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LIVE BJP MLAs stage walkout from Bihar Assembly say trust vote useless
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday moved a trust motion in the Bihar Assembly to prove his government's majority after snapping ties with the BJP over Narendra Modi's elevation.The BJP MLAs entered the House shouting slogans in favour of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.As the debate began on the confidence motion, Leader of Opposition Nand Kishore Yadav said Nitish ...
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Very well hung the ICAs Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition
With its bulging bikers and its penises waving flags, the ICA's Keep Your Timber Limber show takes an unblushing look at sexuality in art. Welcome to beefcake ...
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Tom of Finland and friends battle of the beefcakes – in pictures
Keep Your Timber Limber at the ICA pulls together boundary-pushing drawings by eight artists that challenge gender, sexual and political stereotypes and highlight issues of war and censorship.From Tom of Finland's erotically charged bikers and sailors to Judith Bernstein's penis flagpoles, here's a selection of images that use the simplest tools to defy the most ingrained ...
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Theatre review Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandages play The Cripple of Inishmaan
Now, in Michael Grandage's highly adroit revival of this dark, politically incorrect 1997 comedy by Martin McDonagh (the third production in the Grandage Company's fifteen-month season at the Noel Coward Theatre), Radcliffe takes on the challenge of portraying the 17-year-old title character.Billy is a bookish, romantic soul, orphaned in mysterious circumstances and raised by two ...
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Minnesotan makes Top 20 on So You Think You Can Dance
Alan Bersten Minnesotans have someone to root for on TV this summer, and his name is Alan Bersten. On Tuesday's episode of Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," the 19-year-old ballroom dancer from Minnetonka and his older brother Gene were two of 33 dancers waiting to find out if they had made the show's Top 20. But Gene -- whose audition in Boston with his wife, Elena, ...
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Goodwood Rd should become Adelaides Broadway Urban Myth Theatre artistic director says
URBAN Myth Theatre artistic director Glenn Hayden wants Goodwood Rd to be Adelaide's Broadway. Well, little Broadway at least. The company has received a $30,000 interest-free loan from Unley Council to finish an upgrade of the Goodwood Institute. "It will mean the Goodwood Institute is a very, very well serviced, professional standard venue for South Australia," Mr Hayden ...
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Danielle Bradbery wins The Voice
The Voice contestants, from left to right, brothers Zach and Colton Swon, Danielle Bradbery and Michelle Chamuel stand on stage during the season finale of the show. (NBC ...
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Obama’s Second-Term G-8 Dance Card Judo With Putin Trade and Syria
. Europeans also see a free-trader pressuring the French to bow before the altar of low tariffs in pursuit of a U.S. and European trade pact. Just last week, White House officials feared they wouldn't even be able to announce the beginning of trade talks at the G-8 Summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Northern Ireland. Under sustained pressure from British Prime Minister David Cameron, ...
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Langley City opts for 16 months of acting mayors to save the $45000 cost of a byelection
The Arbutus Ridge condos will stand in a spot that has long been familiar to Vancouverites. It's here, at Arbutus and West 16 Avenue, where the Ridge theatre and bowling lanes made their home for ...
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Man of Steel star almost shot stuntman
Actor Christopher Meloni almost shot his stunt double on the set of new movie Man of Steel after his gun misfired during filming. The former Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star plays Colonel Nathan Hardy in the latest Superman reboot and he spent weeks undergoing weapons training for the project - however Meloni admits he almost caused a fatal injury. He tells New York Magazine, ...
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Mary J. Blige sued over axed gig
Soul icon Mary J. Blige has been hit with a lawsuit over a cancelled 2012 concert. The No More Drama hitmaker is accused of reneging on a deal to perform in Dallas, Texas on December 9 just days before she was set to hit the stage. Bosses at promotions company Vision Entertainment Worldwide claim Blige was paid a $145,000 deposit to secure the gig, but she never handed back the money when the ...
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California judge irked by accused killer acting as own lawyer
SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) - An accused California serial killer representing himself at his own murder trial drew a series of rebukes from the judge on the first day of testimony and was warned to obey procedural rules in court or risk losing the right to serve as his own ...
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Theater Review A Comedy of Errors Unfolds in the 40s With Fedoras
By the time the gun-toting nuns make an appearance, you may find that ...
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Two world opera stars to appear in concert on Red Square
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Anna Netrebko and Dmitry Khvorostovsky, the Russian operatic stars of global renown are expected to give the first ever joint concert in Moscow Wednesday. Performing arts and show biz analysts expect a capacity crowd of spectators at the concert. Tuesday, the two singers faced a capacity crowd of reporters at a news conference that brought together representatives ...
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The Red Queen – MONA Hobart
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" So explained the Red Queen to Alice, in a line that has since seen Lewis Carroll's royal adopted as figurehead for the theory that we do not evolve to progress, ...
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Seattle Arts and Lectures appoints Ruth Dickey new executive director
Seattle Arts & Lectures has appointed a new executive director. It’s Ruth Dickey, director of Cincinatti’s Clifton Cultural Arts Center. In a press release, the organization cited Dickey’s programming and fundraising abilities, saying she raised $2 million for capital renovations for the Cincinatti organization, doubled the number of individual donors and created a ...
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Actor Edward Furlong charged with assaulting girlfriend
Actor Edward Furlong, who appeared in "Terminator 2," "Judgment Day" and "American History X," was charged Tuesday with assaulting his girlfriend and threatening her if she called police, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office reported. Furlong, 35, was arraigned at the Los Angeles Superior Court, Airport Branch, and pleaded not guilty, said Deputy ...
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Twelve writers vie for 2013 international writing prize
LONDON | Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:11pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Six awarding-winning writers are among a group of 12 poets, authors and academics vying for the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing with themes ranging from the Australian war effort in France to opium sellers in 19th century India. The prize, handed out every two years since 2009, was set up as an international, cross-disciplinary ...
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Kandinsky work auctioned for $21 million but misses the mark
By Paul Casciato LONDON | Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:08pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky's expressionist masterpiece "Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909" was the highlight and leading indicator for a flat Christie's London Impressionist and modern art sale on Tuesday. The painting fell short of its top estimate and a record for the artist at auction when ...
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The Writer of Walk Dont Run Who Had a Revered Technique
Johnny Smith, a jazz guitarist who was considered one of the emerging greats of his generation when he left the limelight in 1958 to move to Colorado, open a record store and become a full-time parent, died on June 11 at his home in Colorado Springs. He was 90. His daughter, Kim Smith Stewart, confirmed his death. ...
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Miley Cyrus I Think Alcohol Is Way More Dangerous Than Marijuana
"I think alcohol is way more dangerous than marijuana-people can be mad at me for saying that, but I don't care. I've seen a lot of people spiral down with alcohol, but I've never seen that happen with weed." Miley notes that those who smoke weed tend to be more laid-back, and said, "As long as it isn't illegal, there are far more dangerous things. And ...
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Planetariums a new kind of star power for the arts
Perhaps your last cultural experience in a planetarium involved Pink Floyd and a mind-altering substance. Well, high art under the impressive dome is making a comeback - no lasers required.In Vancouver, a new site-specific work by the Electric Company Theatre ...
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Theatre review Full Monty an ode to the amateur spirit
From left, Jordan Ward, Gregory P. Caswell, Brian Christensen, Orville Charles Cameron, James Toupin and David Johnston in The Full Monty, from Two One-Way Tickets To Broadway ...
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Stunt womans phone hacked to overhear Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie appears June 3 in Berlin. A lawsuit reveals News Corp. learned of her affair with Brad Pitt through hacking the phone of her stunt woman in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. (Associated ...
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Stahl placed on psychiatric hold
Embattled actor Nick Stahl has been placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold after he was hospitalized in Los Angeles. The Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines star, who has long struggled with drugs and alcohol abuse, was admitted to a medical centre in the early hours of Tuesday, reports TMZ.com. Further details about the 5150 order (involuntary psychiatric hold) had yet to be revealed as ...
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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