Latest and Breaking Arts and Culture News and Top Stories - July 8
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Perfect for the discerning sneakerhead.
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artforum.com
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Not sure if this is sad or hilarious.
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Wait, the tree guy eats himself?
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The silly things drunk people do.
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Feelin' blue.
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Lots of sizes and styles available.
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World Cup fever might have you thinking that Brazil is only the home of football. But it's more than just a football nation. It's a breeding ground for some of the world's most diverse and creative people. And luckily for the rest of the...
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"Nobody's Smiling" drops on July 22.
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“The emerging world enthusiasm for Hollywood films does not extend to comedies, or at least not relative to its love of action movies and animated films. In China, for example, U.S. comedies account for only 10% of box office spend...
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“In recent years, adult television viewers have reveled in an overflow of quality programs that critics have called a new golden age. So why shouldn’t preschoolers be equally spoiled?”
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BBC Comedy has hired Ben Farrell as an executive producer. Farrell joins the in-house department from Objective Productions, where he is currently head of comedy, a role he has had since 2008. In this post…
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Director of Macro says municpal funding now amounts to €5,000 a month
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Riders were stuck 20 feet in the air for nearly an hour.
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Go behind-the-scenes on Halle Berry's new comeback show.
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L’artiste Pascale Malilo nous présente ici une série de scarabées et d’insectes à l’aide d’un procédé technique tout en finesse qui est le « picotage ». Un travail d’une impressionnante p...
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Don't blink.
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For the next two weeks, the great big world of television will sit itself down to answer questions about new shows, existing shows, and the future.
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“If today people so often take Mississippi delta blues for heart of the form, it’s in no small measure because the collector-researchers of the ’50s and ’60s, and the blues rockers who followed their lead, taught us to think that w...
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Daniel Boys, Lauren Samuels, James Gillan and Annalene Beechey are to star in Anything Can Happen!, a musical revue of work by writing team George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The show will take place at…
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“The recent Wagner anniversary has brought a predictable amount of equivocation and hand-wringing about the German master’s role in the history of hate. We know by now not to read history backward. A nineteenth-century composer who...
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San Diego Opera has reached a new level of stability, leaders say, after a series of cost-cutting and the announcement of new initiatives to broaden its presence in the community.
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03.29.14-08.24.14 Zeit Kunst Niederösterreich | Museum of Lower Austria, St. Pölten, review written by Angela Stief
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“On June 20, the organizers of the Malta International Theater Festival, which takes place annually in Poznan and is one of the largest such events in this part of Europe, gave in to a coalition of Catholic fundamentalists and righ...
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This portrait was removed from a major gallery after it was deemed 'pornographic'. Why does women's pubic hair cause such outrage You might think that in an art world that encompasses the Chapman brothers' phallus-nosed children and Jeff...
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Having left his mark on Broadway and New York’s cabaret scene , Marty Thomas sees his latest role as a full-circle moment. The 34-year-old actor dons sequined gowns and stiletto heels as one of the six stars of Off-Broadway’s “ Pageant: ...
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06.10.14-11.09.14 Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton, review written by Travis Jeppesen
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Time to relax on the beach with a book. But are you actually reading it, or just shading your eyes from the sun? A new index from a US mathematician suggests, for some books at least, the latter...
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Taylor Swift has declared that the autograph is dead. Instead, selfies and social media rule. It just goes to show, says Daisy Buchanan, that celebrity is now a two-way street
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An extended trailer for the upcoming Marvel comic-book adaptation has been released
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Only three shows, all favored by tourists, were up at the box office compared to the week before.
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There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first being autographs. I haven’t been asked for an autograph since the invention of the iPhone with a front-facing camera. The only memento ̶...
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Since 'Breaking Bad's' series win last year, a lot of superb drama has ensued. Will 'BB' still rate this year? Glenn Whipp ponders this and other Emmy contests ahead of Thursday's nominations. Since 'Breaking Bad's' series win last year,...
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Andrew Plank had a heart attack and received CPR from a crowd member
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Typos have been causing embarrassment, angst, tension and torment for as long as we've been writing -- long before the typewriter, and even the printing press. Chaucer, the father of English poetry (or pottery, according to at least one ...
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Many of us have dreams of traveling the world. A more specific group, it turns out, has a more particular fantasy -- dancing through it, backwards. Artist and world traveler Ian Bennett did just that, jamming through meadows, mountains, ...
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Remember that time in your life when the most compelling celebrities in your universe were Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and their insane gang of Looney Tunes? Back then, in the golden age of kid-dom, you thought "sufferin' succotash" was a cur...
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Alan Ayckbourn explains what makes comic plays work
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Few quotidian occurrences are quite as delightful as spotting a pet that, true to the cliché, really does resemble its owner. Sebastian Magnani cheats more than a little bit to achieve this effect, but with delightful results. A few year...
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Le studio hollandais Mecanoo a pensé le projet architectural « Noble Quran Oasis » pour la ville de Médine en Arabie Saoudite avec une structure qui s’inspire des anciennes villes arabes et d’un mouvement ...
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Bing Russell had several claims to fame. He played Deputy Clem on NBC's blockbuster western series "Bonanza." He's the father of movie star Kurt Russell. And he owned a baseball team.
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The Peter Iredale shipwreck is located at Fort Stevens State Park in Oregon. (Flickr/W Mustafeez)
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The Belgian contemporary choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is presenting four early works at the Lincoln Center Festival.
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In my teens, I asked my Great Aunt Rose where in Romania our family had come from. She claimed that she didn’t remember. I said, “Aunt Rose, you lived there until you were nineteen. What do you mean, you don’t remember?...
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If we think of the kimono at all, it's of the heavy, silken, flowery garments of the Edo period, starting in the early 1600s. They were status symbols, a way for merchants to show their wealth without threatening the primacy of shoguns, ...
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For years, Ringo Starr has used the occasion of his birthday to urge fans to flash the peace symbol and say the words "Peace and love" at noon wherever they happen to be in the world.
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Daytona, starring Harry Shearer and Maureen Lipman, is a gripping story
