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Vincent Kartheiser, from 'Mad Men' to 'Pride and Prejudice' onstage
Vincent Kartheiser will swap his sharp suits for ruffles and coattails. The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis announced that the “Mad Men” star will play Mr. Darcy in its summer production of “Pride and Prejudice.” The adaptation by...
Tags: Discrimination, Colin Firth, Jane Austen
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NBC airs The Office retrospective before series finale
Channel Guide MagazineAhead of the series finale, NBC will air an hourlong The Office retrospective special produced by NBC News. Chances are you never looked at your workplace or your coworkers the same way after seeing an episode of The Office. The comedy series that started... -
Review: Pacific Symphony salute to Duke Ellington fails to swing
What do we do with the Duke? He was, most agree, the greatest jazz composer who ever lived. And more. Duke Ellington was the soul of American music. David Schiff has just written a brilliantly illuminating book, "The Ellington Century," that places...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Music Industry, Martin Luther King Jr., Vicodin (drug)
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CSO and Mena invite audience to go with the flow
Any coherence to be found in the weekend Chicago Symphony Orchestra program is thematic, not musical. Which is to say that the four works led by guest conductor Juanjo Mena Thursday night at Symphony Center represented unrelated styles and periods but all...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Music Industry, Entertainment, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
House committee to grill ousted head of embattled IRS for targeting tea party groups WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny the...Tags: Labor Markets, Republican Party, Sex Crimes, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Army
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George Michael car crash results in cuts, bruises for singer
Singer George Michael has been involved in a car crash in England that resulted in a helicopter airlift to a hospital. The former Wham! singer, 49, was a passenger in his Range Rover on London's M1 highway Thursday when the accident occurred around 5:50...Tags: Punishment, Air and Space Accidents, George Michael, Downton Abbey (tv program), Transportation Accidents
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Car bombs in Turkey kill at least 42 near Syria border
BEIRUT — At least 42 people were reported dead Saturday in a pair of car bombings in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli, the latest apparent example of spillover violence from the conflict in nearby Syria. More than 140 people were injured,...
Tags: Bombings, United Nations, Ankara (Turkey), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Turkey
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ABC primetime schedule 2013-2014
Channel Guide MagazineABC announced its 2013-2014 prime time schedule on Tuesday, adding fourteen new shows and a Disney/Pixar special to its programming roster. “We are taking some big swings with groundbreaking shows this season, and staying close to our roots with... -
Death toll in Turkey bomb blasts rises to 40
BEIRUT — The death toll from a pair of car bombs Saturday in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli has risen to at least 40, according to authorities and news reports, the latest apparent example of spillover violence from the conflict in nearby...
Tags: Bombings, United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Turkey, Explosions
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Geza Vermes dies at 88; scholar wrote about Dead Sea Scrolls
Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched gears, penning his doctoral thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
Tags: Hungary, Anglicanism, Arts and Culture, Teachers, Duke University
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Ono Fears Real-Life Meltdown at Upcoming Meltdown Festival
The widow of John Lennon is concerned she’ll suffer a breakdown while performing the final songs she recorded with her late husband for the first time at next month’s Meltdown festival in London. Yoko Ono, who curated this year’s...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Land of Linkin'
Change of SubjectA weekly listing of intriguing, wacky, useful, provocative and otherwise interesting links that readers and I have come across and think you might want to see. Look for Land of Linkin' first thing every Monday morning and click here to......
May 18, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 17, 2013
|Story| AP Member Choice Limited
May 17, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 11, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 11, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 15, 2013
|Story| WSBT Radio
May 13, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
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