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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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Aleksei Balabanov Russian Film Director Dies at 54
Aleksei Balabanov, a Russian director whose films fused grisly violence, sardonic humor and rock music to convey a darkly compelling vision of his chaotic society after ...
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Bernard Waber Childrens Author Is Dead at 91
Bernard Waber, a ...
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Building upon a legacy of dance
With the legendary Beryl MacBurnie at its helm, the Little Carib Theatre (LCT), in the early 40s was a vibrant institution where talented and legendary dancers from this country executed their craft to appreciative audiences. The theatre, still the preferred home for a number of practitioners in the arts, has lost for the most part, the core of its foundation - dance. That is about to change ...
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COSON stars dance for God
Pastor Chris Okotie's church, Household of God, Lagos, hosted an unusual number of musicians on Sunday when the Copyright Society of Nigeria held a service there to mark the beginning of its 'COSON ...
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Sydney dance school teacher facing more sex charges
Chiswick 2046 A Sydney dance teacher accused of grooming teenage girls and possessing child abuse material is facing new charges of sexual and indecent assault.Grant Davies is a founder and former co-director of the RG Dance Studio at Chiswick in Sydney's inner-west. The 39-year-old was arrested last Friday night, accused of sending indecent material to two girls aged 13 and 14. Police ...
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Extra charges for dance teacher
A KIDS' dance teacher accused of grooming his young students for sex and taking illicit photos of underage girls will be charged with another six ...
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Ai Weiwei Dumbass – music video
Music video for Dumbass, a new heavy metal song by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. He says making the video, which shows him in a prison cell, helped him come to terms with the impact of his 81-day detention in 2011. The track comes from Ai Weiwei's forthcoming album, Divine ...
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Rare Harry Potter first edition fetches record auction price
Tue May 21, 2013 10:20pm EDT (Reuters) - A unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" annotated by author J.K. Rowling has sold for a record 150,000 pounds ($227,421) at a London charity auction, Sotheby's said on Tuesday. The 1997 book, featuring handwritten notes, 22 original illustrations and a 43-page "second thoughts" commentary by the author, ...
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Ai Weiweis Music Video Recreating His Detention
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Intxausti claims stage as Evans stays second
Spaniard Benat Intxausti timed a late sprint to perfection to take victory in stage 17 of the Giro d'Italia.The Movistar rider fought off the challenges of Poland's Przemyslaw Niemiec (Lampre) and Estonia's Tanel Kangert (Astana) in a dramatic late finish at the end of a mammoth 238km route to seal consecutive victories for his team after Giovanni Visconti won stage 15 on ...
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Lagos to stage inter-clubs tourney
"June will be a busy month in Lagos as the first set of this year's Inter-Clubs Competition would be rolled out by all the 36 sports associations. This will be a non-stop process that will run till the end of the year," Oshodi ...
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With Obama in the dark administration planned how to stage-manage news of IRS scandal
Acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller testifies on Capitol Hill at a hearing on Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, May 17, 2013 in Washington, ...
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Jesse James chops off finger
Sandra Bullock’s ex-husband Jesse James has chopped off the tip of his little finger after an accident in his car workshop. The reality TV mechanic posted a photo of his mangled digit on his ...
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Tisdale gets restraining order against fan
Actress Ashley Tisdale has been granted a temporary restraining order against an overzealous male fan amid fears the devotee will gun her down. The High School Musical star claims Nicholas Fiore has been harassing her since last year and has bombarded her with more than 18,000 messages via Twitter.com. She recently turned to Los Angeles police to investigate the matter, and she decided to file ...
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Orlando Philharmonic to buy Plaza Live Theatre
The Orlando Philharmonic will announce today that it is buying the iconic Plaza Live Theatre on Bumby Avenue, where the orchestra will update the 1,000-seat music hall to accommodate chamber music concerts while also keeping a schedule of rock, jazz, comedy and contemporary music shows. "As we move into our third decade, The Plaza provides a unique opportunity for us to have our own ...
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New Opera for Android looks like Opera tastes like Chrome
introduced those changes to the "stable" version of its mobile browser. The new Opera comes with big changes both to its user interface and its engine. We'll start with the engine: this is the first version of Opera for Android to swap Opera's old rendering engine for one based in Chromium 26, the current stable version. In case you didn't know, Chromium is the ...
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Television actor Laurence Haddon dead at 90
Television actor Laurence Haddon has died from complications of dementia in Santa Monica, Calif., his family said Tuesday. He was 90. TVGuide.com said Haddon began his career as a stage and live television actor in the late 1950s after he served as a Merchant Marine in WWII. In addition to playing Ed, one of American TV's first gay characters, on ...
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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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