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Mike Molly season-ender pulled over tornado plot
CBS said the season finale of its sitcom Mike & Molly, starring Billy Gardell and Emmy-winner Melissa McCarthy, will air at a later date. The network postponed Monday's episode over its plot, which involved a tornado threatening the two lead characters. (Michael Ansell/CBS/Associated ...
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SNL casting crisis ahead
Bill Hader departed "Saturday Night Live" on this past weekend's season finale and Seth Meyers is also on his way out, as he will transition next year to hosting "Late Night." That makes four cast anchors who have left in the last two years, with Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg as the two who left last season. Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen are also rumored to be ...
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Miguel kicks fans at award show
R&B star Miguel shocked the audience at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday when he kicked two female revellers in the head as he performed a leap across the stage. The Grammy Award winner was one of the acts entertaining the star-studded crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena prizegiving in Las Vegas, and was performing his song Adorn when he attempted to jump across a small number of ...
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New wave old woes Offbeat cinema in India continues to struggle
Despite National Awards, accolades at festivals abroad and the multiplex culture, makers of offbeat cinema in India often continue to struggle when it comes to finding big screen release.An encouraging remark last year by Charles Tesson, artistic director at Festival De Cannes, for the Anurag Kashyap- produced Peddlers said it all about the changing face of Indian cinema. "Good news is that ...
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Venice Biennale needs Ai Weiwei – a man who makes art matter
Land of milk, not honey Ai Weiwei's map of China, an installation constructed from 2000 baby formula cans. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty ...
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Longoria flashes fans at Cannes
Eva Longoria suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Saturday when she accidentally flashed fans and photographers as she walked the red carpet. The former Desperate Housewives actress gave onlookers an eyeful as she lifted up her glamorous green gown to avoid rain puddles while making her way into the premiere of Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a ...
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Michael fell from speeding car
Singer George Michael fell out of a car as it sped along a highway at 112 kilometres-per-hour, according to a new report. The former Wham! star was airlifted to hospital with cuts and bruises after a horror road accident on the M1 motorway north of London on Thursday. Police have launched a probe into the incident and details of how George came to be injured have not been revealed, but now an ...
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AcelRX drug device meets main goal of late-stage study shares jump
(Reuters) - AcelRX Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental drug device to treat post-operative pain met the main goal of controlling pain in a late-stage study among patients who had undergone knee or hip replacement ...
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Spanish opera protests austerity
MADRID , Spain -- David Alegre should have been a nervous wreck. Less than a week before the premiere of the opera he wrote and directed, one of his lead singers hadn't turned up for rehearsal. The energetic, wiry man of 36 nevertheless remained calm and good-humored. That's because everyone involved in the production, from the lead soprano to those building the scenery, were ...
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Keith Richards keeps rolling on
Ask Rolling Stones' lead guitarist Keith Richards -- who turns 70 this year -- if he's a birthday guy, and he pulls no punches. "The more there are -- the less I am," jokes Richards in a Canadian exclusive interview from "an undisclosed island" location. "I love OTHER people's birthdays." Talk of finality is only natural. After all, with the ...
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Broadways Spider-Man theatre bought by British group
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark - has fallen into British hands after Ambassador Theatre Group brought its first theatre outside the UK.The owner-operator, the largest such company in Britain with about 49,000 seats across the country, has acquired the 2,000-seat Foxwoods theatre in New York through its subsidiary Lyric Theatre LLC for an undisclosed fee, reported to be between $60m and $70m ...
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Climate change pushes farmers in India to the tipping point – in pictures
British artist and designer Gerry Judah was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. He returned to India with Christian Aid after more than 50 years to see how people are tackling the effects of global warming. A series of works inspired by his trip can be seen in Christian ...
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Whats the ugliest building of the year
Building Design magazine in 2006, "for crimes against architecture". It is to the Stirling prize what the Razzies are to the Oscars, a prize to call out the worst offenders in the built environment - from overblown "iconic" gestures to that grim retail shed ...
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Opera for Android exits beta -- new Webkit engine new features
the first beta was released, Opera announced that its new WebKit-based browser for Android is now available as a "final version". This is just one step towards a Presto-free Opera as, in mid-February, the Norwegian company revealed that it will ...
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New theatre in Cambridge Ont. stars in multiple roles
Nestled into an incline overlooking the Grand River in Cambridge, Ont., the Dunfield Theatre opened in March. Diamond Schmitt Architects gave the $14-million building a simple exterior of limestone and two types of metal panels - white defines the public areas, charcoal grey covers a fly-tower that rises nine metres above the lower roof line. (Tom ...
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Cambridge raises cultural profile with Diamond Schmitt-designed theatre
Nestled into an incline overlooking the Grand River in Cambridge, Ont., the Dunfield Theatre opened in March. Diamond Schmitt Architects gave the $14-million building a simple exterior of limestone and two types of metal panels - white defines the public areas, charcoal grey covers a fly-tower that rises nine metres above the lower roof line.(Tom ...
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A last dance with Kenneth Waltz
By Sreeram Chaulia The death on May 12 of one of the father figures of the theory of international relations (IR), Professor Kenneth Waltz, resonated with every academician who follows world politics. The founder of a dominant school of thought known as neorealism, Waltz, who died aged 88 from complications with pneumonia, was essential reading for generations of students and teachers who ...
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Youths with disabled peoples stage flashmob in Baku - VIDEO
Baku residents have witnessed another interesting show arranged by flashmobbers on 19 May. A group of young people together with dancers and athletes with disabilities danced under well-known hits: Psy - Gentleman, Black eyed peace - Let's get it started and Usher - Yeah. Flashmob left a vivid impression on passers-by who were surprised to see the dancers in wheelchairs who despite the ...
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Opera queens night of celebration
opera doyenne Joanna Wong when she was 15 and still in school. Seated on a wooden stool in the cosy Chinese Opera Teahouse in Smith Street, See Too is warm and animated. "Of course, I'm very excited. I do a lot of shows throughout the year, but this is different because it is specially in my name so I feel the pressure of having to work harder, so that I can perfect as much as I ...
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Yahoo revamps photo-sharing website Flickr
awesome again," said the new site will showcase "bigger images" and create a user experience that is "more immersive, more expressive." Mayer's announcement of the Flickr makeover came only hours after the company announced it was ...
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Edgy indie films among summer crop
It is David vs. Goliath, brains vs. brawn, art vs. commerce. I am talking about alternate movie programming vs. Hollywood's summer blockbusters. It looks bleak for David, but now is not the time to surrender. Okay, okay, I realize that cinephiles despair seeing the boxoffice results already posted this month, as well as trailers for the 2013 summer fare. It all seems so overwhelming. Iron ...
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Abrams a fan of text-based games
The visual effects in Star Trek Into Darkness leave very little to the imagination. And that's the whole point of special effects, right? Through the use of elaborate sets, stunts and computer-generated imagery, director J. J. Abrams transports us from the surface of alien worlds to the inky void of space to the bridge of the USS Enterprise herself. The same can be said for video games. As ...
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Antarctica exhibition shows off architects ice work
Antarctica , shaped like caterpillars or icebergs, on stilts or stubby legs, will look like science-fiction illustrations - the storms, blizzards, extremes of temperature, darkness and howling winds they have been designed to withstand are so extreme that conditions have been likened to those on ...
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Online radio and TV station Soundpond plan arts hub for East End
ONLINE radio and TV station Soundpond is planning a major expansion on Rundle St with an art gallery, photography studio, co-working space for entrepreneurs and pop-up shops. Founders Adam Daze and Todd Skipper plan to take over the space above the Alfresco restaurant, next door to Soundpond's current home. They have launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise $15,000 for the move after an ...
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Tsar to Lenin to be shown at UK’s National Media Museum and at Cornerhouse cinema
is to be screened by two major independent cinemas in the UK, the Cornerhouse in Manchester May 27, and the National Media Museum in Bradford, June 1. First released in ...
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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