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Conductor James Levine Returns To Lead Metropolitan Opera Orchestra After Partial Paralysis
NEW YORK - James Levine rolled onto the Carnegie Hall stage in his black motorized wheelchair and into a 6-by-6-foot mechanical podium constructed by the Metropolitan Opera. Belted into the wheelchair, Levine and two aides waited while the podium hoisted him about 3 feet in the air and its interior rotated 180 degrees to leave him facing the audience. Given a 1-minute standing ovation, he blew ...
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Music Review James Levine Returns to the Podium at Carnegie Hall
Against all odds, James Levine is back. On Sunday afternoon Mr Levine, one of the greatest living American conductors and a musician who has defined the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years, cruised onto the stage of Carnegie Hall in a motorized wheelchair and conducted the Met Orchestra in a substantial program, his first performance anywhere in more than two years. The audience, ...
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Advertising A Season of Families Vampires and Aliens
BASED on what the broadcast networks shared with Madison Avenue last week about the coming season, it seems as if the quintessential new series for 2013-14 is a comedy about a family of vampires from space moving in with relatives on earth. O. K., that is an exaggeration. But analysts and executives at media agencies who are studying the schedules announced during upfront week in New ...
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Police probe Chris Brown death threats
Police in Los Angeles have launched a probe into allegations singer Chris Brown has been bombarded with death threats. The R&B star's attorney Mark Geragos turned to authorities after receiving a number of menacing phone calls at his Los Angeles office targeting Brown, according to TMZ.com. Geragos contacted police and filed a report, prompting detectives at the Los Angeles Police ...
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Christine White dead at 86
Twilight Zone actress Christine White passed away on April 14 at a nursing home in Washington, D.C., at age 86. Her death was only publicized in a recent notice in The Carroll County Times in Maryland. The actress, also known as Christine Lamson White, enjoyed a career spanning over 20 years and appeared in more than 50 movies and TV series, including shows like Perry Mason, The Loretta Young ...
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In praise of … Xu Bing | Editorial
A language written in pictures like Chinese lends itself to calligraphy as art, and art as calligraphy. Xu Bing, whose exhibition Landscape Landscript ran this spring at ...
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Angelina Jolie to play her mom in biopic
Angelina Jolie is set to celebrate the life of her late mother Marcheline Bertrand by portraying her onscreen in a planned biopic, according to U.K. reports. The Hollywood beauty is working on the project with her fiance Brad Pitt, who is said to be producing the film through his company Plan B next year, reports the Sunday Express. Details surrounding the movie are scarce, but it is likely to ...
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Edward Furlong freed on bail
Embattled actor Edward Furlong has been released from a Los Angeles jail after posting $100,000 bail. The Terminator 2: Judgment Day star was arrested on Thursday for allegedly violating a restraining order obtained by his ex-girlfriend Monica Keena, after he was found in a stairwell close to her West Hollywood home. He spent two nights behind bars before being released on Saturday afternoon, ...
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Arts Briefly Pearl Theater Company Unveils Schedule
The Pearl Theater Company, the Off Broadway troupe that mounts classic plays and new works dealing with classical themes, has announced its 2013-14 season. The world premiere of ...
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Media Decoder Charlie Rose to Host a Prime Time Show on PBS
Viewers can already wake up with Charlie Rose on ...
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Media Decoder Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing
LOS ANGELES ...
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Music Review Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field
The map of Electric Daisy Carnival, the two-day electronic dance music festival that began on Friday at Citi Field, was also a map of genres and subgenres. In 11 hours of continuous music from five stages, there were pop tunes and blasts of noise, immediate thrills and inexorable buildups, cheap shots and rich experiments. New York ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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Bridge Bridge
Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...
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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