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The deadline headline
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This is another test, a big fat hairy test to determine if this template is going to work or if we will have to use another. We'll see, Jack and Dennis. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.
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This is a test only a test
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NOV
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We're a work in progress.
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NOV
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We're a work in progress. Watch for a redesign soon. Culchamedia LLC
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3 to get ready
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NPR: Arts journalism organizations in three major U.S. cities get a much-needed financial shot in the arm | See Word Photo: iStockphoto via NPR
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A freedom song at 50
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NPR: Investigating the birth of Bob Dylan's “Blowin’ in the Wind” and the different ways the song, and its central questions, remain the same. Photo: Simon & Schuster via Associated Press
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Think tops weekend box office
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Who’da thunk it? Think Like a Man, Tim Story’s romantic comedy starring Kevin Hart and a raft of newcomers, outpointed The Lucky One, with Zac Efron, and the one-time money monster, The Hunger Games, at the U.S. box office this weekend. Logo: © 2012 Sony Pictures. Box office data courtesy Rentrak. © 2012 Rentrak Corporation.
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22
Jack at 75
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“A man who, it sometimes seems, more than any other actor alive, happily looms like some trickster colossus over the entire Hollywood landscape ... and no one anywhere begrudges him his dominion.” Life.com: Photos of an actor on the brink HuffPo: John Farr on Jack's greatest hits Photo: © 1969 Arthur Schatz, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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22
April, the cruelest month
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CNN: Dick Clark, the eternal American teenager, television producer and a tireless champion of rock culture and its music, dies at 82 on Wednesday. Rolling Stone: Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band and that group’s indelible “beautifully gruff and ornery voice,” gone on Thursday at the age of 71. Sydney Morning Herald: Greg Ham, the saxophonist whose distinctive sound made Men at Work a staple of 80’s rock, was found dead at his home in Melbourne on Thursday. He was 58. Photos: Clark: Associated Press via The Washington Post
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The Tupac Show
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Never can say goodbye: The resurrection of Makaveli and what it says about us Photo: Musion Systems Ltd. (UK)
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22
NYC: Fixing a Hole
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Patty Schemel, Melissa Auf der Maur, Eric Erlandson and Courtney Love took the stage at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 14. The classic Hole lineup together for the first time in 15 years. YouTube
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MAR
12
Austin: SXSW: Xroads of culture
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MAR
12
It’s maybe the one thing that could bring together Biz Stone and Bruce Springsteen, Norah Jones and LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman (in the video below). South by Southwest, the annual collision of music, technology and pop culture that’s on through next Sunday. The objective for many: to find the Next Big Thing, or be the Next Big Thing. Mike Snider of USA Today reports on “a mash-up of extreme proportions.” Image: SXSW Logo: © 2012 SXSW Inc.
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MAR
12
Iranian and American, in L.A.
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MAR
12
Does Ahmedinajad know about this? The flashy, gold-plated antics of Iranian-American families in Los Angeles is the foundation for Shahs of Sunset, a new reality series debuting tonight on Bravo. The show offers a fresh look at Iranian culture that’s a long way from mullahs and ayatollahs, but does it trade one stereotype for another? Roshanak Taghavi of The Christian Science Monitor reports. In Television Photo: Colleen Hayes/Bravo
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MAR
12
Channels of diversity
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MAR
12
Magic Johnson and Sean (Diddy) Combs are setting the pace for a spate of new television channels aimed at African American viewers who, according to Nielsen, watch more TV than just about anyone else. With these new outlets of black life set to explode in the next few years, how will they change perceptions of black America? Anthonia Akitunde of The Root gets the lowdown. See Television Photo: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
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MAR
11
Notorious: Life after death
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MAR
11
It’s been 15 years since the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), perhaps the most lyrically, rhythmically gifted rapper in the game, was slain in a hail of gunfire outside the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. His killer remains at large to this day. Rachel Shapiro of The Hollywood Reporter looks back at a life of genius and potential cut short. Photo: Mark Lennihan/Associated Press
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MAR
01
Monkees’ Davy Jones dies at 66
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MAR
01
The diminutive British heartthrob, a singer for the made-for-TV rock band that defied expectations, achieved chart-topping success and survived a Beatles-besotted public in the mid 1960’s, succumbed to a heart attack early Wednesday morning near his home in Florida. The Huffington Post reports. Photo: Splash, via The Huffington Post
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FEB
28
Oscars 2012: The rundown
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We got an upset, cheesecake, the Muppets and Billy Crystal in blackface. We got the pure emotional joy of Octavia Spencer and the international pride of Iran and Pakistan. We got the lyrical beauty of Cirque du Soleil and the, uh, presence of Sacha Baron Cohen. Oscars 2012 was a mixed bag. Let Melissa Bell at The Washington Post’s Celebritology blog sort it all out. So you don’t have to. Photo: Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press
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FEB
26
Critic Howard Kissel dies at 69
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26
The tousle-haired, bespectacled theater critic beloved on Broadway for decades, died Friday night in Manhattan from complications from a 2010 liver transplant. Kissel was lead theater critic at the New York Daily News for 20 years; former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and the New York Drama Critics Circle; and a prolific author. A frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, he blogged there as "The Cultural Tourist." Robert Simonson reports in Playbill Photo: Still from "Theater Talk" TV program.
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FEB
26
White House of Blues
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FEB
26
Tuesday was blues day in Washington, as a number of blues and rock luminaries came to the East Room of the White House for a performance celebrating the blues and marking Black History Month. Some British bloke with moves like Jagger made the best of it, ripping into “I Can’t Turn You Loose” (an Otis Redding classic) and “Commit a Crime” (from Howlin’ Wolf). “In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues” airs Monday on PBS stations nationwide. Watch the video for a taste: Short Sharp Shock: Sonny Boy Who?: Blues and the absence of memory Photo: whitehouse.gov/PBS.
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FEB
23
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FEB
23
Ava after Sundance It’s been three weeks since Ava DuVernay won best director honors at Sundance for her film Middle of Nowhere, a surprise choice that caught festivalgoers off guard. Now that the dust has settled and the phone’s stopped ringing as much, the indie darling sat down with Nsenga K. Burton of The Root to make sense of what the ‘‘big hug’’ at Sundance means for DuVernay, and for other black women filmmakers struggling for a voice. See MoviesPhoto: Ava DuVernay via The Root
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23
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FEB
23
The Help tops NAACP film honors The serious 2012 Academy Award contender wins best picture at the NAACP Image Awards, one of the last awards ceremonies before the 84th Oscars (this coming Sunday night). Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer took home honors as best actress and best supporting actress. CBS News reports.Photo: Getty Images
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23
Seattle: Another Oklahoma! The 5th Avenue Theatre's staging of the vintage Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, still "a valentine to America," in the words of producer Peter Rothstein, weds folkloric homage with multiculturalism, via cross-racial casting and a vision of inclusion a far cry from its early stagings in the 1940’s. Misha Berson of The Seattle Times reports. See StagePhoto: Promotional still, 5th Avenue Theater, Seattle, via boradwayworld.com
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23
NYC: Asian and absent in the arts In an increasingly diverse American society, Asian American actors are battling for wider acceptance. In the hothouse of competition on the New York stage, they find it harder and harder to find roles that white and even African American actors gain with more regularity. One actor said it plain: “There's this real subconscious perception in society that Asian-Americans are not actually American.” Lucas Kavner of The Huffington Post reports. See StageImage: Asian American Performers Action Coalition, via Facebook
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23
Whitney forever TMZ reports that the legendary singer’s family was told by L.A. Coroners’ officials that she died of an overdose of prescription drugs, and not by drowning. At the funeral in Newark, Kevin Costner brings it all together in a powerful, emotional speech. The exit: 'I Will Always Love You' .
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23
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FEB
23
A new home for the blues The National Blues Museum, said to be the first dedicated to the indelible genre of American music, is set to open sometime next year in St. Louis, a city whose DNA is steeped in the blues experience. The project, part of a $500 million riverfront renovation, will have a tech-centric feel, but one that strives to celebrate blues as “a state of mind ... the human condition ... a way of life.” More at The Huffington PostPhoto: Central Iowa Blues Society
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