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Tony-nominee David Rockwell reveals his first love
One clue to understanding how David Rockwell's mind works is by finding out what he collects.
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Fort Morgan's School for the Performing Arts recitals showcase talents
The beginning voice ensemble made up of, from left, Taylor Wingstrom, Cora Rhode, Becky Kopetzky, Hannah Graff, Makinna Miller, Simon Graff and Allie Reagan sang a The Lonely Goatherda ? during The School of the Performing Arts recital at Life Fellowship Church Saturday.
Salman Khan is like Tom Cruise of India: Lauren Gottlieb
If international dancer-actress Lauren Gottlieb hopes to be seen in an action film soon a la Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, she also wants to team up with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2013/may/240513-salman-khan-is-like-tom-cruise-of-india-lauren-gottlieb.htm If international dancer-actress Lauren Gottlieb ... (more)
Brad Pitt surprises movie audience at NJ screening
Hollywood star Brad Pitt gave fans in New Jersey a treat by showing up unannounced at a screening of his new zombie movie, World War Z. The audience was settling down to watch Pitt's apocalyptic horror film when the actor walked into the theater at Clearview Cinemas in Hoboken, N.J. He handed out T-shirts to the delighted crowd before giving a ... (more)
Ethan Coen's first long play and a new work by Stephen Adly Guirgis featured at Atlantic
This May 19, 2013 file photo shows film director and playwright Ethan Coen during a photo call for the film "Inside Llewyn Davis" at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France.
Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country.
Edward Hopper painting of NY island sells for $19M
"Blackwell's Island," a large-scale oil painting from 1928, sold at Christie's on Thursday.
Commentary: Sequel summer steams on
The summer movie season has already brought moviegoers "Iron Man 3" and "Star Trek Into Darkness," the 12th film in that series.
Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes
Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella .
First flower festival in 10 years at Winchester Cathedral
THINK of symphonies at Winchester Cathedral and you can't help but imagine sounds of grand orchestras booming through the halls.
Wayne Miller dies at 94; photos chronicled black Chicago life
Photographer Wayne Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, died Wednesday.
Constable's Salisbury Cathedral work saved for nation in A 23.1m deal
One of "the great masterpieces of British art" has been saved for the nation in a deal that will see it go on show across the country.
Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for 'Figaro' opera
Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines.
Allergy-friendly cookbook has safe treats for kids; ballet barre workouts
To be a "kid in a candy store" epitomizes the ultimate dream come true, one that only gets better when the shop is owned by your mom and aunt.
Puerto Rico's Culebra awaits new hospital, school
Puerto Rico's tiny island of Culebra has been forever dependent on the U.S. territory for food, jobs and health care, but the territory's governor is cutting some of those strings.
Dallas exhibit reunites art JFK saw before death
Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling "reverential." Zajac's small sculpture of a bound goat was among a collection of impressive artwork that decorated the president's Fort Worth hotel suite in hopes of creating something ... (more)
Smash has turned out to be the big gamble that didn't catch on, despite dramatic changes behind the scenes, heavy promotion, a new time and an additional narrative that focused on twenty-somethings putting on a show that would end up competing with "Bombshell" for a Tony.
Cannes: James Franco builds a bookish filmography
The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg and Hart Crane .
Azarov demands to cancel accreditation of journalists for protest during government meeting
Journalists organized a protest at a Cabinet of Ministers meeting on Wednesday demanding the dismissal of Ukrainian interior minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, but Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, in turn, demanded that their accreditation be canceled.
Farmworkers Fight Wendy's, the 'Last Holdout' on Fair Food
An oversized puppet of the Wendy's mascot, provided by the People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, took part in silent street theater to convince the fast food giant to sign onto the Fast Food campaign.