a form are on life support. Mr. Manjoo studied recent cartoons, especially those from Pulitzer Prize winners, and declared: ...
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Quebec film wins screenplay prize at Cannes
a movie by Quebec director Sebastien Pilote, has won one of the main prizes of sidebar program Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, which translates ...
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Celebs on the God front this week
God is really giving celebrities a run for their money this week. Let's start with Jewel, the singer who recently announced she has lost weight through the Biblical diet. What, we hear you asking, does this mean? Wolfing down locusts? Fatted calf? Gluten-free Manna? What it means, Jewel explains, is, "Eating whole foods like they did in the time when the Bible was being ...
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Greek choreographer continues Cretan dance quest
A famous Greek dance choreographer has visited Australia as he continues a self-proclaimed quest to see dances from the island of Crete spread throughout the world.Australia is the latest stop for Gianni Megalakakis, who has devoted his life to seeing traditional Cretan dance recognised on a global scale.The Greek island of Crete was home to one of the world's most sophisticated ancient ...
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The Rascals Back On Stage In South Florida
HOLLYWOOD (CBSMiami) – At a time when the music industry was dominated by the British invasion, four young men from the Northeast rose to the top becoming one of the most important American bands in rock and roll history. For the first time in 42-years The Rascals, formerly known as The Young Rascals, are back on stage and in the spotlight. On Thursday morning, media was invited to a ...
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Art Review Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes at National Gallery
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Art Review Mel Bochner Proposition and Process at Peter Freeman
The excellent exhibition of Mel ...
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Contrition is one thing acting the part is another for new age rugby players
Toulon's full back Delon Armitage scores a try during the European Cup rugby final rugby union match between Clermont Auvergne and Toulon at the Aviva Stadium last week. Frank Fife / ...
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What is Ame Henderson saying with her dance of voice and gesture
, Henderson had three actors each record 100 hours of personal stories. The performance included the men sharing the tapes and blurring memories of which story belonged to which actor. Their movements around the tape player were precisely timed.Is a performer carrying extension cables, microphones and sound monitors considered choreography? Henderson would have us think so in her new work.For ...
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Cuban Discography Catalog Allows Musical Journey in Time
Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Recording and Musical Editions Company (EGREM) promoted a trip back in time to that Old Havana nights of singers and accomplice pianists. The pretext was the presentation of its new catalog, and nearby celebration of the Africa Day, for which a splendid party will be given to that continent's diplomatic corps accredited in Cuba. Amen to disclose all ...
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Connecticut Music Arts School For Economically Disadvantaged Kids Is The Latest Music Empowers Foundation Beneficiary
NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Music Empowers Foundation is proud to announce a $20,000 grant to the Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County. Neighborhood Studios is a multi-disciplinary school of the arts in Bridgeport, CT. Founded in 1977, it provides music and ...
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Kimber Kompany brings a musical range to Musical Chairs
May 23--There are people who play music and there are people who live music. Living the music is an emotion and personality. It's when music becomes more than a hobby -- an expression of the heart. And as far as living the music goes, Dale Kimber is no exception. Music is in his bones, rooted deep down in his soul. Born and raised in Burlington, Kimber moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s ...
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Sony Masterworks Salutes 20th-century Musical Visionaries
It's been a century since Igor Stravinksy's The Rite of Spring ushered in an age of radical musical transformation that changed the face of music. A succession of great twentieth century composers went on to create music that transcended tradition and moved the art form in a direction unlike anything the world had heard before. Now Sony Masterworks celebrates these musical visionaries ...
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Metallica star knocked off stage
Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is recovering after he was knocked offstage by an overzealous fan during a gig in New York on Tuesday. The 50 year old was performing a rendition of Whiplash at the Highline Ballroom with his solo band Newsted when a concertgoer hopped onstage and bumped into the musician during an attempt to crowd surf, sending them both tumbling into the audience. The ...
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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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