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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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Xbox One Enters Changed Gaming Landscape
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Merry Wives of Windsor leads the way in Vancouver’s Jessie theatre award nominations
- set in Windsor, Ont., - leads the nominations in the large-production category for the 31st annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards in Vancouver, with seven. The audience-pleasing country-and-western take on Shakespeare is up for outstanding production, direction (Johnna Wright), lead actor (Ashley Wright), supporting actor (David Marr), set design (Pam Johnson), costume design (Drew Facey) as ...
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Choirs and Black Violin for youth arts festival
Adelaide 5000 Rain has forced a last-minute change for an opening performance of the Come Out youth arts festival in Adelaide.A choir of 1,800 students was to perform on the Festival Centre plaza but will be split in two to perform inside Adelaide Railway Station and at the Town Hall.Festival creative producer Michael Hill said those heading to the Town Hall would get an audience they had not ...
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Alice Eve underwear scene gratuitous
LOS ANGELES - "Star Trek Into Darkness" co-writer Damon Lindelof has kind of, sort of apologized for anyone offended by the gratuitous display of Alice Eve’s nearly-naked body in movie theaters (and the movie’s marketing) around the world. "I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed ...
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Energy chief vows to review exports before acting on LNG applications
WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said on Tuesday he will delay final decisions on about 20 applications to export liquefied natural gas until he reviews studies by the Energy Department and others on what effect the exports would have on domestic natural gas supplies and ...
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Infinity Theatre making connections between Annapolis and Broadway
Jenny Lee Stern stars as Patsy Cline in the Infinity Theatre Companys production of "Always Patsy Cline," opening June 8 in ...
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New Xbox faces wider range of competition
Microsoft sees the Xbox One as an all-in-one gaming and entertainment system. It’s set to go on sale in time for the holidays Microsoft ...
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Luke Skywalkers pants up for auction
The pants worn by actor Mark Hamill in the first Oscar-winning "Star Wars" film are being sold at auction and could go for up to $100,000, auctioneers announced Monday. The young Jedi Knight wore the sand-colored regular Levi's pants throughout the 1977 movie, which launched the world-beating franchise by director George Lucas. The pants will be put up for auction on Tuesday, ...
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Drake MTrench nab most MMVA nods
Marianas Trench, Drake and Classified have nabbed the most nominations at this year's MuchMusic Video Awards. Canadian pop rockers Trench earned six, Drake five and Classified four, it was announced Tuesday. Trench's video for Desperate Measures is up for video and pop video of the year. Both Drake and Classified are also nominated for video of the year, Drake for Started From The ...
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McCarthy fires extra for abusing child
LOS ANGELES - Melissa McCarthy allegedly booted a female extra from the set of her directorial debut "Tammy" on Monday after catching the woman mistreating, and possibly even abusing, her child. TMZ reports the unidentified woman reported to work on the Wilmington, N.C., set with a 4 to 5 year-old child in tow and struggled to control the child’s behavior. McCarthy’s reps ...
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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