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/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/SPORT-CULTURE: Korea-Japan Ties Score a Goal with World Cup
Toru Yamanaka, 61, never thought he would one day be hoisting the flags of two countries - World Cup co-hosts South Korea and Japan -- outside his grocery store in Yokohama city.PHOTOGRAPHY-MEXICO: Celebrating Alvarez Bravo’s 100-Year Lifetime
The century-long life of Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo, a living "surrealist poet" of the camera lens, is being celebrated in Mexico and around the world./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ FILM-COLOMBIA: The Big Screen Heads to War
In "Los actores del conflicto", Colombian filmmaker Lisandro Duque turns the camera lens towards the country's civil war, a shift away from the theme of innocence of his previous film, which was acclaimed at international festivals.BOOKS-COLOMBIA: Celebration of Caribbean Culture
Writers, musicians and publishers from 10 countries will gather next week in this northern Colombian city for a cultural exchange in the guise of the second Caribbean Basin Book Fair, with Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramírez as the honoured guest./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-U.S.: For Barbie, God is Dead
Barbie, that foot-tall icon of popular culture, has lost her maker./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/UAE: Bird-watchers Flock to See Feathered Splendour
The exodus of visitors that had flown into the United Arab Emirates (UAE) earlier has begun, but people here are not aflutter. They know that the visitors - the birds who flock to local shores -- will be back in a few months, when summer gives way to autumn./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/LITERATURE-MEXICO: The Indigenous Word Endures
The first-ever academic course on the scant - but highly resilient - literature of Mexico's indigenous cultures begins in May at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), with support from UNESCO./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/THEATRE-KENYA: Boundless Love
'Boundless Love', a "dramatic fusion" of poetry, song, dance, drumming and percussion, breaks radical new ground in the Kenyan theatre scene.FILM-CANADA: Inuit Legend ‘Atanarjuat’ Opens in Theatres
After winning the 2001 'Camera d'or' for best first feature at Cannes and sweeping Canada's film awards, the world's first movie entirely in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit of the northern Arctic, finally opened in Canadian theatres Apr. 12./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-CARIBBEAN: Story Unmasks ‘Father’ of Trinidad and Tobago
When Ken Boodhoo was a teenager growing up in the San Fernando region of Trinidad and Tobago, Eric Williams was preparing his People's National Movement (PNM) to take charge of a country on the verge of independence from Britain./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MEDIA-ZAMBIA: Plucky Cartoonist Extends Press Freedom
'Welcome to Lusaka, pothole centre of the world', the huge billboard on the outskirts of the Zambian capital screams./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/INDIA: Railways Unify Fractious Subcontinent
Exactly a century and a half after British colonials brought the steam engine and the railways to the subcontinent, few can deny its overwhelming role in the lives of the people on a subcontinent that is incurably riven by caste and religious prejudice./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-BRAZIL: The Harsh Reality of Savage Capitalism
Honest entrepreneurs eliminated by their cutthroat partners, widespread corruption, and the triumph of hardcore criminals - no matter their social class - is the panorama of Brazilian society trapped in its lust for money, captured in a new film by Beto Brant./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-ARGENTINA: Fair Struggles to Survive amidst National Crisis
The economic crisis in Argentina has meant a reduced Buenos Aires Book Fair this year, with fewer bookshops, publishers, distributors, writers and buyers making an appearance. The prices are the only things that have increased./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-AFRICA: Awards for the Best Writers of the 20th Century
Zimbabwean writer, Yvonne Vera has been chosen the winner of the first Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-SWAZILAND: King Uses Pop Stars Against AIDS Epidemic
American soul singer Erykah will headline an all-star cast of African and U.S. talent at an AIDS benefit concert organised by King Mswati./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/PERU: National Film Industry Absorbs Power of Reality
"God is my screenwriter," said U.S. filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille about his mega-productions based on biblical themes, and Peruvian film directors must admit that the social reality of their country plays a similar role as it is the main source of the stories they have chosen recently./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ART-COSTA RICA: Tropical Festival a Showcase for World Art
Actors, dancers, writers and musicians from 30 countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe have flooded the Costa Rican capital with a celebratory and joyous atmosphere to take part in the eighth International Festival of Arts./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-INDIA: Bollywood Wants to Play to the World
Its films are often described as formulaic and many people scoff at the song-and-dance sequences that usually pop up without warning in even the most serious of its products./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Bounty Killer Bouncing Back
The year 2000 is one deejay Bounty Killer would want to forget in a hurry. The gangly entertainer was involved in several onstage skirmishes with rival performers, some of which saw him ending up in court./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/THEATRE-COLOMBIA: Festival’s Bullfight Prompts Art-Cruelty Debate
The true-to-life staging of "Don Juan de los ruedos" (Don Juan of the Bullring) in Colombia had some of the audience cheering, and others demanding their money back, angered by what they considered the "cruel slaughter of animals" at La Santa María 'plaza de toros' in the capital.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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