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.

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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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AFP – The US trade deficit widened sharply in June to the highest level in 20 months on increased imports from China, triggering fresh fears of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy.

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US suffers widest trade gap in 20 months
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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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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

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

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

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As One Time Capsule Is Buried, Another Disappears

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 – MMM, GOOD: Swiss food and drinks company Nestle SA posted better-than-expected earnings for the first half of the year and raised its full-year outlook on strong global sales.

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Summary Box: Nestle turns $5B profit, ups outlook
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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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AP – Swiss food and drinks company Nestle SA reported Wednesday a 7.5 percent rise in half-year net profit to 5.45 billion Swiss francs ($5 billion) and raised its full-year outlook as global sales increased despite adverse currency exchange rates.

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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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