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/ARTS WEEKLY/VIETNAM: Foreign Designers Come In, Locals Venture Out
While more and more foreign designers are keen on coming to setting up shop in Vietnam, local ones are turning their eyes away from the local trade, saying the fashion market is still in its infancy stage./ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-NAMIBIA/: Musicians Let Down by Their Own System
Talented and ambitious musicians always set their eyes on becoming instant millionaires, but in Namibia artists still struggle for basic needs like food and accommodation./ARTS WEEKLY/SPORTS: African Americans Striking Out From Major League Baseball
James "Cool Papa" Bell could run faster than a speeding baseball, according to a fellow Negro League player. "Once he hit a line drive right past my ear," said pitcher Satchel Paige. "I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second (base)."/ARTS WEEKLY/BRITAIN: A Circus and So Much More
The French-Canadian company Cirque du Soleil has dramatically changed the way audiences view a circus. They have got rid of animals, sequins and traditional clowns, and presents shows with contemporary live music, interlocking stories and multi-talented performers./ARTS WEEKLY/ FILM-VENEZUELA: Don Drug Trafficker
Venezuelan-Uruguayan filmmaker José Ramón Novoa is working on the final takes of the feature film "El Don", one of the few cinematic productions being filmed this year in Venezuela, with the aim of premeiring next year./ARTS WEEKLY/LITERATURE-CHILE: Neruda, Eternal Poet
In the wake of the tributes to former Chilean president Salvador Allende marking the 30 years since his death in the military coup of Sep. 11, 1973, the country - and admirers around the world - now pay homage to Pablo Neruda, the eternal poet, who also died three decades ago./ARTS WEEKLY/ LITERATURE-VENEZUELA: Invasion of Eroticism
Erotic literature has won respect as an art form in Venezuela with the publishing success of the collection "Letra erecta" (Erect Letter), dedicated to this genre which is breathing new life into a sluggish book industry./ARTS WEEKLY/ARGENTINA: Theatre Group Raises Awareness on ‘Disappeared’ Children
Just three years after two prominent actors in Argentina brought to the stage the story of a young woman who had been illegally adopted after her parents were ''disappeared'' during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, around 800 people are now involved in the ''Theatre for Identity'' movement./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-JAPAN: Small Filmmakers Wait for the Big Break
A load fell off the shoulders of Kaoru Ikeya, a documentary maker for more than 20 years, when Japan's public broadcasting company, NHK, agreed to sponsor his documentary on China's Cultural Revolution, 'Daughter from Yan'an', for its release in November./ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC: Reggae Super Producers Take Taxi to Christmas Release
For more than two decades, the names Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare have appeared in the credit section alongside some of the biggest names in the music business, from Bob Dylan to No Doubt./ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-JAPAN: Hip-Hop Comes of Age
In neon-lit Roppongi in the Japanese capital, boys in baggy pants and baseball caps break-dance on a busy street. In the trendy Shinjuku neighbourhood, rap music blares from speakers in a music store, while would-be instrumentalists try to play along./ARTS WEEKLY/ MUSIC-MEXICO: A Militant Song for Chile’s Allende
The 30 years since the Augusto Pinochet-led military overthrow in Chile of socialist president Salvador Allende are being remembered in many countries through concerts, expositions and seminars, with the late Allende a symbol of social justice./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-NEPAL: Documentary Comes of Age
Bright, genial, and intensely energetic, Narayan Wagle is one of Nepal's most widely followed journalists, with a number of groundbreaking stories to his credit./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM: Top Award for an Unusual Mix
-'Khamosh Pani' (Silent Waters) became the first Pakistani film to bag the Golden Leopard award in Switzerland this year. But that was not the only first./ARTS WEEKLY/LITERATURE-CHILE: A Poet’s Anguished Return
Raúl Zurita, who many consider Chile's greatest contemporary poet, has broken a three-year silence with the publication of "INRI", a lyrical testimony to the sorrows that are resurfacing in this country as the 30th anniversary of the Sep. 11, 1973 military coup d'état draws near./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-TIBET: Exiles Take to the Silver Screen
It was like an old-fashioned circus sideshow - a hand-painted banner, and in front, a barker on a battery-powered mike trying to sell tickets to the show./ARTS WEEKLY/SOCIETY-SERBIA: A Soapy Link With Latin America
Serbia has little in common with any Latin American country, but there is something millions of Serbs share with millions of people in Latin America - the soap operas./ARTS WEEKLY/JAMAICA: Play Laughs at Desperate Attempts to Snag U.S. Visa
With their country's economy showing little sign of growth in the past decade, many Jamaicans are taking desperate measures to migrate to the United States, a situation that playwright Patrick Brown pokes fun at in his latest production, 'Oliver...Large Abroad'./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-BRAZIL: The Camera Focuses on a Nation’s Sores
"Amarelo Manga" (Yellow Mango), the first feature-length film by Claudio Assis, feeds a current of Brazilian film that is more concerned with showing the open wounds of the national reality than with telling a story./ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-U.S.: African Choir Unites International Singers in Harlem
A joke making the rounds about the New York African Chorus goes something like this./ARTS WEEKLY/ COLOMBIA: A Talent for Stories
Sociologist, piano teacher, mother of three and grandmother of four, Inés Grimland decided at age 55 that the time had come to dedicate herself to what she really wanted to do: be a storyteller.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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