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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 ...
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Family life | Hen-house holiday Morris mynah and Subzi kuku
This photograph of my father and me was taken on holiday in 1947. For 50 weeks of the year, he paid into the holiday club at the engineering factory where he worked so we always had a summer holiday.We stopped going to stay in seaside boarding houses after visiting one called the Pendennis. Those were the days when the landlady waited at the door to make sure everyone left the premises before ...
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Audra McDonald A Broadway Star Gone Roaming Comes Home
. She's gotten divorced and remarried, absorbed the shock of losing her father in a plane crash and watched her daughter, Zoe, grow up from a kindergartener to a middle-schooler. Last year, McDonald returned to New York, starred ...
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Portlands Arts District to host theater festival from June 26-30 Sun Journal
PORTLAND -- More than 45 acts will be presented as part of PortFringe 2013, the five-day, cutting-edge theater festival taking place in Portland's Arts District from June 26-30. The line-up features original musicals, one-man (and -woman) shows, puppets, vaudeville and burlesque. In addition to fostering new and experimental work, PortFringe also encourages creative cross- pollination. This ...
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Aguilera Green to return to The Voice
Singers (from left to right) Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green pose during a media event for "The Voice" in Los Angeles March 15, 2011. (REUTERS/Mario ...
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Yahoos $1.1B Tumblr acquisition almost at final stage
Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications.The Sunnyvale, California, company's board of directors will meet Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing site Tumblr ...
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Jacksonville sets Stage for 100 jobs
A new distribution center is expected to bring as many as 100 jobs to Jacksonville in its first year, a board member with the Jacksonville Economic Development Corp. said.Board member Barry Hughes said local Stage Stores Inc. intends to purchase or lease a facility at North Bolton Street and U.S. Highway 69, which would be used as a new distribution center. The property is the former Astro Air ...
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Garderen Wins 6th Stage
SAN JOSE, Calif. | Tejay van Garderen raced to a dominating individual time trial victory Friday in the Tour of California to extend his overall lead over Australian Michael ...
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Linda Munk left the life of luxury to reinvent herself through the arts
Linda Munk was married at 19 in dreamy resplendence, right down to hand-stitched Parisian lace and a ballroom filled with the elite of Toronto. It was 1956.A handful of years later, she had shrugged off her Dior skirts and Yves St. Laurent gowns, peered from beyond the house of marriage and stepped into an independent future. Her husband, Canadian businessman and philanthropist Peter Munk, ...
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Cavendish wins second stage in a row
Mark Cavendish secured his second stage win in a row after a gruelling stage 13 of the Giro d'Italia on Friday.The Omega Pharma - Quick-Step rider built on his 100th professional victory on Thursday to secure his fourth stage win of the race with a time of 6:09:55, thanks, in part, to a well-timed sprint finish.It clearly took a lot out of the British rider, who collapsed with exhaustion ...
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Visual arts preview Edmonton digital artist paints air aces’ adventures
Digital painter Len Krenzler poses with one of his prints with Second World War airmen Don Laubman and Doug Lindsay (both Red Deer residents), who will be joining Krenzler at his opening Spitfire Aces at Editions Gallery West Edmonton Mall, Saturday, May 18, 2-5 ...
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Video 517 Congress grills acting IRS commissioner the student and the vet
Members of Congress grilled acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the agency's targeting of conservative groups. Nancy Cordes reports on the four-hour barrage of bipartisan disgust; And, Steve Hartman reports on how a school assignment to interview a vet turned into a personal mission to get him long-overdue ...
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Promoter McLean provided more musical joy than Dylan and Prince combined
She was backstage doing what concert promoters do: Making sure the catering was perfect, making sure the road manager was happy and writing checks to the night’s star, security people and everyone else who helped stage the concert. But Sue McLean wanted to go out and catch a few songs of k.d. lang at the O’Shaughnessy. The promoter went to the back of the auditorium, ducked into a ...
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Good for the arts good for the seals
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner deserves credit on two fronts this week: elevating the role of the arts in the life of the city, and better protection for the seals that have no idea what a fuss they started years ago when they made their home at the Children's Pool in La ...
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Both sides of the story MISS NIGHTINGALE Theatre RoyalAmber Topaz has worked in theatre television and West End musicals including Les Miserables...
Both sides of the story ; MISS NIGHTINGALE Theatre RoyalAmber Topaz has worked in theatre, television and West End musicals including Les Miserables - and in burlesque, where in 2008 she was chosen to represent Britain in Las Vegas' Miss Exotic World Burlesque Hall of Fame. Erik Petersen caught up with her during rehearsals for Miss Nightingale How did you end up moving from West End ...
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Dance teacher charged with grooming child
A SYDNEY dance teacher is accused of trying to groom a child for sex and having a large cache of child porn. The 39-year-old man, who runs a dance studio on Bibby Street in Chiswick, was arrested about 6pm (AEST) on Friday, police said in a statement. Police had launched an investigation after a large amount of child porn and evidence of grooming was found on a computer in April. The man was ...
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It was mass hysteria Jason Isaacs on groupies theatre bores and snogging James Bond
Lucius Malfoy never got to keep his 'Paris Hilton wig'. Or rather Jason Isaacs wasn't allowed to take home Malfoy's so-named, blond hairpiece when they finally wrapped the last Harry Potter ...
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IRS acting commissioner testifies on agency targeting Tea Party groups
NBC's Luke Russert reports on IRS acting commissioner Steven Miller's testimony in front of Congress on Friday regarding the IRS scandal. Rep. Earl Blumenauer of the House Ways and Means Committee also joins The Cycle to ...
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Hangover star Bartha engaged
The Hangover star Justin Bartha is engaged, according to U.S. reports. The actor, 34, proposed to fitness trainer Lia Smith while on vacation in Big Sur, California in early May, and she said yes. A source tells UsMagazine.com, "They're the cutest couple. She was completely surprised by the whole thing." A representative had yet to respond to requests for a comment as WENN went ...
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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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