Latest and Breaking Arts and Culture News and Top Stories - July 3
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Why'd it take so long for this to come into our lives?
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The "Dawn of Justice" promised in the subtitle of Zack Snyder's superhero showdown "Batman v Superman" is still nearly two years away, but Warner Bros. offered an early glimpse of the movie Thursday, releasing the first official photo of...
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Who knew?
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Something for the holiday weekend.
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The New York Public Library is displaying a copy of the Declaration written out by Thomas Jefferson, which includes text that was edited in the final version.
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Best of both worlds.
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The house was almost full again! "Full House" star Dave Coulier reunited a handful of the sitcom's cast at his wedding to fiance Melissa Bring on Wednesday.
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"Life Itself," the documentary about the many years Roger Ebert spent as the country's primo film critic and the rich but complicated personal life he led on the side, may be 2014's most wrenching film. Directed by Steve James ("The Inte...
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There's hardly anyone on that train.
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Drop by.
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One brutal truth emerges from Nielsen SoundScan’s report on trends in the music industry for the first half of 2014: Today’s consumers are far more interested in seeing and hearing pop music than buying it.
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This weekend, people across the country will celebrate the founding of our nation with family, food, fireworks, and music, grateful we live in a country that embraces the freedoms articulated in our Declaration of Independence--the unali...
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André Benjamin, who you know as Outkast's André 3000, stars as Jimi Hendrix in a new biopic that was unable to use any of Hendrix's actual music . From the looks of the trailer, it won't matter. Benjamin seems to inhabit the psychedelic ...
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Breathe.
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Changing the scope.
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The Pet Shop Boys are relevant all over again.
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Don't lose these in the dryer.
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Keira Knightley plays a heartbroken singer-songwriter who teams up with a drunken producer in Begin Again . Irish director John Carney, who had a surprise hit with the musical Once , hit his mark again.
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In late 2012, filmmaker Steve James and Roger Ebert began talking about filming a documentary based on Ebert's memoir. Ebert's wife, Chaz, agreed. They didn't know that he would die within months.
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Hey, Chris Colfer: Change your password.
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Woman who bought two Banksy artworks for just £70 at a New York market stall last year sell them at auction for £125,000
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The music writer Mike Hamad drew this “schematic,” a graphic map of his own invention, during the first performance of Phish’s summer tour.
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Two boxes of lost acetate recordings from around 1970 reveal Bob Dylan at work.
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Ben Westwood is planning a fashion show in the Ecuadorian embassy to 'keep Julian Assange in the public eye' but rape survivor Jill Saward brands the stunt as 'sick'.
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Artists bring Hieronymus Bosch's triptych into the 21st century with Kate Moss, emojis, and Dr. Martens Read More
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MUCH is at stake in this September's referendum on Scottish independence. Business travellers are not exempt from its repercussions. As Buying Business Travel recently noted, the pro-independence white paper "Scotland...
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The British are -- no, wait, they've already come.
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Even by Chicago standards the weather here in the midwestern U.S. has been bizarre and extreme lately. We’ve seen giant walls of fog caused in part by a bitterly cold winter that chilled Lake Michigan, and numerous lightning storms...
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Two boxes of lost acetate recordings from around 1970 reveal Bob Dylan at work.
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National Museum in Wales aims to revive interest in fine 18th century artist who broke ranks to paint from nature and was admired by Turner and Constable He inspired John Constable and was feted by the Victorian critic John Ruskin as the...
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Along with patriotic Independence Day coverage, holiday TV programming includes marathons of “Say Yes to the Dress” and “The Walking Dead.”
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Myers' young adult novels talked about the tough realities of urban life in language that made teens stop and listen. He won almost every award for YA literature during the course of his career.
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On screen, Frank Underwood's ambitions can't be stopped. But he's just a character in the Netflix series "House of Cards" and in real life, there is a limit to his power, as producers discovered this week when they were denied access to ...
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Beyoncé is No. 1 on both Forbes’s “Celebrity 100″ and Time’s “100 Most Influential People.” But is she worthy of the titles?
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A list of the top TV series currently streaming on the movie and TV subscription service Netflix UK
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The music writer Mike Hamad drew this "schematic," a graphic map of his own invention, during the first performance of Phish's summer tour.
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A Georgia grand jury has indicted film producers Randall Miller, Jody Savin and Jay Sedrish on charges of involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass in connection with the February death of camera assistant Sarah Jones.
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This week I attended the launch of Act for Change, a campaign aimed at increasing diversity on television and in the arts. It came about after an advert for ITV’s drama output failed to include any…
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The best cinematic music fuses image and narrative together as no symphony ever can, argues Ivan Hewett
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The documentary “Life Itself” is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Ebert, the most famous and affectionately regarded of American movie critics.
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“The art form, collectively, receives a 9.4% increase in NPO funding, upping its slice from 11 to 12%. Better yet, there are signs that ACE is formulating a strategy for building a more secure network for dance across England, brok...
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Basé en Italie, l’artiste Matthew Simmons parvient à coupler sa passion pour l’architecture et son attrait pour les pierres avec des sculptures magnifiques. Ce dernier offre ainsi des créations impressionnantes, permettant de...
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The world's greatest cycling event comes to Britain this week - and up to 3 million spectators will watch the UK stages. But what else makes the Tour de France such a huge international occasion?
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Before Alfred Hitchcock freaked out audiences everywhere by killing off the protagonist halfway through Psycho , before he was praised as a great master of cinema by a bunch of French critics who would themselves go on to become cinemati...
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“At the very least, the worst movies ever made offer some comfort: Even in absolute disaster, there’s something to be learned about why we make entertainment, and how it can go wrong. Occasionally, the failure even succeeds, albeit...
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There's something about eating outdoors that makes even a mundane meal feel special. In the spirit of the Fourth of July, we bring you nostalgic food ads and picnic scenes to inspire your feast.
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Anne Billson investigates the enduring appeal of on-screen hitmen
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Michael Bay’s fourth Transformers installment racked up $134.5 million in its first five days in China, which is higher than the $121 million it had earned in North American theaters by July 1. – See more at:
