Sony Pictures will host over 25 global premieres, in cities like Los Angeles, London, New York, Berlin, Seoul and Rio de Janeiro, in celebration of Michael Jackson’s concert film This Is it.
“Michael Jackson has an army of fans everywhere around the world,” Sony’s chairman Jeff Blake said.
“By rolling out this film simultaneously worldwide, we are [...]
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Global Premieres Planned For Michael Jackson Movie “This Is Itâ€
September 22nd, 2009 |
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Tom Brady Gisele Bundchen Baby Boy Gabriel Due In December
September 16th, 2009 |
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It’s a boy for supermodel Gisele Bundchen and her husband, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The Brazilian stunner is telling pals that she and Tom are expecting a son, who they’ll likely call Gabriel, toward the end of the year.
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“One of Gisele’s five sisters is named Gabriela, and she’s always thought it was [...]
The future of astronomy: Black-sky thinking
August 13th, 2009 |
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The first of four articles from the International Astronomical Union meeting looks at a battle between Big Science and human hunches
SINCE time immemorial man has looked at the stars in awe and wonderment. No longer. The observatories where light is collected are now run by robots that neither dirty the instruments nor take night-time naps. Does it matter? Some of the astronomers at this year’s meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), held in Rio de Janeiro from August 3rd to 14th, think it does. They discussed what could be done to halt their subject’s trend towards mining data gathered by computers rather than peering into telescopes.
The Rio meeting is the high point of what has been dubbed by the union as the International Year of Astronomy. The reason for picking 2009 to receive this honour is that it is exactly 400 years since Galileo Galilei turned his telescope on the heavens to study what the naked eye could not disclose, and also since Johannes Kepler revealed to the world that planetary orbits are ellipses, not circles. These two events can be seen, in retrospect, as the beginning of modern astronomy. …
Living Colour: New Album & Tour
August 11th, 2009 |
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New Album The Chair In The Doorway Set For Release September 15
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Living Colour has announced North American tour dates in support of the new album The Chair In The Doorway. The 28-date run will be bookended by performances at the Highline Ballroom in New York City, as they appear August 11 opening for The Roots, at their weekly Tuesday night jam session, and then again on October 30 for their own headline performance.
The Chair In The Doorway, set for release September 15, was recorded at Sono Studios just outside of Prague in the Czech Republic. Renowned producer Count (Galactic, Lyrics Born, No Doubt) was onboard to helm the sessions, while Ron St. Germain (U2, Mos Def, Muse) mixed the album. The 11-track collection is Living Colour’s most personal collection of songs yet with razor sharp lyrical observations and kinetic jams that seamlessly weave elements of metal, funk and soul. Vernon Reid described the album as, “an unintentional concept record about life and how we are all in this thing together.”
Living Colour Tour Dates:
08/11/09 Mon Highline Ballroom New York, NY
08/14/09 Fri Patronaat Haarlem, NL
09/01/09 Tue Birchmere Alexandria, VA
09/02/09 Wed Bottle & Cork Dewey Beach, DE
09/03/09 Thu World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA
09/04/09 Fri The Crazy Donkey Farmingdale, NY
09/06/09 Sun Infinity Music Hall & Bistso Norfolk, CT
09/08/09 Tue Tupelo Music Hall Londonderry, NH
09/09/09 Wed Fairfield Theatre Stage One Fairfield, CT
09/10/09 Thu Johnny D’s Somerville, MA
09/11/09 Fri Mexicali Live Teaneck, NJ
09/12/09 Sat Rams Head On Stage Annapolis, MD
09/14/09 Mon The Loft Atlanta, GA
09/15/09 Tue House of Blues Orlando, FL
09/16/09 Wed Jannus Landing St. Petersburg, FL
09/18/09 Fri Emo’s Alternative Lounge Austin, TX
09/19/09 Sat Granada Theater Dallas, TX
09/20/09 Sun Warehouse Live Houston, TX
09/23/09 Wed Canes Bar and Grill San Diego, CA
09/24/09 Thu Key Club West Hollywood, CA
09/25/09 Fri The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA
09/26/09 Sat Berbati’s Pan Portland, OR
09/27/09 Sun Studio Seven Seattle, WA
09/30/09 Wed Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
10/02/09 Fri Magic Bag Ferndale, MI
10/03/09 Sat Lee’s Palace Toronto, ON
10/04/09 Sun Double Door Chicago, IL
10/05/09 Mon Grog Shop Cleveland, OH
10/16/09 Fri Circo Voador Rio De Janeiro, BR
10/30/09 Fri Highline Ballroom New York, NY
Turbulence hurts 26 on US flight
August 3rd, 2009 |
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Twenty-six people were injured when a Continental Airlines jet hit turbulence and was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami, officials have said.
The Boeing 767 had been travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Houston when it encountered trouble north of the Dominican Republic at about 0830 GMT.
It was then diverted to Miami and landed at 0430 local time (0930 GMT).
Four people were seriously injured, while the other 22 suffered bumps and bruises, a fire service spokesman said.
Those with minor injuries will be flown to Houston later along with the remaining passengers. There had been 168 people on board. </p
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Britons arrested in Brazil ‘granted bail’
August 1st, 2009 |
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Two law graduates arrested over allegations they fraudulently claimed to have been robbed ‘have had passports confiscated’
A judge in Brazil has granted bail to two British law graduates who were arrested over allegations that they fraudulently claimed they had been robbed, their lawyer said today.
Shanti Andrews and Rebecca Turner, both 23, must stay in the South American country as part of their bail conditions and their passports have been confiscated, reports said.
The pair, who both studied at the University of Sussex, were originally denied bail because they were foreigners, their lawyer, Renato Tonini, said.
Following an appeal, Andrews and Turner were told yesterday that they would be released from custody.
Speaking from Rio de Janeiro today, Tonini said: “Yes, they have been granted bail. They will be released today, but I don’t know what time.”
The women are reported to have been transferred from the squalid Polinter jail, south of Rio de Janeiro, to another prison in which they have their own cell.
They had been forced to sleep in overcrowded conditions, with just a blanket on the floor, at Polinter.
The pair told police in the Brazilian city that belongings worth £1,000 had been stolen during a bus journey.
They were taken into custody at dawn on Monday after officers from a specialist tourist support unit apparently became suspicious that they had waited several days before reporting the alleged theft to police.
The Rio de Janeiro state civil police website said the Britons had tried to register a robbery of baggage and documents and claimed they had been attacked.
A subsequent search of their lodgings, in Copacabana, allegedly uncovered some of the belongings they had originally told officers had been stolen.
Tonini said he was “confident” Andrews and Turner would be dealt with fairly by the Brazilian justice system following concerns voiced by Simone Headley, Andrews’s mother, last week.
“We hope the Brazilian justice system will see it as a misunderstanding and the girls will be able to come home safely,” she said.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it had not yet been informed that the women had been granted bail.
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UK law graduates arrested in Rio
July 29th, 2009 |
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Two British law graduates have been arrested in Brazil on suspicion of fraudulently claiming their belongings had been stolen, reports say.
Reports in the Brazilian and UK press say the women – Shanti Andrews and Rebecca Turner, both 23 – claimed they had been robbed during a bus journey.
The Foreign Office confirmed two British nationals had been arrested in Rio de Janeiro on 26 July.
A spokesman said: "We are providing consular assistance".
O Dia, a Rio de Janeiro daily newspaper, reported that the police were suspicious of the women and accompanied them back to their hotel, where they allegedly recovered the items claimed stolen.</p
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Air France box search winds down
July 10th, 2009 |
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French ships equipped with US listening devices are ending their hunt for the black boxes of an airliner lost over the Atlantic on 1 June, officials say.
They failed to pick up signals the boxes’ "pingers" were meant to emit for 30 days after the Air France jet crashed with the loss of all 228 lives.
Experts believe the cause of the crash may never be known unless the two flight recorders are recovered.
There is still a chance that French submarines may discover the boxes.
See a map of the plane’s routeBrazil ended its operation to recover bodies and wreckage from Flight AF447, which was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, towards the end of last month, after finding the remains of 51 people.
French investigators believe the plane, which disappeared in a storm, broke up on contact with water, not in the air.
They say the plane’s speed sensors appear to have been a factor in the crash but not its cause.
‘Still hope’
Two tugs chartered by the French agency investigating the crash (the Investigation and Analysis Bureau, or BEA) had been searching for the jet’s cockpit voice and flight data recorders with Towed Pinger Locators (TPL) supplied by the US Navy.
US Air Force Col Willie Berges, the Brazil-based commander of US military forces supporting the effort, said one tug had already stopped searching.
"The last ship will be departing the search area today," he told the Associated Press news agency on Friday, adding that he did not know the exact time.
The ships had had "no success – nothing was tracked", Col Berges said.
A French nuclear submarine, the Emeraude, has also been hunting the boxes and robot submarines will join the search later in July, Air France-KLM director Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said in an interview published in France’s Le Figaro newspaper on Thursday.
"All hope is not lost," he said.
Chief BEA investigator Alain Bouillard said last week that a French boat equipped with two small submarines would begin a search along with another submarine and a robot craft "after 14 July", a public holiday in France.
Friday saw the funeral in Dublin of a young Irishwoman who was aboard the jet along with two friends, all three of them doctors.
The body of Dr Jane Deasy was identified this month. Those of her friends, Dr Aisling Butler and Dr Eithne Walls, were never found.
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