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People don't just fall in love in the Old Globe's "As You Like It"; they stagger and stammer and look gut-shot, as if Cupid has traded arrows for buckshot. In contrast to the Shakespeare play's famous "Seven Ages of Man" speech, there's just one stage of romance here: From a glance to a crush in nothing flat.DETAILS "As You Like It" Old Globe Shakespeare Festival When: Runs in nightly rotation with "Richard III" and "Inherit the Wind"; all performances at 8 p.m. (check with theater for specific dates). Through Sept. 30. Where: Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, 1363 Old Globe...

What do you get when you mix iconic French couture with an edgy avant-garde designer? With days to go until Raf Simons' debut couture collection at Dior on Monday, the fashion pack is bubbling with impatience to find out. It took the French house more than a year to find the right fit for its top design job, after it ousted John Galliano in disgrace in March last year over a drunken, racist outburst in a bar that turned the Briton into a fashion pariah overnight. That was long enough for the memory of the scandal to fade, and for months of speculation linking many of the top names in the industry to...

Ralph Fiennes stars as Charles Dickens in The Invisible Woman Ralph Fiennes is the archetypal screen villain who has been doing his best to terrify audiences for almost 20 years. But the Harry Potter star looked less like his big-screen incarnation of Lord Voldemort and more like Coronation Street’s Hilda Ogden when he relaxed between takes on the set of his latest movie. Fiennes, 49, whose big-screen credits include sadistic SS officer Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List as well as a serial killer in Red Dragon, is currently playing Charles Dickens in new movie The Invisible Woman and the curlers are there to ensure his swept back locks stay in place. He is also directing the film,...

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It's almost time for Alec Baldwin to say "I do" to Hilaria Thomas. But, before the couple ties the knot at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City this evening, we've got a few details on what's in store for guests set to attend the couple's nuptials. MORE: Alec Baldwin Gets in Photog's Face, Tells Him to "Shut the [Bleep] Up"-Watch Now!...

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DENVER (AP) — A Denver police officer who was shot and killed while trying to break up a fight was remembered Saturday as a devoted single mom and a fiercely dedicated officer who wanted to make the world safer for her 12-year-old daughter. Hundreds of uniformed police officers, family members and friends packed a Denver church for the...

This story originally appeared on the Pop Culture Blog. It felt as if it would be a good night when even the comedian opening Friday night's show — C Dawg, "spelled the country way" — kept the audience laughing. New Edition turned out to be everything expected, and more. Precise dance moves, dapper attire, smooth voices and those shows within a show you always hope you'll get when all six (!) tour. Let's call this group of six, "Newest Edition," with everything old feeling decidedly new again. Bobby Brown came out about four songs in,...

Troika Games is no longer supporting Vampire: The Masquerade. To them, the game stopped being a priority after it turned out to be a less than popular retail game due to launching with countless bugs and glitches. Well, thanks to its design environment the...

Whether it’s browsing through paintings in a garden setting or enjoying big band music in a pretty park, summertime is ideal for enjoying the visual and performing arts. There’s no better example than the Cityfolk Festival in downtown Dayton, which wraps up today, from 1 to 10 p.m. at Riverscape MetroPark in downtown Dayton. The festive event offers a wide variety of ethnic music and dance performances, and everyone gets into the act. The event will culminate with the Dayton fireworks at 10 p.m. This region offers a variety of outdoor arts experiences in June, July and August. While it may be most convenient to attend an event in your own neighborhood, there are plenty of unique...

Most of San Diego County can watch Yasmani Grandal make his first major league start Saturday at Coors Field in Denver. The Padres-Rockies game is being telecast regionally by Fox and will be available on cable systems throughout San Diego County on Channel 5. Three of the four players received from the Cincinnati Reds last Dec. 17 for right-handed pitcher Mat Latos will be in the Padres starting lineup (4:15 p.m.; Radio: 1090-AM). The Padres will be Grandal catching right-handed starter Edinson Volquez with...

A date at Wimbledon must have sounded like a great idea to Stacey Giggs. However, she can’t have been too happy about having to share her husband’s affections with pretty blonde singer Camilla Kerslake today. The footballer and his wife viewed the action on Centre Court from the Royal Box alongside Camilla, who is dating Rugby Union player Chris Robshaw and Ryan appeared taken with the singer. Nice to meet you: Ryan Giggs introduces himself to singer Camilla Kerslake at Wimbledon while wife Stacey sits beside him Your wife's beside you! Ryan appears oblivious to the presence of his spouse Stacey at Wimbledon today Stacey looks unimpressed as Ryan's attention is diverted as...

She's one of the hardest working stars in Hollywood, but you wouldn't know it looking at the care she puts into her children's appearance. Jessica Alba stepped out for a shopping trip in Beverly Hills yesterday with her eldest daughter, looking effortlessly chic in a pair of baggy sweat pants - as only an A-lister can. But it was three-year-old Honor who stole the fashion show, in a cute yellow jumpsuit, white denim jacket and yellow Alice band in her hair. Miniature style: Jessica Alba took her daughter Honor on a shopping trip to Barney's in Beverly Hills yesterday The smiley child wore white bobby socks under trendy buckled sneakers and completed her outfit with a miniature bright orange...

This summer's "The Dark Knight Rises" is the most highly anticipated film is some time and star Anne Hathaway even confessed that the production was an overwhelming experience. Hathaway plays Selina Kyle a.k.a. Catwoman in the forthcoming film to counter Batman as a mischievous thief and a possible ally. The "The Devil Wears Prada" star spoke to SFX Magazine which was released this week. Her comments were published Thursday by various sources.View slideshow: Anne Hathaway as Catwoman photos and posters "Here I am working with Christian Bale, and Chris Nolan is directing me and Wally Pfister is lighting me and I'm in a catsuit," Hathaway explained. "It was somewhat overwhelming." Hathaway was...

Nashville powerbrokers don’t always embrace acts that add too many outside elements to their beloved country music. However, an eclectic act like the Zac Brown Band occasionally emerges with so much unique talent the music can’t be denied. The band is among several hot acts coming to Hickory Hill Lakes, Ft. Loramie, for the annual...

On the surface, Vince Gill's sold out, all-acoustic marathon concert Friday night at the Opera House was a celebration of string music spirit — a robust but relaxed overview that honored bluegrass standards by Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Jimmy Martin, The Osborne Brothers and a few fine, like-minded tunes penned by the host. On that score alone, the show came up a solid winner. But the concert reached far deeper. By balancing the bluegrass material with a cordial, unaccompanied...

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Actor Matthew Broderick has spoken out against the planned expansion of NYU over fears it will damage and drastically alter the character of the local surroundings. The Ferris Bueller's Day Off star has fond memories of his upbringing in...

Some Miami Valley retailers are gearing up to take full advantage of the Summer Olympics that begin later this month in London. Other business owners, however, are bracing for the Olympics’ impact on their bottom line. British-themed businesses and sports bars are among those retailers eagerly anticipating the start of the summer games. Opening ceremonies will be July 27, and the games end 16 days later. “If you can’t go to London, we’ll bring London to you,” said Nancy Parrott, spokeswoman for The Pub, the British-themed sports bar and tavern at The Greene in Beavercreek. The...

I don't think there's a better headline to describe this off-beat indie game than simply saying the title of the game itself, which is Sir, You Are Being Hunted. As ridiculous as it sounds it's actually a really novel concept that revolves around robot tweedpunk, gentlemen hunting the player down in a rural...

Violent storms swept through the eastern part of the United States Friday night, killing a northern Virginia woman when a tree fell onto her home, damaging subway cars in Washington, D.C., and knocking out power to more than 2 million people in the middle of a heat wave. The storms that converged on Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., Indiana and Ohio...

Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean ran into immigration trouble in Canada on Friday after misplacing his visa, which authorizes...

Her off-duty attire may be miles away from the bizarre ensemble she wore to work hours before before, but Miranda Kerr still looked as though she'd just stepped off the catwalk yesterday. The 29-year-old beauty showed off her enviable legs in tiny denim shorts as she walked through the West Village yesterday following a photoshoot. Miranda teamed her hotpants with towering colourful heels. Still dazzling: Miranda left the shoot in a pair of denim shorts and a tie-dyed top, her hair pulled neatly back Her shoes matched her multi-coloured patterned T-shirt, and she carried a grey Alexander Wang bucket bag. Miranda had her wet hair slicked back into a bun as she made her way home....

Elizabeth Mitchell's body of work thus far has put her all over the map as far as genres go, but more recently, it's likely that people would associate her best for the work she's done in sci-fi, having played key roles in ABC's Lost, and more recently, the short-lived V. It looks like she'll be sticking to...

Ghazal singer Talat Aziz is the first contestant to be eliminated from dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. The show has 12 celebrity...

Snooki might not be ready to give up drinking when her son is born later this year, but the soon-to-be-mother has decided she won't be boozing around the baby. The reality star and her fiancé Jionni LaValle have...

The sheer ambition shown by Opera Theater of Pittsburgh in reinventing itself as a summer festival would be striking in a prosperous time. Now, when so many organizations are cutting back, it is vastly expanding the scope of its activities. It launched the Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition, named for its founder, in 2011 and right away picked as its winner a singer who went on to be one of five winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in March. Opera Theater Summerfest began Friday with the one of the organization’s traditional strengths â€" staging opera sung in...

Alexis Bellino paraded her patriotism in a teeny weeny red, white and blue bikini. The Real Housewives of Orange County star kicked of America's July 4 Independence Day celebrations early by flaunting her fabulous figure in the patriotic two-piece on Friday in Las Vegas. The buxom blonde was seen lounging around the crowded pool at Encore Beach Club outside the Encore Las Vegas resort with hundreds of other pre-holiday revellers. Bikini babe: Alexis Bellino showed off her patriotic side in a red, white and blue swimsuit on Friday in Las Vegas Despite the relaxed poolside atmosphere, the 34-year-old was heavily made up with thick eye shadow and she appeared to be wearing false eyelashes....

Katy Perry has a huge fan base in Australia, and she showed her gratitude last night when she flew into Sydney for the 'pink carpet' premiere of her new documentary. Dressed in a gold Versace dress and silver Christian Louboutin heels, the popstar mingled with hundreds of fans at Event Cinemas in George Street, signing autographs and posing for snapshots. The Katy Perry: Part of Me documentary is an intimate look the 27-year-old during her most recent tour, and has been eagerly awaited by fans around the world. Classic glamour: Katy Perry opted for Hollywood glamour at the Sydney premiere of Part of Me last night Crucifix chic: Katy's dress was speckled with crosses After performing some of...

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Never underestimate the appeal of a foulmouthed teddy bear. "Ted," the directorial debut of "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, grossed $20.2 million Friday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The raunchy comedy, which stars Mark Wahlberg as the buddy of a bong-smoking bear, is poised to earn between $51 million and $52 million this weekend, which as THR notes, would top the $45 million debut of "The Hangover" in 2009. Steven Soderbergh's much buzzed-about "Magic Mike," meanwhile, came in a close second at...

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' marriage may have looked like the picture of perfection from the outside, but insiders say the couples' troubles were nothing new, stemming at least in part from Cruise's commitment to Scientology. "She was never truly comfortable with the Scientology thing," a source close to Holmes told E! News. "It was something she accepted and put up with for many years because it was important to Tom, and for that reason, important to her. But over the past year, they had started to see things differently, and she was beginning to pull away." MORE: Five Star Splits...

This story originally appeared on the Pop Culture Blog. The '80s were known for big, fat synthesizer sounds and slabs of vibrant, intermingling colors. Howard Jones embodied those hallmarks with "Look Mama," a track from 1985′s Dream Into Action. He was surrounded by the heavy, stomping effect of the electronics and keyboards as well as the frequencies of hues on the video screen. Jones, known to his fans as HoJo, put on a two-and-a-half-hour show Friday...

Four weeks in, A&E's mystery drama Longmire still has a few kinks to work out. The score, for instance, is pretty aggressive and the details we get on Sheriff Walt Longmire's former life with his now-deceased wife have been pretty slow...

If you heard about 50 Cent's recent hospitalization, you probably wondered how the hell he was released in just a couple of hours. It's not often people's vehicles get plowed into by Mack trucks without serious repercussions, and...

Veteran cycling journalist Mark Johnson's coffee-table book "Argyle Armada" chronicles a year in the life of one pro team, Garmin-Cervélo. The Del Mar resident will be at Warwick's Thursday at 7:30 p.m. He answered questions by email. You've been covering cycling as a photographer and writer since the 1980s. What do you find most compelling about the sport? As a photographer, the sport's pageantry and the fact that its races spool across some of the planet's most dramatic natural arenas. The sight of a 200-rider peloton streaming...

Whenever film producer Michele Hall walks along La Jolla Cove, she thinks back to the mid-1970s when she learned to deep-sea dive and got her first intoxicating look at the underwater world. "There is this amazing wildlife that is below the surface, and to all these other people who are walking around, it's just water and it's just waves," Hall said. Her diving instructor was Howard Hall, a San Diego State zoology graduate who was setting out on a career in underwater moviemaking. One of his dive-shop colleagues, , went on to become one of the world's best-known whale shooters for National...

"Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment" Charlie Schroeder Hudson Street Press; 288 pages; $25.95 On his first trip into the past, Charlie Schroeder found himself cold, tired and very much confused. He wrote that he looked down at the small swastika sewn onto the breast pocket of his German army uniform and wondered, "What am I doing? How did I end up here, in the barren plains of Colorado, re-enacting the 24th Panzer's drive on Stalingrad?" Of course, he knew the answer. He'd signed up for the adventure...

Robert Flack, with the San Diego Symphony Summer Pops When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday Where: Embarcadero Marina Park South, 206 Marina Park Way, downtown Tickets: $18-$76 Phone: (619) 235-0804 Online: "Let It Be: Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles" may not be the first musical homage made by a multi-Grammy-Award-winning pop star whose own career started in the same decade as the perpetually Fab Four. But it's difficult to recall another album that takes as many artistic liberties — some overt, some subtle —...

Test subject: The Surfing Madonna's new digs The big picture: Fourteen months after its sudden (and unauthorized) appearance beneath an Encinitas train bridge and one year and four days after its much-contested removal from her clandestine spot, artist Mark Patterson's mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe on a surfboard found a new home this week in a courtyard in Leucadia. Has Our Lady of Perpetual Civic Hand-wringing found a spot worthy of her beauty and pot-stirring power? Clearly, a pilgrimage was in order. Gallery: Location, location, location: Let's just say karma has been very, very good to...

"The Invention of Glory Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries" Where: San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park When: Through Sept. 9 Admission: $12 Phone: (619) 696-1966 Online: When Afonso V, King of Portugal, returned home in 1471 from a successful military campaign in Northern Africa, he commissioned a set of four tapestries to chronicle his acquisition of the cities of Asilah and Tangier. It marked the first time in Western history that tapestries, which had typically dealt with matters of myth and religion, were used to immediately record a historic event. And not surprisingly, Afonso (1432-1481), much like our own leaders...

A neighborhood in Carmel Valley. — Howard Lipin / Union-Tribune staff Check out the U-T San Diego's hottest housing stories in June, compiled by...

BET Awards executive producer Stephen Hill sat perched on a makeshift control board in the middle of the Shrine Auditorium on Thursday as production technicians readied the historic venue for the network's 12th annual awards show. The three-hour-plus production will air live on Sunday and feature performances by D'Angelo, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj and Usher, as well as a tribute to the late Whitney Houston led by her mother, Cissy Houston. One of many crucial questions: Hill needed to know exactly where a mirror ball would be hung for a planned Donna Summer tribute. "The real challenge here is all the coordination," said Hill, who also serves as president of music programming and specials for...

Most Milwaukee-area communities are marking the Fourth of July on, well, the fourth of July. But Grafton, Mequon/Thiensville and Oconomowoc are partying like it's the Fourth today, the 30th. A few others are celebrating Tuesday, July 3. Get a rundown of area Independence Day parades and fireworks . By of the Journal Sentinel June 30, 2012 11:35 a.m. | Think those monster storms out east didn't hit close to home? Think again. The Friday night knocked out power to thousands, and resulted in at least nine deaths. But they also , the digital cloud service based in northern Virginia that is used by a number of major social media and streaming services, as well as a number...

It was her big night but Kelly Macdonald failed to sparkle at the Brave premiere this evening. The pretty actress attended the European premiere of Disney Pixar’s latest movie which marked the closing ceremony of the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival but disappointed with her choice of dress. Kelly – who provides the voice for the animated film's rebellious heroine Princess Merida – wore a voluminous blue and white printed dress which swamped her small frame. Scroll down for trailer Kelly Macdonald looked thrilled to be premiering Brave in Edinburgh but her baggy blue and white dress did little to flatter her figure However, she looked pretty as a...

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the first drive-in, which opened in Camden, N.J., in June 1933. At the peak of popularity, there were 4,000 to 5,000 drive-ins...

Posted: June 30, 2012 The UK’s Daily Mail is reporting that Jade Jagger, the daughter of legendary Rolling Stone singer Mick Jagger, tied-the-knot Friday with her DJ fiance Adrian Fillary at a wedding ceremony in England. According to the report, both of Jade’s superstar parents (Mick and his ex-wife Bianaca), as well as her model sisters Georgia and Elizabeth and stepmother Jerry Hall, were in attendance at the event which took place at the Aynhoe Park hotel in Aynhoe near Banbury. Guests included model Kate Moss and her husband, The Kills rocker Jamie Hence. For those of you who couldn’t remember, Moss and Hence married in 2011 in a wedding ceremony that shut down two...

NEW YORK -- Heidi Blickenstaff just gave us a little more of her soul. It's a rainy April day in Manhattan, and Blickenstaff -- one of Fresno's bright stars on Broadway -- just completed a matinee performance of "Now. Here. This." at...

Popular local indie rock band Fierce Creatures is about to release its much-anticipated new album -- and doing it in style. The band's hosting the...

In honor of Paris Menswear Fashion Week (June 27-July 1), Relaxnews catches up with designer Songzio, who will showcase his Spring/Summer 2013 collection July 1. Here, the Korean creative shares his style secrets and...