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...Splashy entrances aside, the NFL is a bit late to the party: it's the third major American sport to bat its eyes at the British capital in the past month. An Oct. 10 NBA clash between the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves at London's O2 Arena (formerly known as the Millennium Dome) was the showcase match-up in a five-city, seven-game European tour. On Sept. 29 and 30, that newly rechristened venue also played host to a season-opening two-game series between the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks of the NHL, a league whose...
...tale appears to contain all the elements of a blockbuster: blackmail, sex, drugs - and a member of the British royal family. On Oct. 28, the Royal Blackmail Plot was splashed across the morning newspapers in the U.K., setting Britons spluttering into their porridge. Two men, according to these front-page reports, had been arrested last month after asking for £ 50,000 (about $100,000) in return for a video purporting to show a royal aide taking cocaine. Some accounts suggested that the video showed the royal engaged in a gay sex act with the aide; in tamer versions...
...This wasn't a collective failure on the part of the British press. Editors, aware of the identity of the targeted royal, have ensured later reports make clear that he or she is not a senior member of the family. But websites all over the world have claimed to know the identity of the mystery royal, and news media outside the U.K. have now added their theories. Some of them are dead wrong. Many of them are right...
...truly amazing to watch. The orchestra, precisely matching each of his movements, confidently carried us through the remainder of the work.The second half of the show focused on Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” a more contemporary piece by the renowned British composer. Split into seven extremely different parts named for each planet (except Earth) and its respective influence on astrology, Holst’s piece proved to be fascinating. The orchestra undoubtedly lived up to the high expectations it had formed after the first half of the show, playing Holst?...
...jazz great Al Jarreau. Prince also played at many of his aftershow parties into the wee hours. Its exhibition space opens next month, kicking off with a nine-month run of a King Tut exhibit expected to draw up to 2 million visitors. Also in the works: a British music hall of fame, another nightclub and a permanent Cirque de Soleil theater...