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  • Community radio reporters acting as climate change communication agents in Central India

    Climate change is real. For an emerging economy like India with a large population directly dependent on natural resources for their sustenance, the changing climate is causing severe economic, environmental and social challenges. Bundelkhand, a semi - arid region comprising of 13 districts in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh is one of the most climate sensitive areas in ...

  • Jackie Chan admires Bollywood welcomes Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration

    Hollywood's action film star Jackie Chan has expressed his love for Bollywood music and dance sequences, and added that he is waiting for the right script and film director before venturing into an Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration. Chan, who is of Chinese descent, is leading a delegation at a six-day Chinese film festival in New Delhi. Welcomed by a thundering applause, the multi-faceted action ...

  • What distracts Taylor Swift on stage

    Singer Taylor Swift says while performing on the stage she is distracted by fans with sign boards and she goes off track. The 23-year-old, known for her songs like "Love story", "Teardrops on my guitar" and "You belong with me", starts reading the signs and forgets her lyrics, reports thesun.co.uk. "It's amazing and adorable, but if there's a really long sign and I'm trying to read it while ...

  • Shaolin temple goes global

    The Shaolin Temple, known as the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is preparing to stage its first cultural festival in the US as part of efforts to expand its global clout. The first North American Shaolin Cultural Festival is scheduled to be held from Oct 8 to 14 in Los Angeles, according to Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Buddhist temple in the city of Dengfeng in central China's Henan province, reported ...

  • Theatre review Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandages play The Cripple of Inishmaan

    Now, in Michael Grandage's highly adroit revival of this dark, politically incorrect 1997 comedy by Martin McDonagh (the third production in the Grandage Company's fifteen-month season at the Noel Coward Theatre), Radcliffe takes on the challenge of portraying the 17-year-old title character.Billy is a bookish, romantic soul, orphaned in mysterious circumstances and raised by two ...


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Movie Review

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Most film scholars will tell you that there are two quintessential American genres: the Western and the gangster film. Because iconoclastic independent writer/director Jim Jarmusch has already deconstructed the Western in "Dead Man" (1995), it is only logical that for his next narrative film he would turn his sights on the gangster film. ...

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  • Minnesotan makes Top 20 on So You Think You Can Dance

    Alan Bersten Minnesotans have someone to root for on TV this summer, and his name is Alan Bersten. On Tuesday's episode of Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," the 19-year-old ballroom dancer from Minnetonka and his older brother Gene were two of 33 dancers waiting to find out if they had made the show's Top 20. But Gene -- whose audition in Boston with his wife, Elena, ...

  • Goodwood Rd should become Adelaides Broadway Urban Myth Theatre artistic director says

    URBAN Myth Theatre artistic director Glenn Hayden wants Goodwood Rd to be Adelaide's Broadway. Well, little Broadway at least. The company has received a $30,000 interest-free loan from Unley Council to finish an upgrade of the Goodwood Institute. "It will mean the Goodwood Institute is a very, very well serviced, professional standard venue for South Australia," Mr Hayden ...

  • Danielle Bradbery wins The Voice

    The Voice contestants, from left to right, brothers Zach and Colton Swon, Danielle Bradbery and Michelle Chamuel stand on stage during the season finale of the show. (NBC ...

  • Obama’s Second-Term G-8 Dance Card Judo With Putin Trade and Syria

    . Europeans also see a free-trader pressuring the French to bow before the altar of low tariffs in pursuit of a U.S. and European trade pact. Just last week, White House officials feared they wouldn't even be able to announce the beginning of trade talks at the G-8 Summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Northern Ireland. Under sustained pressure from British Prime Minister David Cameron, ...

  • Langley City opts for 16 months of acting mayors to save the $45000 cost of a byelection

    The Arbutus Ridge condos will stand in a spot that has long been familiar to Vancouverites. It's here, at Arbutus and West 16 Avenue, where the Ridge theatre and bowling lanes made their home for ...

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