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Bebo Valdes, Cuban pianist and composer, dies at 94
Bebo Valdes, the legendary Grammy-winning Cuban pianist, composer and father of his equally accomplished pianist son, Chucho Valdes, has died in Sweden at 94. During his artistic prime, in the 1940s and '50s, the elder Valdes ranked among the key...
Tags: Music Industry, Cuba, Nat King Cole, Music, Entertainment
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Sweden's Liseberg plans Projekt Helix megacoaster for 2014
Ride enthusiasts are already drooling over a multi-launch roller coaster coming to a Swedish amusement park that promises six inversions and a series of near-miss encounters with other rides dotting a wooded hillside terrain. Photos: Projekt Helix...
Tags: Social Media, Theme Park Vacations, Trips and Vacations, Entertainment, Media Industry
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Belarus border guard reportedly sentenced over teddy bear drop
A Belarusian border guard reportedly will spend two years behind bars for failing to tell his superiors about a Swedish plane that entered the country in July to make an air drop -- of teddy bears. Hundreds of plush bears with parachutes and protest...
Tags: Alexander Lukashenko, Prisoners and Detainees, Civil Rights, Human Rights Watch, International Law
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A world of difference in reactions over foreign, U.S. film violence
Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...
Tags: Genres, England, Festive Events, Toronto International Film Festival, The Last Stand (movie)
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"Pharmed" fish? Anti-anxiety drugs may alter wild fish behavior
A common psychiatric drug may be affecting the feeding behavior of wild fish as it filters out of our bodies, through our toilets and into treated wastewater that is released into natural water sources, according to a new study in the journal Science....
Tags: Chemical Industry, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Marine Science, Science and Technology
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Critic's Notebook: Gustavo Dudamel wraps up an ambitious year
NEW YORK — The hair jokes may have grown old, what with a slight fleck of gray peeking through his now shortened and tamed curls. The Dude nickname is pretty much over as well. And no longer is Gustavo Dudamel as tempted to head for Pink's hot dog...
Tags: Opera (genre), Festive Events, Paris (France), Vienna (Austria), International Travel
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25-year-old Swedish art heist solved?
Art thieves, beware: Savvy U.K. art sleuth Christopher Marinello is hot on your trail. Marinello recently recovered a stolen Impressionist painting -- "Le Jardin" by French artist Matisse -- which is valued at nearly $1 million, Reuters reported on...
Tags: Criminals, Artists, Arts, Stockholm (Sweden), Museums
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‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comIt's hard to imagine someone better suited to adapt Stieg Larsson's “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” as a graphic ...... -
Ecuador urges other countries to protect its London embassy
World NowAs Britain and Ecuador remain locked in a diplomatic standoff over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuador successfully rallied countries across the Americas to gather their foreign ministers next week, making a public push for its London embassy not to... -
UK government sites disrupted as Anonymous protests for Assange
World NowBritish government websites have suffered interruptions as hackers backing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched online attacks over his asylum case. Anonymous, a loose network of hackers and Internet freedom activists, claimed credit on Twitter for... -
Sweden tops, Yemen last in getting most out of Internet, study says
World NowWorldwide, Sweden gets the most out of using the Internet, according to a new study from a foundation that seeks to expand access to the Web.... -
Supporters of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange ordered to pay his bail
World NowNine supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were ordered by a British judge to pay his bail now that he has fled inside the Ecuadorean embassy to avoid extradition....
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