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AP – Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world’s largest brewer, said Thursday that the football World Cup helped push up sales in the second quarter, boosting net profit by 7.5 percent to $1.15 billion.
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AB InBev Q2 profit up 7.5 pct on World Cup boost
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AP – The number of U.S. homes lost to foreclosure surged in July, another sign lenders are moving quicker to take back properties from homeowners behind in payments.
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Homes lost to foreclosure up 6 pct from last year
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AP – Aegon NV, the Dutch insurer, said Thursday it made a profit in the second quarter as its gains on investments improved and it suffered fewer losses and impairment charges than in any quarter in the past two years.
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Aegon Q2 makes profit amid fewer one-time charges
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Reuters – American International Group Inc has started talks with potential investors to sell stakes in its Asian life insurance business AIA ahead of AIA’s planned IPO, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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AIG talking to big investors on AIA IPO: sources
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AP – Qantas Airways Ltd. posted a 4.3 percent fall in annual profit — partly blaming the Icelandic volcano ash that shut down air travel over Europe earlier this year — but said market conditions were improving
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Qantas posts 4 pct drop in annual profit to $100M
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Barry and Fran Weissler, the producers of the Broadway musical “Chicago,” commissioned the sculptor Beverly Pepper to build an amphitheater on their Westchester estate.
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House Proud: Theater Producers Put Drama in Their Own Backyard
The cheeky title is about the only irresistible element in “Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party,” a rambling pageant of clumsy drama and preachy moralizing.
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Theater Review | ‘Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party’: Chris Smith Directs a Play More or Less About Lincoln
Alex Karpovsky’s documentary films a New York show by the Chicago improv team T J and Dave, and preparations and post-mortems before and after a performance.
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Movie Review | ‘Trust Us, This Is All Made Up’: T J and Dave, Creating Plays on the Go Onstage
Reuters – Macy’s Inc quarterly results showed the department store operator boosted sales and gained market share without relying as much on discounts as its rivals to get shoppers into stores.
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Macy’s gains market share, sees better sales
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AP – Cisco Systems Inc. reported stronger earnings in the latest quarter as its customers continued to catch up on delayed purchases of networking gear, but its CEO said the company was seeing signs of the economic recovery slowing down.
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Cisco income up, but signs of slowing recovery
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AP – Macy’s Inc.’s net income surged in the second quarter as the department store chain saw a payoff from its focus on exclusive moderate-price fashions and tailoring merchandise to local markets.
AP – Macy’s Inc. saw its second-quarter net income surge in the second quarter as its efforts to tailor its merchandise to local markets help drive better-than-expected sales. Here’s a breakdown of what happened in the quarter and guidance for the year:
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Macy’s 2Q earnings at a glance
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by Andrew Miller Thisweek Newspapers This years Art and All That Jazz Festival in Burnsvilles Nicollet Commons Park will be easy on the pocketbook. Now in its seventh year, the outdoor music festival on Saturday, Aug. 21, is a free-admission event
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Art & All That Jazz Festival returns Aug. 20-21
A new curator will join the Art Gallery of Peterborough in September. Carla Garnet, a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design who has a Masters degree in art history from York University, joins the gallery on Sept.
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Art gallery gets new curator
Chicago Democrat Dan Rostenkowski was the gruff, deal-making, steak-devouring embodiment of Congress in the second half of the 20th century. He was convicted in 1996 following a Justice Department investigation into allegations that he misused public funds.
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Former House Titan Rostenkowski Was Deal-Maker
(The Pacific Northwest vs the North of England) Kaleide is the second record we’ve made in Seattle, Washington. This return visit reinforced my notion that the North of England and the Pacific Northwest are rainy, melodic, kindred spirits. When we went Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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Exchange Students: Telekinesis & Sky Larkin
Next year, Ford will stop production of the classic stretch Crown Victoria, a hallmark of police fleets and New York City taxicabs. So the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission is holding a contest to replace not only the Crown Victoria but also the 10 other vehicles that currently operate as yellow cabs in the city
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New York Bids Farewell To Crown Victoria Taxis
SOUTH PORTLAND Now in its 31st year, Art in the Park has become the must-attend summer art show in South Portland, one that attracts art lovers and artists alike again and again.
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Art in the Park returns for 31st year
Spritzed with laughs but hobbled by familiar narrative arcs, Jonathan Tolins’s new comedy-drama also suffers from an egregious instance of miscasting.
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Theater Review | ‘Secrets of the Trade’: Angling for a Mentor, He’ll Take What He Can Get
The spirits of wolves hover around unfulfilled youngish people on the cusp of 30 in Delaney Britt Brewer’s play.
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Theater Review | ‘Wolves’: Drama by Delaney Britt Brewer at 59E59 Theaters
To mark the school’s centennial, Kent State University buried a time capsule on campus this week. The plan is to have students dig up the capsule in 2060. This year, the university was supposed to unearth a time capsule thought to have been buried in 1960, but no one has been able to find it
Listeners wag their fingers at JetBlue after hearing the story of Steven Slater, the fed-up flight attendant who snapped after dealing with an abusive passenger. Slater cursed out the passenger on the plane’s PA after landing, then left the plane via emergency chute
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Letters: JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater
As you may have heard on this very website, The Vaselines will be finally releasing a follow-up to 1989′s hugely influential album Dum Dum this September. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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Watch: The Vaselines ‘Sex With An X’ – DiS Video Exclusive
AP – THE RESULTS: Dutch bank and insurance company ING Groep NV posted a sharp rise in second-quarter earnings from the year-ago period, which was dragged down by losses on stocks, bonds and real estate investments.
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Summary Box: Dutch bank ING posts 2Q results
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During the summer of 1896, a 10-day heat wave killed nearly 1,500 people across New York City — many of them tenement-dwellers. In Hot Time in the Old Town, historian Ed Kohn describes the disaster — and how a little-known police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt championed the efforts to help New Yorkers survive the heat.
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The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt
Kara Harztler, an immigration lawyer and the author of the play “Arizona: No Roosters in the Desert,” writes about what happens when art meets outrage.
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Theater Talkback: Arizona, Immigration and Outrage
To celebrate the release of their new album, Kaleide, Katie from Sky Larkin kindly agreed to talk us through a track by track. As an extra special treat, the band have also provided us with an exclusive DiS digital version of the album which includes two Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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DiSection: Sky Larkin ‘Kaleide’ Track by Track
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot uses cross-gender casting and a school-board theme in its production of “Julius Caesar.”
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Theater Review | ‘Julius Caesar’: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Looks at a Dictator
“The Irish … and How They Got That Way,” a revue by Frank McCourt now in revival at the Irish Repertory Theater, displays a sturdiness that transcends passing vogue.
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Theater Review | ‘The Irish . . . and How They Got That Way’: A Frank McCourt Revue Is Revived
ARTINFO – Czech painter Alphonse MuchaÂ’s “The Slav Epic,” an Art Nouveau tribute to the history of the Slavic peoples, is now the source of a major conflict between Prague cultural officials — who want to permanently display the work in a dedicated pavilion in the capital city — and the local government of the provincial town of Moravsky Krumlov, where it currently resides. Government officials in Prague are anxious to move the 20 canvases depicting 20 allegories, composed between 1910 and 1928, from a privately owned chateau about 5 miles from Mucha’s hometown to a building that, according to Agence France Presse, will be completed by 2015 and run by the Czech National Gallery.
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Mucha’s Epic May Finally Head to Prague, Controversially
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Written by: Sunita Rajwar, Chandan Arora Directed by: Chandan Arora Starring: Siddharth, Ankur Vikal, Aditya Pancholi, Nicolette Bird My Advice: It’s an ordinary affair and you would not miss much skipping this.
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Striker (2010) – Movie Review
Smudge are one of those bands who perilously teeter on the edge of recognition, vaguely existing somewhere out there in the musical ether or at the back of your mind. And you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that they sound suspiciously like The Lemonheads either: frontman Tom Morgan can claim..
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Smudge – Manilow/Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra (reissues)
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Jeffrey Lee
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Photo of the Week – 11 August 2010
AFP – Once hidden from the Nazis under a heap of coal, an epic Art Nouveau work created as a tribute to the Slavs has become the object of a tug-of-war between Prague and a small Czech town.
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Tug of war over Czech Art Nouveau gem
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As the current London theater season proves, strong material much merits another go-round, served up by artists for whom a potentially well-worn source remains a place of wonder.
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On the London Stage: Old Favorites, With New Tricks
I once met an creative writing professor who chaired the MFA program at a prestigious university. He told me, dark and foreboding poetry could not be expressed in rhyming verse. He’s the one with the degree (I was given a high school diploma so I wouldn’t come back.) But as far as I’m concerned, he’s a no talent hack like me
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Anyone Can Write Poetry
ARTINFO – Not only do gentlemen and distinguished ladies of the United States “increasingly view dogs as members of the family,” they commemorate them with the kind of portraiture traditionally reserved for war-veteran grandfathers, dauphin-like children, and members of the British court. This, at least, is the message of “The American Dog at Home: The Dog Portraits of Christine Merrill,” a book by William Secord being published this September that will provide a sweeping look at the nation’s gentry — from Oprah Winfrey to conductor Leon Fleisher — alongside their furry wards.
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Upon Reading "The American Dog at Home"
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Phylicia Rashad and Anna Deavere Smith will be the leading ladies in the coming inaugural productions at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C., officials announced on Tuesday.
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Phylicia Rashad and Anna Deavere Smith Are Set to Star in Washington Productions
Last year, the internet was abuzz over the idea that famed music video director Joseph Kahn was going to direct a Neuromancer movie. That didn’t happen, but this sick concept art gives us a hint of what might have been.
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Check out concept art from the Neuromancer film that never was
ARTINFO – “Who will be 1st to suggest American Folk Art Museum sell some Henry Dargers to pay the bills?” Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight asked on Twitter earlier today. “My guess: some lawyer.” According to the New York Times, the American Folk Art Museum is continuing to battle massive financial difficulties, unable to pay off its debts, and in negotiations with creditors about restructuring the terms of its financing.
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Folk Art Museum Faces Shrinking Future as Finances Lag
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book now Event Dates: 6 Oct 2010 Time out Live’s Evening with James Ellroy Join Time Out’s Books Editor Chris Moss for a rare chance to spend the evening in conversation with enigmatic best-selling American author, James Ellroy. The Los Angeles-born author will discuss and read from his new book The Hilliker Curse, as well as a look back through his life’s work including the highly-acclaimed ‘LA Quartet’: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. Tickets £10 read more
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Evening with James Ellroy
ARTINFO – Christie’s-owned gallery Haunch of Venison, which saw the departure of its two founders earlier this year, has confirmed that it has hired Chelsea dealer Robert Goff as a director.
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Art Dealer Robert Goff Joins Haunch of Venison
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ARTINFO – – “The Tony the Tiger of Contemporary Art”: That would be Simon de Pury, in the assessment of his fellow “Work of Art” judge Bill Powers. (Better or worse than Jerry Saltz’s newest sobriquet, the “Rodney Dangerfield of the art world”? [NYPost]
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Simon de Pury Gets the Post Treatment, Anne Barlow to Direct Bucharest Biennial, and Other Must-Read Art News
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It is almost time for the kids to head back to school! Here at About.com we’ve been busy preparing lots of great ideas for back to school. Our About.com Hobbies Guides have all sorts of back-to-school projects and ideas for you to think about, contests for you to enter, and even more activities for you to participate in! Check it out. At About.com Cross Stitch, Connie has a number of Back-to-School-Themed Cross Stitch Projects ranging from a cute little blackboard sampler to a trio of samplers based on school subject themes like math, science, and language arts.
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Back to School
Kathleen Turner portrays a nun who counsels one particularly hardened addict in Matthew Lombardo’s play “High” at Hartford TheaterWorks.
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Theater Review | ‘High’: Kathleen Turner in Matthew Lombardo Play in Hartford
There are a lot of things out there you can buy. We try to give you the information you need to make an educated purchasing decision.
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The Week in Stuff: August 3, 2010 – The Devil, The King and Death
ARTINFO – Rick Norsigian, whose decade-long quest to prove that negatives he purchased for $45 at a Fresno garage sale are the work of Ansel Adams has now entered the spotlight, is being confronted by a new dissenting voice — that of 87-year-old Miriam Walton, who is sure that the glass-plate negatives were the work of her uncle, one Earl Brooks.
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Are the Contested Ansel Adams Negatives the Work of Uncle Earl?
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ARTINFO – For two decades, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang has been making large-scale drawings with little more than paper, gunpowder, and a flame, often created in public performances in front of large audiences. Now he has been asked by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to make what might be his largest, most explosive drawing yet, a 162 by 10 feet work titled “Odyssey” that will adorn the museum’s new Arts of China Gallery when it opens on October 17.
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MFA Houston Recruits Cai Guo-Qiang for a Big Bang
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ARTINFO – It turns out that what seemed like a solid step forward in the bureaucratic crawl toward breaking ground on billionaire collector Eli BroadÂ’s downtown Los Angeles museum doesn’t represent much progress at all.
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Broad Museum Clears Hurdle in L.A., though Plenty More Remain
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