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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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Trek star Cumberbatch red hot
LONDON - Benedict Cumberbatch is not the name of a character in an Oscar Wilde play -- nor is it "a fart in a bathtub" as he jokingly puts it. But it is the name of the U.K.'s hottest new leading man who's currently on screen menacing the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek Into Darkness. Cumberbatch was kicking around British film and television for years before his ...
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Theatre company guarantees audience satisfaction – and here’s Proof
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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Visconti claims the Giro dItalias snowy stage 15
Gian Mattia D'Alberto/AP COL DU GALIBIER, France (AP) -- A superb solo ride up the grueling Col du Galibier gave Giovanni Visconti the victory in a weather-affected 15th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, while favorite Vincenzo Nibali retained the overall lead. Atrocious weather conditions once again altered the race course and heavy snow fell at the finish as ...
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Jennifer Lawrence fan jailed
An overzealous Jennifer Lawrence fan has been jailed after showing up outside the actress' home in Kentucky and sending her brother a threatening message. Han Cong Zhao is being held at the Jefferson County Jail after turning up at The Hunger Games star's family home in Louisville on April 18. He is also accused of attempting to contact the actress' brother Blaine more than ...
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Muslima Muslim Womens Art Voices - in pictures
Muslima is an online exhibition that gives voice to the varied experiences of Muslin women across the globe. Hosted by the International Museum of Women, it features interviews with leading Muslims, showcases the work of renowned artists and documents the lives of ordinary Muslims. Viewers can contribute their own thoughts ...
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Muslima exhibition interviews and art by Muslim women
"The only woman it seems permissible to judge and even ridicule today is the Muslim woman," says Samina Ali. "What other woman faces as much scrutiny or is the target of random violence from both her own community and others?" An Indian-born Muslim who lives in San Francisco, Ali is the curator of Muslima: Muslim Women's Art & Voices, a new global online ...
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Maryland launches resource program for mid-stage startups
A new state business program will focus on resources and strategic planning services for companies that have moved beyond the startup stage. Advance Maryland will offer business resources to second-stage companies that need help overcoming strategic growth challenges, such as developing new markets. The Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic ...
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U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear religious expression case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a New York town violated the Constitution by opening meetings with prayers that emphasized Christianity. The request for Supreme Court action in the religious expression case arises from the practice of Greece, N.Y., of opening town board meetings with a prayer, which two residents challenged as a violation of the Establishment Clause of ...
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Lisa Bonchek Adams In Sickness and in Health What Is It Like for a Mother to Read Her Daughters Blogs About Stage IV Cancer
My mother, Dr. Rita Bonchek, is a psychologist who specializes in grief and loss. A career discussing death and dying, however, was insufficient preparation for hearing the words, "Mom, I have metastatic breast cancer." Mom and I have reacted very differently to the news of my stage IV cancer. I was online within days writing posts about the steps I was taking. I wrote immediately ...
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Danish designer finds inspiration in Ashanti empire
In their pursuit of an African voice, designers are often left stuttering when it dawns on them that simply being drawn to the continent, without substance, isn't quite enough. The mass clamour about how "so-and-so was inspired by Africa", together with a confusion between east and west African cloths and the question of whether it is a country or a continent, only adds to 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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