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2 hrs ago | EDGE

The Hottest Places to Stay in Provincetown

Provincetown is known for its guest houses that are old captain's mansions restored to glory by ambitious entrepreneurs, who have invested their lives to pampering their clients.

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Related Topix: Provincetown, MA, Interior Design

4 hrs ago | Daily Times

My love life has been unsuccessful: Sonam Kapoor

She is young, vivacious and has played the love struck romantic in reel life, but Sonam Kapoor confesses that she has not been lucky when it came to love in real life, Zee News reports.

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Related Topix: Anil Kapoor, Shahid Kapur, Cinema

8 hrs ago | USA Today

Paralyzed painter depicts country stars from wheelchair

There's a country song by Carrie Underwood, 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' that Richard Masters has often listened to while he paints in the basement of his home.

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Related Topix: Carrie Underwood, Webster, NY, Painting

8 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Tony Awards spur box offices on Broadway

There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," "Matilda the Musical" and "Motown the Musical."

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Related Topix: Theater, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Entertainment

8 hrs ago | Connecticut Post

Tony Awards spur box offices on Broadway

This June 9, 2013 file photo shows Patina Miller accepting her Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her role in "Pippin" at the 67th Annual Tony Awards in New York.

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Related Topix: Theater, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Entertainment

12 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Helen Mirren in 'The Audience' sets NT Live record

National Theatre Live, which broadcasts stage shows from England to movie screens worldwide, said Monday that its June 13 live broadcast of Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in the play "The Audience" has captured its largest audience to date.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Helen Mirren, Elizabeth Ii, Europe, United Kingdom, World News, Princess Diana, Theater, Entertainment

15 hrs ago | Cool Hunting

Interview: Spencer Tunick: Liberating the nude condition on an epic scale with stunning photography

Photographer Spencer Tunick fills landscapes and public places with the naked body.

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Related Topix: Photography, Oil Spill, Mexico, NY, World News, Mexico,

20 hrs ago | TheDay.Com

Renovation of Avery Point student center frees a Coast Guard frieze

Renovations of a former Coast Guard building to a new student center at UConn Avery Point in Groton, seen Wednesday, are nearing completion.

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Related Topix: Theater, Groton, CT, University of Connecticut, New London, CT, Trumbull, CT

Yesterday | WISH-TV Indianapolis

Second City co-founder Bernarda

Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, who co-founded Chicago's Second City theater and who nurtured the early careers of many of "Saturday Night Live's" biggest stars over the years, has died.

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Related Topix: Brian Doyle-Murray, Theater, Entertainment

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Real Bollywood

Moms' stories will shock you: Marzi Pestonji

New Delhi, June 16: The dance reality show "Dance India Dance Super Moms" may have given wings to several women and choreographer Marzi Pestonji, one of the judges on the show, says their life stories are shocking.

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Related Topix: Dance, Mithun Chakraborty

Daily Record

'Present Laughter' a champagne nitecap to Two River season

Written bySir Noel Coward as a vehicle for his own multifaceted talents, the 1939 comedy "Present Laughter" has proven irresistible to many of the larger-then-life leading men of stage and screen, who find in its portrait of an aging matinee idol just the sort of send-up they can sink their teeth into.

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Related Topix: Noel Coward, Theater, End of the Rainbow

GPB.org

Burning Down The House: Artistic Freedom Under Fire In Egypt

Egyptian employees of the Cairo Opera House and opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi hold placards during a demonstration inside the opera's compound in Cairo on May 30, following the dismissal of the head of the opera house.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Egypt, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Mohamed Morsi, Opera, Muslim Brotherhood, Theater

The Advocate

Miss Ohio contestants strut their style at fashion show

Twenty-three contestants modeled outfits provided by Richland Mall merchants Saturday afternoon, from casual shorts and tops to sundresses and skinny jeans in front of a crowd of well-wishers.

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Related Topix: Ohio, Mansfield, OH, Columbus, OH, State Prisons, Ohio State Reformatory, Prison, Wapakoneta, OH, Theater

News Journal

Experts debate best way to encourage more organ donors

Art Caplan, of New York University's Langone Medical Center, says organ donors can't have infectious diseases.

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Related Topix: Photography

Sat Jun 15, 2013

EDGE

Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks

"Gypsy." "Follies." "West Side Story." Did you know these three landmark shows did not win the Best Musical Tony Award? Peter Filichia does and he's fashioned a volume, "Stripper, Showgirls, and Sharks," that looks at these and other titles that were passed over for that award.

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Related Topix: Theater, Music!, Tony Awards

KWQC-TV Davenport

Police say hit & run killed 21-year-old woman

Chicago police have identified a woman killed late Friday in a hit & run accident as a 21-year-old coffeehouse worker who had studied graphic design.

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Related Topix: Graphic Design

WOZZ-FM Appleton

Fans rally for Bolshoi dancer fired in acid attack...

More than a hundred Russian ballet fans rallied in Moscow on Saturday in support of a top dancer who says he is being chased out of the Bolshoi Theatre due to disputes in the wake of an acid attack on its artistic director earlier this year.

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Related Topix: New-Wave, The Bolshoi, Ballet

Seattle Times

'M' or 'F'? Outdated IDs worry transgender people

Lauren Grey didn't think much about the gender recorded on her Illinois driver's license until she went to test-drive a new car.

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Related Topix: Transgender, Illinois, Graphic Design

The Republic

Richmond group seeks new home for trademark organ

A Richmond preservation group is looking for the perfect home for a cream-and-gold organ that was a trademark of a city theater's stage shows and feature films.

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Related Topix: Theater, Knoxville, TN

Hispanic Business

Michael Shannon a long way from home in 'Man of Steel'

LEXINGTON, Ky. _ This weekend's big summer superhero blockbuster movie finds Lexington native Michael Shannon in an unusual place: the middle of a big summer superhero blockbuster movie.

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Related Topix: The Iceman, Revolutionary Road, Lexington, KY, Boardwalk Empire, Entertainment, Television, Michael Shannon, Cinema