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CULTURE-IRAN: New Year Festive Season Follows Tradition
Schools and offices are closed, and people across Iran are celebrating the festive 12-day season of Nowruz or New Year, an auspicious time to be spent in prayer, feasting and celebration.BOOKS-SPORT: Cricket Not Just a Game in Windies
In 1963, when Trinidadian-born author V.S. Naipaul, attended a 'Test' between the West Indies and England at the Oval cricket ground in London, he overheard two West Indian spectators discussing the performance of their team.CINEMA-USA: Academy Awards Revives Furore Over Blacklist
The US Academy Awards ceremony normally is not an occasion to revisit historical wrongs but the 1999 awards on Mar 21 was a big exception when director Elia Kazan received a special "Oscar" for his service to the US movie industry.RELIGION-GUATEMALA: Tradition of Sawdust and Incense
Guetemalans celebrate Easter with a mixture of colours, smells and sounds - a combination of the dyed sawdust, incense and the mournful dirge of funeral marches that accompany street processions during Holy Week.RELIGION-GUATEMALA: Tradition of Sawdust and Incense
Guetemalans celebrate Easter with a mixture of colours, smells and sounds - a combination of the dyed sawdust, incense and the mournful dirge of funeral marches that accompany street processions during Holy Week.ARTS ENTERTAINMENT –
Some of the biggest US stars of rock music and rap are showing their fighting sidenot just in their raucous words and music, but in some increasingly severe brawls involving each other and the media.CINEMA-KENYA: Local Movie Wows Thousands Of Viewers
A stunning new Kenyan film, featuring a defiant Masaai girl, has been attracting tens of thousands of viewers since it opened in Nairobi two weeks ago.CINEMA-BANGLADESH: Quality Lacking in Eye of Beholder
The lights in the hall grow dim and a movie projector whirs into motion. Immediately the mainly male audience begins whistling at the provocatively-attired female movie star on the silver screen.CULTURE-GUATEMALA: Slice of History Back from France
Archaeological artifacts from the ruins of Mixco Viejo in Guatemala, shipped to the Museum of Man in Paris in the middle part of this century, are now back in the land where they were made.MUSIC-JAMAICA: Life begins at 50!
It is never easy for an entertainer to follow in the footsteps of a famous sibling, something singer Larry Alexander knows only too well as he prepares to start his solo career at the age of 50.ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT – 6.
The phrase 'A María se le metió el agua'- which translates to 'the water got to Maria'doesnt mean anything to most Spanish speakers, let alone those who speak English. But it is widely used in Costa Rica.MUSIC-BRAZIL: Singing Priests Woo Converts
Up there in the top 10 on the music charts in Brazil nowadays is Catholic priest Marcelo Rossi, and other men of the cloth also are becoming pop stars as the church tries to net converts among the young.MUSIC: Calypso Xmas in Trinidad-Tobago
Owen Reyes Johnson, known by all here as 'Scrunter the Calypsonian', stamped his mark on the caribbean music world the moment he recorded his first hit in 1980.CINEMA-MEXICO: State Help for Beleaguered Industry
The annual ceremony for the Ariel movie awards - the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars - was a somewhat sombre affair this year but the industry is looking toward a new parliamentary bill to help it overcome the flood of U.S. films.SPORTS-ASIA: Asians Make their Mark In Golf
Asians took the world of golf by storm in 1998 - a phenomenon proven again at the Asian Games golf tournament last week on the Alpine course outside the Thai capital.CULTURE-SUDAN: What’s in a Name ?
The Dinka population in Sudan is campaigning to return to their original name 'Jieng', which was spurned by European explorers and historians of the 18th century.CINEMA-CUBA: Cheers and Jeers for ‘Life is a Whistle’
'La Vida es Silbar' - or 'Life is a Whistle' by Cuban director Fernando Perez won four first prizes at a prestigious film festival here this month but critics remained divided over the controversial movie.ART-ITALY: Romance between Italy’s Left and Picasso
Pablo Picasso's romance with the Italian left began when he painted "Guernica" - the work that depicted the bombing of the Basque city by fascist forces during the Spanish civil war.ART-BURMA: Exiled Artist Paints For Democracy
Burmese artist Sitt Nyein Aye, who has lived in exile in India for the past 10 years, paints for the pro- democracy movement which is stifled in his home country.BOOKS-JAMAICA: New Look at Old Favourite
For nearly 15 years, photographer Brian Jahn has viewed reggae music and its biggest names through the lens of his camera. Much of that work can be seen in his recently released second book, 'Reggae Island.'MUSIC-JAMAICA: Reggae’s Finest Years
It was a time of social change, when rebellious ways and protest evoked the emotions of songwriters like Bob Marley, Burning Spear and Peter Tosh. Small wonder, that the 1970s is considered reggae's most influential period.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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