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An episode of the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" featuring a report about online poker cheats legitimately won Sunday night's largest audience.

Film Reviews: Blighty's contempo art scene is crying out for a good, scalding satire.

Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs expanded worldwide over the weekend pulling in an incredible $135.16 million on 11,791 screens in 101 markets over the weekend for a total of $151.70 million after two. This is the sixth biggest international opening and the biggest for an animated film.

Inspired by Thornton Wilder's 1938 drama of everyday existence, The Ordinary Theater will present the World Premiere of THE JOYS OF FANTASY. Playwright/director Mitchell Polin re-mixes Wilder's classic ideas with literary, theatrical, musical and visual arts innovations to create a wholly original theater experience. This site-specific multimedia production will be presented for a limited engagement beginning July 8 at Twelve21, an 8,000 square foot event space in Chelsea.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced plans Tuesday to expand its crisis consulting for arts organizations that are struggling to survive the recession, an effort championed by first lady Michelle Obama and congressional leaders....

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities presents the Colorado Symphony Orchestra on Friday, July 10 & Saturday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the outdoor amphitheater. The Summer Event Series is sponsored by the Arvada Press and Richter Scale Productions.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents MUTEMATH on Monday, October 5, 2009 at 9:00pm at Showbox at the Market.

Oscars committee decides to only bestow the music award in years when there is a worthy nomineeIt retains the dubious distinction of boasting a list of past winners that includes Phil Collins and Celine Dion. Now the Oscar for best song could become just an occasional fixture of the annual Academy awards, after the music branch of the organising committee recommended a rule-change to allow for the possibility that there might be no nominees in any given year.Variety reports that the suggestion, which follows last week's move to expand the number of nominees for the best film category from five to 10, has been ratified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences board. Last year, the best song category inspired controversy when Peter Gabriel withdrew at the 11th hour after being asked to perform his song Down to Earth, from Pixar's Wall-E, for only 65 seconds as part of a medley with two songs from AR Rachman's soundtrack to Slumdog Millionaire. The decision was reportedly due to c

Pittsburgh CLO and Nederlander Alliances, LLC. will present The , celebrating excellence in high school musical theater programs nationally, at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South) on Monday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m.

A variety of events celebrating the singular world of jazz musician Sun Ra are being held at the Institute of Contemporary Art (118 S. 36th St., 215-898-7108, www.icaphila.org) to celebrate the exhibit "Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968," which runs through Aug. 2.