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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Singapore Star.com http://www.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/bf7bedafac502d48/ en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:39:18 -0500 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:39:18 -0500 30 New Delhi, Dec 4 : A troupe of physically challenged people enthralled audiences with their 'Sufi dance on wheels' here on Wednesday. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/438230/cs/1/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:32 -0500 Singapore Star.com http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/438230/cs/1/ Washington, Dec 4 : Rapper Akon is adamant that he would not tone down his vulgar stage shows, as he feels the controversy surrounding his antics motivates him to be more inventive with his performance. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/438131/cs/1/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:00:35 -0500 Singapore Star.com http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/438131/cs/1/ Melbourne, Dec 4 : Female arts students are more likely to be sexually active, while male students who study science at university are mostly virgins, says a new Australian study. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/438066/cs/1/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:01:36 -0500 Singapore Star.com http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/438066/cs/1/ Visakhapatnam, Dec 4 : In the wake of the deadly terror attacks in Mumbai and amidst demands for a complete overhaul of the coastal security set up, India's eastern coast's security is all set to use fishermen and fishing crafts as sources of surveillance. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/437924/cs/1/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:26 -0500 Singapore Star.com http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/437924/cs/1/ The decision paved the way for the Government to introduce a Bill that will bring an interim commission to replace the team led by chairman Samuel Kivuitu. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098108/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:37:54 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098108/ Oprah Winfrey attends the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre's 50th Anniversary Opening Night Gala in New York on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098114/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:21:55 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098114/ By HILLEL ITALIEAP NATIONAL WRITER NEW YORK -- More bad news from the book industry: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that it is "streamlining" its educational business, and eliminating jobs in ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098115/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:21:53 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098115/ Action star Jet Li is up for one of the top honors in Chinese film, while a hit Taiwanese movie seeks a sweep of prizes on home turf at the 45th Golden Horse Awards to be announced Saturday in the cen... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098111/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:30:52 -0500 eTaiwan News http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098111/ Tony Award nominee Christopher Fitzgerald, the original Igor of Young Frankenstein, will play the title role in the world premiere of the burlesque-rich musical Minsky's, in Los Angeles. Casting is c... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098130/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:28 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098130/ Jersey Boys has been a hit for Dancap Productions, filling the huge Toronto Centre for the Arts in north Toronto night after night. But the show that opened last August, with veterans of the New York... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098116/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:18:23 -0500 CBC News http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098116/ 04 Dec 2008 The television remake of "Cupid," starring Emmy Award-winning actor Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson, will premiere March 24, 2009, on ABC. The new series, based on Rob Thomas' 1990... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098124/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:23 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098124/ Adam Hetrick 04 Dec 2008 Miranda Richardson, Christopher Evan Welch and Lauren Hodges will likely be part of a new pilot for AMC television. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the actors are c... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098125/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:24 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098125/ Based on musical accomplishment alone, Ryan Adams should be headlining a bill with Oasis on Saturday night at the Pearl. But alas, the bigger egos — and bigger record companies — appear to have wo... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098117/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:14:39 -0500 Las Vegas Sun http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098117/ 04 Dec 2008 Casting has been announced for the Lookingglass Theatre Company's 2009 production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, co-directed by 2008 Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro and Jessica Theb... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098121/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:21 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098121/ in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will assume his new duties in March. His expected arrival will take place seven months before the opening of the $354 million Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, a center... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20097440/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:27:19 -0500 Business Journal http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20097440/ Art collector and billionaire Eli Broad, 75, says that "failure is not an option," when it comes to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum has been struggling from a loss of endowment ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098131/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:51:16 -0500 NPR http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098131/ See a video of the embryo cells developing Growing up from embryo to finished animal is a complex business, even for the simplest of creatures. New movies capture the complex dance of migrating cells ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098134/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:50:33 -0500 New Scientist http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098134/ Udinese kept their composure to reach the knockout phase of the UEFA Cup after their home tie with Dinamo Zagreb was briefly halted when fans of the Croatian team bombarded the pitch with burning flar... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098107/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:38:50 -0500 eTaiwan News http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098107/ /article tools - narrow (used with span photos) --> The walls come tumbling down in "Opening Night," Ivo van Hove's wild and woolly stage version of the 1977 John Cassavetes movie about a Broa... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098119/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:14:21 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098119/ Thursday, Dec. 4, 2 p.m. --The ultralight laptop has traditionally been a luxury item. But over the past couple of years, sanity has returned to this end of the computing universe: You can pay less fo... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098137/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:43:57 -0500 imaginginfo.com http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098137/ MIAMI.- Art Photo Expo Miami, South Florida's progressive organization for contemporary photography, presents the second annual In Fashion Photo exhibition -- a superlative presentation of signature c... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098136/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:43:56 -0500 imaginginfo.com http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098136/ December 3, 2008--WASHINGTON, D.C.-- It's that time of year again! The third annual DCist Exposed Photography Show is now officially open for entries. After two successful years, at Warehouse in 2007... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098135/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:43:56 -0500 imaginginfo.com http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098135/ Barack Obama came to Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday, September 14th 2008. He delivered a speech to New Hampshire residents at Veterans memorial park in front of several thousand people. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098138/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:43:55 -0500 imaginginfo.com http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098138/ Former cricket star Shane Warne's checkered life has become the subject of a stage musical that might eventually tour England.Eddie Perfect, author and performer in "Shane Warne The Musical," said Thu... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098110/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:32:55 -0500 eTaiwan News http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098110/ Belgian musician Gerard Mortier, left, poses with the Director General of the Teatro Real, Miguel Munoz during Mortier's presentation as new artistic director of the Teatro Real Opera House, in Madrid... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098109/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:36:15 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098109/ For a woman who grew up in a Southern California beach city and lives in New York, Laura Griffith's acting career has been surprisingly rooted in Seattle. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098113/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:22:12 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098113/ The Chicago cast of the musical Tomorrow Morning is recording an American cast album of the score by playwright-lyricist-composer Laurence Mark Wythe in the days leading up to the Dec. 7 final perform... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098123/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:22 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098123/ The AT&T Foundation, which oversees corporate philanthropy, has awarded the Arts of Collin County Commission with a $1 million grant to create a multipurpose learning room inside the Arts of Colli... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20097197/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:26:44 -0500 Business Journal http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20097197/ A staged concert performance of the classic Lerner and Lowe musical Camelot will open the 2009 season at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois. The June, 5, 2009, concert will boast the talents of George ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098129/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:27 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098129/ Adam Hetrick 04 Dec 2008 Casting has been announced for the New England premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, which begins performances Jan. 30, 2009, at Hartford TheaterWorks. The Har... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098128/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:26 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098128/ FunnyOrDie.com posted its latest video, "Prop 8: The Musical." It's a 3-minute Internet video, but it has a blockbuster cast _ including Jack Black (who plays Jesus), Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reil... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098139/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:41:19 -0500 Gadsden Times http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098139/ 04 Dec 2008 "Australia" director Baz Luhrmann will be honored by the International Press Association with the Auteur Award as part of the 13th annual Satellite Awards. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jac... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098122/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:22 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098122/ 04 Dec 2008 "Dare," the new independent film from writer David Brind and director Adam Salky, has been selected to be part of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. Running January 15-... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098127/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:52:25 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098127/ Noddy, the loveable wooden toy boy, comes alive during ‘Eid in Dubai’ to thrill children and families over four days of festivities to celebrate Eid Al Adha. The international cartoon musical show... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098120/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:08:36 -0500 Dubai Chronicle http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098120/ Jazmine Sullivan's first song was a No. 1 hit on the R&B and hip-hop charts, and her raspy voice has drawn her comparisons to Lauryn Hill. Still, the singer-songwriter was struggling for nam... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098118/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:14:20 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098118/ Nearly 30 Greenpeace activists on Thursday blocked the unloading of coal from a Panama-flagged cargo ship for the second day to protest the fuel's destructive effect on the climate, the group said. "E... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20097385/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:35:16 -0500 Breitbart http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20097385/ Performances 03.12.0818:00 Gara Garayev “Seven beauties” ballet 05.12.0819:00 Concert of singer Seyyad Alizadeh 06.12.0818:00 Fikrat Amirov “One thousand and one night” ballet ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098140/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:34:14 -0500 ANS http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20098140/ in downtown Tampa. A series of 30 images, titled NFL History, will illustrate the greatest moments in league history. Among the images on display will be Johnny Unitas in the first sudden death playo... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092357/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:38:14 -0500 The Business Journal http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092357/ Cody Mucino, who plays for the Silverado Middle School Skyhawks, catches a pass during practice. The Del Webb Middle School eight grader will play in the inaugural Football University Youth All-Americ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092360/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:26:27 -0500 Las Vegas Sun http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092360/ PARIS : Has there ever been a successful - which is to say not boring - version of the full-length ballet "Raymonda"? Perhaps the original, choreographed in 1898 by Marius Petipa toward the end of his... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092362/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:25:47 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092362/ Tracks of discovery ... Mark Ruwedel, Denver and Rio Grande Western. Gelatin silver print. Photograph: courtesy of the artist and Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092354/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:43:47 -0500 The Guardian http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092354/ If supermodels, music impresarios and designers wearing gigantic flower suits are at Art Basel Miami Beach … then so are we. Xerxes Cook takes a peek inside the US's most prestigious art show http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092356/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:43:45 -0500 The Guardian http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092356/ art museum in London? What public gallery does the most to inspire its visitors and provoke us to think? At a time when every museum tries to be alive to the contemporary as well as displaying its his... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092353/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:43:49 -0500 The Guardian http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092353/ 04 Dec 2008 The story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons will finally play Boston, MA, when the Tony-winning Jersey Boys arrives in summer 2009. The national tour of Jersey Boys will play the... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092367/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:04:15 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092367/ /article tools - narrow (used with span photos) --> At the opening party for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC on Tuesday night, fans and celebrities rubbed elbows while ogling an exhibition... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20091091/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:25:51 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20091091/ Lil Wayne didn't get a Grammy nomination for "A Milli," but his total haul was still pretty amazing — eight. Nominations for the prolific and ubiquitous rap MVP, who became pop's bigg... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092364/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:25:44 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092364/ Academy Award winner Julie Andrews will host the annual New Year's Day concert on PBS that features the Vienna Philharmonic, according to the Associated Press. Andrews succeeds Walter Cronkite, who h... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092366/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:04:16 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092366/ 1 / 12 New Year's Day, 1951: Audrey Hepburn looks up at billboards in the middle of Times Square, New York. She had recently been in town for the run of the Broadway show Gigi http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092355/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:43:45 -0500 The Guardian http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092355/ The ever-busy Kristin Chenoweth, recently seen in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, has landed a new gig, according to Entertainment Weekly. The Tony-winning actress will voice the role of science ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092369/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:04:14 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092369/ examination of African-American hairstyles, which was among 64 films announced in Sundance's four competitions for cinema. Brosnan and Sarandon star in http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092363/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:25:45 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092363/ EDINBURGH, Scotland -- The latest magical tome by J.K. Rowling has started to fly off bookstore shelves. Rowling was launching "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" on Thursday with a tea party for 200 scho... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092359/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:34:02 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092359/ 04 Dec 2008 Joseph Adams and Dane DeHaan will star in the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's Sixty Miles to Silver Lake Off-Broadway at Soho Rep. Anne Kauffman (God's Ear) directs the co-production... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092371/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:04:12 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092371/ December 4, 2008, 10:37 am ET · A fire has erupted at the Body Shop, a landmark strip club in West Hollywood, Calif., included in the Motley Crue song "Girls, Girls, Girls."The Los Angeles Coun... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092372/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:03:09 -0500 NPR http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20092372/ DAKAR, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Africa is facing a critical stage in its fight against AIDS as it begins to have initial fruits while support may diminish amid the global recession, an official has told an ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20091432/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:39:13 -0500 SINA http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20091432/ RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 4 (IPS) - The first three times he saw the film he could not watch it through to the end; he was so overcome by emotion he burst into tears. The next five times he did manage to se... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20088003/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:01:19 -0500 IPS http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20088003/ December 4, 2008 · Two new Bibles targeting a young, hip — even secular — audience are hitting bookstores. One is a slick, illustrated version of the New Testament; the other is an ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20088005/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:18:09 -0500 NPR http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20088005/ By Raja Murthy MUMBAI - "Jihad means to kill, become famous and make God happy," captured terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab reportedly answered interrogating Mumbai police when asked to define "jihad"... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20087968/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:52:15 -0500 Asia Times http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20087968/ Jane and Louise Wilson's best shot: a photograph of an aircraft engine in a factory in Derby It looks like it's floating, but in fact this aircraft engine, which weighs five tonnes, is hanging from ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083888/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:06:48 -0500 The Guardian http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083888/ The School Leonardo da Vinci, in collaboration with important Italian music schools, presents the Courses for Musical Specialization and Masterclass in the schools of Florence, Rome and Milan. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083893/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:52:56 -0500 24 / 7 Press Release http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083893/ anywhere you go in the state, louisiana's heritage figures prominently -- it's visible in the architecture, arts, ambience and, of course, the people.. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083889/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:06:47 -0500 The Guardian http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083889/ (Credit: Opera Software, Inc.) Expected to be available now for public testing, Opera 10 is powered by an update to its proprietary rendering engine. Presto 2.2 is supposed to be 30 percent faster th... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083894/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:49:18 -0500 CNet http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083894/ Dubai Culture & Arts Authority is celebrating National Day in ways that enrich Dubai's cultural environment and promote the UAE's history and heritage. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083890/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:00:33 -0500 AME Info http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083890/ You now have no excuse not to have seen some of the greatest classics of film. No more mumbling vague generalities in conversations with your cinéaste friends, then scrambling to catch up with th... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083690/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:45:58 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083690/ Edition 1 By JADE WITTENStaff ReporterThe Cape Town-born showjumper and model who has made it through to the finals of the reality TV dance competition Strictly Come Dancing, has appealed to her... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083896/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:45:27 -0500 Cape Argus http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083896/ will help to kick off a season of holiday fare.The Colonial Players' take on the Dickens classic was created in 1981 by locals Rick Wade and Dick Gessner. Shows are this weekend and next with limited ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083897/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:41:52 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083897/ December 4, 2008, 01:29 am ET · Actor-screenwriter Tyler Perry testified in a copyright infringement lawsuit Wednesday that he did not steal material from a woman's play for his blockbuster mov... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083899/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:27:35 -0500 NPR http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20083899/ LOS ANGELES : If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year. The programmers of the Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday announce... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080067/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:47:35 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080067/ Goodspeed Musicals will produce 42nd Street, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and a revised revival of Camelot at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2009, executive director Michael P. Price a... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080069/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:37 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080069/ Jon Hamm, left, and his wife, Jennifer Westfeldt, arrive at the American Cinematheque Award gala honoring Samuel L. Jackson in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20079752/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:56:12 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20079752/ Aaron Lazar, the singing actor who co-starred in the short-lived Broadway musical A Tale of Two Cities, will be seen in the Dec. 4 broadcast of the ABC series "Ugly Betty." Lazar plays a character na... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080070/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:35 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080070/ Dust, a new thriller penned by Billy Goda, officially opens at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre Dec. 4 following previews that began Nov. 18. Hunter Foster and Richard Masur co-star in the production ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080072/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:34 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080072/ Nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced Dec. 3. Nominees in the Best Musical Show Album category include Gypsy, In the Heights, The Little Mermaid, South Pacific and Young Franken... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080071/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:36 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080071/ A year after its Broadway bow, The Seafarer, the acclaimed Conor McPherson play about a drunken card game on Christmas Eve, makes its Chicago premiere in a Steppenwolf Theatre production starring John... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080075/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:32 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20080075/ View related video LOS ANGELES -- It's hard to be a working mom, even for Christina Aguilera. The 27-year-old pop star said she's navigating the "balancing act" she expected when she took on parenth... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20075773/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:55:29 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20075773/ A Wednesday,Dec. 3, 2008 booking photo released by the Cook County Sheriff's Department shows William Balfour. Balfour, charged Tuesday with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of three ... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20075772/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:55:28 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20075772/ CHICAGO -- Duffel bags stuffed with cocaine were delivered by plane to a suburban airport in the U.S. state of Illinois while two sheriff’s officers provided security. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20075266/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:01:34 -0500 The China Post http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20075266/ U.S. stocks finished higher Wednesday in a see-saw session marked by countering bouts of bargain hunting and profit taking. Earlier in the session, major indexes sank on a fresh batch of dismal U... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20076008/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:49:47 -0500 Business Week http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20076008/ An anti-cancer compound found in broccoli and cabbage works by lowering the activity of an enzyme associated with rapidly advancing breast cancer, according to a http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20075484/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:28:25 -0500 Seed Quest http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20075484/ 03 Dec 2008 Broadway's Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong and Stephen DeRosa, and Bay Area actor Gregory Wallace, will star in the first major revival of John Guare's 1976 play, Rich and Famous, re... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20076009/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:27:15 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20076009/ Tonight calming Maori prayers will be murmured to a spectacular work of art which has come to rest in a Cambridge museum after decades standing forgotten in a Portsmouth naval base. James Schuster, th... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069169/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:41:15 -0500 The Guardian http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069169/ NEW YORK -- Since Proposition 8 passed in California, much of Hollywood has been up in arms. Now, they are singing and dancing, too, in a new Web video called "Prop 8: The Musical." The video was pos... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069173/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:30:31 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069173/ The taming of the West becomes the taming of the Westerners in this snug family fable at Taproot Theatre. Inspired by the short stories of 19th-century writer Bret Harte, "The Christmas Foundling" is... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069172/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:30:46 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069172/ Canada's full transition to digital television "must remain on track" to keep up with technological advances, Heritage Minister James Moore said Tuesday. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20068394/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:27:03 -0500 CBC News http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20068394/ 03 Dec 2008 Tandy Cronyn will star in Retrospective as part of Manhattan Theatre Source's InGenius Series in January. Cronyn will portray artist Georgia O'Keeffe in the world premiere written an... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069183/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:56:49 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069183/ In this image released by Scholastic, one of only seven original copies of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling, is unveiled, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, a... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069176/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:30:28 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069176/ WASHINGTON: The United States has set the stage for punitive internationally-backed strikes by India against terrorist camps in Pakistan if Islamabad does not act first to dismantle them by rejecti... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069180/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:10:45 -0500 Times of India http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069180/ Peter Eyre and Nick Westrate will star in the New York premiere of Edmund White's Terre Haute Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters. George Perin will direct the two-man work that centers on an imaginary me... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069185/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:56:47 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069185/ 03 Dec 2008 California's Reprise Theatre Company currently presents Michael Stewart and Cy Coleman's musical I Love My Wife at the Brentwood Theatre. Jason Alexander, Lea Thompson, Vicki Lewis a... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069188/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:56:44 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069188/ This May 10, 2007 file photo shows David Plouffe, campaign manager for Barack Obama posesing in his Chicago campaign headquarters. Plouffe, is writing a book about the historic election victory and ha... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069192/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:55:48 -0500 NPR http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069192/ The Red Green Show will be honoured with an award from Canada's largest English-language performers union. ACTRA Toronto announced Keleghan as the 2009 winner of its award of excellence on Wednesday.... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069177/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:27:02 -0500 CBC News http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069177/ An abusive marriage, an abortive robbery and a suicide, a stairway to heaven, "You'll Never Walk Alone" at a schoolhouse ceremony on the New England coast: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel is a dark... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069179/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:22:12 -0500 The Independent http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069179/ Spain 's passion for hiring big name architects for public buildings has backfired after one stormed off complaining he was not getting as big a budget as others involved in a prestigious new court co... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069170/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:41:13 -0500 The Guardian http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069170/ Uri, Dec. 3: Sonia Gandhi today chose a town close to Pakistan for her first public appearance since the Mumbai attacks to warn the neighbour India wouldn’t “bow before terror”. http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069166/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:52:18 -0500 The Telegraph http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069166/ An anonymous benefactor has chipped in $42,000 to give 1,000 children a rare holiday treat while saving Ballet BC from imminent financial collapse. The mysterious sponsor bought the tickets to donate... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069178/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:27:03 -0500 CBC News http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069178/ London's Menier Chocolate Factory currently presents Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music. Trevor Nunn directs. Hannah Waddingham stars (as Desiree) opposite Maureen Lipman (Madam... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069186/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:56:46 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069186/ The first national survey on LGBT rights since the passage of Proposition 8 in California shows that three-quarters of Americans favor either marriage or domestic partnerships/civil unions for gay and... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069171/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:32:50 -0500 365gay http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069171/ Tony Award-winning Annie composer Charles Strouse will sit down for a chat with host Seth Rudetsky at the Dec. 4 edition of Seth's Broadway Chatterbox. The weekly live talk show, which includes inter... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069187/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:56:45 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069187/ The Denver Center Theatre Company's fourth annual Colorado New Play Summit in February 2009 will feature a workshop reading of a new adaptation of the Meredith Willson musical, The Unsinkable Molly Br... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069181/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:56:51 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069181/ 03 Dec 2008 Five elementary school students on the cusp of their pre-teen years embark on the yellow brick road toward adulthood in a new behind-the-scenes documentary "School Play." Documentary... http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069182/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:56:50 -0500 Playbill http://story.singaporestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf7bedafac502d48/id/20069182/