/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-URUGUAY: Grammy Nominee Caught between Continents

Uruguay's singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, the only artist from this small country -- small by South American standards -- to be nominated for a Latin Grammy musical award this year, is "home" for a concert tour, reinforcing his ties to his origins, he says.

/ARTS WEEKLY/MEXICO: Rescuing Remains of Prehispanic Ceremonial Centre

Researchers at the Templo Mayor Museum in the Mexican capital are inviting the public to witness how they rescued from the bowels of the earth the remains of the most important ceremonial centre in all of Mexico and Central America at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards.

CULTURE-JAPAN: Traditional Music, Dress Find New Admirers

Tickets to a concert by the 'Yoshida Kyodai' ('Yoshida Brothers'), a pair of young Japanese musicians who have catapulted to fame this past year, have been snapped up by enthusiastic fans in a matter of days.

CULTURE: Traditional Japanese Music and Dress Finds New Admirers

Tickets to a concert by the Yoshida Kyodai, a pair of young musicians who have catapulted to fame this past year, have been snapped up by enthusiastic fans in a matter of days.

THEATRE-KENYA: Miss Malaika Contest Heats Up

It's a Friday night. Nairobi's Carnivore night-club is packed with a rowdy crowd, eager to check out the 23 girls competing in the semi-finals of the Miss Malaika beauty pageant.

/ARTS WEEKLY/THEATRE-CUBA: The Disquieting Voice of Virgilio Piñera

Trends in the art world come and go, but Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera, who died in 1979 and whose works were censored here until the mid-1980s, continues to be presence in the island's theatres.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-CHILE: The ‘Discovery’ of Director Raul Ruiz

Raúl Ruiz is one of Chile's most prolific and famous film directors, but also the least known in his own country, a paradox partially remedied by a recent retrospective of his works.

/REPEATING/ /ARTS WEEKLY/FOLKLORE-COLOMBIA: An Encounter with the Word

Almost two-dozen storytellers are meeting in this northern Colombian city to take part in the fifth international festival "El Caribe cuenta" (The Caribbean Speaks), an encounter centred on story-telling, this time with sights set on young people.

/ARTS WEEKLY/CINEMA-BRAZIL: Hell on Earth in ‘City of God’

The culture of violence in the "favelas" or shanty-towns of this Brazilian city is graphically portrayed in a new film, which has been compared to renowned U.S. director Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas".

/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Roots, Rock or Reggae? Marley’s Son Tries New Sound

The son of reggae legend Bob Marley playing rock and roll?

/ARTS WEEKLY/ARCHAEOLOGY-CHINA: Birds-from-Dinosaurs Theory Takes Flight

Controversy and treachery dog the unravelling of one of nature's great mysteries, which had puzzled scientists for more than 140 years. But now, paleontologists seem to have shrugged off doubts and come to support the long-disputed theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FOLKLORE-COLOMBIA: An Encounter with the Word

Almost two-dozen storytellers are meeting in this northern Colombian city to take part in the fifth international festival "El Caribe cuenta" (The Caribbean Speaks), an encounter centred on story-telling, this time with sights set on young people.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ART-CANADA: Painter’s Northern Works Helped Create Wilderness Myth

Tom Thomson's career was the stuff of artistic legend: a young, talented, solitary man takes to the forest and almost instantly re-interprets the way his country sees its vast wilderness.

//REPEATING// /ARTS WEEKLY/CINEMA-MEXICO: Film on Ill-behaved Priests Riles Catholics

Catholic church groups in Mexico lost their fight to block the showing of "El crimen del padre Amaro" (the Crime of Father Amaro), a film that shows priests caught up in amorous and political relationships, drug trafficking, and abuse of power.

/ARTS WEEKLY/TELEVISION-BRAZIL: Immigration Star of New Series ‘for Export’

The TV Globo network has once again confirmed why it is known as the Hollywood of Brazil with the soap opera "Esperanza", repeating the established formulas for the genre, but still far ahead of the tear-jerkers of the past.

CINEMA-MEXICO: Film on Ill-behaved Priests Riles Catholics

Catholic church groups in Mexico lost their fight to block the showing of "El crimen del padre Amaro" (the Crime of Father Amaro), a film that shows priests caught up in amorous and political relationships, drug trafficking, and abuse of power.

THEATRE-SWAZILAND: Educational Plays Bring In Audiences

Like many actors in impoverished countries in Southern Africa, where few people are able to buy theatre tickets to support the performing arts, jobs and theatrical experience are coming from commissions from Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and government ministries for plays with educational and social messages.

/ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE: Mysteries of Japanese Pagodas Unlocked

Despite being built without nails or reinforcing metal parts, some 400 wooden multi-story Buddhist pagodas across Japan have, throughout the centuries, withstood destructive earthquakes and powerful typhoons.

/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-COSTA RICA: Classics Heard Amidst Palms and Pines

Classical works by the likes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are the centrepiece of a unique cultural project this month in Costa Rica, where music can be heard amidst the sound of the surf at the beach and the wind of the mountain forests.

/ARTS WEEKLY/LITERATURE-CHILE: The Death of an ‘Old Sea Dog’, Coloane

Francisco Coloane, one of the leading Chilean novelists of the 20th century, bid farewell to this world at age 92, like an old sea dog who heads in silence out into the immensity of the southern oceans, the same waters that inspired his prolific literary career.

/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Producers Pay Tribute to Reggae Hit-Maker

Few producers in the annals of reggae music can match Joe Gibbs' record as a hit-maker. During the mid and late 1970s when Jamaican music was gathering momentum, Gibbs released hit songs aplenty but he was grounded in the early 1980s by a costly copyright battle.