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Famed Australian actor dead at 28

ADAM TAMBURIN January 25, 2008
Hollywood lost one of its most promising young stars on Tuesday, Jan. 22, shocking the film industry elite and movie-watching fans alike. The 28-year-old Heath Ledger, who initially grabbed attention as a teenage heartthrob in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You, his first American film, emerged as an Academy Award-nominated talent before his untimely death.

80th Annual Oscar nominations announced

Will Holston January 25, 2008
Against a backdrop of the writers' strike and industry tensions, the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday, Jan. 22, by Academy President Sid Ganis and Academy Award-Winning Actress Kathy Bates.

How She Move does dance genre proud

Olivia Cooper January 25, 2008
After a winter filled with the beautiful but intense movies such as Atonement, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, avid moviegoers needed a bit of a break-something that keeps interest and plays up emotions, but without the added evils of the world and long, depressing scores.

Top chefs and fine wines come to St. Louis for charity

Kelley Dunn January 25, 2008
Picky eaters and lushes alike, your event is back. For the sixth straight year, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis will host the St. Louis Food and Wine Experience. The Food and Wine Experience will take place on Saturday, Jan. 26, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Jan.

Let Me Explain: Ch-ch-changes

KATIE LEWIS January 25, 2008
I've got some decisions to make. Let me explain. Graduation. Career. Finances. Relationships. Maybe a baby. These are all weighing on my mind, so you can understand why I fantasize about booking an African safari or a tour of the Greek isles and never looking back.

Pennies pile up for literacy

Kelley Dunn January 25, 2008
A little incentive never hurts anyone-especially when it leads to education. Founded in 1992, First Book is a nonprofit organization aimed at giving children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first books. In its first year, the organization gave approximately 12,000 new books to needy families living in three communities in the Washington, D.

Lounge music: Step one to a chic, swanky life

Stephanie Sidak January 25, 2008
This could just be the "Gossip Girl" talking, but lately I've been having a recurring daydream: I'm sitting in a swank, dimly lit lounge bar in Midtown, sipping a Manhattan, and I am flanked by beautiful people. Am I seeing into the future, you ask? Let's hope.

Musician creates songs with variety of genres and various influences

[email protected] January 25, 2008
Genres, stereotypes and the so-called norm be damned. While most artists strive to be the ultimate connoisseurs of their musical fields-be it rap, rock or the ever-happy pop-musician Zach Deputy strives for a much different goal: Deputy wants to be the best of the unexplainable.

Museum and theater present extended blonde moment

Matt Wilhelm December 7, 2007
Since the 1950s, the idea of the blonde bombshell has become an inescapable element of American pop culture. "Beauty and the Blonde," a new exhibit at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum on the Washington University campus near the Skinker MertoLink Station, examines the image of the blonde from early advertising and entertainment media to the art world's often avant-garde response.

Unique film adaptation takes The Golden Compass to new heights

George Caputa December 7, 2007
From the moment The Golden Compass begins, director Chris Weitz makes no secret about the complicated nature of the story. Based on the first book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, it is an epic tale of a little girl, Lyra Belacqua (newcomer Dakota Blue Richards), who lives in Jordan College of Oxford in a parallel universe.

Controversy follows fantasy film

Kelley Dunn December 7, 2007
The plot seems simple enough-a story about good versus evil. The real complexity behind The Golden Compass (New Line Cinema, Dec. 7) lies in one question: Is the evil in the film actually meant to represent something else?

OneRepublic’s Dream, a nightmare

Kristin Mommers December 7, 2007
Dreaming Out Loud (Mosley Music/Interscope, Nov. 20) is a breath of fresh air, soaring straight from the Rocky Mountain lungs and instruments of OneRepublic. The debut album from the Colorado band has been referred to by Rolling Stone as "The Fray x Rob Thomas + 'Grey's Anatomy' rock.
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