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Daily News: Entertainment - Colorado symphony strikes high note in cannabis-friendly concert

Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 10:03 PM PDT

Colorado symphony strikes high note in cannabis-friendly concert 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 10:03 PM PDT
The Colorado Symphony is giving new meaning to hitting a high note, announcing on Tuesday a bring-your-own marijuana concert series, the first of which features its chamber ensemble and South-of-the-border food and booze. The U.S. states of Colorado and Washington became the first to legalize the possession and use of recreational cannabis in 2012, and the first retail pot shops opened in Colorado in January. The orchestra's "Classically Cannabis: The High Note Series" seeks to tap the blossoming market in a series of summer fundraising concerts, at a time when more than half of Colorado voters believe legalizing recreational marijuana has been good for the state, a recent poll showed. The Denver Post newspaper reported the events are aimed at boosting attendance, including drawing younger concert-goers, at a time when the Colorado Symphony has struggled financially.
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Singer Gwen Stefani joins judges panel on NBC's 'The Voice' 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 06:36 PM PDT
Musician Gwen Stefani arrives at the premiere of the film "Monsters University" at El Capitan theatre in HollywoodSinger Gwen Stefani will be sitting alongside fellow star musicians Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton in the forthcoming season of NBC's singing talent competition "The Voice," the Comcast Corp-owned network said on Tuesday. Stefani, 44, who rose to fame as the blonde-haired sultry lead singer of Southern California rock group No Doubt, will join Pharrell in taking over from current judges, Colombian singer Shakira and R&B star Usher. NBC also said that Christina Aguilera, one of the show's original four celebrity coaches, will return for the eighth season next year.
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PR Newswire agrees to curb early access for high frequency traders 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 06:10 PM PDT
By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - PR Newswire will require customers that receive direct feeds of its market-moving releases to certify they will not engage in high-frequency trading on the information, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said late Tuesday. Schneiderman has been conducting a sweeping investigation of Wall Street practices that provide elite groups of traders with early access to information. Marketwired and Berkshire Hathaway Inc's Business Wire, which also distribute news releases, agreed to stop providing direct feeds to high-frequency traders earlier this year. PR Newswire has never supplied its direct data feed to high frequency trading firms, a company spokesman said.
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With Lego makeover, 'The Simpsons' gets fresh face 25 years on 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 04:32 PM PDT
The Simpsons show editor Mike Bridge, executive producer Matt Selman and co-executive producer Brian Kelley look at an upcoming Lego episode at the editing bay in 20th Century Fox Studios in Los AngelesBy Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fox's hit animated show "The Simpsons," which has used donut-loving Homer and his dysfunctional family to satirize U.S. popular culture for 25 years, is celebrating another milestone with a plastic makeover featuring Lego building blocks. "Brick Like Me," airing on Sunday, marks the show's 550th episode and adds a notch in this year's revival of the popular Danish plastic building brick, after the runaway success of February's "The Lego Movie." "The Simpsons," created by Matt Groening and premiering in 1989, has rarely changed its basic visual form in a quarter century. "Brick Like Me," the brainchild of longtime "Simpsons" writer-producers Brian Kelley and Matt Selman, will see both the cartoon characters and town of Springfield reimagined in the form of the plastic toy brick blocks. In a clip of footage shown to Reuters, Homer and Marge wake up in their 3D Lego forms and Homer tumbles, disassembling himself.
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'Mr. Peabody & Sherman' push DreamWorks into loss 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 04:15 PM PDT
(Reuters) - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc reported its first quarterly loss in five quarters as the Hollywood studio took an impairment charge related to the weak box office performance of the movie "Mr. Peabody & Sherman". Shares of the Hollywood studio were down 1 percent in extended trading on Tuesday, after falling as much as 6 percent immediately after the results were released. Three of DreamWorks' last four movies have had weak box office returns and the company has so far taken charges totaling about $157.5 million, more than its revenue in the quarter ended March 31. The studio, which made the popular "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda" series, is aiming to make sequels as they require less advertisement costs and their international ticket sales often exceed those of their predecessors.
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Spain charges soprano Montserrat Caballe over tax evasion 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 11:21 AM PDT
Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe laughs during a concert at Konzerthaus in ViennaSpanish prosecutors have charged Montserrat Caballe, one of the world's best-known sopranos, with tax evasion for failing to declare some 500,000 euros ($690,900) of income, a court document showed on Tuesday. The document accuses Caballe, 80, of not declaring income from performances in 2010 in Andorra, a principality nestled in the eastern Pyrenees mountains between Spain and France. A lyric soporano renowned for her performances of Italian opera, she is also famous for collaborating with the late Freddie Mercury of rock group Queen on his hit album Barcelona - the city of her birth - and the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Spain has been cracking down on tax evasion as it attempts to fill public coffers and rein in a large public deficit during a prolonged economic crisis.
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Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher lead cast of new 'Star Wars' film 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 11:11 AM PDT
Actor Harrison Ford and his wife Calista Flockhart arrive at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West HollywoodLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Harrison Ford will lead returning and rising stars, including Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Andy Serkis and Oscar Isaac, for the anticipated new "Star Wars: Episode VII" film, Walt Disney Co and Lucasfilm said on Tuesday. Ford, Fisher and Hamill, who were rumored to be returning to director J.J. Abrams' reboot of the franchise, will be joined by the series' original stars Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and Kenny Baker (R2-D2). ...
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"Gentleman's Guide" musical tops Broadway's Tony nominations 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 10:28 AM PDT
File photo of actor Harris meeting the media after he was honored as Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Man of the Year during a roast at Harvard University in CambridgeBy Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - The musical satire "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" led the nominations for Broadway's annual Tony awards on Tuesday, scoring 10 nods including for best musical, director and leading actor. The comedy about a would-be heir who must "eliminate" several distant relatives who stand between him and an inheritance featured no top-name stars, but beat out several high-profile new musicals, including "Bullets Over Broadway" and "Rocky," which were not nominated for the top prize. Woody Allen received a nomination for best book of a musical for writing "Bullets Over Broadway," based on his 1994 film. The show had five other nominations, most in technical categories.
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Glam Media changes name to Mode, expands into online video 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 10:14 AM PDT
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Glam Media, the online lifestyle publishing company, is changing its name to Mode Media and heading into the increasingly crowded market offering original online video programming. The company said on Tuesday it would launch 10 original online video series and create its own video production studio. The new programs, on topics ranging from food to home design, are due to debut on Tuesday on websites owned by Mode Media. Internet and technology companies such as Yahoo Inc, Aol Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp are racing to develop original online video programs, spurred by the success of Netflix Inc's House of Cards series.
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World Chefs: New York's Marc Forgione recalls surviving recession 
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 03:02 AM PDT
American chef Marc Forgione poses for a photo in his restaurant Marc Forgione in New YorkBy Richard Leong NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marc Forgione chronicles in his first book how his eponymous New York restaurant that opened in 2008 survived early tough reviews and the Great Recession and became a Michelin-star destination. This 35-year-old son of Larry Forgione, who is considered a pioneer of modern American cuisine, trained with top European and American chefs after college. Some of the recipes feature regularly at Marc Forgione, whose menu critics have praised for its use of seasonal local ingredients with modern techniques. A: I really wanted people to know the story of how everybody had to work to keep up what is now Marc Forgione and how to keep it going.
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