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Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Draw upon hidden resources.
Provide excellent service. Accept a generous offer. You're gaining authority. Review priorities and contemplate your next move.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
A spiritual advisor keeps you
on the right path. Share your
experience with somebody
to whom it would make a
difference. Your friends are
really there for you.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 9 Consider new opportunities in your career, perhaps by completely reinventing your goals. Make time to help others. What goes around comes around.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6
Travel and romance both
look good for the next two
days. Expand your options.
There's no shortage of information.
Learn quickly from a loved one.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
There's action and going on at work. List options, review considerations and choose. Use top quality materials. Have someone else write your bio.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8 Brainstorm brilliant ideas with your team of hotshot experts. Unleash imagination. Write a love letter to your future self. Let friends teach you.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Add some passion and spice to your workplace. The place is bustling with busy innovation. The impossible looks easy. Explore streets you seldom visit.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Make something beautiful with plenty of love. Your intuition is getting recognized.
Love is a growing possibility over the next couple of days.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21 Today is a 7 Getting in touch with your spiritual side clears your mind.It's easier to clear up family issues.Play with long-range plans.Maintain optimism.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Fun is in the air. Now's a great time to let go of old upsets and create new possibilities with loved ones.
They help you achieve the next level.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
A to-do list helps with tasks. Start by checking off projects closest to your heart. At the end of the day, delegate or erase those you're never going to do.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
You're in a time crunch,
as you race around getting things done. Luckily, you're good at this. It gets easier as the day goes by. Have fun with it.
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8 Take out of the manuscript
12 Carry on
13 Fire residue
14 Holly
15 Poisonous evergreen
17 Put away for a rainy day
18 Seek restitution
19 Funny, in an O.
Henry sort of way
21 Ersatz chocolate
24 Huff and puff
25 Prayer ending
26 Sieve
30 Business deg.
31 “The Age of Anxiety” poet
32 Past
33 Potpourri of a sort
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36 Cincinnati team
37 Mustard-family herb
38 Urban problem
41 Hot tub
42 Bedouin
43 Robinson Crusoe, e.g.
48 Hammer's target
49 Ultra-modernist
50 Money
51 Rote of football lore
52 Talk on and on
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3 Previous night
4 Logic
5 Nephrite
6 Work with
7 Michael Jackson hit
8 Repudiate
9 Verve
10 Jeans-maker Strauss
11 Biz bigwig
16 Gist
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Back in the 1930s, Rainer seemed like the second coming of Greta Garbo at MGM with back-to-back best-actress wins for "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) and "The Good Earth" (1937). But after follow-up flops like 1938's "The Toy Wife," in which she played a Viennese-pasty flavor of Scarlett O'Hara, Rainer was more than happy to leave Hollywood for Switzerland in 1945.
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golden guy in 2002, Berry saw her reputation tarnish in turkeys like "Gothika" and "X-Men: The Last Stand". And let's not forget the purr-fectly awful 2004 comic book yarn "Catwoman."
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20 Reddish horse
21 Bivouac
22 Early pulpit
23 Paper quantity
24 Portends
26 Holding affectionately
27 Chip's cartoon pal
28 Ids' counterparts
29 Deteriorates
31 From the beginning
34 Fit for farming
35 Limb
37 Tax pro
38 Founded
39 Say grace, e.g.
40 Bar
41 Unkempt one
44 Vast expanse
45 Week fraction
46 Kreskin's claim
47 Pi follower
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for "Children of a Lesser God" (1986) over heavyweights Jane Fonda, Sissy Spacek, Kathleen Turner and Sigourney Weaver was quite a coup.
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Facebook users can share favorite songs NEW YORK—Heard a song you can't get out of your head?
Well, now you can tell the world what song you're listening to at the moment. Thisismyjam.com, a new site, lets you, um, pick your jam, tell folks why you love the tune, then share it on the site and on Twitter or Facebook.
It's like picking a song as your Facebook status, This Is My Jam honcho Matthew Ogle said last month. Your song stays on the site for up to a week if you don't change it before that time. You can also follow others and listen to their playlists, and comment if you like.
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Irish dancing hit 'Riverdance' kicks off its final world tour
The touring company includes six principal dancers, 18 troupe dancers, a live five-piece band, flamenco dancer and two American tap dancers, one of whom is also a baritone soloist.
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"It's certainly emotional to be saving goodbye," says Erskine.
The show has been touring continuously in North America since 1996, sometimes with two companies simultaneously. While organizers insist there still interest in the U.S., new markets beckon in South America, India and China.
"The service is full of obscure gems, old favorites, guilty pleasures and new earworms." Ogle told NME.
NEW YORK — When Julian Erskine last saw the American touring company of "Riverdance," he had to smile.
Padraic Moyles, one of the principals, is dancing with a heavy heart. He joined "Riverdance" in 1997 and fell in love with his co-star and now wife Niamh O'Connor while in the show. While he has performed elsewhere, he says American audiences are special.
"Riverance" opened at Dublin's Point Theatre on Feb. 9, 1995, at a time of renewed Irish optimism
He was in the Segerstrom Center for the Arts on an October night in Costa Mesa, Calif., watching the high-stepping cast electrify the crowd once again despite more than a dozen years crisscrossing the nation.
"Anybody who joins the show from here on out and doesn't get the opportunity to perform it in America, will be missing something," he says. "I hope that someday, whether its 10 years from now, it does come back so that people get to experience that reaction again."
Even so, the end of the road is nearing. "Riverdance" is currently on an 82-city farewell North American tour that's winding across the U.S. and Canada and ends in June. This month, the show left Texas, hit the Southeast and next goes to the Plains.
"To be at the back of a hall with the audience jumping to their feet at the end of the show after all these years, it's just so gratifying and just so pleasing," says Erskine, the show's senior executive producer, by phone from Dublin.
and pride surrounding the onset of the booming "Celtic Tiger" economy. Years of relative poverty were disappearing and being Irish had a new cool, thanks to a new generation of athletes and musicians like U2 and The Cranberries.
"The timing couldn't have been better. We just picked up on a vibe that was happening in this country and we suddenly felt, 'Maybe it isn't so bad being Irish. Maybe we don't have to be the butt of every joke,' says Erskine. "It couldn't have happened five years earlier. It just wouldn't have happened. I don't think we would have had the courage to have done it."
The two-hour "Riverdance" show is loosely based on the story of Irish culture and mass immigration to America, the story woven through music and dance styles including flamenco and tap. Most of the dancing is drawn from traditional Irish step dancing, in which the arms and body move little while the feet create the sound and action.
It has since been seen by an estimated 22 million people in 40 countries, from Red Square to the Great Wall of China. It made its American debut in 1996 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and packed the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway for 18 months in 2000-2001. Not bad for a show that first premiered on the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest as a seven-minute segment.
Erskine attributes the show's success to the fact that it isn't a cookie-cutter experience. It wasn't pulled together to make money, but to blow the dust off Irish folk music and dance, he says, and that purity of creation shines through. Plus, the sound seems to touch a very human part of us.
"That pounding out of rhythms I suppose is quite primal. That goes back into all our cores, no matter where we've come from. The beating of drums is how we first communicated," he says.
The show has lasted despite losing original stars Jean Butler and Michael Flatley, who also was cochoreographer. Flatley went on to create his own shows, "Lord of the Dance" and "Feet of Flames."
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In this 2003 image released by Riverdance, Padraic Moyles performs in the Irish dance production "Riverdance." "Riverdance" is currently on a 75-city farewell U.S. tour that's winding across the country and ends in June. The show has been touring continuously in North America since 1997, sometimes with two companies simultaneously.
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Wednesday, February 22nd
Elephant Revival w/Olassa
Saturday, February 25th
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SOJA w/ The Movement
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Monday, February 27th Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band
Saturday, March 3rd Zoogma
Thursday March 8th Reptar
Friday March 9th
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