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Playwright drags Chile's conscience into the spotlight
The stage lights rise, and Michelle Bachelet — former political prisoner, torture victim and socialist president of Chile from 2006 to 2010 — braces herself to deliver a dramatic farewell speech. "Pardon me if I offend the fascists," she tells...
Tags: Chile, Entertainment, Santiago (Chile), Crime, Law and Justice, Skype
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Coachella 2013 feels something like a British re-invasion
Ten minutes into his band's performance Friday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, singer Damon Albarn of Blur realized he hadn't introduced himself. So after a hard-driving rendition of Blur's song "There's No Other Way," the...
Tags: Entertainment, Blur (music group), Nottingham, Jake Bugg, Music Industry
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PASSINGS: Storm Thorgerson
Storm Thorgerson Creator of album art for Pink Floyd, Zeppelin Storm Thorgerson, 69, an English graphic designer whose eye-popping album art for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin encapsulated the spirit of 1970s psychedelia, died Thursday. In a...
Tags: BBC
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NBC News looks outside the company and country for a president
NBC's hunt for a new president of its news division has gone beyond not only the company, but the country as well. The position of NBC News president has been open since last month when Steve Capus departed after almost eight years in the job. Among...
Tags: Barack Obama, ABC (tv network), Television Industry, News Media, Today (tv program)
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World Book Night has arrived, at a neighborhood near you
Take a walk in certain corners of Southern California this evening and you might find someone trying to give you a book. It will be free. And it will also be a very good book. Shirley is going to the pier and beach in Venice, to give away copies of...
Tags: Tina Fey, Literature, Arts and Culture
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British big cat theory gets bump from lynx link
Scientists have uncovered a Canadian lynx specimen that briefly roamed the British countryside, at least until it killed two dogs and was dispatched by a gun-wielding farmer in southwestern England. The discovery probably will cause fanatics of the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Cheshire, Arts, United Kingdom, Arts and Culture
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David Sedaris, my imaginary friend
When a friend gets rich and famous and moves to Paris, then prattles on about the nutty things that French dentists say, that's grounds for never speaking to that person again. When the friend in question is an imaginary friend and his name is David...
Tags: China, Amtrak, Book, Human Interest
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To cheers and jeers, Margaret Thatcher is laid to rest
LONDON -- A gun boomed once a minute, like one of her thunderous speeches in Parliament. Gray skies slowly turned blue, the color of her Conservative Party. And even Big Ben fell quiet, in tribute to a woman who loved nothing more than silencing her foes....
Tags: Henry Kissinger, Marketing, Imperial and Royal Matters, Benjamin Netanyahu, Margaret Thatcher
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‘World War Z’: Brad Pitt battles zombies, not snakes, on a plane
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIt’s one of the biggest action set pieces in Paramount’s upcoming pandemic thriller, “World War Z.” A Belarus Airlines flight ...... -
‘Peter Cushing: A Life in Film’ chronicles the actor’s screen legacy
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesWith his new book, “Peter Cushing: A Life in Film,” out on Tuesdsay, author David Miller charts in detail the ...... -
Album skewering Margaret Thatcher to be reissued on April 17
After former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was pilloried following her death last week with a campaign in England to vault the song “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” to the top of the nation’s pop chart, an English satirist is...
Tags: Westminster Abbey, Entertainment, Apple iTunes, Amnesty International, Mick Jagger
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Depeche Mode is ready to crank
From the outside, the scene looked like just another Depeche Mode gig, with a crush of stylishly attired music fans gathered on a street corner in downtown Austin, Texas. Inside the bare-bones warehouse, though, it was clear that this veteran English...
Tags: Justin Timberlake, Entertainment, EMI Group Ltd., Jimmy Kimmel Live! (tv program), Music
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