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Music Review Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center
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Television Review Behind the Candelabra Starring Michael Douglas on HBO
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Bridge UJA-Federation of New Yorks Womens Philanthropy Bridge
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Music Review Cantata Profana at Roulette
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Dance Review Hoo-Ha for your eyes only at Danspace Project
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Music Review New Amsterdam Singers at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
Among ensembles that champion new music, many trumpet the wide diversity of the composers they perform. Yet there is much to be said for a group that builds long-term associations with favored composers. This has been a defining attribute of the New Amsterdam Singers, a skilled 70-voice choir, which ended its 45th season with a concert on Thursday night at St. Ignatius of Antioch ...
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Music Review Lea Salonga at the Caf Carlyle
Midway through her show on Wednesday night at the Café Carlyle, the Filipina singer Lea Salonga recalled being told not to bother auditioning for the role of Eliza Doolittle in a revival of ...
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French troops stage Niger raid jihadists threaten new attacks
French special forces and local troops raided an army base Friday in northern Niger, ending a hostage seizure by Islamist fighters who had staged twin suicide bombings that killed at least 20 ...
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Venus Jupiter and Mars to perform Dance of the Planets
During sunset on Saturday, three planets will form a bright cluster in the western sky known as the Dance of the Planets. Venus, Jupiter and Mars -- the brightest planets visible on Earth -- will move into a triangle only three degrees wide. The triple conjunction of planets is fairly rare. The last time the three bright planets aligned in that formation was on May 9, 2011. According to NASA, ...
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Music Review Jane Monheit at Birdland
Well over a decade has passed since the sultry pop-jazz singer Jane Monheit, then in her early 20s, was greeted with the ecstatic hyperbole often accorded to vocal wunderkinder. My memories of Ms Monheit in the early 2000s are of a phenomenally well-equipped singer wielding an instrument that made a wonderful sound but that left much to be desired when it came to interpreting lyrics. The beauty ...
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Theater Review Henri Shnuffle From the Sprat Theater Company
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Music Review Conrad Tao at Le Poisson Rouge
Meet Conrad Tao. A composer, concert pianist and award-winning violinist, he also runs a festival in Brooklyn, Unplay, which starts on June 11. He will turn 19 that day. His Wikipedia page features a photo of him with Hillary Rodham Clinton from when he was named a Davidson Fellow ...
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Lyric Opera of Chicago mum for now about Oklahoma ticket sales
Ashley Brown and John Cudia starred in in Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of "Oklahoma!". The just-concluded run of the classic American musical "Oklahoma!" was uncharted territory for the prestigious Lyric Opera of Chicago. It was the first time the opera company had produced an extended engagement of a musical separate from its regular season ...
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Safety traffic economic development among Arts Districts top goals
Catherine Cuellar, executive director of Dallas Arts District. It may not be a sexy issue, but safety in the Dallas Arts District will be one of Catherine Cuellar's top goals as executive director of the district, she told me in a recent interview. Cuellar, who started her new job on April 15, said without a safe environment, nothing else matters. That refers to both crime and to the tension ...
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First lady Kerry Washington visit DC arts school
First lady Michelle Obama and actress Kerry Washington smile as they arrive for a performance at Savoy Elementary School in Washington, Friday, May 24, 2013. The Savoy School was one of eight schools selected last year for the Turnaround Arts Initiative at the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Turnaround Arts Schools use the arts as a central part of their reform strategy to ...
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Overmountain Men On Mountain Stage
May 24, 2013 The folk group brings a fresh sense of wonder to classic bluegrass sounds. Hear three songs from Overmountain Men, recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, ...
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Amanda Bynes charged for allegedly tossing bong out window
Amanda Bynes, seen here at an awards show in 2011, was arrested at a Manhattan apartment after a building official complained that she was smoking marijuana, police say. (Chris Pizzello/Associated ...
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Who will the Stones bring on stage
Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards of British rock band The Rolling Stones perform during their "50 & Counting" worldwide tour in Anaheim, California, May 18, 2013. REUTERS/Mike ...
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Is Bynes finally getting help
Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Someone, God willing, has finally put a net under Amanda Bynes, halting the actress' emotional free fall of almost a year's duration. Despite her arrest in New York on Thursday night -- fright wig and all -- Bynes may finally get the help she has so obviously needed for a long time. The arresting officers took the actress to hospital for a ...
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Italy Culture Czar Wants More Support for Arts Cinema
ROME – Italy’s newly-installed Minister of Culture said his priorities in office will include strengthening government funding for the arts, including a renewal of the cinema tax credit industry players have been calling ...
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Ukraine starts construction on 2015 European basketball arena
A construction-starting ceremony for the site of the EuroBasket 2015 European Basketball Championship in Kiev, Ukraine, included the burying of a time capsule. Group stage matches in the 24-team tournament will be played in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov and Lvov. Playoff games will be played in Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk, and Kiev will host the title game. The ceremony Friday in the capital, which ...
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Palace Theatre collects $58000 at fundraising event
Holly Brown, general manager of the Palace Theatre. A fundraiser generated $58,000 for The Palace Theatre in Albany, NY, officials said. The May 9 fundraiser, called Salute to the Palace, featured a live performance by Sandy Hacketts Rat Pack Show. The fundraiser is an important event for the non-profit theater, which is on track to finishing its second consecutive season with a surplus after ...
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Broadway producer getting Loop star
will receive a star on the STL Walk of Fame on June 11.Landesman is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and just finished a term as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.He is the son ...
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Out and Riding High in Nashville
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Dachshunds strut their stuff as UN bosses
, a Festival TransAmriques show featuring dozens of dogs impersonating members of the United Nations. The event is the brainchild of Bennett Miller, an Australian visual artist, who expanded the idea after premiering it at a theatre festival in Melbourne. Miller auditioned scores of local weiner dogs to see if they would make the cut. The artist says he choose dachshunds to represent global ...
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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