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  • Lady Gaga ready for live gig in August

    Pop star Lady Gaga, who underwent a hip operation earlier this year, is likely to perform on stage at a Beyonce Knowles' show in New York in August. Gaga is said to be planning her live return at the said show. If the news turns out to be true, it will be her first major gig following an operation on her hip in February. The grapevine is abuzz after a reported email sent by concert listings ...

  • Seattles Native American art reconnects with Salish tribes traditions

    It's impossible to picture the Pacific Northwest without the image of a totem pole. Considered by many as the emblem of the native people of North ...

  • Top 10 cultural hotspots in Portland Oregon

    With comic-book stores, indie cinema, live gigs, theatre, cutting-edge galleries - and great coffee of course - Portland punches way above its weight for a city of its ...

  • The American Guide reinvented a new take on US travel

    The original series of the American Guide provided a written and visual record of the US in the 1930s and 40s. Its social media-driven revival hopes to deliver an equally powerful ...

  • Cruise out of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    Tom Cruise has reportedly dropped out of the movie adaptation of cult TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The actor was slated to portray American agent Napoleon Solo opposite Armie Hammer in director Guy Ritchie’s film, but according the The Hollywood Reporter, his deal was never closed and now he has walked away from the project. Hammer is still onboard to play Solo’s Soviet ...

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Meet the Parents [DVD]

Meet the Parents [DVD]

For Greg Focker (Ben Stiller), the earnest, put-upon hero of Meet the Parents, absolutely nothing goes right from the very beginning. First of all, his attempt to propose to his girlfriend, Pam (Teri Polo), is interrupted by a cell phone call from Pam's sister, Debbie (Nicole DeHuff), that she just got engaged and will be getting married in two weeks. Greg decides to hold off on ... ...

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  • Actor director opera singer Meet John Malkovich renaissance man

    I was on the phone, listening to the actor and director John Malkovich talk about his latest projects, and trying to come up with a description that does his purring voice justice. He speaks lightly, quietly. He metes out his syllables slowly, but also slides them into one another, from word to word and from sentence to sentence. He sounds partly bored and partly amused, like he's ...

  • Fast and Furious 6 Just think of it as a soap opera

    franchise is still going strong. To borrow a bit of stunt-car parlance made famous by Quentin Tarantino, we might say that the brand is Death Proof. How else to explain the presence in Justin Lin's film of Michelle Rodriguez, last seen taking a fatal bullet two sequels ago? The sudden resurrection of a fallen heroine- and the fact that she's been saddled with a convenient case of ...

  • Music Review United States of Bass at Santos House Party

    The bass, at least, was unstoppable. Intestine-jiggling stuff. Face-vibrating stuff. Consciousness-destabilizing ...

  • Fast and Furious 6 Epic and Picture Day

    Even the number in the title is a hint of what's to come. This movie is loud and proud. Number 6. Dealt with it. If you don't remember why, we'll drum it into your heads with a montage over the opening credits. Dominic (Vin Diesel) and his crew of street racers are facing off against a new master criminal Shaw, which forces them to work with Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson, the ...

  • Trip to space with DiCaprio costs $1.5M

    Leonardo DiCaprio adjusts his bow tie on May 15, 2013 as he arrives for the screening of the film "The Great Gatsby" ahead of the opening of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. (AFP PHOTO/ALBERTO ...

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