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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Colossal
Ever had a hankering to taste a slippery goldfish or a wriggling tadpole? Now you’re in luck thanks to a new candy shop in Tokyo called Ameshin that offers traditional Japanese amezaiku, a form of artisinal candy making that dates ... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThe entries for the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest are in, and the photographs are as stunning as ever . The annual contest asks photographers from all around world to submit photos in four categories: Travel portraits, ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThe international film scene is dotted with a series of spectacular events -- from the glitz of Cannes to the slopes of Sundance to Toronto and Tribeca -- to more intimate festivals everywhere from Sarajevo to Missoula, Montana. The Made...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015 from Archinect
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAfter a friend recorded a video of Merideth Puckett singing Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," the young singer’s mom gave the OK to post it on Facebook figuring it’d get a few hundred views. It turns out she was about 16 million views off. ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Archinect
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from ArchDaily
The Think Space program serves as a platform for spatial experimentation and conceptual thinking. In 2015, THINK SPACE is conducting an international, public, anonymous, single stage, conceptual architectural – urbanist... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from Fubiz™
« Grid Reference » est une série signée Sam Irons qui dépeint d’étranges paysages surplombés par d’épais nuages aux tonalités allant du pastel au bleu sombre. À travers les clichés, on découvre des lieux p... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from ArchDaily
Architects: Braham Architects Location: 35 Division Street, Welshpool WA 6106, Australia Design Team: Benjamin Braham, Katja Gavran, Anuar Azahari, George Shi, Siying Wong, Douglas Armstrong Year: 2014 Photographs: Robert Frith Acorn, St... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsMr. Herring’s latest work confirms that he should be considered an A-list jazz talent.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Flavorwire
In the premiere episode of 30 Rock ‘s seventh and final season, Jack Donaghy greenlights a handful of terrible shows — game show Homonym , Hunchback (NBC’s version of sexy vampire programming), cop drama God Cop (starrin...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Flavorwire
Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop isn’t true crime in the same sense as HBO’s recent docuseries The Jinx or the immensely popular podcast Serial . It doesn’t intend to solve a crime or even, really, to depic...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comFor black and white analogue photographer Noah Jashinski, art is a physical manifestation of honesty. In his upcoming exhibition, Seventy-Two Hours, he portrays two parallel cinematic series of raw photographic images. His subjects, two ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Dezeen
This military hospital in San Antonio features terracotta brise soleils inspired by strips of grafted skin, which protect burns victims from the intense sun (+ slideshow). (more…) -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
Ever look through a kaleidoscope as a kid? You would hold the tube up to your eye, twist the end, and see an array of wild colors and patterns move about. Well refractory photography works somewhat on the same concept. Using a refractory... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsThe Cleveland Museum of Art has returned a statue after agreeing that there is evidence it may have been looted from a jungle temple decades ago.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsThe ensemble played a vivid programmatic work by Carlo Monza, part of a concert tracing the development of the symphonic genre in Italy and its impact on a young visitor, Mozart.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Archinect
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from ArchDaily
Architects: Javier de las Heras Solé Location: Plaça del Vi, 4, 17004 Girona, Girona, Spain Area: 186.0 sqm Year: 2015 Photographs: Adrià Goula Collaborators Architecture: Salvador Bou Gracia, architect Structures: Blàzquez-Guanter arqui... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from DesignFaves
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from PictureCorrect Photography Tips
There’s no doubt that Norway has some of the most breathtaking scenery in the world. With its impressive fjords, inland lakes and expansive natural spaces, the landscapes are just begging to be photographed. Tomasz Furmanek, an avi...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Flavorwire
Mother’s Day has been criticized for as long as it’s been popular — not because it’s a bad thing to celebrate mothers, per se, but because of what the Hallmark holiday doesn’t even attempt to achieve. … Read... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsMs. Sheehan, in her cabaret program, boldly goes beyond the romance of the heavens to the poetry and science of the cosmos.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
Cats! Favored animals of the internet, they're also doing their part to make tattoos more mainstream – and legal – in South Korea. Related posts: Frighteningly Realistic Tattoos by Yomico Moreno Artist Creates Beautiful Tattoos That Are ... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsThis singer-songwriter gets deeply personal on her latest album of mercurial rock.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Flavorwire
With the release date of Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland creeping closer and closer, the director’s big media moment has also provoked the … Read More -
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 from ArchDaily
Architects: Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design Location: Chai Wan Industrial City Phase 2, 70 Wing Tai Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong Design Team: Kristof Crolla, Julien Klisz Area: 236.0 sqm Photographs: Dennis Lo Designs, ... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsFour dancers celebrate Swedish culture with offerings of elegance, strength and tenacity.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Fubiz™
Cette maison de 128 mètres carré, appelée « Framing House », a été construite par l’agence d’architecture japonaise FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, dans la préfecture de Shiga, au Japon. Avec sa façade qui... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from artnet News
We caught up with Frieze New York’s energetic incoming director. -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from ArchDaily
Architects: Ks Architects Location: Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan Architect In Charge: Kikumi Kusumoto Project Team: Kikumi Kusumoto, Yusuke Shimizu Area: 142.0 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Katsuzi Matsuo… From the architect. The ... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from Fubiz™
Sam Chirnside est un graphiste vivant entre New York et Melbourne. Il réalise des peintures abstraites digitales faites avec des mélanges et dégradés de couleurs qui jouent avec les textures. Il fait parfois des collages numériques ou de... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsChopin was the center of the program by two major pianists, one playing at Alice Tully Hall, the other at Carnegie Hall.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsThe village of Celoron, N.Y., agreed to let the National Comedy Center display the widely mocked sculpture — but not until a replacement is found for the village.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAs a photographer who has been documenting the physical evidence of global warming for the past 15 years, I have decided to go to the source this June: the Arctic Ocean. My photographs act as a canvas recording the physical evidence of u...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsThe program was a quadruple bill of French-accented pieces, including “Sonatine,” “Walpurgisnacht Ballet,” “Symphony in C” and “La Valse.”
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comThe only thing better than rainbow animals frolicking on pop art backgrounds? Pairing feminist quotes with those rainbow animals and pop art backgrounds. Lisa Frank -- the brand that adorned '90s kids' dream school supplies -- has gotten...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsShakespeare & Company, a Massachusetts troupe, has endured increasing power struggles in its evolution from a small operation to a major regional player.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Dezeen
Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana have wrapped suede webs around shoes and a bag for Camper to coincide with an exhibition about the Spanish footwear brand at London's Design Museum . (more…) -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from Archinect
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Archinect
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Archinect
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Flavorwire
Watch out Werner Herzog, the comedians are coming. Documentary Now! (up until now referred to as American Documentary ) — created and written … Read More -
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > ArtsThe CW show remains a delicious and dizzyingly arch look at three generations of Latina women.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Archinect
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Sunday, May 10, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe author famous for the cult classic House Of Leaves is writing a new novel about a little girl who finds a kitten. The book is planned to be epic — 27 volumes total. Vol. 1 is more than 800 pages.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzSuper Good Day! Sion Daniel Young will join the West End cast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in the lead role of Christopher Boone from June 22. Directed by Marianne Elliot and penned by Simon Stephens, the producti...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzMichael J. Fox and Jesse Tyler Ferguson stopped by to meet possessed puppet Tyrone backstage at Broadway’s Hand to God ! Click for photos of their visit.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseThe autograph of Boulez's Structures 1A, from the collection of the pianist Paul Jacobs, is up for auction at Sotheby's. In the same offering, a draft of the opening of Debussy's unfinished opera on The Fall of the House of...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIt's not National Poetry Month without a columnist penning a piece declaring that poetry is dead. The predictable appearance of these articles is almost comical. The press has been picking on American poetry for at least 125 years, and ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Sinfini Music
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe 82-year-old playwright says he thought he was done writing about South Africa after apartheid ended — but there were more stories in him, like this tale of a farmer who paints his life on rocks.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalBeethoven: Paul Lewis (piano), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 3.5. 2015 (GN) Sonata in E major, Op. 109 Sonata in A-flat major, Op. 110 Sonata in C minor, Op. 111 Pianist Alfred Brendel was often committed to the idea that cert...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Slipped Disc
We were expecting a puff of white smoke at 1730. We’ve just heard a press conference has been called for 1900 – and the players will be locked up in the church until then. -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comYou're inspiring me to death! There is such a thing as too many inspirational quotes. We're talking about the scores of quote photos that your most annoying Facebook and Instagram friends incessantly post. At some point, you have to stop...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical music : Soluna presents chamber music composed by three Britons ... Dallas Morning News The busy first week of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Soluna festival ended Sunday evening with a particularly enterprising chamber- m...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comBy Arianna Davis In 2007, graphic designer Erik Schmitt, then on the team behind the original Kindle, inherited a portion of his late grandfather's vast and varied library, including poetry, philosophical treatises, and classics from Uly...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Slipped Disc
My album of the week on sinfinimusic.com is a new interpretation of Mahler’s ninth symphony that dares to go against the grain of grand maestro gestures in this deeply troubling work. Objective, dry and slightly detached, this is a... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThis wickedly funny novel about a young Jewish American’s obsession with masturbation caused outrage on publication, but remains his most dazzling work No 86 marks a milestone: it’s the first time in this series that we have listed a liv...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksPeter Stanford rubbishes our vision of Judas as the ‘wickedest man who ever lived’ in his rigorous biography At the end of his absorbing examination of the most notorious traitor in history, Peter Stanford recounts a conversation he had ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzAirline Highway Tony nominee K. Todd Freeman reveals his secret talent, crush and whom he'd like to invite to Pravda for caviar and champagne.
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Saturday, August 12, 2000 from Guardian Unlimited BooksAn extract from Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential Continue reading...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalTelemann: Emma und Eginhard, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs (conductor), Berlin Schiller Theatre, 10.5.2015 (JMI) Cast: Emma: Robin Johannsen Eginhard: Nikolai Borchev Charlemagne: Gyula Orendt Prince Heswin: Spephanie Atan...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicAlison Balsom and the English Concert photo Simon Jay Price Handel, Purcell, Tom Green; Lucy Crowe, Tim Mead, Alison Balsam, English Concert, Trevor Pinnock; Wigmore Hall lates Reviewed by Robert Hugill on May 8 2015 Star rating: 5.0 Blo...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicKitty Whately credit Natalie J Watts & the Royal College of Music This Other Eden - An Evening of Poetry and Song ; Kitty Whately, Joseph Middleton, Kevin Whately, Madelaine Newton; Champs Hill Music Room Reviewed by Robert Hug...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'It's about growing up gay and accepting your fabulousness. (But since when did you not?)' Continue reading...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksYour space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them • Read more Tips, Links and Suggestions blogs Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s a roundup of your comments and photos from last week including some great tips f...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureWe've reached the part of the year where the broadcast networks (and some cable networks) try to woo advertisers with the promise of new shows.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comDonna Tartt's The Goldfinch has its admirers and detractors. But what can we say about the sensibility of an author who writes a novel based on a sui generis work by a l7th century painter, Carel Fabritius, at the same time naming its ce...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
The former NBC anchor has multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalThe Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me by Sofka Zinovieff. Jonathan Cape, London. 436pp £25.00 (jacket price) Some people praise red roses; But I beg leave to say That I prefer rod noses- I think they are so gay. A Kem...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from The New YorkerFor years, “The Good Wife” was easy to love. Smart, sexy lawyers (and investigators) drifted together and apart, like dancers at a ball, while Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) grew in competence, independence, elegance, and power. Ev...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzLisa Kron is an acclaimed writer and a performer. Her plays include The Ver**zon Play , In The Wake , 2.5 Minute Ride and the autobiographical Well , in which she played (a version) of herself and was nominated for a 2006 Best Actress in...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NYT > BooksA selection of best-selling nonfiction books about the sciences.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzAs the saying goes, one door closes, another opens... Tom Hewitt, who starred in the recent short-lived production of Doctor Zhivago , has been tapped for the role of Captain Newton in Amazing Grace . Directed by Gabriel Barre, the music...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from The New YorkerOne of the delightful surprises arising from the spate of books celebrating Saul Bellow’s centenary is the discovery that, for a brief while, Bellow was a film critic. He wrote four essays about movies for the bi-monthly magazine Horizon...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from The New YorkerWhat, if anything, do the Tony Awards tell us about the state of American theatre? Is Broadway still where the important plays and musicals are staged? On this week’s Out Loud podcast, we assembled two of our resident theatre fanatics—Mi...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWriters are finding imaginative ways to negotiate the new era of electronic intimacy with readers. Here are some of the best The internet offers authors the next best thing to teleportation: the chance to connect with readers from almost...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzBroadway.com editor Paul Wontorek catches up with 2015 Tony Award hopeful Annaleigh Ashford, nominated for her hilarious turn in You Can't Take It With You.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Slipped Disc
They tried to keep the election location a secret. In the past, it has been a rich man’s villa in the Berlin Woods. Today, Austrian media are reporting that the 124 players have gathered at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin-Dahle... -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalHaydn, Schnittke, and Mendelssohn: Brentano String Quartet, Ignat Solzhenitsyn (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 3.5.2015 (BJ) Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 50 No. 1, Hob. III:44 Schnittke: Piano...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksSite member Tashtastic caught up with Chronicles of Ixia creator Maria V Snyder, when the US novelist was on a rare visit to the UK – listen in to their conversation here! Continue reading...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comBook Review - Jackie K Cooper The Sound of Glass by Karen White Karen White's skills as a writer continue to evolve with each new novel she creates. She has emerged as the queen of southern novelists thanks to books such as A Long Time G...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksCBeebies presenter and author Cerrie Burnell failed in her search for disabled characters in books to identify with when she was growing up – and that’s why her own children’s books embrace diversity in all its glory Every child deserves...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalBrahms, Tchaikovsky: Isabelle Faust, (violin). London Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 7.5.2015. (GD) Brahms Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64 ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comAs a female celebrity who uses Twitter, J.K. Rowling sees her fair share of online bullies. But instead of backing down, she’s fighting right back in true awesome form. The Harry Potter author has always been pretty open when it comes to...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe author of Wattpad phenomenon Summoner: The Novice suffered sickening racism when he was growing up. He found solace in the fantasy worlds of Darren Shan, Tolkein and Skyrim – which ultimately led to his own explorations of racial ten...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Latest Broadway BuzzThe Public Theater has announced its 2015-16 off-Broadway season, which will include the world premiere of First Daughter Suite, a new musical by Michael John LaChiusa, featuring Rachel Bay Jones, Mary Testa and more. Also in the se...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureAstronomer Chris Impey discusses the future of space travel, sex in space and the connection between science and Buddhism. Impey is the author of Beyond: Our Future in Space.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWhile the Greens offered the most support for publicly owned libraries, it is hoped that all parties sign up now to the Sieghart report Continue reading...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureFox announced today that the 15th season of American Idol will be the end of the road for what was once the biggest show on TV.
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comSpoiler Alert: If you have not seen Season 5, Episode 5 "Kill the Boy." Do not continue reading. Spoilers ahead! We all know "Game of Thrones" weddings are the most painful viewing experience in television history, but what about dinner ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWar reporter Christina Lamb illuminates Nato’s failures in Afghanistan in this captivating memoir of her years on the frontline Continue reading...
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Monday, May 11, 2015 from Sinfini Music
Is the British love affair with good old G&S on the wane? -
Monday, May 11, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'The message of this book is that people aren't always as they seem!' Continue reading...
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