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Music Review Laura Benanti Sings Cabaret at 54 Below
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Music Review Laura Mvula at the Bowery Ballroom
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UPDATE 1-Court revives lawsuit vs Electronic Arts over video game image
Tue May 21, 2013 5:10pm EDT * Ex-Rutgers quarterback Hart may challenge use of image * Activision, Take-Two, media companies supported EA By Jonathan Stempel May 21 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against Electronic Arts Inc by a former Rutgers University star football quarterback, who accused it of using his image in a video game without permission. By a 2-1 ...
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A Pearl Buck Novel New After 4 Decades
The manuscript was stumbled upon in a storage unit in Texas and returned to the Buck family in December in exchange for a small fee, said Jane Friedman, the chief executive of Open Road Integrated Media, the ...
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Paula Cole On Mountain Stage
May 21, 2013 The bestselling singer-songwriter gives a stripped-down and intimate performance, recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, W.Va. Here, Cole plays a few new songs, as well as two of her biggest hits: "I Don't Want to Wait" and "Where Have All the Cowboys ...
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Giro dItalia Cadel Evans still behind Vincenzo Nibali Benat Intxausti wins 16th stage
Italy Astana's Vincenzo Nibali kept possession of the Giro d'Italia race leader's pink jersey for another night after a strong showing in Wednesday morning's 16th stage.Benat Intxausti of Spain, riding for the Movistar team, won the stage, a 238km ride from the French resort of Valloire, in 5hr 52.48min.Intxausti beat Estonian Tanel Kangert into second in a sprint finish, ...
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Photos 23rd annual Bikes on Broadway
In the women’s category 3 race, Whitehorse YT racer Melanie Tait has the inside track on Saskatoon’s Rachel Edwards during a lap in the 23rd annual Bikes on Broadway races on Broadway Avenue, May 20, ...
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ZGs ex-homeless pal his date
Actor Zach Galifianakis turned heads at the Los Angeles premiere of his new film The Hangover Part on Monday night when he invited a formerly homeless friend as his date. The Due Date star met Elizabeth 'Mimi' Haist at a laundromat in Santa Monica, and after recently discovering the elderly lady had no place to call home, he took it upon himself to find an apartment for the 87 year ...
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Zeta-Jones out of treatment
Catherine Zeta-Jones is preparing to return home after completing treatment for bipolar disorder. The Oscar-winning actress checked into an undisclosed facility last month in order to "manage her health in an optimum manner". After completing her most recent stint in professional care, her husband Michael Douglas has revealed she will check out on Tuesday and head home to her two ...
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Depardieu Newly a Russian Will Play Frenchman in Chechnya
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NY art dealer tied to alleged forgeries charged with tax fraud
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK | Tue May 21, 2013 6:51pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated abstract expressionists, but some of which the government said were fakes. Glafira Rosales, 56, faces three counts of filing false tax returns and ...
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Acting on Recommendation of Fifth Committee General Assembly Appoints New Member to Committee on Contributions
Acting on the recommendation of its Fifth Committee (Budgetary and Administrative), the General Assembly today appointed Thomas David Smith (United Kingdom) as a member of the Committee on Contributions for a term of office beginning on 21 May 2013 and ending on 31 December ...
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Arts of the Arab Spring
Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the School of International Studies, or Sciences Po. in Paris,was in Boston to lecture at Harvard University on the topic revolution, Islamism and jihad in North Africa. He stopped by our studio to talk with anchor Marco Werman about his other interest, hip hop, inspired by the Arab ...
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David Sedaris finds humour in the everyday
U.S. essayist and humorist David Sedaris, seen at the 2004 Frankfurt Book Fair, has released his latest book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty ...
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Sheepdogs treat Victoria Day crowd to concert
It was party time on Saskatoon's Broadway Avenue Monday evening, with native sons The Sheepdogs taking to the stage. The CBC's Peter Mills captured the Victoria Day show in photos. Here's a ...
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Modern Family thrives on relatability
On the occasion of its season finale, here's a backhanded compliment to Modern Family from one of the stars of The Hangover Part III. Justin Bartha - a.k.a. the guy the Wolfpack keeps losing track of in those Hangover movies - is not happy wth network TV. Not at least after the cancellation of The New Normal, the single-camera sitcom in which he co-starred, about a gay couple and the ...
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Jones still mum on babys dad
Actress January Jones is still refusing to go public with the identity of her baby boy's mystery father because she insists it's no one's business but her son's. The X-Men: First Class beauty has remained mum on who fathered her 20-month-old child Xander ever since she fell pregnant in 2011, and she's not about to open up now. Jones, who has previously dated Ashton ...
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Janet Jackson a billionaire
Janet Jackson has joined the billion dollar club. The All For You hitmaker has boasted a multi-million dollar fortune for years, but now she has joined her new husband, retail entrepreneur Wissam Al Mana, and the elite group of moneymakers whose bank balances top $1 billion, according to industry publication Variety. The singer has raked in a total of $260 million in album sales thanks to the ...
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Things ruined by celebrity association
Think how peeved you'd be if your child was called Blue -- before Beyonce and Jay-Z had their daughter. According to the NY Post, the name Blue is now 51% more popular for girls then it ever was before, a huge annoyance for anyone who quietly chose the name some time prior to January 2012. If your little Blue is close in age to their little Blue, anyone hearing you call that child on the ...
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Horse racing Purebred Arabian horses are racing onto world stage
Female jockey Marta Pisarek, right, rides Altesse Kossack to a win in the British leg of the HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies World Championship on Saturday at Newbury Racecourse in England. ...
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UK- Ambassador Theatre buys US Foxwoods Theatre in USD60m deal
(MENAFN) Ambassador Theatre Group stated that it has bought the Foxwoods Theatre for USD60 million, reported AP.Britain's biggest theater group bought Live Nation's UK theaters for USD147 million in 2009, and now it owns 40 sites.The group owns very well known theaters in London, such as the Savoy Theatre and Trafalgar StudiosIt's worth noting that the Foxwoods Theatre has about ...
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Microsoft unveils Xbox One
Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company revealed the Xbox One, its next-generation entertainment console, during a presentation Tuesday at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Don Mattrick, Microsoft's president of interactive entertainment business, called it an "all-in-one home entertainment system." He said the company has spent the past four years working on the ...
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Biebers monkey becomes property of Germany
Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Justin Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in ...
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Germany adopts Bieber monkey
Mally, the pet monkey of Justin Bieber, is seen at a home for animals in Munich April 2, 2013. The fourteen-week old Capuchin monkey was quarantined last Thursday by German custom officials after Bieber brought the pet to Germany without the necessary documents and a health certificate, Munich airport customs spokesperson ...
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Ray Manzarek 74 Rock Keyboardist And a Founder of the Doors Is Dead
Ray Manzarek, who as the keyboardist and a songwriter for the Doors helped shape one of the indelible bands of the psychedelic era, died on Monday at a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. He was 74. The cause was bile duct cancer, according to his manager, Tom Vitorino. Mr Manzarek lived in Napa, ...
Morocco Focus
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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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