from Huff Post The list of contenders is in for this year’s Palme d’Or- Cannes Film Festival’s top prize. The competition is tight, with movies from famed directors including Pedro Almodóvar, Nicolas Winding Refn and Lars von Trier. The festival runs May 11-22, on the French Rivie[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Culture’
Sunday Revelations: Chernobyl Legacy
Photography of sick children in Chernobyl by Paul Fusco. Ed. To be fair, I have no way of knowing whether these kids’ illnesses are due to the Chernobyl meltdown. Whatever the truth , the horror is overwhelming. I wonder whether the cloak of compassion we hear from the Christian right [...]
April 9th, 2011 - 1:13 am § in Uncategorized
Do women read the Wiki?
Under 15% of contributors to Wikipedia are wommen and Wikipedia wants to do something about it. Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikipedia Foundation, see it not as a problem of inequity, but rather a problem of quality. If a vast percentage of the world is not contributing, if their perspecti[...]
April 7th, 2011 - 9:13 am § in Uncategorized
Potiche: A French farce with feeling
Judith Godreche, director Francois Ozon, Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini and Karin Viard pose at the premiere for Potiche. Photograph: Claudio Onorati/EPA Venice is this year becoming a festival notable for high drama and high camp, and so it proves again with this enjoyable, farcical French pict[...]
China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years
David Shukman Science and environment correspondent, BBC News China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country [...]
The Wedge: A Chilling Tale of a Possible Future
The sun shone on another day of Summer Session on campus in a small college town. In a large yet somewhat stuffy lecture hall in one of the oldest buildings, the professor had reached a favorite part of his lecture on this period in European history. His voice didn’t drone on—it rose as [...]
March 20th, 2011 - 6:14 am § in Misc.
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Happy New Year, Persian Style! Haji FiRuz History: Hadji Firouz was a man in red clothes who went from street to street singing and be ating a tambourine on New Year’s eve (which is also the eve of spring). He was usually accompanied by one or two other persons. It is said that he [&hel[...]
March 17th, 2011 - 12:00 pm § in Uncategorized
St. Patty’s Day! Hamlet was an Irishman!
HAPPY ST. PATTY’s DAY Admlithi of Eire (the ”d” is silent) became Hamlet of Elsinore Lisa Collinson at the University of Aberdeen has traced the origins to a little known Irish tale called the ”Destruction of Da Derga”s Hostel’.’ The common wisdom has been t[...]
March 15th, 2011 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
VIDEO: TRINIDAD’S FESTIVAL
Video from NY Times about the commercialization of the bands in Trinidad’s traditional spring frestival. “Our oil will run out. Our gas will run out, but the creativity of our people will never run out.”[...]
February 27th, 2011 - 7:05 am § in Misc.
Film: Great Documentary About Soviet Era Cartoons
from critique by George Heymnt Like the best political cartoonists, Efimov mocked authority in the Russian press during a lengthy career that spanned most of the 20th century. He was lampooning events during World War II as well as during the Cold War. Although his cartoon work for Russia’s st[...]