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Fast 6 delivers the thrills
Vin Diesel and friends are back behind the wheel, defying death, tossing off quips, flexing their muscles and revving their engines to warp speed. Fast & Furious 6 is a guaranteed summer hit. This fan-friendly action movie is the best this franchise has had to offer since the 2001 original. It is funny. It is absurd. And it is relentless. The big action scenes are spectacular, even though ...
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Too much show not enough tell
The new spokeswoman for Louis Vuitton, actress Fan Bingbing strutted down the red carpet in a Louis Vuitton rosy silk strapless, a trailing gown topped with enough glitter to match her lashes. She paired the outfit with a Minaudire evening bag. With her hair down in simple waves at the bottom, she appeared poised and elegant, yet she was seen by some as paling in comparison to previous modes of ...
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Absurdist Theatre production confounding but engaging
As of this writing, it’s been two full days since I watched APEX Theatre’s production of ';A Resounding Tinkle'; and I still have no clue what to make of it. It’s not that the production is poorly presented. (It’s not.) It’s that ';A Resounding Tinkle'; is wholly, and without question unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Is that good? Is ...
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Stage boss My fears for Jackson
A stage manager who worked on Michael Jackson's ill-fated This Is It concert warned an AEG executive days before the star's death that the megastar was in physical and mental decline and needed help, according to an email shown to ...
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Steve Forrest S.W.A.T. Actor Dies at 87
Steve Forrest, a strapping actor known to television viewers as Lt. Dan Harrelson on the 1970s action series ...
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Theater Review Basilica by Mando Alvarado at the Cherry Lane Theater
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Crafts chain opposes birth control mandate
The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argued that businesses -- not just the exempted religious groups -- should be allowed to seek exception from the health law if it violates their religious ...
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Katha Journal Orwells House Links Myanmar to Its Burmese Days
KATHA, Myanmar ...
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NOAA forecasts active or extremely active 2013 hurricane season
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued a forecast Thursday for an active or extremely active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, in its hurricane season outlook, forecast a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher) -- of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including ...
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Being human homosexual acts dance good form and good hygiene part 2
Being human, homosexual acts, dance, good form and good hygiene, part 2 Editorial, 3/25/2010 Note: This article was added much later as a follow up to the previous article on this subject and to this same addition on 9/27/2010. When looking at the things that make humans distinct from animals in aesthetics, and in following up on my previous article, there are some issues worth ...
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Movie Review Nancy Please Directed by Andrew Semans
Anyone who has ever confronted a dissertation deadline with blank pages and a paralyzed mind will identify with ...
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Watch Musical Water Dance Inside A Bottle Cap
Of course, Prksen points out the more simple by-product of cymatics: It's "the coolest sound visualizer" built from near scraps. Because as stunning as their installation may be, it's little more than a speaker (playing music), topped with a plate (which vibrates), topped with a bottle cap filled with water (which translates the music's frequencies into hypnotic ...
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Movie Review A Wedding Invitation Directed by Oh Ki-hwan
If we learned anything at all from ...
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Utah 15-year-old held in slaying of his brothers 4 and 10
Police in an Ogden, Utah, suburb said Thursday they believe a 15-year-old boy "acted alone" in killing his 4-year-old and 10-year-old adopted brothers. Davis County sheriff's detectives told reporters they took the 15-year-old into custody Wednesday night, hours after the two victims were found dead in their West Point, Utah, home, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Sheriff Todd ...
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Movie Review Fast Furious 6 With Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson
Your auto insurance policy probably has clauses specifying whether you are covered for damage from missiles, falling objects, riots, civil war, earthquakes, hail, radioactive contamination, discharge of a nuclear weapon. But ...
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Movie Review Epic Directed by Chris Wedge
As you watch its characters zoom through a lush forest on the backs of hummingbirds, the gorgeous 3-D adventure comedy ...
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Broadway Sound moving to Fountain City
A long-time North Knoxville business is moving. Broadway Sound will close the doors at its current location at the corner of Broadway and Edgewood Avenue on May 31st and move to Fountain City. The business posted a "for lease" sign at the Broadway building on Thursday. Broadway Sound started in 1967 as a one-room shop called Lynn's Guitars on Cecil Street. It moved to ...
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Movie Review The English Teacher Starring Julianne Moore
If you eliminated its obtrusively perky soundtrack and revised its dishonest feel-good ending, ...
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Art Review New European Paintings Galleries 1250-1800 at the Met
When a monument wakes up, you notice. ...
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Movie Review We Steal Secrets a Documentary on WikiLeaks
The title of Alex ...
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Cannes hit by second jewelery theft
CANNES - The Cannes film festival was hit by a second suspected jewellery heist on Thursday after a diamond necklace worth 2 million euros ($2.6 million) disappeared during a star-studded party, according to upmarket jeweller De Grisogono. Fawaz Gruosi, the founder of the Swiss firm, said the necklace was part of the company’s 20th anniversary collection paraded by 20 models at the glitzy ...
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Nick Carter in reality wedding TV series
Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter is developing his own reality TV series. His untitled docu-series will revolve around the pop star and his fiancee Lauren Kitt as they plan their upcoming wedding, and the project is already winning over executives at several U.S. cable networks, according to reports. Carter tells blogger Perez Hilton, "It will also be about the growing up phase of my ...
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In praise of … Man Ray
photography , where split seconds make all the difference. Which must make Man Ray, one of the greatest photographers ever, supremely lucky. His career began when the popular view was, in one of his own exhibition titles, "Photography is not art". Philadelphia-born Michael Emmanuel Radnitzky only gave up painting and turned into Man Ray in 1920s Paris. And the people who sat for ...
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Critics Notebook Many Films Still in Running at Cannes for Palme dOr
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Art Review Search for the Unicorn at the Cloisters
The Metropolitan Museum is an excellent place to hunt for mythical beasts. Look in almost any gallery of art made before 1900 and ...
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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