• Choirs and Black Violin for youth arts festival

  Adelaide 5000 Rain has forced a last-minute change for an opening performance of the Come Out youth arts festival in Adelaide.A choir of 1,800 students was to perform on the Festival Centre plaza but will be split in two to perform inside Adelaide Railway Station and at the Town Hall.Festival creative producer Michael Hill said those heading to the Town Hall would get an audience they had not ...

• Alice Eve underwear scene gratuitous

  LOS ANGELES - "Star Trek Into Darkness" co-writer Damon Lindelof has kind of, sort of apologized for anyone offended by the gratuitous display of Alice Eve’s nearly-naked body in movie theaters (and the movie’s marketing) around the world. "I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed ...

• Energy chief vows to review exports before acting on LNG applications

  WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said on Tuesday he will delay final decisions on about 20 applications to export liquefied natural gas until he reviews studies by the Energy Department and others on what effect the exports would have on domestic natural gas supplies and ...

• Infinity Theatre making connections between Annapolis and Broadway

  Jenny Lee Stern stars as Patsy Cline in the Infinity Theatre Companys production of "Always Patsy Cline," opening June 8 in ...

• New Xbox faces wider range of competition

  Microsoft sees the Xbox One as an all-in-one gaming and entertainment system. It’s set to go on sale in time for the holidays Microsoft ...

• Luke Skywalkers pants up for auction

  The pants worn by actor Mark Hamill in the first Oscar-winning "Star Wars" film are being sold at auction and could go for up to $100,000, auctioneers announced Monday. The young Jedi Knight wore the sand-colored regular Levi's pants throughout the 1977 movie, which launched the world-beating franchise by director George Lucas. The pants will be put up for auction on Tuesday, ...

• Drake MTrench nab most MMVA nods

  Marianas Trench, Drake and Classified have nabbed the most nominations at this year's MuchMusic Video Awards. Canadian pop rockers Trench earned six, Drake five and Classified four, it was announced Tuesday. Trench's video for Desperate Measures is up for video and pop video of the year. Both Drake and Classified are also nominated for video of the year, Drake for Started From The ...

• McCarthy fires extra for abusing child

  LOS ANGELES - Melissa McCarthy allegedly booted a female extra from the set of her directorial debut "Tammy" on Monday after catching the woman mistreating, and possibly even abusing, her child. TMZ reports the unidentified woman reported to work on the Wilmington, N.C., set with a 4 to 5 year-old child in tow and struggled to control the child’s behavior. McCarthy’s reps ...

• Phoenix Arts Group spreads wings globally

  /enpproperty--> Chen Weihong never became a painter like he wanted to, but at the age of 40 he has managed to build an art materials empire on his own. The Phoenix Arts Group, in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, is the world's second-largest art materials supplier in terms of production capacity, after the United Kingdom-based Winsor & Newton. "We plan to open our second overseas ...

• Former RCMP Musical Ride member sues says colleagues dragged her through feces

  RCMP Staff Sgt. Caroline O'Farrell is shown in a handout photo from the law firm who is representing her.A Mountie who was once part of the famed Musical Ride is suing the national police force, alleging she was sexually assaulted, harassed, repeatedly doused in cold water and dragged through horse feces by colleagues. THE CANADIAN ...

• Theatre review Compelling story of recovery discovery

  REVIEWAn AccidentTheatre: Northern LightDirected by: Trevor SchmidtStarring: Melissa Thingelstad, Michael PengWhere: PCL Studio Theatre, ATB Financial Arts BarnsRunning: Through Saturday, May 25Tickets: ...

• Chief Keef arrested Report

  Rapper Chief Keef has been arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, according to U.S. reports. The 17-year-old hip-hop sensation, real name Keith Cozart, was detained in DeKalb County on Monday and charged with disorderly conduct, reports TMZ.com. Details surrounding his arrest were unavailable as WENN went to press, but the star posted a short rant on his Twitter.com page on Tuesday after leaving jail. ...

• Marion Cotillard stalker sentenced

  Marion Cotillard poses on the red carpet as she arrives for the screening of the film "Blood Ties" during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 20, 2013. (REUTERS/Jean-Paul ...

• David Bowies Bassist Trevor Bolder Dies

  Uriah Heep and Spiders From Mars bassist Trevor Bolder has died aged 62 following a battle with cancer. Bolder joined David Bowie's backing band in 1971, appearing on classic albums including Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane. He went on to join Uriah Heep five years later and only stopped playing with the band a few months ago, due to his poor health. Tributes were paid to him tonight as ...

• Glafira Rosales Is Named in Government Suit

  In a case of alleged forgeries that roiled the New York art market and led to a host of civil lawsuits, federal authorities on Tuesday declared a series of works sold as Modernist masterpieces to be fake and charged a little-known Long Island dealer at the center of the scandal with tax fraud. Prosecutors charged that the dealer, Glafira Rosales, 56, of Sands Point, N. Y., failed to ...

• Theater Review Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon at LaMaMa

  The first thing you notice about Fred Ho and Ruth ...

• Music Review Giorgio Moroder in Red Bull Music Academy Series

  A packed dance floor was the appropriate greeting for the pioneering producer Giorgio Moroder, 73, on Monday night at the Brooklyn club Output. Billed as Mr ...

• Latest Quincy Jones Hyphenate Manager

  Normally, it would have been a valedictory moment. This February, when Quincy Jones accepted a lifetime achievement award from the producers and engineers wing of the Recording Academy, that famed trumpeter, composer and producer of landmark albums like Michael ...

• Theater Review The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig

  Plan your evening carefully if you choose to see ...

• Books of The Times Southern Cross the Dog a Novel by Bill Cheng

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• Music Review Laura Benanti Sings Cabaret at 54 Below

  Funny how the substitution of a single pronoun ...

• Music Review Laura Mvula at the Bowery Ballroom

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• UPDATE 1-Court revives lawsuit vs Electronic Arts over video game image

  Tue May 21, 2013 5:10pm EDT * Ex-Rutgers quarterback Hart may challenge use of image * Activision, Take-Two, media companies supported EA By Jonathan Stempel May 21 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against Electronic Arts Inc by a former Rutgers University star football quarterback, who accused it of using his image in a video game without permission. By a 2-1 ...

• A Pearl Buck Novel New After 4 Decades

  The manuscript was stumbled upon in a storage unit in Texas and returned to the Buck family in December in exchange for a small fee, said Jane Friedman, the chief executive of Open Road Integrated Media, the ...

• Paula Cole On Mountain Stage

  May 21, 2013 The bestselling singer-songwriter gives a stripped-down and intimate performance, recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, W.Va. Here, Cole plays a few new songs, as well as two of her biggest hits: "I Don't Want to Wait" and "Where Have All the Cowboys ...

• Giro dItalia Cadel Evans still behind Vincenzo Nibali Benat Intxausti wins 16th stage

  Italy Astana's Vincenzo Nibali kept possession of the Giro d'Italia race leader's pink jersey for another night after a strong showing in Wednesday morning's 16th stage.Benat Intxausti of Spain, riding for the Movistar team, won the stage, a 238km ride from the French resort of Valloire, in 5hr 52.48min.Intxausti beat Estonian Tanel Kangert into second in a sprint finish, ...

• Photos 23rd annual Bikes on Broadway

  In the women’s category 3 race, Whitehorse YT racer Melanie Tait has the inside track on Saskatoon’s Rachel Edwards during a lap in the 23rd annual Bikes on Broadway races on Broadway Avenue, May 20, ...

• ZGs ex-homeless pal his date

  Actor Zach Galifianakis turned heads at the Los Angeles premiere of his new film The Hangover Part on Monday night when he invited a formerly homeless friend as his date. The Due Date star met Elizabeth 'Mimi' Haist at a laundromat in Santa Monica, and after recently discovering the elderly lady had no place to call home, he took it upon himself to find an apartment for the 87 year ...

• Zeta-Jones out of treatment

  Catherine Zeta-Jones is preparing to return home after completing treatment for bipolar disorder. The Oscar-winning actress checked into an undisclosed facility last month in order to "manage her health in an optimum manner". After completing her most recent stint in professional care, her husband Michael Douglas has revealed she will check out on Tuesday and head home to her two ...

• Depardieu Newly a Russian Will Play Frenchman in Chechnya

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• NY art dealer tied to alleged forgeries charged with tax fraud

  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK | Tue May 21, 2013 6:51pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated abstract expressionists, but some of which the government said were fakes. Glafira Rosales, 56, faces three counts of filing false tax returns and ...

• Acting on Recommendation of Fifth Committee General Assembly Appoints New Member to Committee on Contributions

  Acting on the recommendation of its Fifth Committee (Budgetary and Administrative), the General Assembly today appointed Thomas David Smith (United Kingdom) as a member of the Committee on Contributions for a term of office beginning on 21 May 2013 and ending on 31 December ...

• Arts of the Arab Spring

  Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the School of International Studies, or Sciences Po. in Paris,was in Boston to lecture at Harvard University on the topic revolution, Islamism and jihad in North Africa. He stopped by our studio to talk with anchor Marco Werman about his other interest, hip hop, inspired by the Arab ...

• David Sedaris finds humour in the everyday

  U.S. essayist and humorist David Sedaris, seen at the 2004 Frankfurt Book Fair, has released his latest book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty ...

• Sheepdogs treat Victoria Day crowd to concert

  It was party time on Saskatoon's Broadway Avenue Monday evening, with native sons The Sheepdogs taking to the stage. The CBC's Peter Mills captured the Victoria Day show in photos. Here's a ...

• Modern Family thrives on relatability

  On the occasion of its season finale, here's a backhanded compliment to Modern Family from one of the stars of The Hangover Part III. Justin Bartha - a.k.a. the guy the Wolfpack keeps losing track of in those Hangover movies - is not happy wth network TV. Not at least after the cancellation of The New Normal, the single-camera sitcom in which he co-starred, about a gay couple and the ...

• Jones still mum on babys dad

  Actress January Jones is still refusing to go public with the identity of her baby boy's mystery father because she insists it's no one's business but her son's. The X-Men: First Class beauty has remained mum on who fathered her 20-month-old child Xander ever since she fell pregnant in 2011, and she's not about to open up now. Jones, who has previously dated Ashton ...

• Janet Jackson a billionaire

  Janet Jackson has joined the billion dollar club. The All For You hitmaker has boasted a multi-million dollar fortune for years, but now she has joined her new husband, retail entrepreneur Wissam Al Mana, and the elite group of moneymakers whose bank balances top $1 billion, according to industry publication Variety. The singer has raked in a total of $260 million in album sales thanks to the ...

• Things ruined by celebrity association

  Think how peeved you'd be if your child was called Blue -- before Beyonce and Jay-Z had their daughter. According to the NY Post, the name Blue is now 51% more popular for girls then it ever was before, a huge annoyance for anyone who quietly chose the name some time prior to January 2012. If your little Blue is close in age to their little Blue, anyone hearing you call that child on the ...

• Horse racing Purebred Arabian horses are racing onto world stage

  Female jockey Marta Pisarek, right, rides Altesse Kossack to a win in the British leg of the HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies World Championship on Saturday at Newbury Racecourse in England. ...

• UK- Ambassador Theatre buys US Foxwoods Theatre in USD60m deal

  (MENAFN) Ambassador Theatre Group stated that it has bought the Foxwoods Theatre for USD60 million, reported AP.Britain's biggest theater group bought Live Nation's UK theaters for USD147 million in 2009, and now it owns 40 sites.The group owns very well known theaters in London, such as the Savoy Theatre and Trafalgar StudiosIt's worth noting that the Foxwoods Theatre has about ...

• Microsoft unveils Xbox One

  Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company revealed the Xbox One, its next-generation entertainment console, during a presentation Tuesday at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Don Mattrick, Microsoft's president of interactive entertainment business, called it an "all-in-one home entertainment system." He said the company has spent the past four years working on the ...

• Biebers monkey becomes property of Germany

  Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Justin Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in ...

• Germany adopts Bieber monkey

  Mally, the pet monkey of Justin Bieber, is seen at a home for animals in Munich April 2, 2013. The fourteen-week old Capuchin monkey was quarantined last Thursday by German custom officials after Bieber brought the pet to Germany without the necessary documents and a health certificate, Munich airport customs spokesperson ...

• Ray Manzarek 74 Rock Keyboardist And a Founder of the Doors Is Dead

  Ray Manzarek, who as the keyboardist and a songwriter for the Doors helped shape one of the indelible bands of the psychedelic era, died on Monday at a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. He was 74. The cause was bile duct cancer, according to his manager, Tom Vitorino. Mr Manzarek lived in Napa, ...

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