Arts and Entertainment Archives

/ARTS WEEKLY/TELEVISION-BRAZIL: And Now, a Word for Our Children

Five Brazilian children and adolescents are lost on a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere between Africa and South America, and to survive they must confront a series of challenges and the scheming of an enemy of humanity.

SOAP OPERA: Touching Africa’s Heart and Soul with TV

By IPS Correspondents

A teenage boy stands by his dying grandfather's bedside.

/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC: U.S. Festival Revives Spirit of Peace & Love

By IPS Correspondents

No musical gathering this year is likely to match the scope of Bonnaroo, the jam band festival that drew 75,000 people to a farm here in late June, but the event also stands out as a coming of age for a mutating genre of dance-oriented music and a philosophy of communal gathering.

/ARTS WEEKLY/INDIA: Hollywood, Spanish Bounty Come to Street Children

By Sujoy Dhar

What brings together Hollywood heartthrobs Penelope Cruz, Melanie Griffith, Tom Cruise , Antonio Banderas and Latino hip-swinger Ricky Martin?

/ARTS WEEKLY/ARTS-CENTRAL AMERICA: Puppets with Disabilities, If You Please

By IPS Correspondents

Puppets representing differently-abled children are the stars of an innovative Costa Rican spectacle that will tour Central America to educate communities about respect for individuals with physical or mental difficulties.

/ARTS/WEEKLY/TELEVISION-ARGENTINA: Jobs Available for the Viewing Audience

By Marcela Valente

A new version of the television programmes that give away cash, automobiles, trips or home appliances has emerged in Argentina, awarding the winners with one of the most highly-prized things in this crisis-stricken country: a stable job.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-THAILAND: Industry Hard Put to Sell Truth in an Unreal World

By IPS Correspondents

As the lights dimmed Sunday at the end of the 11th European Union (EU) Film Festival - aimed at bringing a better understanding of the EU through cultural interaction - film enthusiasts are looking forward to changes within the Thai film industry.

/ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE-DR CONGO: A Travelling Art Dealer

By IPS Correspondents

Alexi is a travelling art dealer from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

/ARTS WEEKLY/BOOKS-JAMAICA: Charting A Chinese Diaspora

By IPS Correspondents

Two years ago, when the husband-and-wife team of Patrick and Loraine Lee released their first book, "Canadian Jamaican Chinese", they immediately set their sights on another tome that would track down Jamaicans of Chinese extraction living in various parts of the world.

/ARTS WEEKLY/PHOTOGRAPHY: Chileans Line up to Pose in Nude Landscape

By IPS Correspondents

An unexpectedly large number of men and women have signed up in Chile to pose as anonymous naked models for New York photographer Spencer Tunick, who is coming to Santiago this month to add another city to his already wide-ranging gallery of urban landscapes of nudes.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ CULTURE-CANADA: French TV Hockey Sent to the Penalty Box?

By Marty Logan

While soccer fans worldwide camp in front of their television sets devouring World Cup action, French-Canadian ice hockey fans are choking on the public-broadcast cancellation of the national sport.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ THAILAND: Modern Culture Outpacing the Past

By IPS Correspondents

Verita Sriratana is a normal teenager. Like her peers, the 19-year-old Thai university student wakes up early, takes a bus to her campus every morning. She takes extra classes, hangs out with her friends, goes to the movies, and chats on her mobile phone.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ MUSIC-CUBA: Elena Burke, Voice of ‘Feeling’, Dead at 74

By Dalia Acosta

If there was something Elena Burke loved, it was to sing and to enjoy life. Perhaps it is because of this, even after AIDS had left her unable to walk, she would appear in her wheelchair holding some old songbook and singing with her legendary voice and "feeling".