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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Bored Panda
Sharon Stone, now 57, bared her body and soul for Harper's Bazaar in this beautiful black and white photoshoot by photographer Mark Abrahams. Former superstar also reveals how hard it is to get back on top after suffering a brain... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“Employees say that the Bezos ideal, a meritocracy in which people and ideas compete and the best win, where co-workers challenge one another ‘even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting,’ as the leadership... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
When you first discover how to take photos of flowers it can give you many days of wonderful enjoyment. Flower photography is a favorite type of photography that many people love. It’s not difficult to take photos of flowers if you... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NYT > Arts“Compton: A Soundtrack” had 25 million streams worldwide in its first week on Apple’s new service, but is expected to open in second place in the United States.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NYT > Arts“A Manual for Cleaning Women” collects 43 stories by Ms. Berlin, who died a little over a decade ago and whose darkly wry work has remained unknown to many.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtLate singer's father Mitch Winehouse says revelation shows she was not a loner, despite depiction in recent biopic
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“Just as gardening is not just a means to fresh air and purposeful exercise (but also produces the delights of a garden), so ballet for old people is no merely useful in strengthening muscles or regaining suppleness. It adds a new... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Dezeen
Japanese architects Kunihiko Matsuba and Seitaro Aso have renovated an apartment in Tokyo , pairing exposed structural elements with contemporary details (+ slideshow). (more…) -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgDr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum and Tasveer announce the opening of Bourne & Shepherd: Figures in Time in Mumbai on the 20th of August, 2015. One of the most famous of the early European commercial photographers, and the most prolific...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
The process of creating a photograph is different for every photographer and hearing those different stories can be a great source of inspiration. Below, you can watch a visual telling of how fine art photographer, Jessica Backhaus, uses... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArchDaily
As the longest open-air gallery in the world, the East Side Gallery in Berlin is undoubtedly a popular destination for art enthusiasts, historians, and tourists alike. Covered in political artwork, the Eastern side of the largest... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Fubiz™
L’artiste Peter Gronquist, basé à Portland, est actuellement exposé à la Soze Gallery de Los Angeles jusqu’au 25 août pour son exposition All of the Above : une série d’installations hypnotiques. Cette oeuvre est... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from culture360.asef.org
That’s Mine – Furniture China 2015 Design Exhibition takes place in Shanghai 9-15 September, with a programme of concurrent events that act as showcases for designers, design institutes and... Read More The post... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
Everyone thinks their pet is the smartest, the cutest, the cleverest. But photographer Ken Watson‘s German shepherd may have a bit of an advantage — she can walk on water! Well, at least it appears that she can. Watson explains the... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Flavorwire
Civil rights activist Julian Bond, former chairman for the NAACP and an activist for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 75. Bond’s family reports that the …Read More -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgJapan marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II Saturday under criticism from China and South Korea, which said nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe failed to properly apologise for Tokyo's past aggression. Further...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgIn a collaboration with seven cool architects, Fritz Hansen presents a unique homage to the iconic Series 7™ chair, which turns 60 years in 2015. On 16 July 2015, a special exhibition opened at Design museum Gent in Belgium. In the...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgHarper’s Books presents an exhibition of new work by Anke Weyer, on view from August 15 through September 23. Featuring the artist’s large-scale oil and acrylic paintings, the exhibition also includes a series of smaller works...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NYT > ArtsMarc Quinn’s art has always been daring, and his latest London exhibition is an example of how that audacity has taken different forms throughout his career.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArchDaily
This is a whole set brand space design for a chain. CAA brand team , is leading the design from brand strategy , ideas to supervision on the construction. The whole idea originates from traditional Chinese “bamboo weaving” elements... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“Locarno has emerged as one of the most important Western festivals to support Asian film, particularly works without big box-office prospects. For mainland Chinese filmmakers, that kind of affirmation from foreign industry... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“Much of the credit should go to a quietly heroic generation of architects. These have grown up in the era following the backlash against their profession, when they could take nothing for granted, when they had to prove again and... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtMartin Chilton picks 50 of the best quotes from actor and comedian Robin Williams, who died on August 11 2014
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.comBedwyr Williams’s cosmos of bits is lost in space. Thank goodness for Cornelia Parker’s embroidered Magna Carta next door At the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, the Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams has a new show of installations and...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe store rooms extending far below the ARoS galleries are filled with thousands of artworks. Standing shoulder to shoulder, sculptures, installation art, and paintings wait to be set up for the benefit of ARoS visitors. The exhibition...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtEd Power reviews a controversial instalment of Songs of Praise, in which presenter Sally Magnusson joined migrants for a service in Calais
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NYT > ArtsThe N.W.A. biopic, backed by a sophisticated marketing campaign, touched a cultural nerve over the weekend, taking in $56.1 million at the domestic box office, an astounding total for an R-rated drama.
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgBoscobel House and Gardens ’ 2015 exhibition, Every Kind of a Painter: The Art of Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1818-1871), on display in the gallery now through November 29, is complemented by a limited edition, 56-page, color...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NYT > ArtsLynn Nottage’s new drama, produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, examines two generations of factory workers and the decline of industry in the United States.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtThis documentary felt like a modern-day answer to The Good Life, says Gerard O'Donovan
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from DesignFaves
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Dezeen
Hacked Ikea kitchens by famous architects dominated the headlines this week, so we've updated our dedicated Pinterest board with some of the best examples of kitchen design from the pages of Dezeen. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“The difficulties women have had navigating Hollywood permeate every part of the business, from writers rooms to directors’ chairs to below-the-line production jobs — and, of course, to acting, which can be rife with the most... -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgDueling descendants of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have reached a settlement after going to court over the rights to T-shirts and other merchandise bearing his image. The Seattle-born Hendrix, a pioneering player of the electric guitar,...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsBeatThe N.W.A. biopic, backed by a sophisticated marketing campaign, touched a cultural nerve over the weekend, taking in $56.1 million at the domestic box office, an astounding total for an R-rated drama.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
If you prefer a good dose of humor mixed in with your photography tutorials, look no further. Kai, from over at DigitalRev, is here to teach us about using flash to capture dust, or in this case, baby powder, in mid-air. Kai’s dust... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“As the financial realities of our operation become more constrained, the pressure on the pay and working conditions for those people we employ increases, and any attempts to narrow the gap between how we pay our freelancers and... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArchDaily
This three storey urban residence utilizes the existing shell of its former incarnation as a medical centre. Internally a timber ‘box’ sits within the original volume, containing a wine cellar and bathroom at ground level and mezzanine... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtSharon Osbourne is also set to be announced as a contestant on the 13th series of the dancing competition
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Dezeen
Sculptor Benjamin Gilbert worked with architecture studio Archier to build his own family house on a former gold mine and sawmill, using reclaimed concrete blocks and rough-sawn macrocarpa wood (+ slideshow). (more…) -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArchDaily
Campus Messestrasse is fast becoming an exciting part of a lively and up and coming area of Vienna between Prater and the Danube. The new university hub of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna – Paris (SFU) and a boardinghouse complete... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Flavorwire » Art
Headlines about Detroit’s economic crisis in recent decades are dizzying. The general population associates Detroit with a city in decline, where urban decay, municipal bankruptcy, and unemployment dominate the region. But there’s also a... -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgThe Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents “So it goes”: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut, on view from August 22 to December 20, 2015. Known for his insightful novels, Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) also...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsBeatWe finally see what it looks like when Hannibal turns vengeful.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Dezeen
Graduate shows 2015: University of Westminster graduate Freddie Jackson has designed a tidal barrage that can produce energy from the sea, but also incorporates a community of 20,000 new homes. (more…) -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsJournal
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Recent News on Artdaily.orgEmbark on an odyssey to relive some of history’s greatest moments and explore rich cultural legacies through the world of philately. This month, Singapore plays host to one of the world’s most high profile philatelic events...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from ArtsJournal
“Any Mahler symphony recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will help with ‘long and heavy lifting in the yard.'” -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Flavorwire
Gareth Edwards’ Star Wars spinoff isn’t getting the kind of press that J.J. Abrams’ -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comBeing Jewish is more than bagels and lox and "Seinfeld." But for many Jews, especially American Jews, the concept of cultural Jewry is often delineated from Jewish law and practice. Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, a professor of law at DePaul...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Andrey Krichevskiy, head of the Melodiya record label, has been severely beaten up near his office. His condition is described as serious and he has been transferred to the central clinical hospital. Andrey has been the subject of... -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureOur Summer of Love rolls on with a roundup of romance manga. Japanese comic books can be a daunting field to enter — but we've picked three of the sweetest for your summer reading pleasure.
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureNPR TV critic Eric Deggans reviews the anticipated new HBO show from The Wire 's David Simon, Show Me a Hero.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalProm 38. Foulds, Messiaen Steven Osborne (piano): Valérie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes martinet): Upper Voices of the London Symphony Chorus; BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena. Royal Albert Hall, London, 13.8.2015 (CC) Foulds – Three...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksMore and more YA authors are featuring teens with serious illnesses in their books. But is this a help or a hindrance for readers who are ill themselves - and how about featuring a few survivor characters, too ? Related: Dystopia is...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsA.R. Gurney continues his residency at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre with the world premiere of his new comedy Love & Money, about a wealthy widow who is determined to give away her entire fortune....
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicTop (from left to right): singers Cenk Karaferya, Louisa Petais, Alison Manifold, & Daire Halpin Bottom: Ian Peter Bugeja conducting Les Bougies Baroques from the harpsichord photo credit Matthew Ferguson Gluck Il Parnasso confuso ;...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsPeople flock to see shows with Audra McDonald and Matthew Morrison's names above the title, but who knew these two top-billers began their careers as unknowns in Broadway ensembles? Take a look at our list of the ten most...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe number of scripted prime-time TV series is expected to pass the 400 mark in 2015. That's too much for at least one network executive, but the picture is more complex than that.
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsTony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown's residency at SubCulture continues Aug. 15 at 8 PM.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsIt appears that Playbill should consider getting into the matchmaking business. Tony Award winner Victoria Clark wed Thomas Reidy in an Aug. 1 ceremony in Durham, N.C. After seeing Clark's profile in an online dating site, Reidy...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzHey, you, sweating on the treadmill to get that perfect beach bod. You know the summer is pretty much over, right? You tried. Now it’s time for a well-deserved rest. Let us help. There’s a new off-Broadway show about an Elvis...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsBuilding on the success of event-type cinema screenings of operas like Aida and occasional Broadway shows like The Audience, Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies are screening the sing-along version of the 1978 movie...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
We’ve been sent by its official transcriber what may be the most candid interview ever given by the heroic tenor. In it, he discusses seriousness of purpose (which should not be mistaken for lack of humour), the importance of... -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
To help celebrate the international release […] The post VC GIVEAWAY | Win 1 of 5 VC ‘Artist’ Paul Huang ‘Intimate Inspiration’ CDs appeared first on The Violin Channel | World's Leading Classical Music... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalAspen Music Festival (12): Byne, Donatoni, Glass, Harrison, Mosolov, Piazzola, Protopopov, Roslavets, Rouse, Scriabin, Xenakis: Soloists, Jonathan Haas and Scott Terrell (conductors). Aspen, Colorado. 10-12.8.2015 (HS) Aspen Percussion...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureReaders everywhere are rediscovering the work of Brazil's Clarice Lispector. Critic Juan Vidal calls Lispector a singular artist, whose newly collected stories linger in the mind like poetry.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Grim news from the Montreal Chamber Orchestra. After 41 years of concert-giving, they need $40,000 to start the next season. Founder Wanda Kaluzny has turned to Kickstarter to raise the cash. That’s desperate. When NY City Opera... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books‘Mark Walden has created a very interesting plot, which features many twists and turns’ This book is about a boy named Otto Malpenese, who was the reason for the Prime Minister’s recent infamous speech. He was captured by some guards and...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsSutton Foster, Steven Pasquale and company brought down the roof (or raised it, in this case) last month when The Wild Party was revived as part of New York City Center Encores! We catch up with the show's writer, Andrew Lippa, who...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksTwo years in the making, our list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of all time is now complete. Having endured many sleepless nights in its compilation, Robert McCrum reflects on who got left out, and why • A response by...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe BBC National Orchestra of Wales is […] The post AUDITION | BBC National Orchestra of Wales, United Kingdom – ‘Principal Cello’ Position appeared first on The Violin Channel | World's Leading Classical Music News Source....
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from The StageOliwia Wawrzyniak, 13, from Hanwell, London, has won The Stage Scholarship at the Barbara Speake Stage School, to cover her school fees
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThrough recipes and biographical vignettes, author Cara Nicoletti's new book brings literature to life. Nicoletti tells NPR's Rachel Martin that food has always been part of her reading.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureHost Rachel Martin talks with British author Steve Boggan about his quest for California gold in his new book, Gold Fever.
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWildlife photographer Steve Bloom shares some beautiful pictures from his book Elephants , showing elephants at their most playful, majestic and breath-taking Continue reading...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books‘You never know when a young adult contemporary book becomes a survival guide for you’ Fangirl was the very first book I read by Rainbow Rowell. Fangirl is a very self-explanatory title, which basically summarises the book (no spoilers...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicTangents - New English Ballet (choreography Daniela Cardim Fonteyne) Dancing for Nepal is looking to raise funds for the Nepal earthquake appeal. At the St James Theatre , 12 Palace Street, London SW1E 5JA, near Buckingham Palace, from...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicRobin Tritschler photo credit Garreth Wong The tenor Robin Tritschler recently sang in the BBC Proms performance RVW's Sancta Civitas , and was described by one reviewer as luxury casting. He has also been busy on the operatic stage,...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureAt New Orleans exhibits commemorating the 10th anniversary of the hurricane, NPR's Neda Ulaby found three artists who said they wouldn't have become artists if it hadn't been for the storm.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books‘Swive my furrow like there’s no tomorrow!’ I beg Thomas. ‘For after I am wed to the King, we shall swive no more’ He stands before me as broad as an oak, a foul stench rising from his weeping sores. “Your luck is in, Kateryn,”...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from The New YorkerThe movie starts with a business deal and ends with a business deal, and there are lots of business deals in between, throughout the hundred and forty-seven minutes of “Straight Outta Compton,” the director F. Gary Gray’s generous,...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books‘Tired of pirates, princesses and princes, parrots, pretty pollys and other things starting with a P? Get to your local bookstore and buy a copy of Refuge’ Refuge is a great book. I love this book because of its clever sequencing; it is...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsD23 Expo, the Ultimate Disney Fan Event, presents Frozen FANdemoninum: A Musical Celebration, featuring the Oscar-winning songwriting team of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez on Aug. 16. The duo take fans on a...
- Mrs. Henderson’s Presents, Musical Based on Film, Gets World Premiere Tonight at U.K’s Theatre RoyalSaturday, August 15, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsTracie Bennett, Tony-nominated for the Leading Actress in a Play award for playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow on Broadway in 2012, stars n the world stage premiere of the musical Mrs. Henderson Presents, beginning...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
A Brazilian film that has just won international distribution at the Locarno Film Festival goes to the top of our must-see list. Sergio Machado’s film ‘The Violin Teacher’ tells the story of a player who flunks his... -
Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsSan Diego's Old Globe theatre begins its Summer Shakespeare Festival production of The Comedy of Errors, directed by seven-time Tony nominee Scott Ellis (The Elephant Man, On the Twentieth Century, You Can't Take it With You)...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceA new study, in the UK […] The post New Study Finds Classical Music Aids Quicker Surgery Recovery appeared first on The Violin Channel | World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009. .
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThese menace-laden tales are excitingly quirky and sometimes horrifying In the title story of Cook’s exhilarating collection of short stories, three old friends marooned on a fishing trip hypothesise why they haven’t yet been rescued;...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe country singer and songwriter has shared many songs of woe. So we asked him three questions about Matthieu Ricard, a blissful Buddhist monk.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksPapers divided over new TV adaptation, with Telegraph regretting absence of ‘sexual language’ and Sun claiming that it ‘borders on porn’ Almost a century after DH Lawrence wrote it and 55 years after the first Penguin paperback edition...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureDavid Simon, perhaps television's greatest chronicler of institutional inertia, brings a painful and complex story of 1980s local politics to the network where he made The Wire .
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureJoe Domanick's Blue traces the history of the Los Angeles police and the shift away from a "disastrous policy" of using military-style tactics. The author shares lessons for departments nationwide.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
21 year old VC ‘Young Artist’ […] The post NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC ‘Young Artist’ Timothy Chooi – Michael Hill Comp Final [VIDEO] appeared first on The Violin Channel | World's Leading Classical Music News... -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Playbill.com : NewsPlaybill.com correspondent Ben Rimalower takes readers through a tour of the history of drag performances.
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksCan’t tell your turtles from your hotplate hamsters? Wise up with this indispensable guide to prison slang To go across the pavement is criminal parlance for robbing banks and security vans. The Wembley Mob (a gang of bank robbers from...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
We’re hearing cries of distress from players in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra who are appearing in an open-air concert in Bidrum, Turkey, today. The temperature at rehearsal this morning is around 100 degrees Fahrenheit, 37... -
Saturday, August 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureDon't be fooled by museums' strong attendance numbers, says professor Michael Lewis. He argues today's art world is a Potemkin village, whose gleaming facades mask an indifference for the art itself.
