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/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ MUSIC-JAMAICA: With Kudos Abroad, Marley’s Star Finally Rises at Home
Once shunned by Jamaica's ruling class, Bob Marley is now being lauded by the island's luminaries, from talk show hosts and religious leaders to politicians, as a champion against oppression during week-long celebrations commemorating his 55th birthday./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ CINEMA-TURKEY: Guney’s spectre haunts Turkey
Greek movie director Costa Gavras's project to film the life story of late Turkish-Kurdish film director Yilmaz Guney has stirred a heated debate here about Guney's artistic legacy as well as his place in history as a "model freedom fighter."/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ CULTURE-ZIMBABWE: Artists Prepare For A Grand Festival
Economic gloom, inflation, fuel shortages and daily cost of living shocks will not deter Zimbabwean artists from preparing for a huge celebration of culture at the end of April./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/US-ART: Bearing Witness to an American Holocaust
On the walls of a small art gallery on Manhattan's Upper East Side hang a series of photographs and postcards that capture with a camera's cold precision one of the most horrific chapters of American life.MUSIC-KENYA: Swahili Musicians Find Their Own Voice
"Ni wakati kwa Africa yote kusimama" (It's time for all of Africa to stand up) the three young rastas, wearing Jomo Kenyatta T-shirts, leaping around manically on stage, shout to the screaming audience below./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-SRI LANKA: Dissenting Actors, Singers Face Intimidation
Sri Lankan actor Anoja Weerasinghe played the role of a queen who lost her children, her husband and her country in the stage version of a Greek anti-war tragedy last month, but little did she imagine it would happen to her too./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/PAINTING-BRAZIL: Mental Patients-Cum- Artists Win Acclaim
Paintings by patients from Rio de Janeiro's psychiatric hospitals form an important part of the extensive "Brazil 500 Years" exhibit, a panorama of the plastic arts created throughout the nation's history./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/LITERATURE: In search of V.S. Naipaul
Last year a book portraying the writer V.S. Naipaul as snobbish, mean, and dismissive of the prospects of peoples and nations south of the equator, created a major stir./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/PERFORMANCE-CHILE: Naked Life in a Glass House
Daniela Tobar, an advanced theatre student at the University of Chile, lives in a transparent house in the middle of the capital, where she showers, sleeps and carries out her daily routine on display before the world./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/THEATRE-COLOMBIA: Street Kids Contagious with Optimism
Children and adolescents take their show on the road to two Latin American capitals this month to show off their artistic talents, proving that hope can be found among those who live amid the adversity of the street./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/THEATRE-JAMAICA: Hit Play Turns Chaos Into Allegory
As a time of economic recession, high crime rates and civil unrest, 1999 was a year many Jamaicans wanted to forget in a hurry./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-TURKEY: Argentine Film Mirrors Istanbul Mothers’ Cry For Their Disappeared “Sons”
Latin American film director Marco Bechis's award winning movie "Garage Olimpo", seen as a mirror image of Turkey's own experience of repression, has been stirring complex but strong feelings among audiences here./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-CUBA: Former Beatle Makes Surprise Visit
There was no prior announcement about his arrival, not one photograph recorded the event for posterity, and very few people actually saw him in person. Even so, Paul McCartney's visit to Cuba did not go unnoticed./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-CANADA: Designer slums in the global village
The images are common enough on television screens around the world: IBM, for instance, depicts Sicilian grandmothers buying and selling over the Internet and tribal people in the remotest rainforests tapping away on their laptop computers.LATIN AMERICA: Food as Vital Slice of Cultural Heritage
Venezuela's "gastronaut" José Rafael Lovera is on a mission to make culinary habits and recipes part of the nation's cultural heritage in order to ensure their survival in a globalised world.ARTS-CHINA: The Many Faces of Peking Opera
It is but one facet of one of China's enduring art forms, but the face painting done on the performers of the famous Peking Opera is fascinating in itself./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-JAMAICA: Black Supermodel Pens her First Book
Jamaica's Lois Samuels can boast the classic rags-to-riches story: country girl from humble origins makes good in the world of glamour and becomes jet-setting supermodel./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ BOOKS-CANADA: Novelist Recalls Newfoundland’s Turbulent History
More than half a century ago, the people of Newfoundland narrowly and reluctantly joined the Canadian confederation./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE: Karmapas’ Flying Crown May Hold Key to Tibet’s Future
Ugyen Thinley, 15, dodged Chinese border guards and crossed the precipitous Himalayas into India last week but more formidable obstacles stand between him and the ancient flying crown of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-LATAM: New Century Marks New Experiment in Life
The 20th century was contradictory - with its wars and pacifists, ecologists and polluters - and the era that is now beginning will be a major experiment, a new opportunity for human beings, says Adrián Goizueta, one of the principal representatives of new music in Costa Rica.MEDIA-PERU: Comic Strips, Human Rights and Humour
Peru's comic strip artists Juan Acevedo, Alfredo Marcos and Eduardo Rodriguez have been recognised for their decades of work defending civil rights through caricatures charged with acidic political humour.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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