Exclusive: Debbie Allen Returning to Grey's Anatomy as Jackson's Mother

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Debbie Allen is returning to Grey's Anatomy both in front of and behind the camera!

Allen will reprise her role as Catherine Avery, the mother of Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams), for at least one episode in the upcoming ninth season, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Details on Catherine's return are scarce, though we know she'll pop up in the fourth episode. The last we saw of the Avery matriarch, she had quite the fling with Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) during the medical board exams, much to Jackson's chagrin.

Grey's Anatomy Exclusive: Debbie Allen to direct again in Season 9

As we first reported, Allen will also step behind the camera to direct this season's third episode. The ninth season picks up two to three months after the Stranded Six Five (RIP Lexie!) were rescued after the plane crash. The second episode will jump back in time to when they were rescued, while the Allen-directed episode will jump back to the present timeline, which will find some doctors outside of Seattle Grace with new jobs.

Grey's Anatomy returns Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on ABC.

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Kristina Collantes

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Chloe by Kristina Collantes

Ghost Of Love by Kristina Collantes

Sketch by Kristina Collantes

The above work is from artist Kristina Collantes, a Philippines native who resides in California. Let me tell you—her stuff is mesmerizing. The middle piece – “Ghost of Love” – may be one of my favorite pieces we’ve featured here. I’ve enjoyed seeing all the pieces in her portfolio and in her sketches. Even the works in progress are worth a peek.

Can I tell you how I found out about her? Instagram. My favorite app of the moment. Seriously though, man, there is some great stuff on there. Kristina has posts of her sketches, which in my opinion is a brilliant extension of her site, brand, etc. Just say yes to social media.

 

 

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Premonition Designs’ Skull Dress

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Skull Dress by Premonition Designs

Skull Dress by Premonition Designs

Anyone still looking for a dress to wear to the OBJECTIFY THIS gallery (opening on September 7th!)? Here’s a doozy. The lacework on this piece, by Premonition Designs, is pretty awesome. So delicate, and yet when you turn around the rest is so beautifully simple. I myself am a fan of black, but the dress also comes in a lovely shade of purple (the white is sadly sold out but a few other color versions are available for pre-order). I adore the neon shoes in this shot; wouldn’t a pair of black suede boots also look so chic for autumn? WANT.

 

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Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Video: Who's Going to Survive?

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"Who's going to survive?"

That's what the new trailer for the ninth season of Grey's Anatomy asks. So, um, does that mean more death is on the way? Naturally, with the exit of Eric Dane from the series and the deafening silence from executive producer Shonda Rhimes on the fate of Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) fans have suspected that one of the two beloved doctors would meet their maker as a result of last season's plane crash.

Grey's Anatomy: Will Arizona Robbins and Mark Sloan die?

In the new trailer, someone is being pushed on a gurney through the hospital. Could it be the potentially ill-fated Mark, who had suffered chest injuries during the crash, or Arizona, who was not only last seen coughing up blood, but also had a bone sticking out of her leg? Maybe Derek (Patrick Dempsey) is being wheeled in to get his hand fixed up? Another question: Is the gurney even being pushed through the hallowed halls of Seattle Grace? Check out the trailer below:

Who do you think will survive?

Grey's Anatomy returns Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on ABC.

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Morbid Anatomy’s Exhibition of Photographs at Viktor Wynd Fine Art

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Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy An exhibition of photographs by Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Blog

Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy An exhibition of photographs by Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Blog

Our lovely friend, Joanna Ebenstein from Morbid Anatomy is doing an amazing residency at Viktor Wynd Fine Art in London for the month of September.  Color me jealous…

“Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy” is an exhibition of photographs by Joanna, which examines,

the uncanny and powerfully resonant representations of the dead, martyred, and anatomized body in Italy, monuments to humankind’s quest to eternally preserve the corporeal body and defeat death in arenas sacred and profane. The artifacts she finds in both the churches, charnel houeses and anatomical museums of Italy complicate our ideas of the proper roles of–and divisions between–science and religion, death and beauty; art and science; eros and thanatos; sacred and profane; body and soul.

Also on view will be wax figures created by the wonderful Eleanor Crook and Sigrid Sarda.

The exhibition will launch with a one-day “Congress for Curious Peoples,” a one day symposium that will explore in panels, lectures and discussion the intersections explored in the exhibition. Themes will include enchantment and enlightenment, or the sublimation of the magical into the rational world; The secret life of objects; and the incorruptible body, or beautiful death sacred and profane.

Opening Night – Thursday the 6th of  September at 7 – 10 pm at the Last Tuesday Society – 11 Mare Street – Hackney – E8 4RP

Show runs from the 6th of  September 2012 to the 6th of October 2012
Visit -http://viktorwyndfineart.co.ukfor further information

So if you’re in or around London, please check it out if you can!

 

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Gibbons and Opera Singers Use the Same Voice Tools

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Its an old party tricksucking helium from balloons so you can sing like a Wizard of Oz munchkin. When gibbons inhale this non-toxic gas, researchers can detect much more sophisticated impersonations. It turns out that gibbon vocalization techniques mirror those of highly trained soprano opera singers.

Weve shown how the gibbons distinctive song uses the same vocal mechanics as soprano singers, revealing a fundamental similarity with humans, explains Takeshi Nishimura, an associate professor with the Primate Research Institute at Japans Kyoto University.

Scientists had previously believed that human speech was possible, in part, due to suspected evolutionary changes in the larynx, tongue, and vocal tract. But Nishimuras new findings suggest that humans may not have vocal anatomy and ability as unique as previously thought.

Listen to a gibbon call:

And to a gibbon on helium:

We share voice-box physiology with gibbons, and likely other primates, but we also share the way we manipulate sound, Nishimura explains. With both humans and gibbons, the origin of the soundthe larynxis independent from the vocal tools (or training) used to tailor audible messages.

(Related: Humming Fish Reveal Ancient Origin of Vocalization.)

Nishimura and his colleagues studied a young female white-handed gibbon at the Fukuchiyama City Zoo in Kyoto, where they exposed her to helium-rich air. Helium, which shifts gibbon sounds to a resonance that is easier to assess with acoustic equipment, is common in animal vocalization research.

This graceful primate normally makes intense, pure-toneor single-frequencycalls that can travel more than a mile through dense tropical forests in their native Southeast Asia.

It was probably the need to communicate with distant neighbors in such bustling habitats that produced the unique gibbon song. Such ecological and social requirements forced gibbons, using a soprano technique, to produce their pure-tone and loud voices, Nishimura said.

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Grey’s Anatomy Admits Newcomer Tessa Ferrer for Recurring Role

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Aug 23, 2012 06:31 PM ET by Kate Stanhope Follow katestanhope Tweet

Tessa Ferrer

Grey's Anatomy may have lost a few faces this past year, but there will be plenty of newbies roaming the halls when the medical drama returns this fall.

Newcomer Tessa Ferrer has scored a recurring role on the ABC drama's upcoming ninth season, TVLine reports.

Exclusive: Veronica Mars alum Tina Majorino lands a Grey's gig

It is unknown whether Ferrer will play a character based at Seattle Grace, or if she'll be tied to one of the new hospitals to be featured on the show this season when several longtime characters start their new gigs.

Grey's marks Ferrer's TV debut, where she joins new recurring guest stars Veronica Mars vet Tina Majorino, Friday Night Lights' Gaius Charles and True Blood's Camilla Luddington. Former series regulars Chyler Leigh and Kim Raver will not returning come fall, and Eric Dane is set to wrap his arc early in Season 9.

The new season of Grey's Anatomy premieres on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on ABC.

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Closing Party for the Great Coney Island Spectacularium and the Cosmorama of the Great Dreamland Fire, Saturday August 25th, 8:00 PM, The Coney Island Museum

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I would like to cordially invite all Morbid Anatomy readers to join us in bidding farewell to the sadly ephemeral Great Coney Island Spectacularium and Cosmorama of the great Dreamland Fire. The exhibition--more on which here--will end after Labor Day weekend, so this is one of your last chances to see it. So please, come raise a glass with us, surrounded by the unfortunate taxidermy once on view at one of the oldest dime museums in the Americas, the Niagara Falls Museum. Join us for a beer in the soon to be dismantled and utterly transporting Cosmorama of the great Dreamland Fire! Help us kiss the lovely toy theater proscenium farewell!

The party will take place next Saturday, August 25th at The Coney Island Museum; There will be free beer and wine, including a special Dreamland Fire Brew, hand-crafted by our friends at the Coney Island Brewery and wine by Red Hook Winery. Artists will be in attendance, as will special guest performers. AND rogue musician Nick Yulman will perform original scores using mechanical instruments for two 1926 films, Now You Tell One and A Wild Roomer by silent comedian and stop-motion animation innovator Charlie Bowers.

The event begins at 8:00 PM; the film will begin at 8:30pm. $20 in advance or at the door. Advance Tickets here. Hope very much to see you there!

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Casey Cripe

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Incredibly detailed mixed media collages by Casey Cripe, who labels himself as a designer, builder, collector, explorer, observer, and a human.  Casey works both in digital and analog mixed media, layering scientific and anatomical images to create what have been labeled as ‘encyclopedic information visualizations.’

View more of Casey’s work at caseycripe.com and via Flickr.

 

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Yoan Capote

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Racional <small>Yoan Capote 2004
Racional, 2004 Plaster, plexiglas 80 x 55 x 55 cms

Racional de Marmol Yoan Capote
Racional, 2006 Marble, glass, wood and metal 196 x 66 x 66 cms

Autorretrato Yoan Capote 2008
Autorretrato, 2008 Concrete and Cast bronze 175 x 50 x 50 cms

Open Mind Yoan Capote 2008
Open Mind, 2008 Maquette/PVC, bronze, metal and glass 92 x 126 x 126 cms  Model for public art project where humans represent the neuronal processes in the human brain

Demagogia Yoan Capote 2011
Demagogia/Demagogy, 2011 bronze, washbowl accessories 56 x 60 x 39 cms

I stumbled upon the top male torso sculpture with brain genitalia , fittingly titled Racional (Rational), on Facebook and just had to find out who created this masterpiece.  Our lovely fans on Facebook told us it was created by the Cuban sculptor, Yoan Capote.

Yoan plays with the human body, rearranging it, taking it apart, and reinventing it for other human needs.  He also does this with other objects, studying the human-object interaction and giving them abstract personalities.  View all of Yoan Capote’s work at yoan-capote.com!

 

 

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"A Healthy Mania for the Macabre," Stephen T. Asma, The Chronicle for Higher Education

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The new morbid curiosity... may be a pendulum swing back toward the sublime and the philosophical—a new secular foray into the morbid territory that religion previously charted. One way to avoid deeper engagement with death is to paint it entirely from the crude palette of emotions like disgust and fear. We've already got plenty of that kind of "morbid" in popular culture. But awe and wonder need to be restored to our experience of death, and we're not sure how to do it in a post-religious culture.

--"A Healthy Mania for the Macabre," Stephen T. Asma, The Chronicle for Higher Education

The above is excerpted from a characteristically thoughtful and erudite piece by Stephen Asma, one of my all-time favorite scholars and author of the fantastic Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads. The piece--entitled "A Healthy Mania for the Macabre"--explores the current uptick of interest in all things macabre, and situates it within the history ofspectacular morbid display from memento mori to Frederik Ruysch to Gunther von Hagens; It also features interesting quotations from interviews with morbid art collector Richard Harris, charnel house obsessive and Empire of Death author Paul Koudounaris, and yours truly.

You can read the entire article by clicking here. I very highly recommend it!

Image: Clemente Susini (probably): Slashed Beauty, wax, human hair, pearls, rosewood and Venetian glass case, ca 1790, La Specola, Museo di Storia Naturale, Florence, Italy; From the Anatomical Theatre exhibition

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Morbid Anatomy Exhibition and Event Series, September 1-30, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London, England

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This September, Morbid Anatomy will be artist-in-residence at Viktor Wynd Fine Art and The Last Tuesday Society in London, England. The residency will span the entire month, and will include an exhibition (photographs from which you see above), as well as a full month's worth of "Morbid Anatomy Presents" programming that will include some seriously amazing lectures, a screening, a "Congress for Curious Peoples" symposium, and a field trip to the obscure and amazing St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum where I will also give a lecture on the art and history of anatomical museums.

The exhibition, "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy," will open on Thursday, September 6 and will premiere a new body of work based on my latest obsession: the through-lines connecting the beautiful, immaculately preserved corpse found in both  the churches and enlightenment-era anatomical museums of Italy. The exhibition, which will feature my own photographs and waxworks by the über-talented Eleanor Crook and Sigrid Sarda, will open with Hendricks Gin-sponsored reception on Thursday, September 6 from 6-8 PM. You can download a postcard invitation which contains full information by clicking here.

For those residing in London or its environs, I hope very very much to see at the opening, or at one or more of these terrific events. Also, any suggestions for places I should visit whilst over are highly appreciated! You can email any suggestions to morbidanatomy[at]gmail.com.

Following are some highlights of the residency, after which a complete chronological schedule:

EVENTS INCLUDE

ILLUSTRATED LECTURES INCLUDE

FULL LIST OF EVENTS

Monday, 3rd September 2012, 7 PM
Granta Magazine - Medicine Issue Launch

Tuesday, 4th September 2012, 7 PM
Robert Marbury - Rogue Taxidermy in the Digital Age

Wednesday, 5th September 2012, 7 PM
Dr Sam Alberti of The Hunterian Museum on the History of Medical Museums

Thursday, 6 September 2012, 6-8 PM
Opening Reception for "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy," Sponsored by Hendricks Gin

Saturday, 8th September 2012, 11 AM - 5:30 PM
'Congress for Curious People' Seminar - London Edition

Monday, 10th September 2012, 7 PM
Ronni Thomas and The Real Tuesday Weld - 'Midnight Archive' screening

Tuesday, 11th September 2012, 7 PM
Martin Clayton on Leonardo Da Vinci and Dissection

Wednesday, 12th September 2012, 7 PM
Curious Cafés of the Belle Epoque with Vadim Kosmos

Monday, 17th September 2012, 7 PM
Gemma Angel on the History of Human Tattoos

Wednesday, 19th September 2012, 7 PM
Field Trip to St Bart's Pathology Museum with Lecture by Joanna Ebenstein

Thursday, 20th September 2012, 7 PM
Paul Craddock - History of Blood Transfusions

Tuesday, 25th September 2012, 7 PM
Dr. James Kennaway - Bad Vibrations

Wednesday, 26th September 2012, 7 PM
Dr. Pat Morris - Extreme Taxidermy: Elephants and Humans

Thursday, 27th September 2012, 7 PM
Royal Raymond Rife and his Oscillating Beam Ray with Mark Pilkington

Sunday, 30th September 2012, 7 PM
Eleanor Crook on Plastic Surgery of the World Wars

EXHIBITION INFO

Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy
An exhibition of photographs by Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Blog, The Morbid Anatomy Library and Observatory Gallery, Brooklyn with waxworks by Eleanor Crook and Sigrid Sarda.
Viktor Wynde Fine Art, 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP
Click here to download Invitation

In her many projects, ranging from photography to curation to writing, New York based Joanna Ebenstein utilizes a combination of art and scholarship to tease out the ways in which the pre-rational roots of modernity are sublimated into ostensibly "purely rational" cultural activities such as science and medicine.

Much of her work uses this approach to investigate historical moments or artifacts where art and science, death and beauty, spectacle and edification, faith and empiricism meet in ways that trouble contemporary categorical expectations.

In the exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses" Ebenstein turns this approach to an examination of the uncanny and powerfully resonant representations of the dead, martyred, and anatomized body in Italy, monuments to humankind's quest to eternally preserve the corporeal body and defeat death in arenas sacred and profane.

The artifacts she finds in both the churches, charnel houeses and anatomical museums of Italy complicate our ideas of the proper roles of--and divisions between--science and religion, death and beauty; art and science; eros and thanatos; sacred and profane; body and soul.

In this exhibition, you will be introduced to tantalizing visions of death made beautiful, uncanny monuments to the human dream of life eternal. You will meet "Blessed Ismelda Lambertini," an adolescent who fell into a fatal swoon of overwhelming joy at the moment of her first communion with Jesus Christ, now commemorated in a chillingly beautiful wax effigy in a Bolognese church; The Slashed Beauty, swooning with a grace at once spiritual and worldly as she makes a solemn offering of her immaculate viscera; Saint Vittoria, with slashed neck and golden ringlets, her waxen form reliquary to her own powerful bones; and the magnificent and troubling Anatomical Venuses, rapturously ecstatic life-sized wax women reclining voluptuously on silk and velvet cushions, asleep in their crystal coffins, awaiting animation by inquisitive hands eager to dissect them into their dozens of demountable, exactingly anatomically correct, wax parts.

You can find out more about the exhibition here and more about the events here. All of the above images are drawn from the exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy," opening at Viktor Wynde's Fine Art o
n September 6th with a reception from 6-8, and will be on view through the end of the month. And a special shout out to Jessica Pepper, who so expertly and beautifully retouched these images.

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Dried Cadavers on Display in a "Terrible Example of Tyranny," Ferdinand I, Fifteenth Century Naples

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In an interesting 15th century precursor to spectacular displays of human bodies such as Gunther von Hagen's Body Worlds:

Ferdinand I [of Naples (1423 – 1494)], Alfonso II's long-reigning father, had filled an exhibition hall of Castel Nuovo with the mummified remains of his enemies. Paolo Giovio, the sixteenth-century bishop, doctor, and biographer, writes in Historiarum sue temporis: "They say that these dried cadavers were displayed, pickled with herbs, a frightful sight, in the dress they wore when alive and with the same ornaments, so that by this terrible example of tyranny, those who did not wish to be similarly served might be properly afraid."

Just one of the fascinating revelations in the wonderful book Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, by Benjamin Taylor. Another writer--Jacob Burckhardt, in his The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy of 1878 --described it thusly:

Besides hunting, which he practiced regardless of all rights of property, his pleasures were of two kinds: he liked to have his opponents near him, either alive in well-guarded prisons, or dead and embalmed, dressed in the costume which they wore in their lifetime. Fearing no one, he would take great pleasure in conducting his guests on a tour of his prized “museum of mummies.”

And wow; looks like this made an appearance on The Borgias as well; I guess I had better consider giving that show another chance.

Image source: Wikipedia

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Wax Model of a Decomposing Body in a Walnut Coffin, Italy, 1774-1800, The Science Museum, London

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Wax model of a decomposing body in a walnut coffin, Italy, 1774-1800

The body in this wooden coffin is in a severe state of decomposition. It may have had two purposes: as ‘memento mori’, a reminder of death, or as a teaching aid. The figure is surrounded by three frogs. Frogs are symbols of rebirth and regeneration because they change so much in their lifetimes. Wax modelling was used in Europe to create religious effigies. From the 1600s, they were also used to teach anatomy. The creation of wax anatomical models, centred in Italy, was based on observing real corpses. The museum known as La Specola, or ‘the observatory’, in Florence was famous for its wax collection.

Found in the always delightful Macabre and Beautifully Grotesque Facebook Group.

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Anatomy of a movie

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Readmore: Local, Education, Community, Anatomy of a Murder, Anatomy 59, Iron Industry Museum, Negaunee, James Stewart, Baraga

NEGAUNEE -- The Tuesday lecture series at the Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee continues with a look at Anatomy '59. It's a film made by local journalist John Pepin that takes a behind the scenes look at the movie Anatomy of a Murder. Pepin made the film to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film. It includes a look at the actual events that led to the book and movie.

"It's a big part of U.P. history because more than 50 years later its still remains a very popular topic with people and a lot of people don't know about the history of the area and how there was a true crime and this actually fits the three together," said Filmmaker John Pepin.

The Tuesday lecture series wraps up at the Iron Industry Museum next Tuesday with a look at the film Iron Spirits: Life on the Michigan Iron Range.

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Grey's Anatomy(TM) Professional Wear by Barco Signature Series Brings Professional Polish

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GARDENA, CA--(Marketwire -08/15/12)- Barco Uniforms, an acclaimed leader in the uniform industry, unveiled its striking new Grey's Anatomy Professional Wear by Barco Signature Series. The collection, with new fabric, colors and designs, builds on the company's most popular styles, adding a professional, "heathered" look and arcLux with stretch, which clothes professionals in luxurious comfort that stretches and flatters every shape and fit.

"Barco Uniforms shares the passion and commitment medical professionals bring to their work every day, and we understand that while their uniforms must be practical, professionals desire comfortable, flattering, professional styles," said David Murphy, Senior Vice President, of Sales and Marketing at Barco Uniforms. "Our new Grey's Anatomy Professional Wear by Barco Signature Series is designed to deliver the ease and performance expected from Barco Uniforms in fashion-forward, sophisticated styles."

The new collection is created from soft, touchable fabrics that stretch to move with the body to deliver professional polish, whether meeting with colleagues, patients or families, handling crises or providing everyday care. Four exciting new colors -- Electric Heather, Punch Heather, Purple Rain Heather and Hot Tamale Heather -- complement Barco's popular Bahama Heather, Black Heather, Cabernet Heather, and Indigo Heather fabulous prints to create the perfect palette for expanding or designing an entirely new wardrobe. Advanced moisture wicking ensures all-day ease, even through the longest and most demanding shifts.

Grey's Anatomy Professional Wear by Barco Signature Series is available now at leading medical uniform retailers. To locate a retail outlet, visit http://medical.barcouniforms.com/medical/locator.asp.

About Barco UniformsBarco Uniforms, a recognized leader in the uniform industry, fuses innovative fabric technology and fashion-forward design to create uniforms that inspire individuals and enhance the work environment. From its versatile, widely appealing Medical Collections and distinctive Spa Collection, to its corporate Identity solutions, Barco Uniforms is committed to making professional attire that people love to wear. For more information, visit http://www.barcouniforms.com/.

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Spoiler Chat: Scoop on Grey's Anatomy, Smash, Teen Wolf, Private Practice and More!

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Tamie in St. Louis: I can't take not knowing if they are killing Eric Dane off Grey's! Any idea what the plan is? Well, we're not going to sugarcoat it, but when we spoke to Chandra Wilson, it didn't sound good. Mostly because she was talking about taking care of him and "stroking" him (we assume his face) in the beginning of the season. "I really appreciate the way that we have taken care of him in the beginning of the season," Wilson tells us. "I think it's something that Grey's fans will really appreciate. We get to stroke him a lot in the beginning of our season." However, she assured us that someone who is gone from the show will not be forgotten. "It doesn't matter if the characters aren't there anymore. We just talk about him all the time!" she laughs. Let's hope they aren't using past tense when talking about McSteamy.

Ben in Chicago: I've been missing your Smash coverage! Cannot wait until it returns, so can I have a bit of scoop for now to hold me over until 2013? Doesn't the second season of Smash seem so far away? It's unbearableuntil we wiggled our way onto the set and got some awesome scoop! More on that later, but for now, here are some tidbits we can reveal: a mosh pit, an unexpected relationship between Jennifer Hudson's character and Ivy, Tom large and in charge and finallyKaren is in looove!

Check out an extremely sexy (and leggy!) Kate Hudson on Glee

Beth: I'm so bummed that Tim Daly won't be back on Private Practice. Will his exit be addressed on the show? We're sad to see him go, too, and yes, his absence will definitely be felt on the show, especially by Violet. "My character at the beginning of the season, it's all about loss," Amy Brenneman tells us. "Tim is not coming back, and that's pretty much what I'm dealing with." As for Daly's exit, Brenneman says, "It's like life. People come, and then they go, and then [they] write to it. It gets to be like real living."

Cece: I'm so sick of the Liam-Silver-Navid love triangle on 90210! Is there any hope for us Liam and Annie fans? There's always hope! At least, that's what Matt Lanter says of the fan-favorite couple's future. "I didn't know there were so many Liam and Annie fans! Every time Liam tries to get together with some other girl, all I hear about is Liam and Annie on my Twitter and stuff," he says. "I think there is always hope for it. We'll see how long the series runs. Maybe they'll get back together in the end of the series. We got to wait for it!" We advise against holding your breath, people, it may be a while!

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