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Chief Keef arrested Report
Rapper Chief Keef has been arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, according to U.S. reports. The 17-year-old hip-hop sensation, real name Keith Cozart, was detained in DeKalb County on Monday and charged with disorderly conduct, reports TMZ.com. Details surrounding his arrest were unavailable as WENN went to press, but the star posted a short rant on his Twitter.com page on Tuesday after leaving jail. ...
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Marion Cotillard stalker sentenced
Marion Cotillard poses on the red carpet as she arrives for the screening of the film "Blood Ties" during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 20, 2013. (REUTERS/Jean-Paul ...
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David Bowies Bassist Trevor Bolder Dies
Uriah Heep and Spiders From Mars bassist Trevor Bolder has died aged 62 following a battle with cancer. Bolder joined David Bowie's backing band in 1971, appearing on classic albums including Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane. He went on to join Uriah Heep five years later and only stopped playing with the band a few months ago, due to his poor health. Tributes were paid to him tonight as ...
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Glafira Rosales Is Named in Government Suit
In a case of alleged forgeries that roiled the New York art market and led to a host of civil lawsuits, federal authorities on Tuesday declared a series of works sold as Modernist masterpieces to be fake and charged a little-known Long Island dealer at the center of the scandal with tax fraud. Prosecutors charged that the dealer, Glafira Rosales, 56, of Sands Point, N. Y., failed to ...
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Theater Review Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon at LaMaMa
The first thing you notice about Fred Ho and Ruth ...
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Music Review Giorgio Moroder in Red Bull Music Academy Series
A packed dance floor was the appropriate greeting for the pioneering producer Giorgio Moroder, 73, on Monday night at the Brooklyn club Output. Billed as Mr ...
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Latest Quincy Jones Hyphenate Manager
Normally, it would have been a valedictory moment. This February, when Quincy Jones accepted a lifetime achievement award from the producers and engineers wing of the Recording Academy, that famed trumpeter, composer and producer of landmark albums like Michael ...
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Theater Review The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Plan your evening carefully if you choose to see ...
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Books of The Times Southern Cross the Dog a Novel by Bill Cheng
Bill ...
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Music Review Laura Benanti Sings Cabaret at 54 Below
Funny how the substitution of a single pronoun ...
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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 ...
A Look at Copenhagen
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Copenhagen leading the eco-charge
Copenhagen has, for many decades, been an extremely influential city in world affairs, most notably in the realm of environmental management and conservation activities. It is in Copenhagen that world leaders meet to agree on eco-friendly policies at the famous Copenhagen Accord, and the city will host mayors from around the world at the Copenhagen Summit. So what is the extent of the city’s leadership on such issues?
Copenhagen has long been considered one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. In 1973 Denmark was the first country in the world to implement a national Environmental Law, and this paved the way for a strong combination of national and municipal legislation aimed at limiting the cities carbon footprint. Read more
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