Multitasking...for art's sake (Carroll County Online)
It was a little after 11 a.m. and Sandy Oxx was already juggling about six different responsibilities at once. "Are these too cheesy?" Oxx asked Claudia Rogers, the Carroll Arts Center's office manager, as she held two video tapes in her hands....more...The Bow (DVD Talk)
South Korean director Kim Ki-Duk has a thing for morally ambiguous situations. Many of his films are built around characters or relationships that openly chafe against accepted social mores. His provocative tales challenge his audience to either accept what they are watching or to look away from it....more... Live Earth Recap: A World United Through Music (AccessHollywood)
PLANET EARTH (July 8, 2007) -- It's been said that music is the universal language, and that notion was exemplified by Saturday's Live Earth event. Over the course of 24 hours, more than 100 of the world's biggest musical acts performed in a globe-spanning series of concerts, designed to......more... Photo Gallery Celebrity ''Must Lists'': We've Gotta Have It! (Entertainment Weekly)
Celebrity ''Must Lists'': We've Gotta Have It! Zooey Deschanel loves... It Happened One Night . ''I always have a copy of It Happened One Night with me. The old Capra movie with Clark Gable. It is just such a good movie and I can watch it over and over again and I never get bored....more... Coachella acts turn up the heat on first day (Pasadena Star-News)
"We will try to heal you through our music," said Jarvis Cocker at the start of his evening Coachella Festival performance on Friday night. Whether any actual musical therapy went down is unknown, but there was enlightenment aplenty happening throughout the sprawling green Empire Polo Field....more... Tuesday, July 03, 2007 (Hindustan Times)
Driven to despair by her husband's alleged homosexual relationship with his cousin, a young wife commits suicide. Communist Cuba hasn't exactly been tolerant of homosexuality and transvestitism....more... Full bloom (The New Zealand Herald)
Chinese actress Gong Li wields imperial flower power in the film Curse of the Golden Flower. Photo / Paramount Winter may not traditionally be high floral time but they're just so blimmin' pretty....more... A passion for pictures (The Nation)
To celebrate the 84th birthday of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra, many public and private organisations have joined up to organise "Run for the One We Love 2007"....more... Arts & Entertainment: Editor's Choice (The Sun Post)
In dance, as in so many of the arts, local talent often leaves town to make a mark in the larger world....more... |