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“The avant-garde Beijing-based artist is in Germany ahead of his October exhibit there. He said he’d suffered dizziness ever since being punched in the head and detained in a hotel in Sichuan province in August. Twenty uniformed and plainclothes police converged on the hotel where he was staying and threatened to kill him, he said.”

“It was clear that Dash Snow, through his wild life as much as the makeshift art he made from it, was viewed by both the coterie of cool young New Yorkers that knew him and the young wannabees who only knew of him, as a contemporary urban outlaw, a renegade, a self-styled outsider. At a cultural moment when those terms have all but lost their currency, Snow insisted on their continued importance, drawing on an “outsider” lineage that harked back to punk, the Beats, and beyond.”

“[She] may have been America’s best-known ‘French chef,’ but here in Paris few know her fabled cookbooks [or television shows], let alone her name.” Among those few who do know about Child, opinions sharply differ.

“‘A Prairie Home Companion’ host Garrison Keillor said Wednesday that he is ‘not counting on doing it [hosting the show] more than a couple more years.’ He added that he would like to see the show continue with more of a musical focus, and that he would love to serve as that show’s producer.”

The South African-born actor won a Tony Award in 1982 for Master Harold … and the Boys and earned high praise for his work in Fugard’s Boesman and Lena and The Blood Knot.

“In a museum show that’s scheduled to open in [Copenhagen] in 2010, Dylan will exhibit nearly 100 of his works, including the world premiere of 30 large-format paintings from the artist’s upcoming ‘Brazil’ series. The show will also feature original paintings from Dylan’s ‘The Drawn Blank’ series.”

So why is Glenn Beck using a logo that has clear origins in the Communist/socialist movement? Is Glenn Beck a Communist?

“Historically, African American tenors have had a particularly difficult time breaking into the operatic mainstream: You can count the famous ones on one hand.” Yet though, as the 36-year-old Brownlee says, “[t]here are definitely times that I haven’t been hired, or rehired, because of who I am,” he’s been singing bel canto leads at La Scala and the Met, including on a worldwide HD broadcast.

“In a 13th-hour agreement on Friday, the photographer … avoided having to give up her homes and her artistic property to the finance company that had lent her $24 million. But all she may have won is time.”

The winner of Tony and Emmy Awards and a multiple Oscar nominee, Gelbart was described by Woody Allen as “the best comedy writer that I ever knew” and by Carl Reiner as “a comedy prodigy who developed into a national treasure. The man was one of the most gifted satirists who ever lived.”