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Man found hanging at St. Petersburg theatre

A workman who disappeared from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre in December was found hanging in the theatre's attic, investigators said. The body of the 22-year-old man was found hanging from a rope. Investigators believe he hanged himself. The legendary Mariinsky Theatre opened a new $700-million stage earlier this month in a gala ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin. --IANS/RIA ...
Kimberly Walsh loves her body

Singer-songwriter Kimberley Walsh loves her toned up body and credits her participation in dance reality show "Strictly Come Dancing" for it. "The best piece of advice I could give anyone who wanted to lose weight and tone up would be: Go on 'Strictly...'! I've spent many years putting myself under the spotlight but now, in my 30s, I've accepted my body," dailystar.co.uk quoted Walsh as ...
The Perfect Gentlemans variety show at Covina Center for the Performing Arts San Gabriel Valley Tribune

The Perfect Gentlemen, national a cappella champions, headlined the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on May 17 and 18 where they delivered a family-friendly show with comedy, unique instruments and impressive vocal harmony. The center, located at 104 N. Citrus Ave. in Covina, was packed this past weekend with eager viewers ready for a fun night. They weren't disappointed. Phil Gold, ...
Arts tax redux Deadline extended to June 10

PORTLAND, Ore. – Do you still need to pay your Portland arts tax? The city has now extended the deadline to June 10 after its website crashed on the night of the first deadline. A spokesman for Mayor Charlie Hales said ...
Appellate Court Decision in Hart v. Electronic Arts is a Win for Athletes and Entertainers Everywhere

s that the First Amendment does not definitively protect Electronic Arts's unlicensed use of college football players' likenesses in commercial video games -- not even where the video games include creative elements apart from the players' ...

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [Blu-Ray]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best of the Star Trek film series, a gloriously operatic revenge tale full of sound and fury, violence and vengeance, humor and empathy. It followed three years after Robert Wises elegant, but somewhat tedious Star Trek: The Mot ... ...

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Martial arts fighter says sex balm hurt his sex life

A mixed martial arts fighter is suing a Philadelphia adult shop, saying a product he bought to enhance his sex life had the opposite effect. Michael Waylon Lowe alleges in court papers the Kama Sutra Pleasure Balm Prolonging Gel left him with scars on his penis, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Wednesday. He filed a lawsuit May 14 against The Mood, the store on Philadelphia's trendy ...
Sports Briefing | Cycling Visconti Wins Another Giro Stage

Giovanni Visconti claimed another solo victory by winning the 17th stage of the Giro ...
Lydia Davis wins $93K Man Booker International Prize

Lydia Davis, an American writer of short stories --some of them just a single line long -- has won the 60,000 ($93,230 Cdn) Man Booker International Prize. She was named the winner in London Wednesday, coming out ahead of nine international contenders. Davis, 65, has written nine collections of short stories and one ...
Jolies aunt has breast cancer

Angelina Jolie had extra reason to undergo a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer – her aunt is currently battling the disease. The Salt star underwent the preventative surgery in February after she tested positive for the "faulty" BRCA1 gene, which increases a woman’s likelihood of contracting breast and ovarian cancer, the latter of which ...
Mary Ward Brown 95 Award-Winning Short Story Writer Dies

Mary Ward Brown, a small-town ...

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FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said.

The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida.

The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, Florida, while the special agent and two Massachusetts state troopers and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing the man about the blasts that killed three people and injured 264 others at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

"A violent confrontation was initiated by the individual," the FBI said, adding that a special agent, "acting on the imminent threat posed by the individual, responded with deadly force. The individual was killed and the special agent was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries".

The FBI initially said their agent had killed Todashev, but an updated statement left unclear the question of who had fired the deadly shot.

Police have blocked off the apartment complex where the Chechen immigrant was shot.

Todashev was reported to be a friend of dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom he knew through their shared hobby of mixed martial-arts fighting. ...