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Rolling Stones unveil 2013 world tour
In the better-late-than-never department, the Rolling Stones on Wednesday announced a 2013 tour, as close to a full-fledged 50th anniversary "50 and Counting" tour as "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band” could muster, opening in May in Los...
Tags: Honda Center, Staples Center, Prudential Center, AEG, Keith Richards
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Donald Richie dies at 88; interpreted Japan for the West
Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his...
Tags: Orson Welles, The Wall Street Journal, Fiction, Authors, Tokyo (Japan)
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Vanessa Redgrave shows Jesse Eisenberg the way in 'The Revisionist'
NEW YORK — On a cramped stage at the Cherry Lane Theatre, a historic off-Broadway venue tucked away on one of the quaintest streets in the West Village, Vanessa Redgrave is offering her costar Jesse Eisenberg an education not even the world's finest...
Tags: West Village, Authors, Culture, Celebrities, Sociology
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies at 85; Oscar-winning screenwriter
For years, people who read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novels assumed she was born in India. She wrote about swamis, social climbers, duplicitous landlords and other characters from the Indian bourgeoisie who inevitably found themselves colliding with...
Tags: Ismail Merchant, Fiction, Authors, Asthma, India
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Chinua Achebe dies at 82; Nigerian writer
JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned "Mister Johnson," which portrayed Africa as a land of grinning, shrieking savages. Time magazine called it "the best novel ever written...
Tags: Government, Politics, Colleges and Universities, Authors, Obituaries
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Boris Berezovsky dies at 67; outspoken Russian tycoon, enemy of Putin
LONDON — Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken Russian tycoon who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been found dead in southeast England. He was 67. In recent years, the one-time Kremlin powerbroker-...
Tags: Andy Warhol, Blackmail and Extortion, Roman Abramovich, Vladimir Putin, United Kingdom
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Plucked from obscurity, Ukulele Orchestra still strums up business
DORTMUND, Germany — At 5:30 p.m. backstage at a concert hall here a few weeks ago, a security guard delivers a small brown bag from a chocolate shop in Paris. Devouring the contents is not a folk-rock pixie and her gang of bearded sidemen but...
Tags: BBC, Arts and Culture, Culture, Germany, Music
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Chinua Achebe, author of 'Things Fall Apart,' dies at 82
Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe has died. The 82-year-old was best known for his gorgeously written historical novel that served as an indictment of colonialism, "Things Fall Apart." Published in 1958, "Things Fall Apart" soon became an international...
Tags: Africa, Nigeria, Chinua Achebe, Arts and Culture, Authors
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‘Doctor Who’: David Tennant, Billie Piper return for anniversary
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesMatt Smith's Doctor will cross paths with David Tennant's Doctor in an upcoming 50th anniversary special of “Doctor Who.” Tennant, ...... -
The problem with David Mamet
Critic's Notebook: The dramatist who used to regularly scorch the stage with complex stories has let his anti-P.C. rage blunt his work. What in the world has happened to David Mamet? The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Glengarry Glen Ross," a modern...
Tags: Phil Spector, Al Pacino, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Philosophy, Anna Karenina (movie)
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George Lowe dies at 89; climber was on Everest expedition with Hillary
After Sir Edmund Hillary's historic ascent of Mt. Everest, everyone knew Hillary's name. Far fewer knew about his indispensable partner, George Lowe. Hillary and his friend Lowe were the only two New Zealanders on the 1953 expedition to the top of the...
Tags: Nepal, Elizabeth II, Movies, United Kingdom, New Zealand
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Scotland to vote on independence in September 2014
LONDON – Voters in Scotland will head to the polls in September 2014 to decide whether to go it alone as an independent country or remain in Great Britain with England and Wales. The referendum could lead to the biggest political shakeup in the...
Tags: Parliament, Politics, Elections, Referenda, United Kingdom
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