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ARTS-VIETNAM: Patriotic Tunes Fade Out in Favour of Pop
"We earn far less money than the media has reported," says 31 year-old Quang Huy, one of Vietnam's most successful pop stars. "Frankly speaking, many newspaper articles are totally wrong when they say 'singers have earned a lot of easy money' or are 'fabulously rich'."MEDIA-US: No More Charlie Brown or Snoopy
"Peanuts"arguably America's most successful export and certainly its most belovedpasses into history this week./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CINEMA-BRITAIN: East is East – Double-Edged Ethnic Diversity
Britain is currently experiencing a cultural renaissance fuelled mainly by the talents of its "ethnic" community. Leading the pack are young British Asians who are re-shaping the country's cultural landscape./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ LITERATURE-CHILE: Grumbling Surrounds Cervantes Prize Winner
Did he deserve the award or were the judges swayed by non-literary considerations? Whether well-founded criticism or simple envy, the objections circulating in Chile about writer Jorge Edwards winning the 1999 Cervantes Prize are already entrenched./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ CINEMA-SRI LANKA: Sinhala Cinema Hurt by Exclusivism
Kissing on screen is finally allowed, and bedroom scenes have become fashionable. If that counts, then 52 years and 932 feature films later Sri Lankan cinema can be said to have progressed./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ JAMAICA: Reggae Pioneer Strikes Final Chord
Reeling from the death of several key figures in 1999, Jamaican music received another blow on December 18 when Joe Higgs, the man considered the father of reggae music, died in a Los Angeles hospital./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-SOCIETY: Ugly Twist to American Dream
Shock rippled across the United States in April this year when two teenaged students killed 13 classmates at Columbine High School in Colorado before turned their guns on themselves./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ARTS-INDONESIA: Street Children Act Out Their Real Lives
A stirring musical drama performed by street children here recently revealed their sufferings as well as Indonesia's common problems, ranging from the marginalisation of the poor, student brawls, pickpocketing and petty theft, and severe traffic congestion./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC: Co-operation to Spawn Revolution in Recording Industry
Musicians around the world will bring in the new century with concerts and songs, but also with a co- operative plan for producing their own music, something they say will change the rules of the game for the global recording market./ARTS & ENTERTAIMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Reggae Singer Lives on in His Music
Though he never attained international acclaim, singer Garnet Silk has developed a cult following that has ensured his reputation as one of reggae's most influential grassroots performers. It is a reputation that has grown five years after his death./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CINEMA-MEXICO: Film Maker Wins Censorship Battle
Mexican film director Luis Estrada has won a battle against censors over the showing of the movie "La Ley de Herodes" (The Law of Herodes), which strongly criticises the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has ruled this country for seven decades./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC: Another Marley to Rule as Raggae King?
Since the death of reggae superstar Bob Marley in 1981, music lovers in the United States - along with others around the world - have been waiting for an heir-apparent to emerge from the Caribbean./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: No More Dread Inna Babylon
It was supposed to be the album that would introduce one of urban music's icons to an audience he never found in his lifetime. But "Chant Down Babylon", an album pairing Bob Marley with some of Rhythm and Blues and hip-hop's biggest names, has been anything but warmly received./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-ECUADOR: Art in the Park
Strollers in the parks dotted in the public parks and plazas throughout Quito now have the chance to view the works of young Ecuadorean sculptors, thanks to a project called "Art for Everyone," carried out by the Municipal Parks and Gardens Department./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-SOUTH AFRICA: Zimbabwean Writer Wins Bid To Make Movie
A 26 year old video librarian and budding screen writer has won Zimbabwe's bid to make a short film for South African pay-TV channel, M-Net.LITERATURE-COLOMBIA: For the Love and Violence of Good Stories
Two women, one a prostitute, the other a hired assassin, are the protagonists of Colombia's two hottest selling novels this year, stories of love and violence: "La novia oscura" (The Dark Bride) by Laura Restrepo, and "Rosario Tijeras" by Jorge Franco.MEDIA-US: Mixed Review of Arts-Culture Coverage
The "dumbing down" of news coverage in the United Statesthat is short pithy comments rather than any deep analysisextends even to the media's handling of the arts, according to Columbia University's respected School of Journalism./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-PERU: Ancient City May Be Buried Again
The ruins of Caral, the ancient South American city uncovered only three years ago, could be re-buried under mountains of sand if funding for excavation work to continue not found soon./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CINEMA: US Documentary Examines Non-Violent Resistance
Conflict mars the outlook for many regions of the world in the countdown to the new millennium so a new documentary movie is particularly timely in showing how, earlier this century, ordinary people used non-violent methods against occupying armies, tyrants and discriminatory rulers./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Reggae Struggling For a Niche on American Airwaves
With mainstream radio in the United States showing an indifference to traditional reggae, the music, and some of its most vibrant performers are once again looking to the American college circuit to get their message across in that country./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CINEMA-INDIA: Calcutta Audiences Feast On Week-long Cinema Fest
For this movie-mad city, which takes pride in being India's only cinema-literate metropolis, the annual Calcutta International Film Festival is a treat it savours.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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