| Extension in ISI chief's tenure indicates Pak Army acting as "law unto itself": Editorial Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's decision to extend the tenure of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt.Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha indicates that the Pakistan Army is acting as a "law unto itself," says an editorial in on of the country's leading English... | |
| Evan Rachel Wood quits Spider-Man musical The much-anticipated Spider-Man musical has suffered a series of problems and delays in the past six months - and now it has been hit with another major blow. The project's star, Evan Rachel Wood, has... |
| Pattinson keen to cut an album, may take a break from movies Hollywood actor Robert Pattinson is keen to venture into the music world, but says he will have to take a break from acting to pursue that because he can't do... |
| Gujarat Congress celebrates 80th anniversary of Dandi March The Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee will stage a symbolic march on Friday from Sabarmati Ashram to the Kochrab Ashram to mark the 80th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's historic Dandi... |
| Sizzling Musical Recounts Celia Cruz's Vibrant Life HEDY WEISS Theater Critic Celia Cruz, "The Queen of Salsa," performed her last concert in the Chicago area at the Ravinia Festival. It was the summer of 2003, just one year before she died. And the... |
| Court Jails Six Indonesians For 'erotic Dance' BANDUNG: An Indonesian court jailed six people under the country’s anti-pornography law for performing an erotic dance at a bar in the early hours of New Year’s Day, a prosecutor said... |
| Extension In Isi Chief's Tenure Indicates Pak Army Acting As 'law Unto Itself': Editorial Islamabad, Mar.12 : Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's decision to extend the tenure of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt.Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha indicates that the... |
| Video: War Wounds – Don Mccullin On Photography The acclaimed frontline photojournalist speaks about the horrors of conflict, struggling with 'this terrible name, war photographer', and why shooting landscapes instead of battle zones has finally... |
| 'uncharted 2' Nabs 5 Trophies At Video Game Awards FILE - In this undated video game file image released by Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., a scene is shown from "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves." The high-octane PlayStation 3 action-adventure... |
| Puttnam Hails 'buoyant' Uk Cinema Lord Puttnam has said that UK cinema is in a robust state, but bemoaned the lack of film shows on television.The film producer, speaking as president of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), said... |
| Save Dying Crafts For A Rainy Day | Leo Hickman Mastercrafts series on BBC2, in which he celebrates some of Britain's fast-dying crafts, such as thatching and blacksmithing (this Friday night it's weaving, so I'm hoping they'll be plenty of tips... |
| Eritrea: Students Of Eritrean Institute Of Technology And College Of Arts And Science Express Readiness To Reinforce National Resolute Rebuff Asmara — At a seminar conducted at the Eritrean Institute of Technology in Mai-Nefih yesterday, about 7-thousand students of the Eritrean Institute of Technology and the College of Arts and... |
| Asian Newcomers Take Stage At Geneva Motor Show The logo of Chinese car manufacturer BYD can be seen at the 80th Geneva International Motor Show at Palexpo in Geneva. "BYD is a feature of the Geneva show from now on," proclaimed a European... |
| Book Clubs For Doctors Show Human Side Of Medicine Dr. Robin Blake reads a passage from Still Alice, a novel about a woman's sudden descent into Alzheimer's disease during the University of Missouri Health Care book club meeting Wednesday evening,... |
| After Topping The Billboard Hot Dance Airplay Chart, Romanian Singer Inna Threatens Uk With Her Debut Single 'hot' After topping or reaching the top 10 in more than twenty-five countries, INNA is ready to conquer UK's market with her debut award-winning single... |
| Dr. Paape Of Healing Arts Chiropractic Recommends Chiropractic Care For Pregnant Women. Dr. Paape of Healing Arts Chiropractic recommends chiropractic care for pregnant women. About half of all expectant mothers will develop lower back pain some time during their... |
| New Theatre Takes Center Stage At The Old Globe SAN DIEGO, CA, March 12, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- DPR Construction (DPR) recently completed new additions to The Old Globe including a theater and education center, as well as an outdoor restaurant... |
| Mixed Martial Arts Baltimore: Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu-jitsu's Training Is For More Than Competitive Fighting Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) combines techniques from multiple sources into one focused approach. Modern competition gained popularity with the Ultimate Fighting Championships. With its growth in... |
| Live: Little Boots At El Rey Theatre Brit singer Little Boots' lack of excitement and energy onstage was at odds with the jubilant choruses and whooshing sonics of her music, which focused on selections from her debut album,... |
| Dance Cancelled After Plea From Lesbian Pupil By Shelia Byrd Jackson, Mississippi - An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student says she received some unfriendly looks from classmates when she returned to school after officials cancelled the... |
| Hickenlooper Gets His Strings Pulled At Arts Benefit Mayor Hickenlooper, left, was pressed into service by Mark Hellerstein of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts at an awards luncheon... |
| Genentech Provides Update On Phase Iii Study Of Avastin In Men With Late Stage Prostate Cancer SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - (Business Wire) Genentech, Inc., a wholly owned member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), announced today the topline results of a Phase III trial led by... |
| Woman Rejects Dance, Is Beaten In New York Bar NEW YORK — A stranger followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually... |
| Opera Rolls Out Mobile Browser For Android Opera Software unveiled on Thursday a version of its Mini mobile browser for use on cellphones running on Google's Android software. Opera Mini is the world's most widely used browser on cellphones,... |
| Unions To Stage Protest Over Jobs Two unions were due to stage a demonstration outside Network Rail's headquarters in a row over jobs. Thousands of Network Rail maintenance workers voted strongly in favour of strikes bringing the... |
| Swoboda Steps In As Elgin's Acting Top Cop STEVEN ROSS JOHNSON Staff Writers ELGIN -- City officials confirmed Thursday that Elgin Deputy Police Chief Jeffrey Swoboda has assumed the role of acting chief of police. That news comes on the... |
| 'american Idol' Pares Down To 12 Finalists By LYNN ELBERAP TELEVISION WRITER LOS ANGELES -- And then there were 12 on "American Idol." After the audience voted, the singing contest said goodbye Thursday to Alex Lambert of North Richland... |
| Madonna Offers Relationship Tips On 'marriage Ref' By FRAZIER MOOREAP TELEVISION WRITER NEW YORK -- Madonna doesn't think a wife should withhold sex from a sloppy husband. But she believes a wife should dispose of her late husband's prosthetic... |
| No Ticket To Dance, But Northwestern Thrilled With 20 Wins Win No. 20 of the season came Thursday against Indiana, 73-58 in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. Maybe that gets a yawn at Duke, but know how many 20-victory Northwestern teams the world... |
| Johnny Alf, A ‘father Of Bossa Nova,’ Dies At 80 Johnny Alf, an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova, died on March 4 in Santo André, Brazil, just outside... |
| Fdic Shops Broadway, Other Banks The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is putting at least a half-dozen struggling Chicago-area banks out for bid to healthy institutions that might want to buy their deposits and assets.The fact that... |
| Family Crafts Prosthetics, Orthotics By Mixing Old Tools And New Technology In his basement workshop at Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics on Forest Avenue in Knoxville, Ted Shown uses heat to reshape a prosthetic leg for a client who has lost weight. Shown’s father and... |
| ‘the Demons’: 12-hour Play, And Endless Bragging Rights Every theater season has its must-must-must-see show, the snob hit that separates the true sophisticates (at least in their own minds) from the cultural chaff. New York will have a doozy of a... |
| Theater Review | 'next Fall': At Helen Hayes, Taking On Religion From A Hospital Bed Helen Hayes Theater, is that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy. The question now is whether theatergoers will recognize that “Next Fall”... |
| Georgia Tech Ensures N. Carolina Won’t Dance Georgia Tech’s Glen Rice, left, and Mfon Udofia chase a loose ball in front of North Carolina's Tyler Zeller during the Yellow Jackets' victory... |
| Drugs: The Opera - Mexico's Plague Gets High-brow Treatment The first Mexican opera to deal directly with the country's drugs conflict has staged its premiere in Mexico City.The opera, Only the Truth, is based on a popular Mexican song of the 1970s which... |
| Television Review | 'the Pacific': First Marine Division In Gruesome World War Ii Battles At war’s end, the cabbie won’t take money from the Marine returning home from the Pacific. “I might have jumped into Normandy but at least I got some liberties in London and... |
| Art Review | Otto Dix: At Neue Galerie, A Retrospective Of A Deeply German Artist “Mealtime in the Trench,” by Otto Dix, part of a retrospective of the artist’s works at the Neue Galerie. Dix was born in 1891 in Germany and saw action in World War... |
| Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Beethoven And Franck Sparkle With Muti, A Avery Fisher Hall Beethoven ’s Violin Concerto, as enduring a work as you’ll find, and Franck’s Symphony in D minor, a score that has always struck many listeners as diffuse and bombastic. Oddly, at... |
| Dance: How Shall We Know The Choreographer? By His Dances And More Paul Taylor Dance Company lists as its historian; the other is an authorized biography by Suzanne Carbonneau. Both of these scholars have followed Mr. Taylor’s choreography for years, enjoying... |
| Movie Review | 'mother': Bong Joon-ho’s Fierce Love: Better Not Make This Mom Angry She is and she isn’t as Mr. Bong reveals through a kinked narrative and a monumental, ferocious performance by Kim Hye-ja as the title character. Written by Mr. Bong, sharing credit with Park... |
| Art Review | 'marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At Moma, A Performance Artist Endures “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present”: A visitor at MoMA walks between Jacqueline Lounsbury, left, and Layard Thompson, both naked in a... |
| Music Review | Mariinsky Theater Orchestra: At Carnegie, Gergiev Fosters Teamwork For Berlioz ‘troyens’ RAW: Assignment ID: 30093723A. Mariinsky Orchestra performing Berlioz’s “Les Troyens, Part 1: The Siege of Troy” at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night, March 9, 2010. This image: Valery... |
| Art Review | 'twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic At International Center Of Photography Considering how revolutionary Surrealist photography was in the years before World War II, what with its double-exposing, montaging, solarizing and other techniques, it may seem paradoxical that... |
| Music Review | Alice In Chains: Dancing Around Death, With Elephant In Room At Terminal 5 Restarting the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains after the death in 2002 of its lead singer and frequent lyricist, Layne Staley, was a matter of delicate positioning. Jerry Cantrell, the guitarist... |
| Music Review | Magnetic Fields: A Folksy Palette Of Despondency At Town Hall Magnetic Fields said at Town Hall on Wednesday night, to a murmur of something like delight. His disclaimer doubled as a statement of principle and, on some level, as low-impact... |
| Metropolitan Museum’s Western Instruments, In A Shinier Home Violins from the 1500s to the 1700s, including a Stradivarius, second from left, at the recently reopened André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of... |
| Movie Review | 'the Exploding Girl': Zoe Kazan And Mark Rendall In A Minefield Of Emotions “The Exploding Girl,” Bradley Rust Gray’s sweet and tentative new film, is home from college for the summer, back in a New York suffused with leafy green in the daytime and red neon at night.... |
| Inside Art: Yves Klein Works Attract Attention In Sales And Exhibitions “People Begin to Fly” (1961), from the exhibition “Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers,” which is coming to... |
