Cirque du Soleil sells majority stake to private equity
MONTREAL (AP) — The Cirque du Soleil has signed a deal to sell a majority stake to U.S. private equity firm TPG for an undisclosed price, the world-renowned circus troupe announced Monday.
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Tony Romo pokes fun at Pats with deflated footballs joke
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tony Romo wants country fans to know that when he throws, his footballs are properly inflated.
Vice News, NPR, CNN, WNYC win double Peabody Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Vice News won two Peabody Awards, including one for reporter Medyan Dairieh’s report on Islamic state fighters, with CNN, NPR and New York public radio station WNYC also winning twice in the annual honors for electronic media.
Review: 'Pleasantville' has gripping, believable plot
“Pleasantville” (Harper), by Attica Locke
ESPN expresses concern about Verizon's new TV packages
NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN is expressing concern that new television packages being offered by Verizon do not comply with its existing agreements.
Basses discuss being black opera singers
When King Philip II of Spain faces off against the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi’s “Don Carlo” at the Academy of Music, they won’t just be portraying history, they’ll be making a bit of it, too. In what’s believed to be a first, a major opera company has cast two African-Americans in the roles.
A masterful new biography of artist Isamu Noguchi
“Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Hayden Herrera
Music legend Nelson to roll out own brand of marijuana
DALLAS (AP) — Music legend Willie Nelson is jumping into the movement to commercialize marijuana and plans to roll out his own brand of cannabis that he intends to make “the best on the market.”
Chinese and foreign film producers sign deals worth $2.3B
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese and foreign film producers, companies and investment firms signed movie cooperation deals worth 13.8 billion RMB ($2.3 billion) on Monday, demonstrating how foreign movie makers increasingly want a piece of the growing Chinese market.
A colorful account of the birth of modern art in Paris
“In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art” (Penguin Press), by Sue Roe