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Next wave? Cutting edge? This simpleton’s celebration of ear-plug music and hack choreography? For some reason there are no strobes in “Billboards”; in every other way, it’s the next wave of 20 years ago. Three of the four choreographers–Charles Moulton, Margo Sappington and Peter Pucci–have turned out works indistinguishable from one another, each a pounding onslaught of dancers jabbing their feet, their pelvises and their buttocks everywhere they decently or indecently can....

Former Ajax defender Rob Wielaert on Wednesday signed for Australian club Melbourne Heart, joining a growing list of off-season recruits which also includes Harry Kewell. The 34-year-old has also played with top Dutch clubs PSV Eindhoven and FC Twente and Heart coach John Aloisi said he would add some crucial experience to the back line. “Wielaert has superb pedigree and his experience at the top level is very impressive,” Aloisi said....

This question originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn from experts and access insider knowledge. You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Answer by Ben Chang, two-time money league winner: Sample sizes are too small. Player stats (and consequently their value) can be heavily impacted by one or two fluke plays. There are only 16 games (compared to 162 for baseball and 82 for basketball), so there isn’t as much time for things to even out....

Perth Glory v Sydney FC nib Stadium, Perth Kick-Off: 4:00PM (Local) (7:00PM AEDT) Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones Assistant Referee 1: Josh Mannella Assistant Referee 2: Matthew Southern Fourth Official: Adam Fielding TV Broadcast: Live coverage on Fox Sports 505 from 7.00pm (AEDT) and Sky Sport 3 (New Zealand) Radio Broadcast: ABC Grandstand Online & via the ABC Radio Mobile App – A-league Live Join the conversation on Twitter using the hash-tag #PERvSYD...

As Roberto Mancini and Sheikh Mansour sit themselves down for a cup of the finest coffee and discuss their upcoming title defence which begins in the third week of August, mostly about how many players they can rope in at the Etihad before the Fair Play rules kick in, I suggest we too do the same and chat, without the beverage of course. Before anything else, I would like to congragulate you on that last gasp title win you managed to pull off this May....

Last weekend, the Clinton administration fired the first shot in what could become a trade war over “intellectual property,” as recorded or printed information products are known. Washington slapped 100 percent tariffs on $1.08 billion worth of Chinese imports (chart). “We cannot stand by while the interests of our fastest-growing, most competitive industries are sacrificed in China,” said Mickey Kantor, the U.S. trade representative. The sanctions won’t take effect until Feb....

Jimmy Butler gave out his phone number Thursday, asking his critics to contact him directly if they have something they want to say. “Everybody is entitled to their opinion,” Butler said. “But with that being said, my phone’s in my back pocket right now, if whoever has anything to say to me, feel free — 773-899-6071. If you want an interview, there you have it. Please do.” MORE: Jimmy Butler invites critics to reach him directly...

Unknown to many, 26-year-old Squalayyy started from nothing, working his way up to success. A look into his life will show you a successful person, made of grit and glitz. He is one of the many individuals who have transformed their fortunes through hard work, commitment, and resilience. His positive mindset has also been a significant boost to his success in the entrepreneurship world, helping him convert hardships into stepping stones to better himself....

This was especially considered to be true in Trials of Osiris, previously Trials of the Nine, where players would constantly report others for cheating and feel like there were too many headshots and precision kills. However, with Destiny 2’s Season of the Lost, many of these things changed because of three main factors. The first is that Bungie partnered with BattleEye to address the cheating situation, the second is that Trials of Osiris stopped counting as wins those matches where the opposing team quits, and the third is that the game mode itself became much more rewarding and appealing to all players....

Since last fall, accidents at petrochemical plants have become a way of life in the industrial belt known as the Houston Ship Channel. Earlier last week, a pump valve at Crown Central Petroleum’s Pasadena processing plant blew a seal, sending flames 100 feet into the air; no serious injuries resulted. One day last month, six people were injured in separate incidents at two other plants. And a series of explosions last October at the Phillips Petroleum plastics plant in Pasadena killed 23 workers and injured 130....

The question of whether pledged delegates must stick to the candidate they were elected to vote for has prompted party chatter for weeks. Clinton herself drew notice last week during a NEWSWEEK interview when she said her delegate numbers aren’t “bleak at all,” even though by most counts she trails Obama by more than 100. “Even elected and caucus delegates are not required to stay with whomever they are pledged to,” she added....

On Sunday, 4,000 U.S. troops conducted ground searches in one of Iraq’s most dangerous regions–looking for three Americans who went missing after their convoy was attacked the day before. The apparent ambush took place roughly 12 miles west of Mahmoudiya, a place U.S. troops can expect to find little sympathy. Lying about 20 miles south of Baghdad, it is part of the capital’s continuous sprawl of workshops, stores and scrappy one- or two-story houses....

The last single-player Fallout game came out in 2015, and the next Bethesda RPG will be launching in 2023. That is already an eight-year wait between major titles from Bethesda, and if The Elder Scrolls 6 follows that pattern, then it could release another seven to eight years after Starfield. Fallout 5 will be even longer afterwards which means that Fallout fans could be waiting for something new from their franchise for close to a decade....

McPhee, daughter of the esteemed literary journalist John McPhee, grew up outside Princeton, N.J., and now lives in Manhattan. Her parents divorced when she was 4. At the time, the McPhees were putting up the struggling screenwriter Bo Goldman and his family. Goldman later wrote 1982’s “Shoot the Moon,” a brutal divorce movie about a famed nonfiction writer. Gossip flew. McPhee considers the film fiction and insists seeing it wasn’t devastating: “Frankly, “Kramer vs....

Like most 5-year old boys, John loves Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He loves the animated series, the action figures and even their accompanying LEGO sets equally. I read the comic booklets to him at bedtime and had to kick him off this computer so that I could write this piece. John wasn’t immediately enthralled by Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures. The beginning of the game found us struggling to get what we wanted out of the character creation mode....

Gotham City is certainly a nightmare town: New York reimagined (by the marvelous production designer Bo Welch) as a half-Gothic, half-Bauhaus three-ring circus of corruption. The ineffectual mayor (Michael Murphy) is a mere figurehead; the real power is in the hands of the avaricious businessman Max Shreck (Christopher Walken), who wants to build a power plant that will suck all the energy out of the city. (This white-haired mogul may be an inside dig at Time Warner boss Steve Ross....

Not that the likes of Tina Barney, Larry Sultan, Doug DuBois, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and a few others should have intervened on behalf of their subjects, many of whom are friends or family. Quite the opposite: they might have left them alone to go on padding about their boudoirs and rec rooms with the freedom to look as foolish or vulgar as they pleased without being skewered by a camera. Take Barney’s huge color blowup, “Sunday New York Times” (1982), for example....

The champagne hasn’t stopped flowing for the 26-year-old, who continued her championship szn in Sydney, leading the United States to their fourth-straight FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup crown. Despite arriving late and missing the first two games of the tournament as she celebrated the Las Vegas Aces championship, she went from the parade to the airport and stepped onto the floor in Sydney without missing a beat. The Aces star averaged 17....

Born in Mississippi, Bailey’s career as a voice actress began rather early. She landed her first role when she was just 18, and did voice acting for Kid Trunks in Dragon Ball Z. Although she went on to do voice acting for several more anime shows and cartoons including Winx Club, Regular Show, Fruits Basket, and The Powerpuff Girls reboot, some of her best work can be found in the realm of gaming....

Several names have been doing the rounds and everyone from Mohammad Hafeez to Shoaib Malik, Azhar Ali, Sohaib Maqsood, Wahab Riaz and Sarfraz Ahmed are considered to be in contention for the post. Pakistan’s next series is against Bangladesh starting on April 15, so there isn’t much time and a decision needs to be taken in the next 2 weeks or so. It is not an easy decision by any means....