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Blog jam: Daisy Digital
Who are you and what's your blog called? I'm Hannah and my blog is Daisy Digital. Where are you based? The blog was born up North back whilst studying in University, however I've since ventured down to London. Describe your blog in a sentence A musical feast for both your eyes and ears, without sounding egotistical...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Harry Potter Book with Author Notes Sold for $228K
(LONDON) - For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the “Harry Potter” books in the world. A first edition copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” that contains author J.K. Rowling’s notes and original illustrations fetched 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a London auction on...
time.com (17 hours ago)
Eric Hirshberg Believes Call Of Duty: Ghosts On Xbox One 'Is Stunning Leap Forward For Console...
A big part of the Microsoft Xbox One Reveal in Redmond, Washington today was the unveiling of Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Ghosts to the world. I was able to see the game last week at a pre-E3 event with Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg, who took the stage today at Microsoft’s headquarters to unveil the new...
forbes.com (23 hours ago)
Lauper, Porter just wanna have Tonys
"Kinky Boots" star Billy Porter and composer Cyndi Lauper talk about the critical acclaimed musical's Tony nominations.
cnn.com (1 day ago)
An Underground Park in New York
Acclaimed chef and author, Gabrielle Hamilton, on the Lowline, a proposed park that will revitalize Manhattan's underground in more ways than one.
wsj.com (1 day ago)
Kinky Boots receives 13 Tony Nominations
Kinky Boots' star Billy Porter and composer Cyndi Lauperr talk about the critical acclaimed musical's Tony nominations.
cnn.com (1 day ago)
Pirates invade Penobscot Theatre Company!
Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers return to Bangor with family friendly puppet play! Penobscot Theatre Company and the acclaimed Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers proudly present a new puppet play, perfect for the whole family, Everybody Loves Pirates. Performance is Saturday, May 25 at 10AM. Tickets are $12 for adults and...
bangordailynews.com (2 days ago)
The Missing Picture (L'Image manquante): Cannes Review
Acclaimed Cambodian-French director Rithy Panh returns to the subject of the Khmer Rouge for this autobiographical documentary, premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at the fest.
hollywoodreporter.com (2 days ago)
The Missing Image: Cannes Review
Acclaimed Cambodian-French director Rithy Panh returns to the subject of the Khmer Rouge for this autobiographical documentary, premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at the fest.
hollywoodreporter.com (2 days ago)
Nancy Doyle Palmer: The Good Bishop -- A Biography by Phyllis Theroux
It's a simple equation -- you take a good writer and a good subject and you get a good book. Such is the math for The Good Bishop by acclaimed writer and essayist Phyllis Theroux -- a commissioned oral history of the late Catholic Bishop Walter F. Sullivan that turned into a full-fledged biography once Theroux...
huffingtonpost.com (2 days ago)
Savannah's 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' headed to Broadway
The Mercer House is heading to Broadway. Almost 20 years after John Berendt’s best-selling book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” hit the stands, acclaimed Broadway producer Anne Hamburger plans to turn the real-life murder mystery into a musical. Hamburger, former executive vice president for Disney...
savannahnow.com (2 days ago)
Partially Paralyzed Conductor Returns
NEW YORK — James Levine rolled onto the Carnegie Hall stage in his black motorized wheelchair and into a 6-by-6-foot mechanical podium constructed by the Metropolitan Opera. Belted into the wheelchair, Levine and two aides waited while the podium hoisted him about 3 feet in the air and its interior rotated 180...
huffingtonpost.com (2 days ago)
Carrie Underwood pranks tourmate Hunter Hayes with screaming goats (Photos)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 19, 2013 - Country superstar Carrie Underwood is wrapping up her critically acclaimed Blown Away Tour this week, finishing with a handful of stops in Canada. Of course, with newcomer Hunter Hayes on board, a tour would not...
examiner.com (3 days ago)
The new superstar at Cannes: a ginger tom cat
A small ginger tom cat has taken Cannes by storm after a feisty appearance in the Coen brothers' acclaimed Inside Llewyn Davis.
telegraph.co.uk (3 days ago)
Prodigal son back at home
FITCHBURG - When acclaimed documentary filmmaker John M. Antonelli first heard Fitchburg State University was awarding him an honorary doctorate degree at the school's 117th Commencement exercises this weekend, he said he was surprised, but felt gratified at the same time.
telegram.com (3 days ago)
Chase-Riboud returns to Phila. for an exhibit of her art
Barbara Chase-Riboud, the internationally acclaimed sculptor, poet, and author who lives and works in Paris and Rome, was back this weekend where it all began - Philadelphia.
philly.com (3 days ago)
Cannes: Anurag Kashyap to Be Conferred French Honor
The acclaimed director will be awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for his efforts in promoting Indian cinema globally.
hollywoodreporter.com (4 days ago)
Auguste Rodin by Gertrude Käsebier - picture of the day
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Gertrude Käsebier was one of the most influential American photographers of the early twentieth century. Her photographs of mothers and children and her simplified portraits such as this one of Rodin were widely acclaimed. She was a founder-member of the...
guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)
A cappella group bristles at being labeled
The La Grua Center Music Matters series is proud to present the highly acclaimed seven-member men’s a cappella group The Conn Artists at 5 p.m. Sunday in Stonington.
norwichbulletin.com (4 days ago)
'I Didn't Have Any Relationships -- Except My High Heels'
While you weren't paying attention, Jared Leto was touring the world and playing rock and roll for hundreds of thousands of rabid fans. Except he doesn't like the word "fan," because he finds it insulting. Thirty Seconds to Mars, the band Leto fronts, doesn't have "fans," they have a "family." "We do a lot of...
huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)
GOING SOLO
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles is releasing a solo album. Nettles says Friday in a news release that she is working with Rick Rubin and will release the album in the fall. Rumors that Nettles would release a solo album have been prevalent for a while. Grammy Award-winning Sugarland includes Kristian...
huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)
Exclusive ‘Sonic’ titles for Wii U/3DS, ‘Sonic Lost World’ announced
Nintendo and Sega announced on May 17 during a Nintendo Direct video presentation that the next entry to the acclaimed “Sonic” series, “Sonic Lost World,” will be an exclusive release to Nintendo’s Wii U...
examiner.com (5 days ago)
Ibsen hit transfers to West End
The Young Vic's critically acclaimed and award-winning production of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen is to transfer to the West End in August.
bbci.co.uk (5 days ago)
Up For James Bond?
Christopher Nolan's fascination with the James Bond franchise is well documented, but might the acclaimed director finally get his own crack at 007? According to Baz Bamigboye of the Daily Mail, Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G .Wilson have spoken to Nolan about taking over the franchise for the next...
huffingtonpost.com (5 days ago)
Hattie Morahan to return as Nora after A Doll's House gets West End revival
Hattie Morahan will make her West End debut in a reprise of her award-winning performance in the Young Vic's acclaimed production of A Doll's House, which will be revived at the Duke of York's theatre this autumn. The transfer means that playwright Simon Stephens, who adapted Henrik Ibsen's classic, will have two...
guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)
Alt-J debut technology to stop people recording gigs on their phones
Alt-J have debuted a pioneering new piece of gig technology that aims to stop people recording shows on their phones. Following their album award win at the Ivor Novellos on Thursday, the band became the first act to utilise the Soundhalo video app at their Brixton Academy show, allowing fans to download tracks to...
guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)
Shake your head all you like but there's no one quite like David Beckham
Who doesn’t love David Beckham? Actually, quite a lot of people. But if they have any sense they’ll keep their heads down today, as the world pays tribute to a player who deserves to be acclaimed as a bona fide legend.
standard.co.uk (5 days ago)
Celeb Pix: 'Fruitvale Station' makes entrance at Cannes Film Festival
Octavia Spencer, Michael B. Jordan and Melonie Diaz bring the critically acclaimed movie about the shooting of Oscar Grant to the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival.
mercurynews.com (5 days ago)
Jude Law to star in Guardian/Young Vic film collaboration
Jude Law will team up with the Belarus Free Theatre for the next in the series of short films coproduced by the Guardian and the Young Vic theatre. Over the course of this year, the two organisations will present a series of four films created by the stars and creatives behind Young Vic productions. Law, who played...
guardian.co.uk (6 days ago)
J. Michael Welton: Human Scale at Hudson Yards
Fresh out of undergraduate school at the University of Virginia in the late 1980s - and facing the reality of a recession - Thomas Woltz leapt at the chance to teach architecture at the school's summer program in Vicenza. By summer's end, he'd secured a job with Giorgio Bellavitis Architects in Venice. There, the...
huffingtonpost.com (6 days ago)
