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Only 20 to 30 percent of Broadway shows ever turn a profit, but even the flops can make millions on the road. And few cities are as profitable as Buffalo, mainly because of Shea’s Performing Arts Center.
The department said a new South Carolina law that would require voters to present photo identification would disproportionately suppress turnout among eligible minority voters.
The exhibition “Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic” at the Grolier Club celebrates French-made typefaces that changed the look of books.
A formal state review of Detroit’s books could lead to the appointment of an outside emergency manager to take over the city’s finances.
The minimum wage increases in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington will be 28 cents to 37 cents an hour.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 21, 2011, covering December 24, 2011.
Michael Buble
The Black Keys
Adele
Justin Bieber
Amy Winehouse
2011Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German entertainer (born 1903)[†]
Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters, known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch-German actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stage with a career dating back to the 1920s. He worked as an actor until his death and is one of the oldest performing entertainers in history, performing shortly before his death at the age of 108. Heesters was almost exclusively active in the German-speaking world from the mid-1930s and became a film star in Nazi Germany, which later led to controversy in his native country. He was able to maintain his popularity in Germany in the decades until his death.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]