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Taylor Swift: Harry Styles inspired 'I Knew You Were Trouble'
Taylor Swift has seemingly revealed that her break-up song "I Knew You Were Trouble" was penned with One Direction crooner Harry Styles in mind. Is anyone surprised? In an interview with the UK's Sunday Times Magazine, Swift was asked if it was...
Tags: The X Factor (tv program), Music, One Direction (music group), Perez Hilton, Morgan Spurlock
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Aisles of treats from the Emerald Isle
When the luck of the Irish holds, the lovers buy Claddagh rings for their valentines, frat boys gearing up for St. Paddy's Day go for Guinness caps with built-in bottle openers — and come Christmas, there's a run on plum pudding and St. Nicks in...
Tags: Leprechauns (legendary entities), St. Patrick's Day, Shamrock, Biscuits, Cadbury plc
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Best TV shows of 2012: The year of Sherlock Holmes
For the generations of men who have wondered what it is women want, this year has made it fairly obvious. We want a man of devastating intelligence, cerebrally and physically nimble, whose vast store of arcane knowledge is foundation for a super-human...
Tags: Mark Gatiss, BBC, Entertainment Events, Elementary (tv program), New York City Police Department
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Brit Awards: Blur returns and Adele raises her middle finger
Pop & HissWelcome home, Adele. Now please, step aside for Blur. London's soulful singer, who won six Grammy Awards and performed for the first time earlier this month after undergoing vocal cord surgery, unexpectedly took top honors at the 2012 Brit Awards. Her... -
Discovery premieres first independently produced landmark natural history series, “North America”
Channel Guide Magazine“We called [North America] the most extreme continent, and we always talked about it being an extreme continent, and every single month there was something else to remind us of why that was true.” — Huw Cordey, North America series... -
Jane Glover takes stock of her fruitful decade with Music of the Baroque
Chicago music has long gone gaga over the Brits, and not simply because the city's two leading opera companies are, or were, run by thoroughly capable Englishmen – Anthony Freud at Lyric Opera and Brian Dickie, who retired last year after 13 seasons...
Tags: Music, Music Industry, Theater, Vladimir Feltsman, Entertainment Events
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Movie awards: Unusual joins usual
More cinema awards. The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has a reputation for sometimes picking unusual choices. This year, the critics honored "Amour" (picture and female actor Emmanuelle Riva), "The Master" (director P.T. Anderson, actors Joaquin...
Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Holidays, Django Unchained (movie), Romola Garai, Killing Them Softly (movie)
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Torrington's Warner Theatre Hosts a Downton Abbey-Themed Party For the Premiere of Season 3
And there was much rejoicing by British-TV obsessives: Connecticut's own CPTV celebrates its 50th year of existence with a gala of Edwardian proportions at Torrington's Warner Theatre on Saturday, starting at 5:30 p.m. For $60 a head, participants...
Tags: Jerry Seinfeld, Music, Lenny Bruce, XL Center, Julian Fellowes
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B is for bizarre -- also for Boehner, budget and Washington bozos
Paul GreenbergHow long is this show going to go on in Washington, and must it? They say closing time for its costars is midnight, December 31. That's when the president and the speaker of the House need to agree on the federal budget Or Else, but politicians never...Tags: John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff, Politics, Barack Obama, Washington Monument
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Battle of the Beers coming up Nov. 9 in Newport News
It’s the Brits vs. the Americans when The Mariners’ Museum hosts a “Battle of the Beers” competition on Friday, Nov. 9. The event will feature five British brews and five American brews in a contest that marks the 200th...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Christopher Newport University, Alcoholic Beverages
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Q&A: Future of the Left singer Andy Falkous
RedEye Sound BoardThe increasingly bland, widely accessible pop-rock of the Brits in Coldplay have made them international stars. Relatively close by in Wales, Future of the Left has delivered three fantastic records—including this year’s “The Plot...Tags: Music, 2016 Olympic Games, Politics, Donald Trump, Bleep (euphemism)
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For Brits, Cavendish's run at gold just so much road kill
LONDON — Over Londoner John Armah's shoulder, about a quarter-mile away, was Buckingham Palace. Just around the corner was the prime minister's residence. The stage was perfectly set for the apparent inevitability Saturday when reigning world...
Tags: BBC, Imperial and Royal Matters, Rigoberto Uran, Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes
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