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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
CANNES, France ...
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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 ...
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Dance Review Blush by Gallim Dance at BAM Fisher
In the dim light you can discern a body. ...
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Music Review Gotham Chamber Opera at Le Poisson Rouge
Founded in 2001, Gotham Chamber Opera made its name with nimble, creative productions of older works, occasionally venturing into the 20th century but going no further than Britten and Piazzolla. That makes the ...
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Music Review Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institutes Tunisia Festival
The Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, a gentle firebrand whose song ...
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Critics Notebook Ray Donovan Graceland and 32 Other Summer TV Shows
When it comes to television, ...
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Movie Review Fill the Void Directed by Rama Burshtein
The story told by Rama Burshtein in ...
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Inside Art Retired Maurizio Cattelan in Swiss Exhibition
Nobody really believed Maurizio Cattelan when, on the eve of his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum two years ago, he announced his retirement. It seemed a bit far-fetched that Mr Cattelan, an epic jokester who was just 50 at the time, would stop making art altogether. Now his name is listed among those in the exhibitions opening at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, next ...
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Books of The Times The Art of Controversy by Victor Navasky
Writing last year in Slate, Farhad Manjoo made a convincing case that in the era of Jon Stewart; The Onion; the wiseacres on Twitter and Facebook; and the crowd-sourced humor that appears everywhere on the Web, political cartoons as a form are on life support. Mr. Manjoo studied recent cartoons, especially those from Pulitzer Prize winners, and declared: ...
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Quebec film wins screenplay prize at Cannes
a movie by Quebec director Sebastien Pilote, has won one of the main prizes of sidebar program Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, which translates ...
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Celebs on the God front this week
God is really giving celebrities a run for their money this week. Let's start with Jewel, the singer who recently announced she has lost weight through the Biblical diet. What, we hear you asking, does this mean? Wolfing down locusts? Fatted calf? Gluten-free Manna? What it means, Jewel explains, is, "Eating whole foods like they did in the time when the Bible was being ...
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Greek choreographer continues Cretan dance quest
A famous Greek dance choreographer has visited Australia as he continues a self-proclaimed quest to see dances from the island of Crete spread throughout the world.Australia is the latest stop for Gianni Megalakakis, who has devoted his life to seeing traditional Cretan dance recognised on a global scale.The Greek island of Crete was home to one of the world's most sophisticated ancient ...
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The Rascals Back On Stage In South Florida
HOLLYWOOD (CBSMiami) – At a time when the music industry was dominated by the British invasion, four young men from the Northeast rose to the top becoming one of the most important American bands in rock and roll history. For the first time in 42-years The Rascals, formerly known as The Young Rascals, are back on stage and in the spotlight. On Thursday morning, media was invited to a ...
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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