| John Terry "all over wife Toni" at MJ musical British professional football player John Terry is said to have showered all his attention on his wife Toni at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End for the Michael Jackson musical... | |
| Placido Domingo undergoes colon cancer surgery Opera singer Placido Domingo has undergone surgery for colon cancer, revealed a... |
| Sequel to 'Phantom of the Opera' opens in London (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)The Phantom, played by Ramin Karimloo, right, performs a scene with Christine, played by Sierra Boggess, from the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, "Love Never Dies" at the... |
| Mass. Sen. Scott Brown to release memoir in 2011 Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, before attending the weekly caucus luncheons. (AP Photo/Harry... |
| Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero’s Time to Shine Caravaggio , who somehow found time to paint when he wasn’t brawling, scandalizing pooh-bahs, chasing women (and men), murdering a tennis opponent with a dagger to the groin, fleeing police... |
| LEAD: Movie director Kitano awarded France's top honor for arts+ PARIS, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)(EDS: UPDATING) Japanese film director Takeshi Kitano was conferred Tuesday France's highest honor for arts and culture in a ceremony in which the French culture... |
| Dance Company Performs in Mercer County MATOAKA -- Students in Mercer County are getting a look at a new way to learn this week. The West Virginia Dance Company is holding their Mercer County residency program from March 8 - 12. They were... |
| Bill on women passes vital first stage in India RAHUL BEDI in New DelhiINDIA’S UPPER house of parliament has overwhelmingly voted in a bill that would reserve one-third of all legislative seats for women.After a day-long heated and often... |
| Leibovitz strikes deal to clear her debt American celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has signed a deal with private equity firm Colony Capital LLC in order to clear her large debt and retain rights to her works. Leibovitz, 60, known... |
| At Adelphi Theater in London: Same Phantom, Different Spirit LONDON To think that all this time that poor old half-faced composer hasn’t been dead at all, just stewing in his lust for greater glory. Being the title character of “The Phantom... |
| Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works, at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, features the Église Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, in... |
| South by Southwest to Honor Film and TV Title Sequences South by Southwest festival will honor the winners of a film and television titles competition, a rare move to recognize those miniature stories and graphics displays that surround the opening... |
| N.H.L. General Managers Nearer to Acting on Some Hits to the Head BOCA RATON, Fla. — N.H.L. general managers moved closer Tuesday to recommending measures to penalize certain shoulder checks to the head, league officials... |
| Food Stuff: A New Anthology of Gastronomica Magazine University of California Press , $39.95), an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine of that name founded in 2001, edited by Darra Goldstein, is a volume to browse... |
| MtyMx Expands Indie-Rock Frontier to Mexico It was a scene of classic do-it-yourself Brooklyn concert promotion: In a small apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a dozen young workers who could pass for American Apparel models crowded onto sofas... |
| Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature Public Theater ’s Lab program, the young playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins tries to trace in bold strokes how the poisons spread by disgraced racial stereotypes continue to contaminate American... |
| Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection Christie’s , the art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie’s in New York in May. Valued at well over $150 million, it includes a 1932... |
| Music Review | Yelawolf: Alabama Rapper at Brooklyn Bowl, With ‘Trunk Muzik’ Mixtape Sweaty, drinking from a pitcher of beer and spilling his syllables in rapid, often inscrutable fashion, the Alabama rapper Yelawolf was doing the absolute best he could on the stage at Brooklyn Bowl... |
| Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993 Between 1992 and 1998, very few people outside Georgia knew about Harvey Milk. The band packed it in just after hiring a new and monstrous drummer, Kyle Spence, and just before a band could get... |
| Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall The concert presented by Max Lifchitz and his North/South Chamber Orchestra at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday night was billed as a 30th-anniversary gala. Since founding North/South Consonance in... |
| Opera users baffled by vulnerability warnings blog post that security companies are sending out mixed messages about the vulnerability, including inaccurate information on its effects and... |
| Acting New York State Police Superintendent Retiring March 9, 2010 - Albany, NY - ( release ) Today New York State Police Acting Superintendent Pedro Perez announced his retirement after 28 years of service. By operation of law under Section 6 of the... |
| Chesney to appear at Regal's Pinnacle Theatre for Variety children's charity National country star and East Tennessee's own Kenny Chesney is set to appear at a movie premiere in Knoxville next month, to benefit Variety, the Children's Charity. It's one more in a long string... |
| Cultural 'women to watch' omissions Fifty "women to watch" have been selected for the Cultural Leadership Programme by a panel of judges including choreographer Wayne McGregor, broadcaster Jenni Murray and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah.... |
| Jenny Holzer: Nightmares in neon You can drown in these words ... Jenny Holzer's Monument, 2008. Photograph: Mark Pinder A river of words runs across the floor. "I swim in her," say the 10 lanes of yellow text, streaming through... |
| Fawcett memorial more suited to Emmys: Academy The late actress Farrah Fawcett, shown Aug. 13, 2006, in Los Angeles, was not mentioned during the 'in memoriam' segment of the 2010 Academy Awards. Fawcett died of cancer in June 2009 at the age of... |
| Concert news: Steve Martin bringing his banjo to State Theatre in... Actor/comedian Steve Martin will present "An Evening of Bluegrass and Banjo" June 13 at the State Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. Tickets are $65 to $35 and will go on sale at noon Friday through... |
| New York City Opera goes 20th century next season NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York premieres of Bernstein's "A Quiet Place" and Stephen Schwartz's "Seance on a Wet Afternoon," the world stage premiere of John Zorn's "La Machine de l'etre" and the U.S.... |
| Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Fur Takes Center Stage Again Paris in winter has a fairy-tale quality. There are silver skies, palatial buildings and enchanted forests of shivering black trees lining the avenues. There are beauties and there are beasts —... |
| Ronald Searle: a life in pictures London – Revolt in Trafalgar Square, 1964, by Ronald Searle. Photograph: Reproduced by kind permission of the artist and the Sayle Literary Agency./© Ronald Searle. When I first wrote to Ronald... |
| Boeing Exec: Tanker ‘Soap Opera’ May Not Be Over March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Northrop Grumman Corp.’s decision to forgo bidding on the U.S. Air Force’s $35 billion refueling tanker program, leaving Boeing Co. without a competitor, may not... |
| 'Spartacus' star has non-Hodgkin lymphoma NEW YORK -- Andy Whitfield, who plays the title role in the Starz Original series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The British-born actor will begin... |
| On latest guitar game, players strum real strings NEW YORK -- A new musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument. "Power Gig: Rise of the SixString" is a game first and... |
| Peru drops some claims against Yale The government of Peru has withdrawn six of the 17 elements of its 2008 lawsuit against Yale University that demands the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu. Yale holds more than... |
| B.C. Haida artist Robert Davidson gets Governor General's visual-arts award MONTREAL - Eight Canadian artists, were named winners of the 2010 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts Tuesday at the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal.They are: - Haida sculptor... |
| Electronic Arts to publish new Big Huge Games title Electronic Arts . Redwood City, Calif.-based EA (NASDAQ: ERTS) struck a deal with Big Huge Games’ parent company 38 Studios LLC to publish a roleplaying game it has codenamed “Project... |
| Concert news: Steve Martin bringing his banjo to State Theatre in Minneapolis Actor/comedian Steve Martin will present "An Evening of Bluegrass and Banjo" June 13 at the State Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. Tickets are $65 to $35 and will go on sale at noon Friday through... |
| New York City Opera Goes 20th Century Next Season The New York premieres of Bernstein's "A Quiet Place" and Stephen Schwartz's "Seance on a Wet Afternoon," the world stage premiere of John Zorn's "La Machine de l'etre" and the U.S. stage premiere of... |
| Manipur lawyers stage sit-in IMPHAL: Lawyers, who have been abstaining from the Manipur High Court since Monday demanding an inquiry into Saturday's shooting of Advocate-General Nongmeikappam Koteswor, staged a demonstration in... |
| Guardian Camera Club: YesBut on night photography YesBut participates in the night photography monthly assignment.London at night (or any large city) can be a never ending source of inspiration for photographers. In 'Chips with everything at Lower... |