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LONDON (Reuters) - Christie's on Tuesday kicked off a fortnight of major London art sales with a bang, hitting or exceeding the most optimistic pre-sale expectations and extending 2011's record-breaking run into the new year.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A request by reality television star Richard Hatch to give the Internal Revenue Service a reduced payment of $25 for January in his tax evasion case has been denied by a Rhode Island judge....
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe came out fighting against rival TV shows on Tuesday, calling singing contest "The Voice" a "gimmicky" show and making clear he was fed up with defending "Idol"s slipping ratings.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A nonprofit group is planning two autism-friendly performances of Broadway's "The Lion King" and "Mary Poppins" for families with children diagnosed with the disorder....
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At Butcher Bar in Astoria, cuts of meat can be taken home or cooked and served on the spot.
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Forecasters say restaurant revenues will reach record levels in 2012 - jumping 3.5 percent over last year - while the industry's employment numbers return to what they were before the recession. It's a fry cry from the...
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CAIRO (AP) -- A judge says one of the Arab world's best known Egyptian comedians has been sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam....
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How did Dutch artist Leon Keer create a 3D illusion on a street in chalk? The same way they created perspective in Renaissance FlorenceThe wife of 15th-century Italian artist Paolo Uccello used to beg him to come to bed. She was fed up of him staying...(more)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The plot seemed familiar: A hotshot Hollywood filmmaker shills for a bailed-out car industry, yet another limousine liberal going to bat for big government....
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The Serpentine Gallery in London announced on Tuesday that the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron and the artist Ai Weiwei -- the brain trust behind the Beijing National Stadium, aka the Bird's Nest -- will collaborate again to create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
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LONDON (AP) -- A critic who accused a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of scattering literary allusions like "tin cans tied to a tricycle" has won a prize for the year's most lacerating book review....
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LONDON (AP) -- Christie's says three top works from the late Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor's art collection have sold at auction in London for nearly 14 million pounds ($22 million)....
