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Jacqueline Avant, Philanthropist and Wife of Music Producer Clarence Avant, Is Fatally Shot
Ms. Avant, 81, was found with a gunshot wound after the police received a report of a shooting at her home in Beverly Hills early Wednesday, the police said.
In the documentary, actors and producers who knew the couple marveled at the longevity of the couples marriage and their fierce loyalty to each other.
They look so amazing, the actor Jamie Foxx said… [+1588 chars]
Michael Levenson
2021-12-01 23:15:28
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Inside Ivy Getty's high-fashion, star-studded wedding
Model and artist Ivy Getty married photographer Tobias Alexander Engel at San Francisco's City Hall Saturday, in a ceremony officiated by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Here's a look inside their elaborate, star-studded wedding weekend.
fashionPublished 10th November 2021
Artist and model Ivy Love Getty put a high-fashion spin on the idea of a city hall wedding.
Getty, the great granddaughter of late billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul… [+2501 chars]
Kristen Rogers, CNN
2021-11-10 21:03:12
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One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’
Andy Akiho’s 11-part, 80-minute new work for percussion quartet is a lush, brooding celebration of noise.
It wasnt so many years before his Rome Prize that Akiho didnt think of himself as a composer at all. He grew up in Columbia, S.C.; his white Southern mother met his father, a Japanese hibachi chef, w… [+1633 chars]
Zachary Woolfe
2021-12-02 11:12:12
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Nigerian celebrities Simi and Chigul expose sexism in music and Nollywood
Singer Simi and Nollywood's Chigul tell the BBC about the cultural hurdles female stars face.
By Cecilia MacaulayBBC News
Image source, Macanthony Studios
Image caption, Simi's new song Woman centres on the pressures Nigerian women face in their daily lives
Nigerian celebrities have recent… [+5854 chars]
https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews
2021-11-28 00:20:14
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Best Theater of 2021
Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
Bard SummerScape delivered one of the most titanically entertaining musical nights of my year, bringing gospel, soul and Afrobeat to Rodgers and Hammerstein in The Sound of (Black) Music, reimagined … [+1494 chars]
Jesse Green, Maya Phillips, Laura Collins-Hughes, Scott Heller, Alexis Soloski and Elisabeth Vincentelli
2021-12-03 17:01:55
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Young New Yorkers Discover Manhattan's Classic Cocktail Bars
Bemelmans Bar now has bouncers. And at the Rainbow Room, a post-punk after party.
It was a scene that would have shocked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a longtime patron of the Carlyle: a security team had been posted inside the hotels corridor to manage the crowds lining up for its … [+5010 chars]
Alyson Krueger
2021-11-26 10:00:22
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Angela Hewitt review – trademark clarity and controlled expressive focus
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, CardiffThe pianist’s lyrical programme of Messiaen, Mozart and Chopin revealed colours and drama that one might not always associate with HewittFor Olivier Messiaen, Sundays were sacrosanct. For more than six decades he…
For Olivier Messiaen, Sundays were sacrosanct. For more than six decades he was organist of Sainte-Trinité in Paris, having first deputised there as a 20-year-old in 1929. Remarkably, that same year … [+1762 chars]
Rian Evans
2021-11-23 08:42:30
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Pope in Greece: Francis Renews Calls to Help Migrants
At the Presidential Palace in Athens, he urged countries to see the welcoming of migrants as “a guarantee for a future marked by peaceful coexistence.” He will visit a camp for migrants on Lesbos on Sunday.
Wafaa Eid, center, and her husband, Osama Kawkji, center right, and their children were among the 12 Syrians who flew with Pope Francis to Rome from Greece in 2016.Credit...Pool photo by Filippo Mont… [+2932 chars]
The New York Times
2021-12-05 07:15:48
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Friends and Strangers review – wanderings around Sydney make for deadpan drama
James Vaughan’s feature debut touches on Australian history and colonialism in an admirable cinematic experimentAustralian writer-director James Vaughan’s debut feature is a strange exercise in tone and atmosphere. For sure, there are characters who wander ar…
Australian writer-director James Vaughans debut feature is a strange exercise in tone and atmosphere. For sure, there are characters who wander around and do stuff but almost nothing of consequence h… [+1987 chars]
Leslie Felperin
2021-11-08 10:00:27
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How a Book- Pickle- and Tchotchke-Seller Spends Sundays
When she’s not at her whimsical secondhand shop, Leigh Altshuler plays board games and visits neighbors.
The telephone shaped like a Cabbage Patch doll in the front window will set you back $295. Or at least it would if the seller was willing to part with it. Passers-by ask about it constantly. Instead,… [+5946 chars]
Paige Darrah
2021-11-26 10:00:25
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Radio silence: Afghan stations are one more casualty of the Taliban
Listeners have disappeared after militants restricted music, romantic serials, phone-ins, female journalists and newsThe romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women’s call-in shows were axed after the militants …
The romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular womens call-in shows were axed after the militants said they didnt want female journalists on air, and news i… [+7184 chars]
Emma Graham-Harrison in Kandahar
2021-11-27 08:00:53
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A Fashion Stylist Who Found Inspiration in New Surroundings
Having embraced a slower pace of life upstate, Melissa Ventosa Martin is launching an online marketplace dedicated to finely crafted pieces imbued with the luxury of time.
For many years, Melissa Ventosa Martin, a fashion stylist, and her husband, Walter Martin, a musician, lived in New York City and, as is common in its complex real estate market, in various parts of … [+9357 chars]
Aileen Kwun
2021-11-24 22:19:47
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Kaya Usher, widow of Gord Downie, on 'healing journey' of her debut album - CTV News
More than four years after her husband Gord Downie's death, singer-songwriter Kaya Usher is in the midst of an artistic awakening.
TORONTO --
More than four years after her husband Gord Downie's death, singer-songwriter Kaya Usher is in the midst of an artistic awakening.
With her debut album "All This Is" set for release Nov… [+5570 chars]
David Friend
2021-11-08 22:30:19
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How the Real Estate Sales on Selling Sunset Actually Work
There is something endlessly enticing about watching real estate shows featuring multi-million dollar mansions. The imported marble countertops, the elevators, the infinity pools with a view of the city—it’s so unattainable for the average person that watchin…
There is something endlessly enticing about watching real estate shows featuring multi-million dollar mansions. The imported marble countertops, the elevators, the infinity pools with a view of the c… [+10143 chars]
Hannah Lynn
2021-11-24 14:20:33
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Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson exchange vows in front of millions in trailer for Marry Me
Jennifer Lopez is officially back in her rom-com era. After signing onto Shotgun Wedding with Josh Duhamel, the singer/actor will now star in another marriage-themed feature from Universal called Marry Me.Read more...
Jennifer Lopez is officially back in her rom-com era. After signing onto Shotgun Wedding with Josh Duhamel, the singer/actor will now star in another marriage-themed feature from Universal called Mar… [+1897 chars]
Gabrielle Sanchez
2021-11-18 15:47:00
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‘The popularity just didn’t wane’: Bethesda’s Todd Howard on 10 years of Skyrim
Still played by millions, Bethesda’s 2011 fantasy RPG has become a touchstone in the video game world. Game director Todd Howard reflects on its development and legacyIs there anyone who’s played video games over the last 10 years who hasn’t played Skyrim? Wh…
Is there anyone whos played video games over the last 10 years who hasnt played Skyrim? When it came out in 2011, this must surely have seemed to the outside world like one of the nerdiest games arou… [+9721 chars]
Keza MacDonald
2021-11-11 13:01:19
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Vick Hope and her mother, Adey: ‘Vick could talk before she could walk and hasn’t shut up since!’
The DJ and her mother recreate an old photo, and talk about race, rebellion and the power of a good natterPresenter Vick Hope, AKA Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu-Hope, was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1989, before she and her family – mother Adey, father Nigel and …
Vick Hope and her mother in 1990 and 2021. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair: James Catalano. Makeup: Abbie May at Maida Money Agency
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Harriet Gibsone
2021-11-13 12:00:04
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What's next for Britney? Clues are in her own words - Reuters
Britney Spears won back her freedom on Friday after 13 years under a conservatorship that controlled how she spent…
LOS ANGELES, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Britney Spears won back her freedom on Friday after 13 years under a conservatorship that controlled how she spent her money, when she performed, who had access to her… [+3681 chars]
2021-11-13 02:48:00
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