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Local Best-Of Lists
These are our picks for the Best Recordings of 2009, as previously played on the Wednesday MidDay Medley and based on our playlists. This year we have played hundreds of new musical releases from local musicians and recordings of Indie Rock, Jazz,
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Taylor Wood on Yoko's 'Nowhere Boy' reaction
Taking on a formidable music icon for her first feature film, artist Sam Taylor Wood's John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy centres on the formative years of the Beatles frontman (played by Aaron Johnson) and how his pre-Yoko Ono life was shaped by two
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Sam Taylor Wood's Movie Relief
Sam Taylor Wood is relieved John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono liked her new film about the late Beatle - because the moviemaker was terrified of her reaction.
The former artist wanted to use Lennon's song Mother at the end of Nowhere Boy, which tells the
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Nowhere Beatles
Liverpool, 1955. A 15-year-old lad by the name of John Winston Lennon is running past the neoclassical columns of the city’s St George’s Hall. He stumbles, and there’s a clanging sound. It’s the memorable first chord of Hard Day’s Night – and crucially
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Out with the aughts: The decade in which Torontonians became more engaged with their city
According to lore, people just don’t give a damn. Well, at least not like they used to. Our participation in elections is dismal. Traditional forms of community engagement, such as church groups, bowling leagues and parent-teacher associations, have
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Getting by with a little help from his friends
Imagine a young John Lennon … Aaron Johnson in a scene from
the film.
These ten ladies will make you pine for the noughties for the rest of time!
Get into it
As Sam Taylor-Wood's evocative biopic hits screens, Maureen Cleave
recalls her time as a young
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John Lennon's biopic Nowhere Boy released
John Lennon's complicated childhood is being played out on the big screen this Christmas.
Biopic Nowhere Boy is released on Boxing Day.
It is the story of the Beatles star's early life. He was brought up in Liverpool by his formidable aunt Mimi
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NYC taxis will display art
Artist and musician Yoko Ono will have her artwork featured on 160 of New York's yellow cabs in January.
The next place to see modern art in New York City could be on an iconic yellow cab.
Show Media, the company that sells advertising space on taxi
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Mary Hart's Best Interviews of 2009
ET's own Mary Hart had a stellar lineup of star interviews in 2009, but she admits that one really stood out.
"It was my time spent with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono," she says. "I was thrilled."
This year marked the 45th
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Raw Dealer: Allen Klein
Most of the time, people show up in these year-end obit round-ups because of something they've contributed to the world. Allen Klein is notable in large part for what he took from it. As an accountant and manager for 1960s soul and pop acts, including
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Celebrity News -- Divorces of the Decade
1) First on our list of celebrity divorces would be Brad Pitt And Jennifer Aniston. Before woman named Angelina came along in 2005 Brad and Jennifer were Hollywood's it couple. An Angelina met on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith of wacky action
romantic
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DVD Review: Composing Outside The Beatles
It is amazing how when you go poking into a subject, more data tends to appear as if by magic. This happens so often that I now expect it. Recently I had the opportunity to read Better Than Lennon by John Cherry, this book is reasonably objective and
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Since it's a slow day
Oh, our teenage hearts are shattering into a billion little long-haired pieces! With one brother married and the next planning on becoming the next king of pop, an impending Jonas Brothers split may be in store for 2010. But what about the children?!
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Toxic Web :: It happened this weekâ¦
This is the week that was in matters musical…
1936, Billboard magazine, which began publishing news about circuses in 1894, publishes the first record sales chart … Joe Venuti’s jazz number “Stop! Look! Listen!” is the first record to occupy the #1
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Next chapter for Left Bank owner
Leibman willingly gave up the hug.
"I'm going to miss almost everything about the store," he says later while drinking tea at Kopperman's Deli across Euclid Avenue. "All the cultural stuff I'm around — it's been a unique blessing."
Through the years,
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Nude Model Goes Un-Airbrushed On Marie Claire Cover (PHOTO)
Miss Universe 2004 and model Jennifer Hawkins agreed to pose nude and un-airbrushed on the cover of February's Australian Marie Claire, but some are slamming the magazine's anti-Photoshopping efforts, claiming Hawkins does not represent real women.
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Yoko Ono set to pen tell-all book on John Lennon
Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon, is finally ready to pen her memoirs.
The late Beatles' first wife Cynthia has penned two autobiographies about her life with Lennon but Japanese-born artist and musician Yoko, 76, has kept silent.
Now, Yoko, the woman
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Yoko Ono Eyeing Tell All Autobiography
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono is set to end her silence on her time with The Beatles star - she's preparing to write her autobiography.
The couple wed in 1969 and lived together as man and wife before Lennon was murdered in New York City in 1980.
Lennon'
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Why did the Beatles break up? Yoko Ono is ready to explain
Is she really ready to spill the big beans? John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono told fans in a Q&A that she plans to write the story of her life within the next five years. After almost 40 years of speculation, will Beatles fans finally hear a first-hand
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NOISE POP Fest Adds Acts to 2010 Line Up
MUSIC NEWS- The 2010 edition of the annual Noise Pop Festival (the 18th) takes place February 23rd through March 1, 2009 at venues in and around San Francisco, CA, and today, the producers of the spectacle have announced more artists to the
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Yoko Ono matches charity contribution from Imagine concert
Yoko Ono is making a $6,000 contribution to a local charity, matching the amount raised by a concert in December that honors the memory of her husband, the late John Lennon.
Alan Pierson, who produced the concert, said he really wasnt expecting the
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John Lennon's other legacy
Imagine a world in which John Lennon spent his days not making music but lounging at home with his young son, Sean, and wife, Yoko Ono, and filling sketch pads with whimsical images. Sean: ``I want a little monkey.'' John: ``Let's see about that. . . .''
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The Franklin Institute Presents 'Larry Kane's Ticket to Ride' Beginning March 5
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Franklin Institute will present "Larry Kane's Ticket to Ride," an extraordinary lecture and multi-media presentation featuring best-selling Beatles author and Philadelphia journalist Larry Kane's
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Plastic Ono Band Confirm First Gig in 40 Years
It's been a long time coming but it's been confirmed that Yoko Ono will play the first Plastic Ono Band gig in 40 years when the band takes the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on Feb. 16. She will be joined by original band members
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Dr Who turns into John Lennon
Piper will take on the role of Betty in the Kay Mellor drama A Passionate Woman.
Actors including Idris Elba, Goran Visnjic, Billie Piper and Eccleston are
among the BBC drama's newly unveiled line-up.
Elba, famous for his role in the highly
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Eric Clapton and Klaus Voormann Rejoin Yoko Ono For Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon`s original Plastic Ono Band featured Eric Clapton and Klaus Voormann. The music legends will rejoin Yoko Ono`s new version of the Plastic Ono Band next month in Brooklyn.
The 21st century Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band formed last year
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Celebrities Join Forces For Haiti Help
Shakira, Oprah Winfrey and Chris Martin are the latest celebrities to plead for help in raising funds for the Haitian earthquake relief effort.
The stars have joined Ben Stiller, Jessica Alba, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Wyclef Jean in calling for
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Liverpool Local News: Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston transforms into late Beatles singer John Lennon for new BBC film
The 45-year-old has donned glasses and grown his hair to take the role of the musical legend for new BBC4 drama Lennon Naked.
In a newly released publicity shot the former Time Lord wears a replica white suit worn by Lennon in 1968 at an art gallery
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Return of The Plastic Ono Band (Soundcheck: Monday, 18 January 2010)
Yoko Ono formed The Plastic Ono Band in 1969 with her husband, John Lennon. It counted Eric Clapton, Keith Moon, two Beatles and Ornette Coleman as occasional members. Now, the 76-year-old Ono is re-launching the band with the help of her son Sean
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The Moronic, The Merrier
Photo of a scene from Mayakkam-Oxymore from Marko-93's flickr
A plea from the vertically challenged: if you’re tall or have a large torso, do not go for a cultural program only to canoodle with your girlfriend. Not that I have anything against tall men
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Saltz: Why New York Will Miss Jeffrey Deitch
Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying
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John Lennon's school bans fans' photographs
John Lennon (right) with wife Yoko Ono and son Julian in 1968
Photo: PA
Large signs showing a camera with a cross through it have been put up on the
fence surrounding the playground of Dovedale Junior School on Barndale Road,
just yards from Penny
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Nico Vega, Soko, LA Ladies Choir at Echoplex Haiti benefit tonight
Slinky noir-rockers Nico Vega, the gamine French siren Soko and the sprawling a capella ensemble LA Ladies Choir (which counts the vocalists of practically every female-fronted indie band in town among its members) will headline starting at 7 p.m.,
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Spectrasonics Omnisphere, Trillian At NAMM 2010
Spectrasonics’ Eric Persing introduces their updates for Trillian, Omnisphere and their new Spectrasonics iPhone app.
The iPhone app seems like more trouble than it’s worth – but Trillian and Omnisphere are both amazingly powerful and great-sounding.
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The sexiest newswoman of all
-- Reader Samuel Roberts e-mailed that while I'd mentioned seeing the Amish quilt show at the de Young, I hadn't written anything about the show. I'm leery of pretending to be an art critic or expert. But my first stories published in The Chronicle
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Philip K. Dick in the land of the John Birch Society
The last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in a strange land (to borrow from Robert Heinlein). This is the second
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Joanna Newsom releasing triple CD - cover, streaming song
Who says thats the cover? Its a placeholder
TRIPLE album...have fun with that fairies
she should record a triple album with Yoko Ono
Her nimble fingers on my butt floss indeed my dear friends indeed, she is the words I am the tune play me!
Triple Album.
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UN Can Benefit From Closer Ties With Others
New York, Jan 28 2010 6:10PM
The new head of the United Nations body tasked with helping
post-conflict countries has called for enhanced partnerships
with the Security Council and other actors to better assist
this vulnerable group to build sustainable
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Peacebuilding can benefit from other actors: UN
The success of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in the countries on its agenda will be measured by its capability to achieve tangible and sustainable results for people on the ground, said Germany's Ambassador Peter Wittig, who was elected
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Ananesworld Coming
01/27/2010
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Ananesworld Coming was a top story for this week. Here it is again: On April 20, Nervous Records will release the sophomore album from Anane entitled Ananesworld. A fitting title as it's composed of music ranging in styles from dance,
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Artist Profile: Saule Suleimenova
Saule Suleimenova (b. 1970, Almaty) is one of Kazakhstan’s deepest, most interesting and prolific artists. Her husband, Kuanysh “Kuba” Bazargaliev, is also an artist. Saule’s work has been displayed in the CIS countries, Europe and the United States.
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Held Out For Comment: Songs for a journey
I keep a running file in my bookmarks of things to blog about. I was flipping through this file, when I found this article from babble.com about the 25 best road trip songs for kids and parents.
This list struck a chord with me, even though it was
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Make-up artist Floyd dies
The celebrity cosmetics guru passed away in her sleep at her home in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday (28Jan10). No cause of death had been given as WENN went to press.
Floyd began her career working with Yoko Ono and went on to team up with numerous
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Roberta Flack Focusing on Beatles Tribute Album
Backstage at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards, soul icon Roberta Flack soaked up the adoration earned by her legendary status. As she talked with Spinner in the hallway, her duet partner on the night, Maxwell, walked by. "Can I get more sugar?" he asked
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Japan's John Lennon Museum to close
AFP - The world's only authorised John Lennon Museum, on the outskirts of Tokyo, will close its doors in September when a deal with his widow Yoko Ono ends, the operator said Thursday.
The museum dedicated to the former Beatle opened in Saitama north
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Yoko Ono to close John Lennon Museum in Tokyo
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has decided to shut the museum in Japan dedicated to her husband.
Ono had opened the John Lennon Museum on the outskirts of Tokyo in 2000 to celebrate the Beatle's 60th birthday.
But Ono has plans to close it in September
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Katie Price to adopt from Haiti?
Newly married couple Katie Price and Alex Reid are planning to adopt an orphan child from Haiti.
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse is headed back to the Caribbean where she will work on completing her third album.
Beatles legend John Lennon
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How Lady Gaga took Stefani Germanotta from New York's Convent of the Sacred Heart to super stardom
Lady Gaga performs onstage during the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on January 31, 2010.
Stefani Germanotta (now Lady Gaga) in her senior year class portrait from Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York. CLICK PIC for more Lady Gaga photos.
For
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Rihanna's concert costume draws flak from critics
Singer Rihanna's recent performance at a concert has been panned by critics for her costume.
Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray is set to face criminal charges in the singer's death on Monday, Los Angeles County district attorney's
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Basement Jaxx - "Look of Love (Felix Jaxx Booty Remix)" (MP3) (Mixed Media)
MP3s, videos, trailers, streaming media and more
Basement Jaxx have remixed ‘80s new wave classic from those old New Romantics, ABC. Man, this one takes me back… Actually, the album that song originally comes from (The Lexicon of Love) is a perfect
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Gangubai Hangal Gurukul to be ready by April
'Beatles' legend Ringo Starr was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame last night during a ceremony to mark the pavement attraction's 50th anniversary.
Romantic films are considered safe for a Bollywood debut but Aditya Narayan, son of
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'Modern Family': Love is in the air
Phil: “It’s a fancy way of saying, ‘I get things to make noise.’ ”
Say what you want, but it’s this oddball swagger that makes him – dare I say it – sexy. While other critics criticize him for being unsexy – sure, he’s no Jack Bauer, or even Jack
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Lady Gaga dating her best friend?
Pop star Lady Gaga, who recently said that she has no time for love, is reportedly dating her best friend Matthew Williams.
Norah Jones has no plans of following in the footsteps of her father and music maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar by
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JUDAS PRIEST: Deluxe Version Of 'British Steel' Due In May
Sony Music has set a May 11 release date (one day earlier internationally) for the limited deluxe expanded edition of JUDAS PRIEST's classic 1980 album "British Steel".
"British Steel" was the sixth studio album by JUDAS PRIEST. Released on April 14,
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Ono still pushing buttons, and boundaries
Yoko Ono’s ever-changing and often conceptual Plastic Ono Band has never failed at packing the studio and stage with star-filled lineups. But the cast she’s assembled to play the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Gilman Opera House on Tuesday is just
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NY man recants story about killing, burning wife
Westchester County jurors have heard more than two weeks of testimony at Lippe's murder trial. They are expected to hear closing arguments and begin deliberating Tuesday. He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors presented jurors
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Tonight: Yoko Ono Live At The Brooklyn Academy Of Music
Main Blog Page Older Post » Tonight: Yoko Ono Live At The Brooklyn Academy Of Music by Will Hermes Tonight, Yoko Ono will perform at the Brooklyn Acadamey of Music with an all-star version of the Plastic Ono Band, the group she co-led decades ago with
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We Are Plastic Ono Band (Feat. Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Bette Midler, Sean Lennon & Friends) @ BAM, Brooklyn 2/16/10
A hefty price tag accompanied tickets to this very special one-off at Brooklyn Academy Of Music last night, a mix of simple supply-demand economics and, presumably, underwriting costs associated with corralling these names under one ornamented roof:
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The Almanac - Feb. 18
Today is Thursday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2010 with 316 to follow.
The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury and Neptune and the evening stars are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Uranus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius.
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The complete music lineup for Noise Pop 2010
The people behind the Noise Pop festival like to keep things interesting. Though the annual fete celebrating independent music, art and culture is entering its 18th year, there are still plenty of surprises in store when the weeklong event officially
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Rare Beatles photoshoot surfaces
An apparently lifeless John Lennon lies on the ground, his fellow-Beatles by his side. The haunting picture was taken in 1968 - 12 years before Lennon was gunned down by a crazed fan, Mark Chapman, in New York City.
It was one of many images taken by
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Yoko Ono
Last year, Yoko Ono revived the Plastic Ono Band for its first studio album in decades, "Between My Head and the Sky." It's hard to blame her for the delay; her time has been occupied by making art, campaigning for peace and handling the affairs of her
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Race in the Carnival and Mardi Gras Colour Face
From time to time, we at Racialicious discuss the stickiness of trying to talk about race in the context of cultures we are not familiar with. It’s easy for us to talk about the U.S. and Canada, since members of our team live solely in these two
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Teeny rockers in eco-school bid
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The band has had support from Japanese artist Yoko Ono
Scotland's youngest performing rock band has written a song to raise awareness about climate change.
Whitelees School of Rock is made up of
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Review: Yoko Ono at Noise Pop
That’s the reaction that many music fans have whenever the much maligned and vastly misunderstood Yoko Ono is mentioned. The rock icon’s name carries so much baggage, mostly in regard to her marriage to John Lennon and her presumed role in the breakup
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Iconic images from a son of Dundee
Iain Macmillan formed a close and lasting bond with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
DISCOVERY Point, Dundee, will pull off a major coup this weekend when it stages an exhibition linking the city to Abbey Road and The Beatles.
The exhibition will showcase the
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@KirstieAlley, STFU! And 9 Other Celebs Who Just Shouldn't Tweet
I have to be honest -- I don't pay a ton of attention to Kirstie Alley. I liked her on "Cheers."
Yesterday, she was on Oprah hawking her new weight-loss line, Organic Liaison, and reality show, "Kirstie Alley's Big Life" -- which will, according to A&E'
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At the Whitney, Busting Out Quietly
"IT'S a lot cheaper to get a new wig than a new wife," the art collector Mera Rubell said at the gala on Tuesday for the opening of the Whitney Biennial. Peering out from beneath a spiky platinum Warhol wig, the dark-haired Ms. Rubell gazed up at her
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Boulez on Music 22 Years Ago
Today I ran across a box of cassettes that has been misplaced for years. Among many treasures are my interviews with Boulez, Yoko Ono, Trimpin, Ashley, Branca, Mikel Rouse, and a few others, plus about ten cassettes' worth of Nancarrow. I thought the
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: "Milk and Jade" by Cellist/Composer Dana Leong Celebrates CD Release Concert This Friday 3/5
From the cello to the trombone to the laptop, his musical versatility has conquered the elite of the critics." --Vogue Italia
New York City -- Milk & Jade by Dana Leong celebrates its self-titled debut album MILK & JADE (Tateo Sound) with a one-night
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Ctrip.com to sell 5.7 million US shares
Ctrip.com International Ltd., which sells travel in China, said on Tuesday that it would sell 5.7 million American depositary shares, which will represent one-quarter of an ordinary share in the company.
The company said underwriters would be able to
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A look at women lawmakers in Iraq, rest of world
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John Lennon Citroen car advert defended by ex-Beatle's son Sean Ono Lennon
JOHN Lennon’s son Sean has defended the controversial decision to feature footage of the former Beatle in a TV advert.
He hit back at accusations that Yoko Ono allowed images of the music legend to be used in a car advert for financial reasons.
Video
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John Lennon's son defends dad's appearance in Citroen video
Sean claims that his mother, Yoko Ono, did not use John’s image to gain any kind of financial gain. “She did not do it for money. Has to do whoping to keep dad in public consciousness. No new LPs, so TV ad is exposure to young,” tweeted Sean on his
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Sean Lennon defends advert
John Lennon's son Sean has defended the use of footage of his father in a British car advert, insisting the promo helps keep the Beatle legend "in the public consciousness."
Footage of the late singer features in the ad for the Citroen DS3 vehicle,
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Noise Pop Festival 2010: Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: 23.Feb.2010 - Oakland (Notes from the Road)
Yoko Ono, age 77, assembled the new Plastic Ono Band (composed of Cornelius, Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, and son Sean Lennon) for a psychedelic jam fest and trip down nostalgia lane at the historic Fox Theatre in downtown Oakland, California. The band
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Topo vs. Yoko: Name that anchorman
A profile last week in the Wall Street Journal of producer Steve
Levitan and his new ABC-TV hit comedy, “Modern Family,” reminded me
of our unsuccessful attempt to identify the perpetrator of one of
the most memorable moments in Madison television
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Annie Leibovitz works out deal to keep rights to photos
Leibovitz, 60, will retain total control of her multimillion-dollar portfolio under the deal she signed with Colony Capital LLC of Santa Monica, Calif., on Monday, said Richard Nanula, a principal with the firm.
Under the agreement, Colony will
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Photographer Leibovitz strikes new debt deal to retain portfolio
NEW YORK - Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture’s most enduring images, has reached a long-term agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt
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Performance Art Preserved, in the Flesh
With the opening on Sunday of “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,” a long-building energy wave of performance art hits the Museum of Modern Art full force. The show is a four-decade survey of work by one of the field’s most visible and magnetic
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New photos of Beatles' John Lennon appear after 40 years
John Lennon and Yoko Ono who is talking to 16-year-old Gail Renard
Photo: CATERS
The extraordinary photos of the musician and Yoko Ono, taken during their
famous Bed-in for Peace in Montreal in 1969, snapped by Life photographer
Gerry Deiter.
He
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John Lennon Never Seen Before Photos
These extraordinary photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken during their famous Bed-in for Peace in Montreal in 1969, snapped by Life photographer Gerry Deiter.
He was the only photojournalist allowed to witness and document the bed-in for the full
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Virtual reality pioneer turns against Web 2.0 culture
Not every keynote address begins with the speaker performing a song on ancient Laotian mouth organ. But this is a Canadian Music Week event. And the speaker in question is Jaron Lanier.
As if being widely recognized as the inventor of virtual reality
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TIMOTHY LEARY: DR. TIM'S LAST TRIP
Tune in. it's Sunday afternoon, St. Patrick's Day, and traditional Celtic music is wafting through the air outside a Benedict Canyon ranch home high above Beverly Hills. Inside, musicians are serenading an Irish philosopher as he lies dying in bed
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FIB Heineken 2010 Adds Echo & The Bunnymen, Mumford & Sons, Hot Chip
FIB Heineken, Festival Internacional de Benicassim, 2010 will take place in the concert venue of Benicàssim from July 15th - 18th. Four days of concerts and nine days of free camping area plus sun and beach. With the first confirmations having included
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Vince Gilligan on 'Breaking Bad' Season Three
'Breaking Bad' comes back for its third season this Sunday on AMC (10PM ET / 9PM CT), and after watching the last few episodes of season two, the new season can't come soon enough. The dramatic ante was upped for meth-making science teacher Walter
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BoF Daily Digest |Inditex earnings climb 17%, Guess Q4 profit leaps, Lagerfeld for Hogan, Retail Lessons, All you need is luxe
Guess Q4 Profit Jumps 81per cent (RTT News)
“International fashion house Guess? Inc. said Wednesday its profit for the fourth quarter jumped 80.7% over last year, driven by higher sales and improved margins. Quarterly adjusted earnings grew 45.5%, and
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The $1,250 Facial
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From sapphires and semen to bird poop and endangered fruit, there's almost nothing you can't have rubbed into your cheeks—for an
