In its first video in more than 10 years, Wilco meets up with the whole Popeye gang to the musical accompaniment of "Dawned on Me."
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David Shrigley live webchat: post your questions now
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The ribald artist will be at the Guardian office between 1pm and 2pm GMT on Monday 30 January answering your questions. What would you like to ask him? Post your questions now
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David Shrigley opens his brain – video
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The most deadpan man in art was nearly not an artist at all. On the eve of his Hayward Gallery show, Brain Activity, here's the man himself talking about art, 'one of the most fun things that one can do that's fun'
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Television Review | 'Luck': ‘Luck,’ Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO
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This series about the world of horse racing stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.
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Why The Jaipur Literature Festival Disinvited Salman Rushdie
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Festival co-director William Dalrymple writes of how he had to balance upholding the right to freedom of expression and exchange of ideas with the very real possibility of a riot in the middle of his event....
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Proposing A 'Temple Of Atheism' In London
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"The philosopher and writer Alain de Botton is proposing to build a 46-metre (151ft) tower to celebrate a 'new atheism' as an antidote to what he describes as Professor Richard Dawkins's 'aggressive' and 'destructive' approach to non-belief."...
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Actor James Farentino Dead At 73
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"Handsome, with a sculpted chin and wavy black hair, Mr. Farentino was best known for recurring roles on television series and TV movies."...
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Dallas Opera Tries The Simulcast-In-Stadium Approach
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It's worked for San Francisco Opera and Washington National Opera, so why not? The company will present, free of charge, a real-time transmission of its April production of Mozart's Magic Flute at Cowboy Stadium, on "the world's largest high-definition video board structure, comprised of four jaw-droppingly big viewing screens."...
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Pakistani TV Program Plays Moral Police, Infuriating Many
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"Panting breathlessly and trailed by a cameraman, [a] group of about 15 women chased after ... girls and boys sitting quietly on benches overlooking the Arabian Sea or strolling under the trees. The women peppered them with questions: What were they doing? Did their parents know? Were they engaged?"...
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The Joffrey Ballet And The Revolution That Was Choreographed
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"New York 1967: The Joffrey Ballet does the unthinkable, turning rock music, war and revolt into a new template for ballet. Ballet! ... Robert Joffrey [was] making a work called Astarte, with a rock band in the orchestra pit and space-age goddesses grooving in psychedelic unitards."...
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$25M Gift Means $25 Tickets At New York's Signature Theater
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The grant from the Pershing Square Foundation will allow Signature to keep admission at its new Frank Gehry-designed theater complex at $25 for the next ten years....
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Conductor Paavo Berglund, 82
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One of the most admired interpreters of Jan Sibelius, Berglund held chief conductor posts with the orchestras of Bournemouth, Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen and conducted most of Europe's top orchestras during his career....
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Why Doesn't Oscar Like Comedies?
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"After all, only one comedy has won Best Picture in the last 30 years. And Shakespeare in Love was a laugh riot, wasn't it?"...
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Why Did Sergei Polunin Walk Away From The Royal Ballet?
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In an interview she conducted last month, Judith Mackrell notes that Polunin "spoke almost angrily of the kid he might have been had he not been pressured into ballet by family duty - the kid who could have gone to football matches, knocked around the streets with his mates and got into trouble."...
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When Jim Henson Went Avant-Garde
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"In 1964, exactly a decade after creating his original Muppets for Sesame Street predecessor Sam + Friends, Jim Henson wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a short experimental film titled Time Piece, exploring in a visceral way the effect time-keeping has on all of us."...
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Almost Half Of Gay Actors In UK Don't Dare Come Out To Their Agents
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"Although the report found that 81% of respondents are out in their professional life, and that 94% are honest about their sexuality to their fellow performers, only 57% list their agent as someone they are open about their sexuality to. Comments left by respondents highlight how actors feel that telling agents and casting directors will limit the parts they are offered."...
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Vladimir Putin Suggests Canon Of Russian Literature
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In a lengthy essay in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, the Russian leader writes that "the Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization ... this kind of civilizational identity is based on preserving the dominance of Russian culture." He then argues that a list of 100 great Russian books be compiled and assigned to every student....
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ArtsBeat: American Idol Recap for Thursday, Jan. 26, 2011
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With the ratings of "American Idol" on a downward trend, fans found Thursday night's auditions gratifying as the show returned to its old form with hilariously deluded performers and arguments among the judges in favor of the everyone's-a-winner tone in earlier episodes this season.
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Winston Riley, Jamaican Music Producer, Is Dead at 68
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Mr. Riley helped to popularize Jamaican music globally through early hits like “Double Barrel” by Dave and Ansell Collins and later ones like Buju Banton’s “Stamina Daddy.”
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Movie Review: ‘Five Time Champion’ Is Berndt Mader’s Coming-of-Age Story
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In “Five Time Champion,” sex and sexual arrangements preoccupy the 14-year-old hero, who has a knack for science.
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