| Madonna sets stage on fire with Super Bowl performance Madonna delivered a spectacular show at Half Time at the Super Bowl on Sunday, as she wowed the audience with her fiery performance.
It started with her being escorted to the stage at Indianapolis's... | |
| Pietersen loving the centre stage JP Pietersen may have found himself a new role with Sharks coach John Plumtree revealing he is thriving in the midfield. A winger by trade, Plumtree has utilised the Springbok at number thirteen... |
| NYC fans cheer, dance as Giants defeat Patriots The repeat performance was just as good as the first for New York Giants fans as they watched their team again beat the New England Patriots 21-17 Sunday in the Super... |
| Music Review: Super Bowl The bad girl is a grown-up now, like it or not. Madonna, 53, danced her way back toward worldwide visibility Sunday as the halftime attraction for the Super Bowl, with a giant supporting cast -... |
| Goings on About Town: The Theatre OPENINGS AND PREVIEWSPlease call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALESRinde Eckert wrote and stars in this musical, about a... |
| Goings on About Town: Dance NEW YORK CITY BALLETIn the next two weeks, the company will offer a broad swath of repertory by Balanchine, Robbins, and Ratmansky, as well as several performances of two large-scale narrative... |
| Junos on road to relevance Our long national nightmare may be ending, music fans: The Juno Awards are inching perilously close to relevance. Believe me, I am as shocked by this as you are. Only a few years ago, our annual... |
| Madonna stuns with halftime medley Madonna performs during the halftime show at the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 5, 2012. (REUTERS/Mike... |
| OK Go for a ride Groundbreaking pop group Ok Go have recorded their latest single in a car. The four-piece, who famously shot a synchronized treadmill routine for their hit Here it Goes Again, set up more than 1,000... |
| Snoop stopped in Norway for suspicious odor U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg exhales cigar smoke as he poses before the "Isle of MTV Malta Special" concert in Floriana, outside Valletta, in this June 30, 2011 file photo. (REUTERS/Darrin Zammit... |
| NYC fans cheer, dance as Giants defeat Pats New York Giants fans celebrate a touchdown as they watch the broadcast of the NFL football Super Bowl between the Giants and the New England Patriots, in a midtown Manhattan bar Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012,... |
| John H. Davis, Chronicler of Kennedys and Others, Dies at 82 John H. Davis, a prolific chronicler of prominent American families including the Kennedys, the Guggenheims, the Gambinos and the family he shared with his cousin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - the... |
| Madonna thrills Super Bowl halftime crowd Madonna, right, and Cee Lo Green perform during the halftime show of the Super Bowl XLVI football game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. (David J. Phillip/Associated... |
| Musical Chairs In The Eurozone charles mcphedran European politics seems like a mixture of dj vu and musical chairs these days. Everyone expects the music to stop very soon and one main question remains: who will be left with... |
| Steven Leiber, Dealer in Artists' Ephemera, Dies at 54 Steven Leiber, a San Francisco art dealer and collector who became an expert in artists' ephemera and built an archive that became an important resource for scholars and curators, died on Jan. 28 at... |
| Stage and screen actor Ben Gazzara dies of cancer 'Transformational wife' proves to be double-edged spouse for Gingrich LOS ANGELES – Actor Ben Gazzara (81), known for his brooding tough-guy presence in dozens of films, television... |
| Alberta’s Kate Middleton takes Paris stage in look-alike contest EDMONTON - An Albertan in Paris, Holly Ferrier drew on all of her French-language skills during a recent whirlwind trip to Europe to appear on a television show as a Kate Middleton look-alike, doling... |
| Depardieu to play Strauss-Kahn Gerard Depardieu is to play disgraced French financier Dominic Strauss-Kahn in a new movie. Director Abel Ferrara has confirmed the casting news to newspaper Le Monde, adding that Isabelle Adjani... |
| Alberta's Kate Middleton takes Paris stage in look-alike contest EDMONTON - An Albertan in Paris, Holly Ferrier drew on all of her French-language skills during a recent whirlwind trip to Europe to appear on a television show as a Kate Middleton look-alike, doling... |
| United stage stunning fightback to draw at Chelsea AFP © <p>Manchester United's Javier Hernandez (L) scores a goal during their English Premier League football match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in London. The match ended in... |
| Review: Edmonton Opera’s Mikado is visually stunning, modern-day spin on Gilbert and Sullivan comedy Just when you’d resigned yourself to opera’s muted browns and beiges, to its clunky, weighty sets complete with woe-is-me-aria balcony and token bit of fake foliage, along comes a... |
| Review: Edmonton Opera's Mikado is visually stunning, modern-day spin on Gilbert and Sullivan comedy REVIEWThe MikadoWith: John Avey, Andriana Chuchman, Scott Scully, Erin Lawson, Curtis Olds, Sonya Goss, Thomas Goerz, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, Dionne SellingerConductor: Peter DalaDirector: Rob... |
| The art of recession-dodging | Sarah Thornton results were 3.6bn, up 9%. The percentage rise in sales of contemporary art was even better, at 22%. Sotheby's doesn't announce its complete results until the end of February, but its total... |
| URI student wins regional acting competition A University of Rhode Island student who won a regional acting competition last month is headed for a national festival in Washington, D.C. The university says Andrew Burnap (BUR'-nap) won a... |
| Fifth graders take to the dance floor "It was a lot better than I thought," Jen said. About 90 fifth graders donned their best dancing duds for a recital Friday, capping off a week of lessons in cha-cha, merengue, tango and... |
| 54 Below, Restaurant-Nightclub Under the Former Studio 54 The sex, drugs and disco are long gone. But the ghosts of the celebrities who danced at Studio 54, the renowned late-'70s New York nightspot, will get some company this spring with the opening of a... |
| Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie To be a gay atheist remains almost as marginalizing in many societies today as it was for Michael Tippett (1905-98), the British composer and pacifist who began composing "A Child of Our Time" the... |
| Dance Review: Ratmansky's 'Russian Seasons' From New York City Ballet George Balanchine famously said that his 1956 ballet "Allegro Brillante" contained everything he knew about classical ballet in 13 minutes. Sweeping, spacious dancing and stringent footwork... |
| Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center With Rossini's radiant late operas receiving ever more respect and attention, it seems increasingly perverse that Stendhal, his first biographer, loudly preferred his early comic works.
But a... |
| Charles Murray's 'Coming Apart: The State of White America' WASHINGTON - When Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein's book "The Bell Curve" appeared in 1994, it was denounced by social scientists, liberal pundits and a little-known Chicago civil-rights... |
| Books of The Times: Anne Sebba on Duchess of Windsor, Scotty Bowers on Himself In "That Woman," her solid biography of the woman who was born Bessiewallis Warfield and, on Dec. 10, 1936, became the King of England's excuse for abdicating his throne, Anne Sebba argues that her... |
| Music Review: Prism Quartet and Music From China at Weill Recital Hall Anyone unfamiliar with the Prism Quartet, a Philadelphia saxophone ensemble, and Music From China, a New York group formed to preserve and promote traditional Chinese music, might assume that they... |
| Bridge: Houston Lone Star Regional's Bracketed Teams - Bridge The Houston Lone Star Regional ran from Jan. 20 to Sunday. The diagramed deal, from a bracketed knockout teams, featured an instructive point.
Eric Rodwell (South) of Clearwater Beach, Fla.,... |
| Children stage armed robbery at Raymond Terrace CHILDREN as young as 10 are suspected of being responsible for one of three armed robberies across the Hunter overnight.A teenage girl was used as a decoy to allow three young boys to storm the... |
| NBC Spends Millions on the Buildup to 'Smash' Some people in America may not know that a show named "Smash" is having its premiere on NBC Monday night. After all, there are still a few homes in the nation that don't have television sets.
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| Wood to star in erotic thriller LOS ANGELES - Evan Rachel Wood is reuniting with director Catherine Hardwicke for an erotic thriller set in the turbulent world of Los Angeles’ rock-and-roll community, TheWrap has confirmed. ... |
| Dion's hubby may buy Schwartz's deli MONTREAL – Superstar Celine Dion’s husband, Rene Angelil, is rumoured to be looking to purchase arguably the most famous restaurant in Montreal - or perhaps in Canada - Schwartz’s... |
| Lucian Freud Portraits – review painting them. There was as much violence as tenderness in his stare, and in the ways he devised to paint.This tremendous show tracks Freud's inquisitiveness and inventiveness, his constant... |
| Moore checks into treatment centre: Report Demi Moore has checked into a second treatment centre following her hospitalization last month, according to U.S. reports. The Ghost actress was taken to hospital on Jan. 23 after a pal called... |
| 'Chronicle' tops box office LOS ANGELES - The thriller Chronicle edged haunted house film The Woman in Black in a tight box-office race that saw both movies beating pre-weekend forecasts, studio estimates released on Sunday... |
| Lambert not new Queen frontman Adam Lambert has cleared up reports he is the new frontman of Queen, insisting remarks he made about joining the "We Will Rock you" stars were "taken out of context". In a... |
| Kardashian to move after intruder scare Kim Kardashian is on the hunt for a new Los Angeles base, just days after a stranger turned up at her home and told security guards he was working for the star. The socialite is looking for a new... |
| L.A. Reid still has The X Factor Music mogul Antonio 'L.A.' Reid has signed a new contract to stay on for a second season of TV talent show The X Factor, days after Simon Cowell announced Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger... |
| 'NCIS' hits 200 episodes Maybe people just like Mark Harmon. Perhaps it’s as simple as that. Harmon has been a staple on TV in various shows since the 1970s. But he hits a new milestone this week when his current... |
