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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:39:13 +0000 - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The husband of actress Sandra Bullock apologized on Thursday for causing her "pain and embarrassment beyond comprehension" after recent claims he cheated on her while she was filming her Oscar-winning role in "The Blind Side."
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:53:14 +0000 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former producer to pop sensation Lady Gaga has sued his one-time protege for more than $30 million (19.7 million pound) claiming he was instrumental to her success but unable to profit from it when their romance ended.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:28:57 +0000 - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, whose career is red-hot since he won the best supporting actor Oscar as a Nazi officer in "Inglourious Basterds," will make his feature directing debut on the German-language movie "Auf und Davon" ("Up and Away"), based on a script he wrote.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:08:37 +0000 - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They turn heads on the red carpet, are besieged by the world's top designers, give tearful acceptance speeches, and go home with a little gold man called Oscar.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:31:31 +0000 - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Eleven hours of watching birds fly, frogs leap and whales frolic might seem to be taking a viewer's curiosity about nature a bit too far, but honestly, there's never been anything like "Life." Although this Discovery miniseries is just the latest in a long line of natural-science documentaries going back to Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom," it has the ability to instantly make all others look tragically dated.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:34:05 +0000 - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jamie Foxx is in negotiations to star opposite Bruce Willis in "Kane & Lynch," a video-game adaptation that veteran stunt coordinator and second unit director Simon Crane is helming.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:44:49 +0000 - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for Roman Polanski filed an appeal on Thursday demanding the fugitive film director be sentenced in California for a decades-old sex crime even as he remains under house arrest in Switzerland.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:21:12 +0000 - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour was named on Thursday to anchor the ABC News' Sunday morning program "This Week" starting in August, after 27 years as an international correspondent for CNN.
NPR Topics: Music
Listen to new music, podcasts, live concerts and studio sessions. Watch video sessions. Read interviews with musicians and music reviews. NPR covers the best new songs from rock, pop, folk, jazz, urban, world and classical music.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:15:00 -0400 - Alex Chilton's band changed lives. With Big Star, music felt limitless, freer, but also more whole. How did they do that?
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:06:00 -0400 - I've always been attracted to the mix of voice and electronics, so when I first heard the music of CALLmeKAT, my intrigue was instant. CALLmeKAT is the recording moniker of Katrine Ottosen, a singer and musician from Copenhagen, Denmark with a lovely, delicate voice.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0400 - South by Southwest Interactive, the tech portion of the music and media conference in Austin, Texas, finished up earlier this week. Omar Gallaga of the Austin America-Statesman, shares the highlights.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:44:00 -0400 - The influential musician and producer, of The Box Tops and Big Star fame, died this week after a sudden heart attack at age 59. Neda Ulaby looks back on Chilton's varied career.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400 - Though Heath has worked primarily as a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College CUNY since the 1980's, he also continues to record and tour. Endurance, his latest album, not only demonstrates Heath's own passion and longevity — he is 83 years old! — but also the endurance of his warmly soulful bop.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400 - Nneka's career took off in 2005 after the release of her debut album Victim of Truth. It received praise from across Europe and planted the seeds for an even more compelling sophomore album. Now Nneka brings words of truth, wisdom and hope to the U.S. with Concrete Jungle, dedicated to the people of Warri and the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:29:00 -0400 - John Davis, formerly of Georgie James, plays songs from his latest project, Title Tracks, at the Gibson Guitar Showroom at this year's South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:44:00 -0400 - The Los Angeles band's sound synthesizes vocal harmonies influenced by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (or the more contemporary Fleet Foxes) with the reverberant rhythms of Afrobeat, indie rock and chamber pop. Local Natives performed at NPR Music's daytime party in Austin, Texas, on March 18.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:15:00 -0400 - Best Coast have been one of the most talked-about bands in the weeks leading up to SXSW 2010. In this set from the Gibson Guitar Showroom from KEXP, Best Coast plays poppy, lo-fi surf rock.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:51:00 -0400 - Every night during the madness that is SXSW Bob Boilen, Carrie Brownstein, Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson will meet up on some random street corner and break down the events of the day. As Stephen says in the first of the group's late-night dispatches from Austin, "This is the most lucid any of us will be."
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:29:00 -0400 - The Florida band's self-described "anthemic, bombastic, life-affirming indie-pop" project seems to have arisen as spontaneously as its name, which came up when one of Surfer Blood's members shouted it out in a car at random. The group performed at NPR Music's daytime party in Austin, Texas, on March 18.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0400 - Musician Alex Chilton died yesterday. He was the lead singer of the Memphis band Big Star. To remember the underground legend, Ed Ward reviews Keep an Eye on the Sky, a four-disc collection of recordings, demos and outtakes.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:44:00 -0400 - Hailing from Huntsville, Ala., G-Side is a rap duo that rhymes about the experience of living in a midsize city in the American south. The group performed as part of NPR Music's daytime party in Austin, Texas, on March 18.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:31:00 -0400 - NPR Music put on two concerts in Austin, Texas for the annual music festival, South By Southwest. Here is a collection of photo galleries from the week's performers.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:28:00 -0400 - Written on a laptop, Sleigh Bells' songs rely heavily on bombastic beats that are pushed as far into the red as they can go. Combined with Alexis Krauss' sultry vocals and Derek Miller's trashy guitar riffs, their blown-out beats leap out of the speakers. The electro-pop duo performed at The Parish as the headliner at NPR Music's daytime party.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:46:39 EDT - Ian McKellen, the actor who plays Gandalf the wizard, has announced that the first of two Hobbit films will start shooting in July in New Zealand.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:59:57 EDT - A new short film by Winnipeg auteur Guy Maddin has won the award for best experimental short at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:53:10 EDT - An arrest has been made in connection with the California investigation into the death of Canadian-born actor Corey Haim, according to a CNN.com report.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:16:11 EDT - The decision to send a Montreal man to prison for pirating movies has set a dangerous precedent that could threaten privacy rights, say civil rights advocates in Vancouver.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:13:03 EDT - Hundreds of Corey Haim's friends and relatives embraced and held hands as they arrived at a Toronto funeral home Tuesday to remember the fallen teen icon.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:29:56 EDT - An Ottawa-based school that trained people in the film and television industry is closing its doors after 29 years, during which time it provided workshops for more than 7,000 people.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:33:14 EDT - Canadian film distributors are welcoming the 2½-month-long sentence handed down on Tuesday to the Montreal man the FBI once called Canada's biggest movie pirate.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:20:11 EDT - Toronto-born baritone Elliot Madore is still on a high after being selected as one of five winners at Sunday's Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:41:03 EDT - The French theatre at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa will premiere a new play by artistic director Wajdi Mouawad and another by associate author Emma Haché called Wolfe in the 2010-11 season.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:10:49 EDT - Canadian Stage Company has added a spotlight series to the Toronto theatre season that will focus in the first year on theatre and dance from Italy.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:49:26 EST - The Australian Ballet is engaged in a salvage operation for its costumes and sets after fierce storms that hit Melbourne last weekend flooded a storage facility.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:42:46 EST - Conan O'Brien is following up his disappearing act on network TV with a standup tour that will take him to 33 cities, including three in Canada.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:27 EST - Toronto will get a double bill of Robert Lepage production this fall, with The Andersen Project and Eonnagata coming to the city for the first time.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:01:19 EST - Ottawa's performing arts venues are trying to help patrons save money in anticipation of the harmonized sales tax, which will make theatre and concert tickets more expensive.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:14:10 EDT - A U.S. woman accused of being part of a plot to murder a Swedish artist who offended Muslims pleaded non-guilty on Thursday in a Philadelphia court.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:05:35 EDT - The Beaverbrook U.K. Foundation may have to sell some of its assets to pay mounting legal bills stemming from its seven-year dispute with Fredericton's art gallery, an audit has revealed.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:10:32 EDT - Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker), owned by British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber through his art foundation, is going to be auctioned in June.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:20:53 EDT - Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men in the theft of two paintings, including a Salvador Dali, from a Dutch gallery last year.
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:47:49 EDT - Canadian installation artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller will show a new work in Trinity Bellwoods Park during the Luminato arts and culture festival this June.
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:52:29 EDT - An ancient wooden coffin stolen from Egypt 126 years ago has finally returned home after being confiscated in the U.S. in 2008.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:55:58 EST - Cover artist Seth and web-comic creator Kate Beaton are among the finalists for the 2010 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian comics that were announced Friday.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:38:50 EST - Elizabeth Paden, a recent graduate from McGill University in Montreal, has won the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners prize.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:05:35 EDT - The Beaverbrook U.K. Foundation may have to sell some of its assets to pay mounting legal bills stemming from its seven-year dispute with Fredericton's art gallery, an audit has revealed.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:13:40 EDT - Singer-guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen during the 1960s and later became a cult hero with Big Star, has died at age 59.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:53:19 EDT - French mystery writer Lalie Walker is being sued for defamation by the owners of the well-known Parisian fabric store where she set her latest crime novel.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:10:33 EDT - Winners of the 2009 CBC Literary Awards have been announced, with six winners each for previously unpublished English and French works in creative non-fiction, poetry and short story.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:20:11 EDT - Toronto-born baritone Elliot Madore is still on a high after being selected as one of five winners at Sunday's Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:08:24 EDT - The poet who touched hearts with his moving tribute to Canada during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies says he's been caught by surprise by the warm reaction to his work.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:14:10 EDT - A U.S. woman accused of being part of a plot to murder a Swedish artist who offended Muslims pleaded non-guilty on Thursday in a Philadelphia court.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:46:39 EDT - Ian McKellen, the actor who plays Gandalf the wizard, has announced that the first of two Hobbit films will start shooting in July in New Zealand.
NPR Topics: News
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:42:00 -0400 - The problems with Toyota's gas pedals have been front page news for weeks now, but what about the people in front of the pedals? Earlier studies have found that the majority of car-surging incidents were actually the fault of the driver. But the recent problems with cars continuing to accelerate haven't been studied yet.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0400 - Simin Behbahani, Iran's most prominent poet, was about to board a flight to Paris when police seized her passport. Behbahani, 82 and nearly blind, has not been charged with any crime. Many fear her treatment may signal a rise in repressive tactics by Iran's government.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0400 - Western nations have long criticized Afghanistan's failure to curtail opium production, a main source of income for the Taliban. But counterterrorism officials say the problem is far more complex than just drug money, including diverted charity payments and "protection money" from convoys seeking to resupply U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - The South by Southwest music festival bills itself as "the premier destination for discovery." It's also the destination for truckloads of cash, as music and art fans flock to Austin, Texas, each March. Last year's event brought nearly $100 million to the city, according to one analyst.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - Thanks to specials like zero percent financing and price cuts, Toyota sales have risen sharply. A recent Edmunds.com dealer survey finds that so far this month, Toyota has regained the same market share of sales it had before the gas pedal recall.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:52:00 -0400 - During the peak of the housing market, the value of the mortgages that got stuffed into those complicated mortgage bonds known as toxic assets was more than $3 trillion. But now the market has stalled, in part because many sellers are waiting for the economy to improve.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:51:00 -0400 - As the men's basketball tournament began, major underdogs Murray State, Ohio University, Washington and Old Dominion were too much for more highly regarded opponents. St. Mary's, Northern Iowa and Wake Forest also turned the tables on the oddsmakers.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:01:00 -0400 - House leaders had predicted that the financial analysis of the health care bill released Thursday, coupled with the unveiling of the bill's fix-it language, would "go a long way" to win over undecided Democrats. But so far, that group appears in no rush to commit.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:01:00 -0400 - David Coleman Headley admitted in a signed plea agreement that he made surveillance videos and conducted other intelligence gathering for the 2008 attack, which left 166 dead. He could have been sentenced to death if convicted of the most serious charges, but under the deal he will not be executed as long as he continues to cooperate with prosecutors.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:21:00 -0400 - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Iran's new Russian-built nuclear reactor will begin operating this summer, even as the United States called for Russia to delay the startup. Clinton, in Moscow on an official trip, urged Russia not to start up the plant until Tehran proves that it's not developing atomic weapons.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:43:00 -0400 - A family spokeswoman said Parker, who also television's Daniel Boone and later became a major California winemaker and developer, died at his Santa Ynez Valley, Calif., home of natural causes. His death comes on the 84th birthday of his wife of 50 years, Marcella.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:07:00 -0400 - The Republican governor is accused of breaking 37 laws, including improperly using pricey plane tickets for a trip to Argentina where he saw the mistress he infamously called his soul mate. Under a consent agreement signed Thursday, Sanford doesn't admit guilt but does not contest the charges either.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:50:00 -0400 - The town council in Yuma, Colo., recently passed a unanimous resolution asking Congress and the president to resolve the immigration system. Businesses in Yuma are worried they could lose their workforces if there are immigration raids.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:15:00 -0400 - In Haiti, heavy rains are expected to begin soon, and aid groups and the government are in a race against time to move hundreds of thousands of tent-camp residents who could be at particular risk. Yet the process of relocating the quake victims has been extremely slow.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0400 - In a documentary disguised as a game show, participants gave what they thought were electric shocks to a rival contestant when he got a question wrong. They were urged on by an attractive host and an audience chanting, "Punishment! Punishment!" The show reveals how people will set aside their values and obey sadistic orders in the face of authority.
NPR Topics: Music
Listen to new music, podcasts, live concerts and studio sessions. Watch video sessions. Read interviews with musicians and music reviews. NPR covers the best new songs from rock, pop, folk, jazz, urban, world and classical music.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:15:00 -0400 - Alex Chilton's band changed lives. With Big Star, music felt limitless, freer, but also more whole. How did they do that?
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:06:00 -0400 - I've always been attracted to the mix of voice and electronics, so when I first heard the music of CALLmeKAT, my intrigue was instant. CALLmeKAT is the recording moniker of Katrine Ottosen, a singer and musician from Copenhagen, Denmark with a lovely, delicate voice.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0400 - South by Southwest Interactive, the tech portion of the music and media conference in Austin, Texas, finished up earlier this week. Omar Gallaga of the Austin America-Statesman, shares the highlights.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:44:00 -0400 - The influential musician and producer, of The Box Tops and Big Star fame, died this week after a sudden heart attack at age 59. Neda Ulaby looks back on Chilton's varied career.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400 - Though Heath has worked primarily as a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College CUNY since the 1980's, he also continues to record and tour. Endurance, his latest album, not only demonstrates Heath's own passion and longevity — he is 83 years old! — but also the endurance of his warmly soulful bop.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400 - Nneka's career took off in 2005 after the release of her debut album Victim of Truth. It received praise from across Europe and planted the seeds for an even more compelling sophomore album. Now Nneka brings words of truth, wisdom and hope to the U.S. with Concrete Jungle, dedicated to the people of Warri and the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:29:00 -0400 - John Davis, formerly of Georgie James, plays songs from his latest project, Title Tracks, at the Gibson Guitar Showroom at this year's South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:44:00 -0400 - The Los Angeles band's sound synthesizes vocal harmonies influenced by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (or the more contemporary Fleet Foxes) with the reverberant rhythms of Afrobeat, indie rock and chamber pop. Local Natives performed at NPR Music's daytime party in Austin, Texas, on March 18.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:15:00 -0400 - Best Coast have been one of the most talked-about bands in the weeks leading up to SXSW 2010. In this set from the Gibson Guitar Showroom from KEXP, Best Coast plays poppy, lo-fi surf rock.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:51:00 -0400 - Every night during the madness that is SXSW Bob Boilen, Carrie Brownstein, Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson will meet up on some random street corner and break down the events of the day. As Stephen says in the first of the group's late-night dispatches from Austin, "This is the most lucid any of us will be."
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:29:00 -0400 - The Florida band's self-described "anthemic, bombastic, life-affirming indie-pop" project seems to have arisen as spontaneously as its name, which came up when one of Surfer Blood's members shouted it out in a car at random. The group performed at NPR Music's daytime party in Austin, Texas, on March 18.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0400 - Musician Alex Chilton died yesterday. He was the lead singer of the Memphis band Big Star. To remember the underground legend, Ed Ward reviews Keep an Eye on the Sky, a four-disc collection of recordings, demos and outtakes.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:44:00 -0400 - Hailing from Huntsville, Ala., G-Side is a rap duo that rhymes about the experience of living in a midsize city in the American south. The group performed as part of NPR Music's daytime party in Austin, Texas, on March 18.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:31:00 -0400 - NPR Music put on two concerts in Austin, Texas for the annual music festival, South By Southwest. Here is a collection of photo galleries from the week's performers.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:28:00 -0400 - Written on a laptop, Sleigh Bells' songs rely heavily on bombastic beats that are pushed as far into the red as they can go. Combined with Alexis Krauss' sultry vocals and Derek Miller's trashy guitar riffs, their blown-out beats leap out of the speakers. The electro-pop duo performed at The Parish as the headliner at NPR Music's daytime party.
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