| Bollywood music, Indian classical dance liven up wintry Beijing Beijing came alive this weekend with blazing Bollywood music; film and classical Indian dances mostly by Chinese artists at an Indian consumer show... | |
| PCB imposes life term ban on Yousuf, Younis, slaps hefty fine on others Acting on the recommendations of the inquiry committee probing the disastrous tour Down Under, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday imposed a life term ban on captain Mohammed Yousuf and experienced middle-order batsman Younis Khan and slapped hefty fines on various players, holding them responsible for the team's pathetic... |
| Evotec Gets FDA Nod To Initiate Mid-Stage Study Of Depression Drug - Update News ) announced Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has given permission to initiate a phase II proof of concept study with its investigational depression drug EVT 101.The... |
| Marie Osmond's emotional return to the stage Marie Osmond has returned to her show on the Las Vegas Strip, saying singing is the way her family is coping with the death of her 18-year-old son. The Donny & Marie show at the Flamingo Las... |
| Guardian Camera Club: Eric Hands on night photography Eric Hands participates in the night photography monthly assignment.This portfolio evokes a crowded, lonely and confusing city, and one image stands out as defining London life perfectly. The sweaty... |
| Guardian Camera Club: Nikonpap on night photography Nikonpap participates in the night photography monthly assignment.This is a reasonable nighttime portfolio, however it's really just the two 'Reflection' images that show any originality. Both of... |
| Jennifer Hudson to perform 'One Shining Moment' A February 2010 photo released by CBS shows Grammy- and Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson recording "One Shining Moment," in Los Angeles. The song is used each year at the end of the CBS broadcast of the... |
| Robert De Niro set to play Vince Lombardi in movie US actor Robert de Niro poses near a painting by his late father, Robert De Niro Sr, at the opening of the exhibition devoted to his father at the Matisse Museum, in Nice , southern France, Monday,... |
| Barker donates $2.5 million to create PETA offices THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES -- Bob Barker has donated $2.5 million to help the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals open a new location in Los Angeles. The retired game show host and... |
| U-turn on National Heritage fund The National Heritage Memorial Fund helped save the Flying Scotsman. Photograph: WA Sharman/Corbis The government today said it would maintain the... |
| Viewer or voyeur? The morality of reportage photography a series by an Associated Press photographer, Farah Abdl Warsameh, entitled Stoned to Death, Somalia, 13 December . The four images are shocking in a way that even the most graphic war reportage... |
| Osmonds return to stage after death of Marie's son LAS VEGAS - Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his... |
| 'Phantom of the Opera' sequel cheered in London 'Phantom' sequel cheered in LondonA star-studded audience -- including actors Michael Caine, Rowan Atkinson and musical singer Elaine Paige -- rose to their feet and cheered at the conclusion of the... |
| Taliah Performing Arts Center for Women Official Opening Night Launch Party March 13th Taliah Performing Arts Center, a women's-only studio for acting and dance located in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, is officially opening this spring. To celebrate the launch, the opening night party... |
| Arts women to watch list revealed An inaugural list of 50 women to watch in the arts has been chosen by a panel including the BBC's Jenni Murray and playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah.The list includes directors, producers and... |
| RJD SP members stage walkout in Rajya Sabha RJD and Samajwadi Party members on Wednesday staged a walked out in Rajya Sabha demanding revocation of the suspension of seven members who were marshalled out from the House for their "unruly"... |
| Top musical acts set tone for race THE stage is set for performances by top musical names this weekend as part of the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix entertainment line-up. Arab singer Hussain Al Jasmi, American rappers Timbaland and Flo... |
| TV Providers Seek New Federal Rules on Retransmission Rights Trying to prevent the kind of brinkmanship that had ABC removing its affiliate station from millions of New York area homes hours before the Oscar broadcast, a group of television providers asked the... |
| Advertising: ‘Mad Men’ Dolls in Barbie’s World, but Cocktails Stay Behind AFTER three seasons, “Mad Men,” the television series about advertising in the 1960s, has attained a level of popular-culture cachet. There have been magazine cover articles, calendars... |
| MGM Said to Be Considering an Arranged Bankruptcy With about 10 days to go before the next round of bids are due, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is still considering other options to help reorganize its almost $4 billion debt load. The options include a... |
| Movie Review Leads to Suit Against Variety LOS ANGELES — In a step that is unusual even for litigation-heavy Hollywood, the maker of “Iron Cross,” a small independent film that has yet to find a distributor, charged in a... |
| Charles B. Pierce, Director of ‘Boggy Creek,’ Dies at 71 “The Legend of Boggy Creek” influenced the hit film “The Blair Witch Project” decades later, died on Friday at a nursing home here. He was... |
| RJD, SP members stage walkout in Rajya Sabha RJD and Samajwadi Party members today staged a walked out in Rajya Sabha demanding revocation of the suspenion of seven members who were marshalled out from the House for their "unruly"... |
| 'The Sorcerer' Light opera company conjures up frolicsome, frivolous fun Ah, spring. When love is in the air ... or perhaps in the tea you're drinking. That's the central premise of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's 1877 comic opera, "The Sorcerer," in which a love... |
| Mukta Arts' Subsidiary Signs MoU With Centum Learning (RTTNews) - Whistling Woods International, an institute of film, T.V. Animation and Media arts and a subsidiary of Mukta Arts signed a memorandum of understanding with Centum Learning. This... |
| Osmonds Return to Stage After Death of Marie's Son Marie Osmond has returned to her Las Vegas Strip show, saying singing is the way her family is coping with the death of her 18-year-old son. The Donny & Marie show at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel... |
| Theater Review | 'Top Secret': A Vietnam War-Era Fight at New York Theater Workshop New York Theater Workshop in “Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers,” a fact-packed drama by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, journalists with distinguished careers that have... |
| Concert news: Steve Martin bringing his banjo to State Theatre in Minneapolis Steve Martin plays the Banjo at the press conference for 'Pink Panther 2' as part of the 59th Berlin Film Festival at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 13, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty Images:... |
| Sequel to 'Phantom of the Opera' opens in London (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)The Phantom, played by Ramin Karimloo, right, performs a scene with Christine, played by Sierra Boggess, from the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, "Love Never Dies" at the... |
| Mass. Sen. Scott Brown to release memoir in 2011 Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, before attending the weekly caucus luncheons. (AP Photo/Harry... |
| Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero’s Time to Shine Caravaggio , who somehow found time to paint when he wasn’t brawling, scandalizing pooh-bahs, chasing women (and men), murdering a tennis opponent with a dagger to the groin, fleeing police... |
| LEAD: Movie director Kitano awarded France's top honor for arts+ PARIS, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)(EDS: UPDATING) Japanese film director Takeshi Kitano was conferred Tuesday France's highest honor for arts and culture in a ceremony in which the French culture... |
| Dance Company Performs in Mercer County MATOAKA -- Students in Mercer County are getting a look at a new way to learn this week. The West Virginia Dance Company is holding their Mercer County residency program from March 8 - 12. They were... |
| Bill on women passes vital first stage in India RAHUL BEDI in New DelhiINDIA’S UPPER house of parliament has overwhelmingly voted in a bill that would reserve one-third of all legislative seats for women.After a day-long heated and often... |
| Leibovitz strikes deal to clear her debt American celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has signed a deal with private equity firm Colony Capital LLC in order to clear her large debt and retain rights to her works. Leibovitz, 60, known... |
| At Adelphi Theater in London: Same Phantom, Different Spirit LONDON To think that all this time that poor old half-faced composer hasn’t been dead at all, just stewing in his lust for greater glory. Being the title character of “The Phantom... |
| Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works, at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, features the Église Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, in... |
| South by Southwest to Honor Film and TV Title Sequences South by Southwest festival will honor the winners of a film and television titles competition, a rare move to recognize those miniature stories and graphics displays that surround the opening... |
