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Limbo, London Wonderground - circus review
How do you up the ante when your previous show was the hottest ticket in town? Last May innovative director Scott Maidment brought Cantina to the South Bank's mirrored Spiegeltent and blew audiences away with an intense, dark hybrid of circus, cabaret and low-level sadomasochism. Maidment’s sequel, Limbo, with a new...
standard.co.uk (27 minutes ago)

Cannes: 'Last Days on Mars' Director and Olivia Williams on Making the Mars Sci-Fi Thriller (Video)
Ruairi Robinson talks to THR about his feature film debut, which follows a group of Americans who make a very dark discovery on Mars.
hollywoodreporter.com (50 minutes ago)

Monstrous tornado devastates Oklahoma suburbs
A monstrous tornado at least a mile (800m) wide has roared through suburbs of Oklahoma City, flattening entire neighbourhoods and destroying a primary school with winds up to 200mph (320 kph). At least 51 people have been killed, including at least 20 children, and officials say the death toll is expected to rise to...
guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)
Updated: Warnings expire as storm moves east
All severe thunderstorm warnings for the state have expired. The state saw as many as six simultaneous warnings as the storm, which stretches most of the length of the state, moved its way to the north and east.Video: Storm brings lightning, dark clouds to NewtonLive radar, forecast from WHO-HDYour photos: Share...
desmoinesregister.com (4 hours ago)
Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51
MOORE, Okla. - A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the...
savannahnow.com (5 hours ago)

Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific exhibit journeys to deep ocean
This summer, the Aquarium of the Pacific will take visitors to the planet's last frontier, a world of dark depths, crushing pressure and strange creatures adapted to live beyond the reach of light. Gallery: Aquarium of the Pacific's "Wonders of the Deep" exhibit
dailybreeze.com (6 hours ago)

Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific exhibit journeys to deep ocean
This summer, the Aquarium of the Pacific will take visitors to the planet's last frontier, a world of dark depths, crushing pressure and strange creatures adapted to live beyond the reach of light. Gallery: Aquarium of the Pacific's "Wonders of the Deep" exhibit
presstelegram.com (7 hours ago)

Google Checkout to be retired November 20
Google rolled out Google Wallet back in 2011, and now the time has come to retire Google Checkout. The news was made in an announcement earlier today, with Google notifying merchants using Google Checkout that in six months the service will go dark following a transition to Wallet. This follows the addition of...
slashgear.com (7 hours ago)
More aides knew of IRS audit, kept Obama in dark
WASHINGTON -- White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obamas spokesman disclosed Monday,...
dailymail.com (8 hours ago)
Two hikers rescued in Whirlpool Gorge in Ontario
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Two hikers who became lost in the Whirlpool Gorge were rescued by the High Angle River Team of the Niagara Parks Police Service of Ontario about 3 p.m. Monday.The High Angle team rappelled into the gorge near Thompson’s Point and located the hikers who had left the marked trail. Neither was...
buffalonews.com (8 hours ago)
White House helps fuel its own political controversies
Brian Hughes The White House on Monday acknowledged that top officials there knew a month ago that the IRS was being investigated for targeting conservative groups, but offered no apology for the Justice Department's spying on a second news organization. Even as they labored to put controversy behind them, the White...
washingtonexaminer.com (8 hours ago)
Consumer Reports: The Galaxy S4 is the world’s best smartphone
Is Samsung’s Galaxy S4 really “a precious stone glittering in the dark” or is it just an overrated slab of plastic with a nice display? Consumer Reports weighed in on this important controversy on Monday and declared that the Galaxy S4 really does live up to the hype and should now be considered the best smartphone...
yahoo.com (9 hours ago)
Shanzhai Biennial: Dark Optimism
This song, like the dress and the woman wearing it, is the sincerest form of flattery. In that they're all shameless knockoffs. Everything about this music video from Shanzhai Biennial, a trio of artists-Cyril Duval, Babak Radboy and Avena Gallagher-posing as a “multinational brand posing as an art-project posing as...
gizmodo.com (10 hours ago)
Listen to Daughn Gibson's "You Don't Fade"
Daughn Gibson’s career is one that’s been as eclectic as his current output. Beginning as a drummer in various punk and metal bands, Gibson (whose real name is Josh Martin) has adapted the dark undertones of these heavier projects and morphed them into an amalgamation of deep vocals, choppy samples and pop mastery...
pastemagazine.com (10 hours ago)

Top White House aides kept Obama in the dark about IRS audit
Top White House aides learned in April that the IRS singled out conservative groups for scrutiny, but the officials decided not to inform President Obama of the issue, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday.
nydailynews.com (11 hours ago)

More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told
WASHINGTON (AP) - White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior presidential advisers knew in late April that an upcoming report was likely to find that IRS employees had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups. That disclosure on Monday expanded the known circle of top officials who...
washingtonexaminer.com (11 hours ago)

PHOTOS: One Of Our State's Oddest, Oldest Pastimes
Before there was Disney World, Universal Studios or Legoland, tourists were lured to Florida for one very odd attraction: ostrich racing. The sport is one of Florida's oldest pastimes; ostrich farms and racetracks popped up in Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, and St. Augustine around 1890. Tourists could take a ride on...
huffingtonpost.com (11 hours ago)

Broadway's Biggest Theater SOLD
NEW YORK -- Britain's biggest theater groups has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought Broadway's biggest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million. Ambassador Theatre Group said Monday it has acquired The Foxwoods Theatre, the current home of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." The theater...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)

Did This Artist Paint Her Future Husband?
In a story that resembles a made-for-TV movie, a single woman appears to have painted a picture of her future husband before she had ever seen his face. In 2009, artist Chloe Mayo created a romantic depiction of her dream husband -- tall, dark, handsome, and bearded. According to Bournemouth News & Picture...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)

Dark Rye: The Garden Pool: A Sustainable Oasis in a Suburban Desert
Garden Pool from Dark Rye on Vimeo. Few places on Earth are less sustainable than the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, comprised of untold thousands of acres of tract homes and mini-malls built into one of the world's harshest desert environments. But Dennis McClung and his family are making it work. In the concrete...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)

Richard Javad Heydarian: Philippine Elections: The Sound and the Fury
Thanks to Hollywood, and Leonardo DiCaprio's blazing performance, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has captured the popular imagination, especially in an era of growing economic equality, brazen display of extravagance by the 'top 1 percent', and deepening social fissures between the profligate nouveau riche...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)
Evaggelos Vallianatos: Storms in the Wine-Dark Sea
The Mediterranean, Homer's wine-dark sea, is nearly locked between the continents of Africa, Europe and Asia. The Greeks and other ancient people utilized the sea like a highway for travel, communication, trade and exploration. Water, the natural world, and the Mediterranean were essential for the rise and growth...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)

W.H.: ‘Entirely appropriate’ that senior staff didn’t tell Obama about IRS probe
Brian Hughes Senior White House officials decided not to tell President Obama about a probe into the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, the White House insisted Monday, further changing its story about when and what it knew of the episode. Even though senior White House officials were made aware...
washingtonexaminer.com (12 hours ago)

Mighty Ark Royal's dark day: Navy flagship final voyage as it's towed away for scrap
Former crew members were among onlookers, many in black armbands, as the aircraft carrier left her Portsmouth home
mirror.co.uk (13 hours ago)
Feds again delay San Onofre nuke restart decision
LOS ANGELES - Federal regulators have indefinitely delayed a decision on the proposed restart of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California, raising new questions Monday about whether the twin reactors will produce electricity again. The seaside plant between San Diego and Los Angeles has been dark...
bostonherald.com (14 hours ago)

Yeah You Did: Another Day, Another Bat-Symbol Mustache
This is Redditor chrismusaf's friend's Bat-symbol mustache. It's not the first Bat-symbol mustache we've seen, but it IS the cleanest cut. Clearly this Batman wannabe knows his way around a razor. Around his apartment in the dark? Not so much (his toes look like little bloody sausages). Thanks to ChaosLex, who loves...
geekologie.com (15 hours ago)

Vinyl, UFOs and the patter of tiny feet
Often, I dance alone in my flat. How sad is that, you say, but I don't care. Feeling the beats pulsing through me, being taken over by dark rhythms or a voice, I sometimes fall over the furniture. Which is why I didn't risk dancing in Haroon Mirza's exhibition at the Lisson Gallery – though the whumffs and thuds...
guardian.co.uk (16 hours ago)

At the Billboards, Ke$ha’s Naked Face and Butt
The singer showed up to the Billboard Awards in an almost unrecognizable state. Her face was practically devoid of makeup, save for a layer of foundation, some bronzer, a swipe of mascara, and black eye liner. This is quite the opposite of her usual look, which often includes dark eye ... More »
nymag.com (16 hours ago)

'SVU's' Shocking Finale Preview
The "Law & Order: SVU" finale is going out with a bang. In HuffPost TV's exclusive preview above, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Rollins (Kelli Giddish) are stumped by a mysterious criminal. "I had him," Benson says. "He was getting off on telling me the details." But things soon escalate and Benson...
huffingtonpost.com (17 hours ago)
Our love affair with blue jeans
Jim Heston, an American guesthouse operator in Cambodia, has lived a life in denim and has the photos to prove it. There were the dungarees he wore as a little boy, the dark bell-bottoms he had on for a hike up Japan's Mount Fuji, and the Levis straight-leg 501 jeans he's stayed with for the past 36 years.
cnn.com (17 hours ago)