Australian actress Toni Collette is glad her acting career is not based on her normal looks because she prefers to play 'rich and complex'...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has said that more convention with international organisations should be organised to help Indian cinema go...

Atonement, Ian McEwan's novel about class and love set in the Second World War, is to become an...

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...

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...

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?...

 : 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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...