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World's 50 Best Restaurants: El Celler de Can Roca beats out Noma for planet's top restaurant
The annual list of the "World's 50 Best Restaurants" has come out, and three-year champ Noma, in Copenhagen, has been knocked from its No. 1 perch. El Celler de Can Roca, a Spanish restaurant presided over by the Roca brothers, has bumped René Redzepi's...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Michelin Group, Ben Affleck, Dining and Drinking, Awards and Prizes
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SXSW 2013: Nick Cave on life spent in an 'imaginative world'
AUSTIN, Texas -- Outspoken rock 'n' roll balladeer Nick Cave traced his beginnings from “rural Australia” to the more comforting confines of his own imagination in a sprawling, hour-long chat at the South by Southwest music conference here....
Tags: Landforms, Concerts, Entertainment, Music, Australia
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Australia's Back to Back pushes theatrical boundaries
At first blush, "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich" sounds like a long-lost Monty Python skit about some bizarre time-tripping action-figure wrestling bout. Indeed, as the title hints, a cosmic smackdown between the pachyderm Hindu god and the German Führer...
Tags: Nazi Party, Celebrities, Ethics, Religion and Belief, Sydney (Australia)
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Rafael Nadal pulls out of Australian Open
Rafael Nadal's comeback has been put on hold for a few more weeks -- or perhaps, a couple of months -- following his withdrawal from the Australian Open. But it is not the troublesome left knee preventing him from playing in Melbourne. The Spanish...
Tags: Tennis, Radio Industry, Rafael Nadal, Australian Open, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Media matriarch and philanthropist Dame Elisabeth Murdoch dies at 103
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, mother of News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, has died at her home outside Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 103. The matriarch of the world's most prominent media family was well-known in Australia for her philanthropy, and...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Children's Health, Rupert Murdoch, Newspaper and Magazine, News Corp.
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PASSINGS: Doris Betts, Norman Fruman, Stanley R. Resor, Greg Ham, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller
Doris Betts
Southern author of short stories, novels
Doris Betts, 79, a novelist and writing teacher best known for short stories and novels that evoke the geography and mores of the South, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Pittsboro, N.C.,...Tags: Teachers, Unrest, Conflicts and War, England, New York University, Companies and Corporations
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Chris Lilley talks about busting taboos on HBO's 'Angry Boys'
Show TrackerAn interview with Chris Lilley, star/creator of HBO's "Summer Heights High," about his new HBO series "Angry Boys," in which he plays a rapper in blackface, among other characters.... -
Greg Norman hopes pairing helps Tiger Woods, ex-caddie move on
The Fabulous ForumGreg Norman says no one wants the recent controversy between Tiger Woods and his ex-caddie Steve Williams to be an issue at this weeks' Presidents Cup.... -
Bill Hunter dies at 71; prolific Australian actor
Bill Hunter, the archetypal working-class Australian of a multitude of movies including the quirky trio "Muriel's Wedding," "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Strictly Ballroom" died of cancer May 21 in a Melbourne hospice, his...Tags: Fred Astaire, Television, Stephan Elliott, Celebrities, Health
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PASSINGS: John Walker
John Walker, 67, a guitarist and singer who was one of the founding members of the Walker Brothers, a 1960s rock band whose biggest hit was "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)," died of liver cancer Saturday in Los Angeles, according to his personal...Tags: Boxing, Japan, London (England), Stroke, Entertainment
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PASSINGS: Lionel Rose, Gunter Sachs, Thomas G. Nelson
Lionel Rose
1st Aborigine to a win world boxing title
Lionel Rose, 62, the first Australian Aborigine to win a world boxing title, died Sunday near Melbourne after being ill for several months, his family said. He had a stroke in 2007 that left him...Tags: Boxing, Documentary (genre), Germany, Photography, Japan
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Cut Copy reveals details of forthcoming album, gives a shout-out to Ariel Pink
Pop & HissIt's a mantra for many a band seeking inspiration: back to the stacks, back to the stacks, back to the stacks. The Australian trio Cut Copy, whose free-spirited break-out album, "In Ghost Colours," finely plumbed the depths of '80s electropop,......
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