• Police probe Chris Brown death threats

  Police in Los Angeles have launched a probe into allegations singer Chris Brown has been bombarded with death threats. The R&B star's attorney Mark Geragos turned to authorities after receiving a number of menacing phone calls at his Los Angeles office targeting Brown, according to TMZ.com. Geragos contacted police and filed a report, prompting detectives at the Los Angeles Police ...

• Christine White dead at 86

  Twilight Zone actress Christine White passed away on April 14 at a nursing home in Washington, D.C., at age 86. Her death was only publicized in a recent notice in The Carroll County Times in Maryland. The actress, also known as Christine Lamson White, enjoyed a career spanning over 20 years and appeared in more than 50 movies and TV series, including shows like Perry Mason, The Loretta Young ...

• In praise of … Xu Bing | Editorial

  A language written in pictures like Chinese lends itself to calligraphy as art, and art as calligraphy. Xu Bing, whose exhibition Landscape Landscript ran this spring at ...

• Angelina Jolie to play her mom in biopic

  Angelina Jolie is set to celebrate the life of her late mother Marcheline Bertrand by portraying her onscreen in a planned biopic, according to U.K. reports. The Hollywood beauty is working on the project with her fiance Brad Pitt, who is said to be producing the film through his company Plan B next year, reports the Sunday Express. Details surrounding the movie are scarce, but it is likely to ...

• Edward Furlong freed on bail

  Embattled actor Edward Furlong has been released from a Los Angeles jail after posting $100,000 bail. The Terminator 2: Judgment Day star was arrested on Thursday for allegedly violating a restraining order obtained by his ex-girlfriend Monica Keena, after he was found in a stairwell close to her West Hollywood home. He spent two nights behind bars before being released on Saturday afternoon, ...

• Arts Briefly Pearl Theater Company Unveils Schedule

  The Pearl Theater Company, the Off Broadway troupe that mounts classic plays and new works dealing with classical themes, has announced its 2013-14 season. The world premiere of ...

• Media Decoder Charlie Rose to Host a Prime Time Show on PBS

  Viewers can already wake up with Charlie Rose on ...

• Media Decoder Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing

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• Music Review Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field

  The map of Electric Daisy Carnival, the two-day electronic dance music festival that began on Friday at Citi Field, was also a map of genres and subgenres. In 11 hours of continuous music from five stages, there were pop tunes and blasts of noise, immediate thrills and inexorable buildups, cheap shots and rich experiments. New York ...

• Bridge Bridge

  Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...

• Bridge Bridge

  Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...

• Bridge Bridge

  Glenn Milgrim of New York City was the main architect of the Red Hook charity event at the Honors Bridge Club in Manhattan on May 8. It was therefore fitting that he and his partner, R. Jay Becker of New York City, had the highest score. The diagramed deal was declared by ...

• Dance Review 35 Choreographed by Aynsley Vandenbroucke

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• Music Review Rebecca Luker at 54 Below

  The comparison of a soprano with a nightingale goes back at least to the time of Jenny Lind, the 19th-century opera diva known as ...

• Movie Review Aurangzeb Directed by Atul Sabharwal

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• Critics Notebook Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras Young Leaders

  When it comes to classical music these days, the kids ...

• Music Review Philadelphia Orchestra and Simon Rattle at Carnegie Hall

  Even after you bag a charismatic, young new boyfriend, ...

• A Word With Pat Metheny and John Zorn A Word With Pat Metheny and John Zorn

  At first glance, Pat Metheny and John Zorn might seem to come from different planets. Mr Metheny, 58, is a guitarist whose music has resonated broadly throughout jazz and instrumental pop, a dazzling virtuoso with a warm human touch. Mr Zorn, 59, is a saxophonist of firm avant-garde conviction, a natural polarizer and provocateur. Yet the two have some fundamental things in common, ...

• A Staging for Vonneguts Make Up Your Mind

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• Music Review Beka Gochiashvili and Gadi Lehavi at the Allen Room

  Whenever a respected jazz musician ...

• Arabtec workers stage strike in Abu Dhabi Dubai

  Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec has confirmed thousands of its workers have stayed away from work on Sunday demanding better wages, Reuters has reported. Two Arabtec employees who asked not to be identified told the news service several thousand workers engaged on various projects did not report for duty on Sunday and stayed in their accommodation. "We are working to resolve ...

• Arts Under the Oaks brings unique items to Long Beach

  LONG BEACH, MS (WLOX) - A variety of jewelry, bags, painted wine glasses and baked dishes could be found at Arts Under the Oaks in Long Beach on Sunday. Located next to the Harbor View Cafe, vendors of all sorts brought their handmade items to be sold to those looking for something different. There were wreaths made of oysters to brightly colored t-shirts and freshly made pecan pie. All ...

• Montreal’s ‘Gandhi of hip hop’ takes on the musical

  A telling thing happens as Josh Dolgin, the Montreal musical performance artist who goes by the moniker "Socalled," sits down to talk about his two latest projects. Dolgin spent the winter creating a soundtrack album ...

• Daft Punk’s new album dance music that’s both danceable and humanistic

  , Daft Punk, the visionary dance-floor duo with the serious visors, has achieved the obvious and the counterrevolutionary: Dance music that is danceable and humanistic. As a comment on the record's retro fetish, someone posted on YouTube an ...

• Kenya Revenue Bill enters second stage in Senate

  Debate on the proposed law, which gives direction on how national revenue is to be divided between the national and county governments, will be the major task of ...

• Ozzy Sharon united on red carpet

  Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon put their rocky few months behind them on Saturday to walk the red carpet together at a star-studded event in Hollywood. The Osbournes have been dogged by rumours of marriage problems and were said to have been living apart as the Black Sabbath star battles a recent drug and alcohol relapse. But they put their troubles behind them to make a public ...

• Critics Notebook Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis Is Popular at Cannes

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• Books of The Times Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  When readers of ...

• US India dance awkwardly around the man who might be Indias next leader

  India's main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi gestures during a campaign rally for the upcoming state elections in Bangalore, India, April ...

• Arsenal dance on pitch but still look out of step against Newcastle

  Arsenal reins 17 years ago. As he embraced Mikel Arteta at the final whistle at St James' Park there was a huge sense of relief but also vindication after defying his critics and finishing in the top four for the 16th successive year.Contract speculation, rumours of unrest within the coaching staff, the worst start since 1994 and a contentious rant at the media have certainly made this ...

• UPDATE 1-Indian cinema on a mission at Cannes to dispel Bollywood image

  Sun May 19, 2013 3:54pm EDT * Bollywood films have struggled at global box office * Four Indian films screened at Cannes film festival * Industry keen to lure investment to India (Adds Bombay Talkies premiere) By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES, May 19 (Reuters) - Indian movie actors and a new wave of directors are on a mission at the Cannes film festival - to show that their industry, which turns ...

• Bates raises creep factor

  There have been many shows about towns full of pathological weirdos - Twin Peaks, of course, and Picket Fences and Eerie, Indiana to name a few. Bates Motel is definitely one of them. Uneven in tone from episode to episode, A&E's "contemporary prequel" to Hitchcock's Psycho airs its season finale Monday having nonetheless amassed a fair-sized list of creepy, ...

• Foley plays for laughs in Games

  Can you image competing with your brothers and sisters for your inheritance? That's the premise of The Goodwin Games, a new comedy premiering Monday that stars Scott Foley, Becki Newton and T.J. Miller. Foley plays an uptight doctor, Newton plays an actress and Miller portrays an inept criminal. These three are siblings at war over a $23 million inheritance. Their eccentric father (Beau ...

• How do you organise your books

  Tate Britain purely to look at some Turners in which case you could just follow the arrows to the Ts and give the Reynolds and the Stubbs a miss.Or you could curate an exhibition in the way I have arranged my books at home. Most people looking at my shelves might assume they were stacked randomly; but that is far from the truth. It's just that they are arranged in a way to reflect both the ...

• Television Review The Goodwin Games With Beau Bridges on Fox

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• Television Review Motive New Crime Drama on ABC

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• The power of photography time mortality and memory

  We take thousands of pictures nowadays, but do we still cherish them? We asked writers and artists, including Grayson Perry and Mary McCartney, to pick a shot they treasure - and tell us the role photography has played in their ...

• Visconti wins gruelling Giro stage

  cycling is in dire need of a heroic figure who can capture the public's imagination and bring pizzazz and sponsorship money back into the sport. That gap - and its underlying reasons - was thrown into clear relief when the slightly truncated 14th stage of ...

• Musical world celebrates Wagners 200th birthday

  BAYREUTH, Germany--Opera houses the world over are scrambling to pay tribute to Richard Wagner, the controversial German composer often referred to as Hitler's favorite, who would have turned 200 this ...

• Lets go Bulworth... If Barack Obama wants to act like a cinema president which films should he copy

  Thankfully only the later part of that plot seems to have inspired Obama. The New York Times' Peter Baker reported last week that Obama had spoken "longingly of 'going Bulworth'" and telling it like it is.As Baker's story and other Obama moments have proven, it's not the only Hollywood plot available to those in the West ...

• Graham on one-hour orgasms

  The Hangover star Heather Graham has detailed her past sex hang-ups in a revealing new movie screenplay. The actress admits she was scarred by religious teachings, which suggested that kids who had sex before marriage were on the fast track to hell. She says, "When you grow up Catholic and you're told that you're going to go to hell for having pre-marital sex, then how do ...

• Mellencamp-King musical to debut

  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A musical by John Mellencamp, writer Stephen King and T Bone Burnett will debut in Bloomington this fall before embarking on a tour of 20 U.S. cities. "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" will debut Oct. 10 at the Indiana University ...

• Dubai laborers stage rare strike for more pay

  DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec, stayed away from work on Sunday to back wage demands, a rare labor protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned, staff ...

• Photography top tips for storing and viewing your images

  Printing your images out and putting them in an old-fashioned album with amusing captions, just like my Dad used to, is still my favourite way to look at family snaps. You could use an electronic photoframe, but I think they're a bit Alan Partridge, usually run from the mains and not very ...

• Hey British moaners Germans want to be more like us | Stephen Evans

  Aaron Barschak had not only walked through security but he had climbed on stage next to the prince. The accounts got ever more colourful (and perhaps fanciful). It was said that the "comedy terrorist" had been directed by a policeman through Windsor Castle: It's just down there, Sir, first on the left.In America, this would have been a matter of great seriousness. The news anchors ...

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