Artistic News and informations

XXXX-rated Australian opera comes to Festival
AN Aussie accent comes to the Edinburgh International Festival this year ? along with the kind of language you don't usually hear in an opera house.
Source : news.scotsman.com | 17-mars-2010 01:00

New Controversy Revives Debate Over Shakespearea s Authenticity

Shakespeare wrote parts of a play formerly credited solely to playwright John Fletcher, shedding light on the Bard's collaborations and how researchers determine the authenticity of literature.

Source : www.topix.net | 16-mars-2010 23:39

Questions Raised On Acting Vc’s Role In Selection Panel
Officials at University of Mumbai have questioned whether Chandra Krishnamurthy, the varsity’s acting Vice-Chancellor (VC), can preside over a meeting to nominate a member to the search committee, w...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:52

Sindhis Prepare For Musical Cheti Chand
As Maharashtrians celebrated Gudi Padwa on Tuesday, the city’s Sindhis were busy gearing up for their own share of festivity, food, prayer and music. The Sindhi New Year, Cheti Chand, falls on Wedn...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:52

Pier To Head Folsom Lake College’s Arts Center
Dave Pier, who helped open Modesto's Gallo Center for the Arts, is now executive director of the Folsom Lake College Visual and Performing Arts Center.
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:44

Oprah Defamation Case Goes To Trial
A jury will decide whether TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey defamed the former headmistress of her girls' school in South Africa. U.S. federal Judge Eduardo Robreno ruled Monday that Nomvuyo Mzamane h...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:37

The Birthday Concert': A Little Birthday Music For Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim , whose forthcoming 80th birthday on March 22 was celebrated in a thrilling concert at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday evening, it must have seemed like a hop, skip and a jump from one to...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:32

A Bridge Over Musicians’ Visa Barrier Into The U.s.
South by Southwest Music and Media Conference this week in Austin, Tex., more than 500 are from outside the United States. And to help make their way through the byzantine process of obtaining an Amer...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:32

Reopening Of Palazzo Grimani Revives Memory Of Creator
That Venice was a leader in the refounding of these institutions was primarily thanks to two patrician Venetian collectors, Domenico Grimani and his nephew Giovanni, who in the 16th century gave the c...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:32

Don't Think Of Them As Mausoleums
PARIS — “A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established,” John Cotton Dana, who in 190...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:32

In Israel, An African Immigrant Opens His Own Dance Club
A subculture of underground African dance clubs and churches has emerged for Israel's estimated 20,000 immigrants, many from Eritrea and Sudan who seek asylum.
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 22:08

French Actors Make Respectable Transition From Screen To Stage
Last Updated: March 16. 2010 6:31PM UAE / March 16. 2010 2:31PM GMT In France, as in most countries with a cinema industry, theatre and the screen occupy separate worlds. Each has its partisans and it...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:35

Long Polymer Chains Perform Intricate Dance
Posted on: Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 14:06 CDT Understanding the steps to the intricate dance inside a cell is essential to one day choreographing the show. By studying the molecules that give a cell...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:30

Learn An Opera In Two Days, No Problem
Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marlis Petersen, playing the part of Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas' opera 'Hamlet,' stabs herself after being driven to madness by Hamlet's rejection.
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:28

Record Fourth Quarter Sets Stage For Improved Results In 2010
FXEN ) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and the full year of 2009. The Company reported a net loss for 2009 of $0.5 million, or $0.01 per share, compared to a net loss in 20...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:25

The Day An Egg Stopped The Rock-chick Show
Celeste Boursier-Mougenot Barbican installation Photograph: CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images There was a look of mild panic on the face of the steward at the Barbican's Curve gallery when she politely...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:19

Girlfriend Of Michael Douglas' Son Sentenced In Ny
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- The girlfriend of actor Michael Douglas' son has been given no new jail time at her sentencing in New York City in a case stemming from Cameron Douglas' drug woes. ...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:08

London Jewish Museum Reopens After Major Facelift
A museum worker is seen around the galleries of the newly re-opened Jewish Museum after a two-year closure, in London, Tuesday March 16, 2010. The museum, which has expanded from a Victorian house in ...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:08

Canadian Stage Adopts Global Outlook
Canadian Stage Company has added a spotlight series to the Toronto theatre season that will focus in the first year on theatre and dance from Italy. Spotlight.Italy, a two-week festival that will run...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:05

Rochette Cleared To Skate In Exhibition
Download ( 'http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" ) Flash Player to view this content. Joannie Rochette has been cleared to participate in a televised exhibition event by figure skating's governing bod...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 21:04

Opera House Turns Green On St Pats Day
SHAMROCKS, oversized green hats, Irish flags and all things green will be proudly celebrated today to mark 200 years of St Patrick's Day celebrations in Australia today.
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 20:56

FBI makes new push to solve biggest art theft in US history
Twenty years after two thieves walked into a Boston museum and pulled off the biggest art theft in history, investigators are making a renewed effort to recover a haul valued at up to $500 million (£330 million).
Source : www.telegraph.co.uk | 16-mars-2010 20:27

Philharmonic celebrates Sondheim's 80th birthday

The ladies in red brought down the house. Six Broadway divas, spanning several generations of musical theater, pretty much tore up Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on Monday night as the New York Philharmonic and a bevy of Broadway stars celebrated the upcoming 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, composer of "Sweeney Todd, "Company" and "A Little ...

Source : www.topix.net | 16-mars-2010 19:24

Charlie Sheen Back At Work On 'two And A Half Men'
Actor Charlie Sheen enters Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colo., on Monday, March 15, 2010, to attend a hearing on domestic violence charges stemming from a Christmas Day dispute with his wife. Sh...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 19:14

'alice' Sparks Debate Over Quick Dvd Releases
LAS VEGAS -- Disney's plan to quickly release the blockbuster "Alice in Wonderland" on DVD is sparking new heat in a debate between Hollywood studios and movie theaters over how quickly films move fro...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 19:14

'avatar' To Be Released On Dvd, But Not In 3-d
FILE - In this undated file film publicity image originally released by 20th Century Fox, the character Neytiri, voiced by Zoe Saldana, right, and the character Jake, voiced by Sam Worthington are sho...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 19:14

Judge Oks Settlement In Deadly Lear Jet Crash
LOS ANGELES -- A judge approved a multimillion-dollar legal settlement Tuesday involving the wife and young son of former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker's assistant, who was killed in a 2008 plane cr...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 19:14

Thatcher Kids Might Not Get Book Money
Book profits seized from convicted murderer Colin Thatcher that are supposed to go to crime victims won't necessarily go to his children, Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan says. On Monday, a Q...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 19:10

Sustainable Public Transit Takes Centre Stage At Un Forum In Seoul
Transport experts and municipal authorities from major cities across Asia have gathered today at a United Nations meeting in Seoul to examine how a well integrated system of buses, subways and trains ...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 18:15

Grand Canal Theatre Car Park Not Ready
Dublin's Grand Canal Theatre's underground car park will not be ready for the venue's gala opening on Thursday night, according to organisers. The 2,100-seater theatre is to open with performances of...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 18:13

Study Proves Blood-stage Infection Due To Population Mixing And Disease Evolution
malaria has been identified in a population historically thought to be resistant to the disease, those who do not express the Duffy blood group protein on their red blood cells, according to researche...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 18:07

Airline Seeks Lift From 'Fly Girls'
Virgin America hopes to get a lift from a new reality show, "Fly Girls," featuring five of its female flight attendants. The carrier calls it "a calculated risk."
Source : online.wsj.com | 16-mars-2010 18:07

Grisham Releases 'the Firm,' 22 Others As E-books
FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 file photo, author John Grisham is shown in New York. More than a year after reports emerged he would make his books available in electronic format, his publisher ...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 17:51

Blazing Saddles Musical In Works
The Producers , Brooks's first feature film about two theatrical partners (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who deliberately contrive the worst possible Broadway show, received an Oscar in 1968 for best o...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 17:47

Our Stories exhibition demystifies mental illness
The myth of 'them and us' still exists between those who have suffered from mental health problems and those who have not. 'Our Stories', a new exhibition by the mental health charity Together aims to dispel the idea that mental illness happens to other people.
Source : www.telegraph.co.uk | 16-mars-2010 17:27

Polar Bears Beat Finches In Music-off | Tom Service
Little wing ... Birds 'play' the electric guitar at Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's installation at London's Barbican. Photograph: Martin Godwin The viral, virtual, and real success of
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 15:56

Mpaa Boss Glickman Says Goodbye To Hollywood
Dan Glickman, the outgoing chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, poses for a portrait in Las Vegas on Monday, March 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 15:45

Ballet Nacional De Cuba | Sanjoy Roy
Ballet Nacional de Cuba , which Alonso founded and still rules, is utterly distinctive: it fields world-class dancers at the same time as remaining culturally isolated from the wider ballet world.
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 15:30

MPAA boss Glickman says goodbye to Hollywood as he leaves movie-ratings outfit

Dan Glickman spent his Hollywood years aiming to improve the ratings system that tells Americans what to expect in a movie - and fighting pirates.

Source : www.topix.net | 16-mars-2010 15:18

World's Shortest Man, He Pingping, Dies In Italy
FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 file photo, the world's shortest man He Pingping and world's tallest man Sultan Kosen of Turkey, 27, pose together during an event organized by the Guinness Worl...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 14:12

Montreal Movie Pirate Faces 4 Months In Jail
A Montreal man the FBI once called Canada's biggest movie pirate will be sentenced in on Tuesday for illegally distributing copyrighted material on the internet. Geremi Adam, 27, faces up to four mon...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 14:09

Boozed-up girl, 14, gyrates naked at Brit lap dance club
A 14-year-old girl was found gyrating until 3 am at a lap dancing club in Somerset, UK.
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 13:10

Boozed-up Girl, 14, Gyrates Naked At Brit Lap Dance Club
The schoolgirl guzzled 12 bottles of strong vodka alcopops between dances. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, donned a black basque, black stockings and suspenders as she performed at th...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 12:50

Christen Kobke at the National Gallery, review
The 19th-century painter Christen Købke is little known outside his native Denmark, but his luminous canvases deserve a worldwide reputation. Rating: * * * *
Source : www.telegraph.co.uk | 16-mars-2010 12:48

Art Criticism Starts With Love And Hate
Freud has been heard to praise Titian's Diana and Actaeon as one of the greatest paintings on earth.So, here's one of the greatest artists alive, doing what we critics are accused of doing – rating ...
Source : story.venezuelastar.com | 16-mars-2010 12:41