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Looking Out: Gay marriage makes strides in France
The Baltimore SunAs part of this blog's effort to provide LGBT-related news and commentary, we'll be bringing you links to stories from around the web in a weekly feature called Looking Out. Here's a look at what's making a splash today: -- Same-sex marriage has...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Social Issues
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Cannes 2013: For Octavia Spencer, a new stop with 'Fruitvale Station'
CANNES, France -- You’d expect a savvy pro such as Octavia Spencer to have dropped in on the Cannes Film Festival once or twice over the years. But there she was on Thursday afternoon, taking it all in like a wide-eyed tourist. “First...Tags: Entertainment, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), The Weinstein Company, Sundance Film Festival, Movies
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'The Marriage of Figaro,' right in time with the 21st century
Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren't thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed "The Marriage of Figaro." The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva's efforts to invoke droit du seigneur to sexually conquer...
Tags: Entertainment, Jean Nouvel, Marriage, Hussein Chalayan, Same-Sex Marriage
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Former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle dies of apparent suicide
Former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle died Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities in Boger City, N.C., said. He was 71. Lincoln County sheriff's Lt. Tim Johnson said authorities received a call, apparently from Trickle, who said...
Tags: NASCAR, Stock Car Racing, Auto Racing, Dwayne Johnson, Suicide
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Correction: New Virus story
NEW YORK (AP) — In a story May 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to health care workers in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the 20 deaths attributed to the virus. There have been no...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Pneumonia, Health Organizations, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work
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Top-ranked Novak Djokovic wastes chance to serve out match in loss to Berdych at Italian Open
AP Sports WriterROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic can't seem to find any consistency on clay courts. And with French Open less than 10 days away, he will enter Roland Garros coming off two early losses. The top-ranked Serb wasted a chance to serve out the match and was...Tags: Virginie Razzano, Ernests Gulbis, David Ferrer, Victoria Azarenka, Spain
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Cannes 2013: Seen at the Carlton
CANNES, France -- While the Cannes Film Festival turns all the hotels on La Croisette, this city’s beachfront main street, into advertising sites for new and upcoming films, the pride of place is always reserved for the grand dame of hostelries, the...
Tags: Despicable Me 2 (movie), Film Festivals, Cannes Film Festival, Monsters University (movie)
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Cannes 2013: Opening night welcomes 'Great Gatsby,' Euro-style
CANNES, France -- The movie world feted an old friend Wednesday night, or at least an old sport. Two weeks after celebrating Baz Luhrmann's big-budget adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel with a throwback party at the Plaza Hotel in New York,...Tags: Entertainment, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Manhattan (New York City), Movies, Cannes Film Festival
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Cannes Film Festival projects cross-cultural cinema
— Invariably, the Cannes Film Festival chooses a striking image for its official annual poster. But the 2013 version can be seen as a particularly apt metaphor for the dual nature of the world's most essential cinema event. Paris-based graphic...Tags: Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon, A Prophet (movie), Steven Spielberg, Arnaud Desplechin
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James Conlon to pay tribute to Colin Davis in Paris
James Conlon, the music director of Los Angeles Opera, will pay tribute to the late conductor Colin Davis in a pair of concerts this month at the Festival de Saint-Denis in Paris. Davis had been scheduled to conduct the concerts, but the renowned...
Tags: Entertainment, James Conlon, Arts and Culture, Radio, Music
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Proposed 'culture tax' in France would affect smartphones, tablets
Here's a proposal that would have a hard time finding support in the United States. A new government study in France suggests levying a new tax as high as 1% on the sale of smartphones, tablets and other Internet devices, with the funds going toward...
Tags: Google Inc., Canal+, Arts and Culture
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Indexes head higher in afternoon trading even as manufacturing weakens and Europe slumps
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Investors nudged the stock market to all-time highs Wednesday despite a handful of disappointing economic reports. Google's stock topped $900 for the first time after the company announced new versions of its prodcuts, and Macy's...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Earnings Forecasts, NASDAQ, Google Inc., Credit Ratings
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