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Gary Hume at Tate Britain – in pictures
Supposedly 'the quiet one' among the YBA generation, Gary Hume made his name with his household-gloss door paintings. Here is a selection of paintings from his solo show ...
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Santambrogio takes victory in stage 14
Mauro Santambrogio took the stage victory but overall leader Vincenzo Nibali was the big winner as the poor weather dominated stage 14 of the Giro d'Italia. Organisers were forced to remove the day's major climb as snow, rain and fog hit, but Santambrogio and Nibali emerged from the mist at the mountain-top finish after launching a late attack from the peloton to reel in the remnants ...
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Skylight Music Theatre delivers an intimate Porgy Bess
Skylight Music Theatre 's "Porgy & Bess." Directed by Bill Theisen - his last production as Skylight's artistic director - this "Porgy" relies on a chamber-ensemble cast and orchestra to tell a tale usually told with a huge chorus and full orchestra. The Gershwin brothers' opera is set on the southeastern American coast, in the impoverished, ...
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Beyonce slams baby reports
Pop superstar Beyonce has taken aim at gossips speculating she is pregnant again by posting a defensive note on her Instagram.com account. The Crazy In Love hitmaker has refused to address ongoing reports she and husband Jay-Z are set to welcome a sibling for 16-month-old Blue Ivy, but she vented her frustration about the speculation on Friday. Beyonce uploaded a scathing note to her ...
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UPDATE 1-Workers stage illegal strike at South Africa chrome mine
Sat May 18, 2013 1:03pm EDT (Recasts with company statement) By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG May 18 (Reuters) - Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group Lanxess have been suspended since Thursday after some 470 workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the company said on Saturday. The dispute at the mine in Rustenburg, 120 km (70 miles) northwest of ...
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Virginia GOP convention LG candidates take turns on stage
The seven candidates for the GOP lieutenant governor nomination are taking turns addressing the delegates at the Richmond Coliseum. Former Rep. Allan West, R-Florida, introduced Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter, R-Prince William. West, as a young captain commanding a divisional rocket battery at Fort Riley, Kan., served under Lingamfelter, who was his commanding officer. Oliver L. North introduced ...
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Santambrogio Takes Giro Stage 14 Nibali Extends Lead
BARDONECCHIA, Italy ...
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Walk Through British Art – review
opened last week - not that the old one was ever fully closed, just partially boarded up by the gallery. After almost two years it's now possible to walk right round the museum and see the history of British art unfold before your eyes. That is the main claim, at any rate, but while the much-touted return to chronology cannot be denied - the start date of 1540 is set in gold on the floor, ...
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100 years of Indian cinema and how Bollywood songs have kept pace with time
Bollywood is celebrating its 100 years in existence, and one can't deny its effect on the masses in this time period. Here's a fond look at some of the old and new songs, which form an integral part of Hindi ...
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Opposition is acting against the interests of poor says Rahul Gandhi on Food Bill
Food Security Bill in Parliament, and asserted the UPA Government was determined to enact the legislation for the benefit of people."I am sad that the Opposition is acting against the interests of the poor IndianI can understand politics. But I cannot understand political parties hurting the poor of the country," Rahul told a party rally in Thiruvananthapuram."We have been ...
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Ken Jacobs and His Films Feted in 80th-Birthday Tributes
There are artists who burn out at 30 and others who, accelerating as they mature, begin to seem like forces of nature. One such force is Ken Jacobs, who turns 80 next Saturday ...
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Social Development Ministrys Undersecretary Chairs Preparatory Meeting of the 3rd Gulf Theatre Festival for People with Disabilities
Manama, May 18. (BNA) -- The Social Development Ministry hosted the second meeting of the high committee of the Third Gulf Theatre Festival for People with Disabilities, due to be held in Bahrain by the end of this year. During the meeting, chaired by the Social Development Ministry's Undersecretary Hanan Mohammed Kamel and attended by representatives of GCC countries, the panel ...
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Derry city of culture looks to a better future as it gets its musical kicks
As tourists flock to the city, local heroes like the Undertones and visitors like BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend are helping to give it a feelgood ...
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UAE cinema makes a splash at Cannes
fter days of heavy rain, the sun finally arrived in Cannes on Friday just in time to celebrate a glittering day for Arab filmmaking at the glitzy French festival. In the morning, the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's terrific love triangle ...
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Ballroom dance contest inspires 5th-graders
It's not often that the introductory notes of a rhythmic Argentine tango flavored with accordion, violin and percussion elicits a roar of excitement from a roomful of fifth-graders.The finals of St. Louis Dancing Classrooms is no ordinary affair.After 10 weeks of training twice a week, select St. Louis public and private schools from Normandy to Imperial competed for bragging rights as ...
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Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP
Amid rampant weeds and crumbling stones, Matteo Giunti makes his way to the tomb of Francis Horner MP, a Scottish Whig who co-founded the Edinburgh Review and died, in 1817, in what he would have known as the prosperous Tuscan port of Leghorn.But, as he reaches the once imposing grave, Giunti stops first at the Nike trainer and plastic bottle that have been left there overnight - not, ...
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After Health Issues Influential Conductor Back At Met Opera
classical music critic Anthony Tommasini about conductor James Levine's return to the Metropolitan Opera after a series of health problems kept him away for two ...
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Vidya Balan It felt really special to be on stage with Amitabh Bachchan
Actress Vidya Balan is on this year's Cannes jury and is fully conscious of the "august" company she is in. At Cannes, Vidya told NDTV's Noopur Tiwari: "It's extremely exciting and invigorating to be on the same jury as Spielberg, Ang Lee and others. It's going to be a great learning experience for me. It's also a very proud moment for me as an ...
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Children take dance class in temporary tent in Lushan
Children take a dance class in a temporarily-erected tent in Lushan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 17, 2013. More than 100 children frequently participate in extra-curricular activities at this temporary school, which was opened on April 29 by volunteers and provides reading, painting and dancing classes to local children. The county was jolted by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ...
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Cornelia Parker Ive always been happy to sleep with the enemy
Cornelia Parker came to public prominence she has been associated with an exceptionally wide variety of work. She was initially known for pieces in which she violently destroyed objects and then eerily suspended the resulting debris from gallery ceilings. ...
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Whites-only matric dance fury
The DA and the Mpumalanga Education Department on Friday condemned claims that the parents’ committee at the Hendrina Combined School in Middelburg decided on ';only-white'; and ';only-black'; matric dances, citing ';cultural ...
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I never set out to be a role model but its great to be one IN THE HOTSEATBetter known by his stage name Wretch 32 Jermaine Sinclair is a 28-year-old rapper from London. In 2011 his debut album Black and White sold over a million copies and scored
Gillian Anderson is fired up in 'The Fall', but Whicher is suspiciously dull ; The former 'X-Files' star channels her inner Helen Mirren in a new crime drama set in ...
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From fact to fantasie discovering the real Schumann
People have a craving for knowledge about the lives of the great composers. Instrumental music is unequalled among the arts in its magnificent, even defiant abstractness. It suggests infinite possibilities, without offering any definitive answers. What could be more tantalising?But Schumann's music excites further curiosity, because it is not only lofty, but personal. Excruciatingly ...
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Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary
From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon ...
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John Abraham proved his mettle with his acting in Shootout at Wadala
John Abraham admits when he was offered to play gangster Manya Surve in Sanjay Gupta's recent blockbuster Shootout At Wadala (SAW), he doubted his ability. He was strongly convinced that his macho image would come in the way of the dramatic role at hand."I was worried, stressed and scared but I said this was a make-or-break situation for me in life. If I can play Manya Surve, I will ...
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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