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  • Lady Gaga ready for live gig in August

    Pop star Lady Gaga, who underwent a hip operation earlier this year, is likely to perform on stage at a Beyonce Knowles' show in New York in August. Gaga is said to be planning her live return at the said show. If the news turns out to be true, it will be her first major gig following an operation on her hip in February. The grapevine is abuzz after a reported email sent by concert listings ...

  • The Addams Family wraps up Broadway at the Tennessee series News Sentinel

    The creepy, kooky "Addams Family" dance their dark family dynamics into the Tennessee Theatre May 31-June 1. The musical starring Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Lurch, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and Grandma is the last of the theater's 2012-13 Broadway at the Tennessee ...

  • Wayward Productions and Chicago Fusion Theatres Sons of Anarchy- inspired pr

    * Wayward Productions and Chicago Fusion Theatre's "Sons of Anarchy"-inspired production of Shakespeare's "Richard III" gets a remount at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. Director Carlo Lorenzo Garcia imagines the Rose Wars as a fight between two outlaw motorcycle gangs in this production, which was a hit earlier this year at The Underground Wonder ...

  • Strong end to Globe Theatre’s main stage season

    The Drowsy Chaperone -- the last production of the season for Regina's Globe Theatre -- is impressive and entertaining, and seemed to delight the opening Thursday night audience.The Globe's version of the Tony-award-winning Broadway musical involves a strong cast with many talents and some creative adaptations for the theatre-in-the-round setting. Before the show, Globe artistic ...

  • Seattles Native American art reconnects with Salish tribes traditions

    It's impossible to picture the Pacific Northwest without the image of a totem pole. Considered by many as the emblem of the native people of North ...

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The Limey

Steven Soderbergh is a tough director to put your finger on. He exploded onto the scene in 1989 with the indie groundbreaker "sex, lies, and videotape," and his career since then has been a journey of stylistic experimentation across numerous genres. In 1998, he made a bold move toward the mainstream with the uniformly excellent "Out of Sight," in which he energized what could have been a routine ... ...

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  • Top 10 cultural hotspots in Portland Oregon

    With comic-book stores, indie cinema, live gigs, theatre, cutting-edge galleries - and great coffee of course - Portland punches way above its weight for a city of its ...

  • The American Guide reinvented a new take on US travel

    The original series of the American Guide provided a written and visual record of the US in the 1930s and 40s. Its social media-driven revival hopes to deliver an equally powerful ...

  • Cruise out of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    Tom Cruise has reportedly dropped out of the movie adaptation of cult TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The actor was slated to portray American agent Napoleon Solo opposite Armie Hammer in director Guy Ritchie’s film, but according the The Hollywood Reporter, his deal was never closed and now he has walked away from the project. Hammer is still onboard to play Solo’s Soviet ...

  • Actor director opera singer Meet John Malkovich renaissance man

    I was on the phone, listening to the actor and director John Malkovich talk about his latest projects, and trying to come up with a description that does his purring voice justice. He speaks lightly, quietly. He metes out his syllables slowly, but also slides them into one another, from word to word and from sentence to sentence. He sounds partly bored and partly amused, like he's ...

  • Fast and Furious 6 Just think of it as a soap opera

    franchise is still going strong. To borrow a bit of stunt-car parlance made famous by Quentin Tarantino, we might say that the brand is Death Proof. How else to explain the presence in Justin Lin's film of Michelle Rodriguez, last seen taking a fatal bullet two sequels ago? The sudden resurrection of a fallen heroine- and the fact that she's been saddled with a convenient case of ...

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