Playbill – Stars will appear at the 25th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards, celebrating excellence in the 2009-10 Off-Broadway season, May 2 in New York City. Bebe Neuwirth and Bryan Batt host the ceremony.

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Lortel Awards Handed Out; Ivey, ‘The Pride’, Stroman Among Nominees
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Playbill – Marin Hinkle, Brian Kerwin and Matt McGrath are among stars in the LCT3 production of Ellen Fairey’s family drama Graceland , starting May 3 at Off-Broadway’s Duke on 42nd Street.

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‘Graceland’, Acclaimed in Chicago, Makes NYC Debut May 3; Hinkle and McGrath Play Siblings
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Playbill – Goodman Theatre’s Chicago-premiere production of Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Good Negro , set in the Civil Rights-era American South, begins May 1.

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‘The Good Negro’, With Bougere, Jones, Aldridge and More, Begins at Goodman
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Playbill – Broadway theatregoers and tourists were evacuated from Times Square and some cross streets the evening of May 1 when a suspicious vehicle parked on West 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues produced smoke. Police are investigating it as a potential car bomb, according to the New York Times.

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Police Investigation Prompts Evacuation of a Section of Broadway Theatre District
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Playbill – A 12-hour evacuation of a section of the Broadway theatre district ended Sunday morning, May 2 following the May 1 discovery of a crude car bomb in an SUV on West 45th Street. Broadway press agents told Playbill.com on Sunday morning that Broadway shows were on for Sunday, as the evacuation was now over.

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Broadway Bounces Back After May 1 Bomb Scare in Times Square
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Playbill – Center Theatre Group’s DouglasPlus summer programming at the Kirk Douglas Theatre will feature two works by the critically acclaimed writer-actress Dael Orlandersmith: the West Coast premiere of her solo show Stoop Stories and the world premiere of Bones .

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Orlandersmith’s ‘Stoop Stories’ and ‘Bones’ Will Play L.A.’s Kirk Douglas
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Playbill – Jordin Sparks, winner of the 2007 “American Idol” competition and subsequent platinum recording artist, will join the Broadway company of In the Heights starting this summer.

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"American Idol" Winner Jordin Sparks Will Play Nina in Broadway’s ‘In the Heights’
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AP – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet approved legislation on Monday that would give Greece euro22.4 billion ($29.6 billion) over three years as part of a wider bailout, as the German government acknowledged that letting Greece go bankrupt could send the euro into a tailspin and hurt Germany’s own economy.

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Merkel: $29.6 billion in aid for Greece planned
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A show which involves sitting down in proper seats is always welcome, especially of a Sunday evening.

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Laura Marling at Palladium Theatre, London, South East England, Sun 25 Apr

In Puerto Rico, the art blogs have become vital spaces of discussion, debate, deliberation, critique and information. Blogs like Carlos Antonio Otero’s El Naufragio de las Palabras [ES], Pedro Velez’s Box Score [ES], Arnaldo Roman y …

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Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: The Art World Finds a Space

AFP – The massive oil slick threatening the Gulf of Mexico’s coastline could wreck the US economy’s fragile recovery and lead to a “double-dip” recession, an investment firm warned Monday.

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US oil slick could trigger ‘double-dip’ recession: analyst
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AP – GMAC Financial Services on Monday posted its first quarterly profit in more than a year and announced plans to rename itself Ally Financial Inc., as the consumer lender aims to put a failed foray into the mortgage business behind it.

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GMAC posts 1Q profit, plans to rename itself Ally
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Adam Lambert has just released the cover art for his new single, “If I Had You,” and naturally, it inspired a …

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Adam Lambert’s new single art inspires a limerick

AFP – The Europe-IMF bailout package for Greece will allow Athens to avoid borrowing on the markets for 18 months, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told Le Monde daily on Monday.

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Greece shielded for 18 months: IMF chief
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Though probably not the most noted name connected with renaissance art in Italy, too much people give credit to Filippo Brunelleschi for having sparked the renaissance in Italy. Brunelleschi’s main discipline was not art but …

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Article directory » Know All About Italian Renaissance Art

As an experiment, this week I am approaching the singles as you might, giving them one (and only in exceptional cases, two) spins, like you would at the shops. That is the Big Idea, anyway, and it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the fact that I am (woe me) rather under the weather.

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This Week’s Singles: 03/05/10

www.pitchdesignunion.comMargot Harrington is a graphic designer, art junkie, and all-around collaborator captivated by all forms of making and doing. Her friends include oldstyle numerals, antique books and dusty suitcases, …

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The purpose of this thread is as a discussion of the recommendations in the Henry tax review in the absence of party political discussion. Henry’s recommendations as follows; http://taxreview.treasury.gov.au/con…chapter_12.htm Below are some recommendations from the review with additional thoughts on further simplification.

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Henry Tax Review – Discussion of recommendations

The Home Buyer Tax Credit that Has helped increase the slow pace of home sales the past two years is ending this evening.For those who have not entered into a contract by midnight tonight .you have now officially missed out on one of the best opportunities to buy a home in years.

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Essex Mortgage Bank In Santa Rosa Announces The End Of The Homebuyer Credit

The Internet has opened the doors to what used to be the mysterious world of financial trading. People can now trade live from the comfort of their own home or office by placing real-time orders with online brokers. Essentially, this has placed the entire decision making process firmly with the trader.

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The Ultimate Forex Brokerage Offers Small Retail Traders The Same Quality Feed As Large Investors

AP – Oil prices fell below $86 a barrel Monday in Asia as traders eyed whether a massive crude spill in the Gulf of Mexico would slow imports to the U.S.

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Oil below $86 as traders eye Gulf crude spill
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Reuters – European finance ministers triggered a record 110 billion euro ($147 billion) bailout for debt-stricken Greece on Sunday after Athens committed itself to years of painful austerity.

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EU, IMF agree 110 bln euro bailout for Greece
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Reuters – Warren Buffett on Sunday stood by his feisty defense of a controversial mortgage transaction marketed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, saying the investment banks behavior did not warrant public opprobrium.

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Buffett stands by defense of Goldman transaction
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