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1 hr ago | The York Daily Record

The best camera apps for the wannabe Ansel Adams

Or not. In the world of digital photography, you don't have to flash a smile. Instead, just digitally paint a grin on your face afterward.

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Related Topix: Photography

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Hampshire Chronicle

JMW Turner print could return to Winchester

Mr Weeks, assistant manager at the National Trust property, said: "It's a once in a lifetime thing.

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Related Topix: Painting, United Kingdom, Isle of Wight County, England

The Winnipeg Free Press

Renowned Newfoundland tenor heads home for Festival 500 choral showcase

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Tenor David Pomeroy's star is still rising on the international opera stage but he traces an already acclaimed career back to Saturday mornings at his grandfather's house in St. John's, N.L. "He would sit at the piano and I would sing 'I Dream of Jeannie ' and these old songs," said Pomeroy.

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Related Topix: Canada, Opera, Comedy, I Dream of Jeannie, Entertainment, Television, Luciano Pavarotti, Pavarotti, Classical

EDGE

10 to See at the Ptown International Film Fest

There's no film festival like Provincetown. While other festivals focus on independent films, or genre films, or foreign cinema; The Provincetown International Film Festival casts a wider net.

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Related Topix: Cinema, Sundance Film Festival, Carrie, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Spring Breakers, Valhalla Rising

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Arkyd telescope latest space project to create buzz through crowdsourcing

The Arkyd telescope, a publicly funded project planned by Planetary Resources, will let people control the satellite for education, space photography and A A'space selfies,A images with Earth in the background.

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Related Topix: Photography, Bellevue, WA, UC Berkeley

WFAA-TV Dallas

Mom: RI theater threw out disabled girl over noise

A Massachusetts woman says she and her 5-year-old developmentally disabled daughter were thrown out of a Providence, R.I., theater during a "Beauty and the Beast" performance because the girl was making giggling and humming noises she makes when she's happy.

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Related Topix: Theater, Providence, RI

Lethbridge Herald

Inquiry looks at report Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, wife know unborn baby's gender

Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate mother.

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Related Topix: Shahrukh Khan, Bollywood, World News, India, Cinema

Mon Jun 17, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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