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<description><![CDATA[Science fiction isn't typical source material for opera. Which is why Placido Domingo was a little surprised when The Fly landed on his desk. But David Cronenberg and Howard Shore's opera opens Sept. 7 in Los Angeles.]]></description>
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<title>Body Parts In Song: From Hands To Eyes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Visual artists Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg see, and hear, the beauty in the human body. They've analyzed roughly 10,000 songs in many genres of music, and they've created a catalog titled Listen, which illustrates how the human form inspires, amuses or repulses musicians.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Free summer staging of the '60s musical has New Yorkers camping out overnight &mdash; but a sense of shared adventure (and bike messengers bearing delivery breakfasts) help pass the time.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Little House On The Prairie-The Musical has a lot going for it. Given its early success, there has been a lot of talk of the musical on Broadway. The stars are aligned and there are some deep Broadway pockets behind the show.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Ballet dancer Carlos Acosta is known for powerful leaps that make him seem to fly. Those leaps have earned him comparisons with Nureyev and Baryshnikov. He grew up in a poor neighborhood outside Havana. How that boy became a man who dances with grace and power is the subject of Acosta's memoir, No Way Home.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Where do circus clowns come from? Some of them are being trained by Circus Smirkus, an award-winning touring show for young aerialists, jugglers and rubber-nosed pranksters. Smirkus is an incubator of sorts, where scouts for big-time big tops find their new talent.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[An eccentric, a free spirit and an unflaggingly open-minded heroine, Mame Dennis taught more than one protege &mdash; including NPR's Bob Mondello &mdash; how to open new windows without worrying about the view.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Performance artist Hillary Carlip collects discarded shopping lists. She imagines their authors, transforms herself into them, and goes shopping. In one case, she even created an online dating profile for her character.]]></description>
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<title>Culture Vulture: The last post</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you're here on Culture Vulture and looking in bewilderment for one of our regular features - today's Readers recommend, for instance - then never fear. We've been making some exciting changes to Guardian arts online, among which are a...]]></description>
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<title>Not just a pretty phrase</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer's one-man show is punchy and witty, but Lyn Gardner wonders what happened to the traditional deskbound, enigmatic author.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ The announcement of Orhan Pamuk's Nobel laureateship was greeted with a largely positive response from literary bloggers. "It's going to be harder to complain about this one than recent winners - we certainly can't," concedes The Literary Saloon, before...]]></description>
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<title>Site of the week: Jonathan Stroud</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Stroud's Bartimeus trilogy may be complete, but fans of his bestselling crossover fiction can now get a fresh fix online with a new website. It's also a great example of a site from an author who appears to have...]]></description>
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<title>Will the real Christopher Hill please stand up?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's a tale of shame, disappointment and embarrassment, a heartrending story of cruel deception and shattered dreams - and it's not even published. And there's the rub. Earlier this month a number of authors who had signed contracts with the...]]></description>
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<title>Roman around: the folk memory of place names</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The news this week that the delightful Irish town of Dingle is hoping to readopt its anglicised name after years of  being known as An Daingean set me off on a couple of chains of thought. ]]></description>
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<title>Shifting sands: would you fight to save Another Place?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A campaign is brewing to overturn the decision of Sefton council's planning committee to remove Antony Gormley's Another Place installation from the sands at Crosby. Would you join them, asks David Ward.]]></description>
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<title>Tunes to chill: your favourite scary songs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I want records that are deliberately disturbing: boneyard blues, sepulchral prog-rock, eerie techno, lurid gangsta rap, haunting soundtracks, terrifying industrial noise.]]></description>
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<title>When corporate gigs come calling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Razorlight singer  Johnny Borrell will be spending this evening playing a solo set at a  launch party  for a new BlackBerry gizmo, and if reports of him receiving £90,000 for his pains are true, the gig will certainly fall into the category  Nice Work if You Can Get It.  He's the latest in a procession of indie stars to be paid handsomely for playing shows sponsored by mobile phone companies.]]></description>
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<title>Your Gallery, your thoughts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From a shortlist of 30, readers' votes have decided a final list of 10 artists from Charles Saatchi's Your Gallery website to be exhibited at the Guardian Newsroom next week. What do you think, asks Jonathan Jones.]]></description>
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<title>How to hug your customers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some retailers don't seem to like customers. They seem to regard browsers as time-wasters and chatty customers as inconveniences who are interrupting their paperwork. That's madness. We like to hug our customers.]]></description>
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<title>Why rock stars should stick to writing protest songs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are well-meaning rock-star campaigners actually doing more harm than good? Does the preachy tone of Thom Yorke and Bono put so many people's backs up that their message is ignored?]]></description>
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<title>Children&#x27;s fiction: the struggle for recognition</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lyn Gardner, the Guardian's theatre critic, has just published her first novel, an adventure story for children. In her latest blog on the experience of being a first-time author, she considers the inferior status of children's fiction in the publishing industry.]]></description>
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<title>Audience reaction departs from the script</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The critical consensus is that The Departed is a great movie. So why did the packed audience at Mark Brown's local cinema spend a lot of the time giggling?]]></description>
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<title>Nothing happening again: can you have too much Beckett?</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Play it again, Sam," seems to be the theme. In 2006 - the centenary of his birth - Samuel Beckett plays are coming at us in pairs.  Which raises a familiar question: can you have too much Beckett?
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