| Toni Collette loves complex roles Australian actress Toni Collette is glad her acting career is not based on her normal looks because she prefers to play 'rich and complex'... | |
| Cinema should highlight humane approach, says President Patil President Pratibha Patil on Friday said that cinema should be used as a medium to give expression to the importance of a humane approach in... |
| President nominates Mani Shankar Aiyar, four others to Rajya Sabha President Pratibha Patil on Friday nominated former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, well-known lyricist Javed Akhtar, Shimla based Indian Institute of Advance Studies director Bhalchandra Mungekar, Kannada theatre personality B Jayashree and scholar and music exponent Ram Dayal Munda to the Rajya... |
| Tribals in Madhya Pradesh seek their traditional rights Hundreds of tribals in Madhya Pradesh converged at Bhopal on Friday to stage a mass rally against the state Government for not honouring various pro-tribal policies mooted and endorsed by the Union... |
| Martial arts for West Bengal police personnel to be physically fit and agile Police personnel in West Bengal learnt the nuances of martial arts as a part of an initiative by the state authorities to make then fit and... |
| Katherine Heigl's embarrassing wardrobe malfunction at award function Instead of a big round of applause, Katherine Heigl was the centre of audience's stares when she went on to receive a trophy at a recent award function, courtesy an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction. he strap on the former 'Grey's Anatomy' star's red dress broke when she was on stage at the ShoWest awards ceremony in Las... |
| 'Its time for Indian cinema to go global,' says Shah Rukh Khan Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has said that more convention with international organisations should be organised to help Indian cinema go... |
| 'Atonement' to get opera makeover Atonement, Ian McEwan's novel about class and love set in the Second World War, is to become an... |
| Gorkhaland supporters stage a rally in Siliguri Activists and supporters of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJMM) staged a mass rally here on Thursday to hail the tripartite talks with the Central Government in New Delhi with the hopes that the aspirations of Gorkhas in the Darjeeling hills region would be... |
| Pope Receives Musical Gift On "name Day" [2010-03-19] By Jesús ColinaVATICAN CITY, MARCH 19, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The Prefecture of the Pontifical Household organized a celebratory concert in the Vatican for the feast day of Benedict XVI's... |
| Artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits At La's Fowler Museum These soundsuits are the work of Chicago-based artist Nick Cave, who combines everything from vintage toys, sequins, hair and other things that rub together to create unusual sounds. The catch?... |
| Nigeria's Acting President Tightens Grip On Power : Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed the entire cabinet in a move to end political intrigueWHEN GOODLUCK Jonathan assumed the Nigerian presidency last month, many wondered whether he had the... |
| Actress Vardalos Plays Role In Saving Teen Celebrated Winnipeg actress Nia Vardalos is being credited with playing a role in helping a young man in Florida who was contemplating suicide. Vardalos, a comedian known for... |
| King Ralph Reigns On New Game Show Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein will be handing out his signature "Ralph Bucks" on a new game show that airs this weekend — except this time, people won't actually be able to cash them in. ... |
| Few Moma Visitors Seem Upset By Abramovic Show Marina Abramovic retrospective can be heard before it is seen, and it doesn’t sound inviting. The artist’s screams and moans roll out from the sixth-floor galleries in endless loops, a... |
| ‘undercover Boss’ Is Surprise Reality Show Hit For Cbs The biggest new hit on television is a reality show that did not get a head start in the summer, that remained dormant for half the television season, that seemed to have little chance to appeal to... |
| Surfer Blood Is Between Buzz And Break At South By Southwest AUSTIN, Tex. In the blog-accelerated time zone that the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference occupies, the cycle of buzz turns so fast that bands caught up in it can find themselves... |
| Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants At Bam Opera Festival opera productions, especially those of small-scale chamber works, have tried to break down barriers between performers and audiences. At the production of Charpentier’s French Baroque pastorale... |
| Lena Dunham Finds Her Worth In ‘tiny Furniture’ That’s also the story, more or less, of Lena Dunham, 23, who wrote, directed, and played the lead role in the film, which sounds like a senior project gone amok, except that “Tiny... |
| Music Review | New York City Opera: At The David H. Koch Theater, Opera With A Madcap Plot “L’Étoile,” the comic opera featuring Julie Boulianne, center, is a production of New York City Opera at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln... |
| Television Review | 'life': On Discovery, Wonders Of Nature, With Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey is the big-name narrator of “Life,” an 11-part nature documentary that begins Sunday on Discovery, but the real stars are the camera operators who captured the simply... |
| Music Review | Joanna Newsom: At Town Hall, Singing In Tongues, Some Of Them Strung Joanna Newsom . The reasons are online: one of every five people with positive thoughts about her, it seems, has recorded them digitally. That she’s original, expressive, fearless, beautiful,... |
| Arts: Taking A ‘little Mermaid’ To Dark New Depths Lewis Carroll ’s original text. Perhaps to retaliate against the prettification of many classic children’s stories, prominent artists are drawn to recasting such works in more somber... |
| Television Review | 'jerseylicious': The Style Network Sets Another Reality Show In New Jersey Thomas A. Edison , whose research lab was in New Jersey, was largely responsible for bringing electricity into people’s living rooms. David Sarnoff, whose research lab was also in New Jersey,... |
| Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, But Without Fanfare Jazz vibraphonists are often firecrackers, crisp and kinetic even when in an introspective mood. Chris Dingman had some moments like that at the Jazz Gallery in the South Village on Thursday night.... |
| Dance Review | Stefanie Nelson Dance Group: ‘proximity Spiral’ Seeks Fun With Numbers In her new “Proximity Spiral,” the choreographer Stefanie Nelson explores intimacy using numbers specifically, the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two... |
| Theater Review | 'the Cocktail Party': Shaken And Stirred At A T. S. Eliot Comedy The funniest thing about T .S. Eliot’s 1949 play, “The Cocktail Party,” is that the playwright called it a comedy. At first, it seems as if he meant it, introducing a gathering of... |
| Dance Review | Elaine Summers Film And Dance Company: Elaine Summers Film And Dance At Danspace Project The audience member was right: the ethos of Judson that 1960s collective of performers and artists who rebelled against every convention known to ballet and modern dance doesn’t... |
| Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism And Egyptian Mythology New York Philharmonic performed at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening, you might think that the only link among the three works was between Berg’s Violin Concerto and Schoenberg’s... |
| Iraqis Gather To Watch Hollywood’s Take On A War That Has Enveloped Their Lives Iraq — about a dozen men went to the movies to watch their war. Instead of popcorn, there were date-filled pastries. The movie was a bootleg DVD... |
| Zahrain Takes Centre Stage THERE is no doubt about it. Datuk Seri Zahrain Mohamed Hashim (independent-Bayan Baru) was the star of this week's Dewan Rakyat proceedings with his confession on the purported Pakatan Rakyat's... |
| Nigeria: Acting President Consolidates Power Amid Unrest WASHINGTON, Mar 19, 2010 (IPS) - This week, acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet, further securing his tenuous hold on the country's top post amidst rising unrest in the... |
| Sxsw: Scenes From A Musical Madhouse Harlan T. Bobo (pictured above), a Memphis musician and SXSW veteran, said he walked 6 miles, guitar in hand, from his hotel to his Thursday night gig at Barbarella after he couldn’t get a cab.... |
| How To Stage A Home For Sale: The 3 D's Of Home Staging Home staging is one of the latest buzz words associated with selling real estate. In order to maximize your home’s profit, consider the 3 D’s of home... |
| Canadian Sci-fi Writer Convicted Of Assault Canadian science fiction writer Peter Watts, who was arrested in Michigan after a dispute with U.S. border police, was found guilty Friday of assaulting, obstructing and resisting a police officer. ... |
| Two To Tango: Why Iran Turns Dance Partners Into Enemies Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran has rebuffed a string of potential allies from Canada to Britain and now Russia. Why? An outside enemy helps revolutionary regimes consolidate... |
| End Politics In Arts And Culture A coalition of progressive cultural organizations held a performance in protest of the now scrapped grand canal project before the inauguration of the presidential transition committee of the... |
| Corella Brings His Spanish Charm To New York Stage In this undated publicity image released by Helene Davis Public Relations, Angel Corella, foreground, and Carmen Corella perform in Solea at the City Center in New York. (AP Photo/Helene Davis Public... |
| What Dakota Fanning Is To Acting, Her Parents And Elder Relatives Are To Sports of the same name , Dakota Fanning is defying the "sweet little kid" mold that made her famous in movies such as "I Am Sam."Then again, the childhood star has been defying a preordained path all her... |
| Promises, Promises: Obama In Immigration Dance Saul Linares rests after arriving at a church in Baltimore, Thursday, March... President Barack Obama promised to make overhauling the immigration system a top priority in his first year as... |
| Facebook Gag Fools Pm's Spokesman A Quebec television show has exposed an embarrassing hole in the personal security of prime ministerial communications director Dimitri Soudas. Soudas, who is Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief... |
| Film On Bathurst Basketball Team Planned A Moncton-based production company is hoping to make a movie based on the Bathurst High School basketball team that won the 2009 provincial championships a year after the tragic van accidcent that... |
| Media Bid To Televise Sinclair Inquest Fails Several news outlets in Winnipeg, including the CBC, have lost a bid to bring cameras into the courtroom for the Brian Sinclair inquest. The media organizations stated their case in a Winnipeg... |
| Evidence, Odc And Urban Bush Women Dance For Diplomacy Ronald K. Brown of the Evidence Dance Company in Brooklyn leads children with the Sakhuluntu company in the Joza township of South Africa. Mr. Brown’s visit was sponsored by the State... |
| Kenya Tops In Cinema Figures In an exclusive interview, a main movie distributor in Kenya, Pan Africa Film Distributors, cites as an example the overwhelming box-office success of the blockbuster, Avatar, which was released in... |
| Broken Dreams On The World Stage A broken dream. You could see it on the face of David Beckham as he left the San Siro pitch on Sunday evening, fighting back the tears after the sudden snap of his Achilles tendon. With a lengthy... |
| Daniel Libeskind Theatre Opens In Dublin The curtain rose on celebrity architect Daniel Libeskind's Grand Canal Theatre Dublin on Thursday night with a performance of Swan Lake by the Russian State Ballet with stars from the Bolshoi Ballet.... |
| Icahn Moves For Lions Gate Activist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his year-long dispute with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, launching an all-out bid to take over the movie studio following... |