Arts & Culture
By SarahMarie Harman
Twilight, the teen vampire flick based on the best-selling book series, took home 5 awards at last night’s MTV Movie awards.
By Christopher Balchum
A panel at the AEJMC Boston convention discusses the emerging importance of business journalism - and how there isn't enough of it.
By Christopher Balchum
As one panel at this year's AEJMC Boston convention sees it, story telling is key to journalistic survival.
By Rick London
Former Saturday Night Live featured performer/singer-songwriter Patrick Weathers, and cartoonist/writer/E-entrepreneur, now both in their fifties, went to F.B. Woodley
Elementary School in Hattiesburg, Ms together in the 1960's. The now thriving city had less than 30,000 residents at the time. They had visions and dreams even then, that were not “the mainstream” of a small southern town. MTV-founder Bob Pittman was also their classmate in this tiny Mississippi hamlet. Weathers and London later attended U.S.M together.
By Mira Chen
On the morning of April 21st, Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Saeed, Advisor to the king of Saudi gave a speech in Peking University.
By Baxter Stewart
By Baxter Stewart
By Tara Bennett
Upon hearing the word leprechaun, images of a small red-headed man wearing green and a stove-pipe hat are the first thing that pops up.
By Harumi Gondo
Promptly at 7 p.m. on March 16, Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts celebrated its one year anniversary by hosting a screening of the Beijing opera Red Cliff in the middle of New York's Times Square.
By Jeremy Blaney
Students who want to practice their faith on campus now have a "reflection room" in which to do it at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich.
By Diana Hernandez
Hanny's Restaurant owners have re-made a former men's clothing store into the newest upscale eatery in downtown Phoenix.
By zu Teoh
Like most people, Wade Riley enjoys a walk through Sydney’s fabulous Royal Botanical Gardens, or lunch on the wharf at Circular Quay. Unlike most people, Wade gets paid for it.
By Zhien-U Teoh
By Megan O'Neill
Lectures, a panel discussion and a Muslim comedian are all on tap for an "Islam and the media" conference slated for February at Michigan State University.
By Charles Kemboi
The first of a series of IQ challenge competitions organized by DUSA Academic committee for this semester took off on 23rd September amidst excitement from the students. Speaking to Involvement, Teresa Mulomi one of the organizers reiterated the need for students to actively participate in the challenges as they are key to its success.
By Jatin Anand
Meet twelve-year-old Kavitha, a Kattaikkuttu performer at the Kuttu Kalai Kudam centre for Performing Arts situated at Punjarasantankal village in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu. Not only is she one of a group that dares to challenge the structure of society by opting for a traditionally male-dominated art form, but also one of its youngest members.
By tilak jha
Art will continue to inspire the world. Art has always done it. The moment of art has come. But the best thing is, this time art is back not with patronage of some rulers or the landed gentry. Art is back in the public domain.
By hyojoon jun
There is no such thing good animal and bad animal in this world. There is only animal that want to be alive in the earth with nature.
By Saiam Hasan
Residents in New Delhi, India, learned a lesson while getting entertained recently -- a lesson about how to prevent the spread of AIDS.
By Joanna Arpie
The Entertainment Studies Interest Group presented its award winning research papers with topics ranging from temperature in video games to why sad people watch sad movies.
By Amanda Cherico
The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., March 28-April 12th
"The National Cherry Blossom Festival® annually commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington, honoring the lasting friendship between the United States and Japan and celebrating the continued close relationship between our two cultures."
-www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
By Abdi Latif Dahir
People around the world today are interlinked through various technologies; changing communication among societies and hence, challenging our conventional notions of national identity. However, the media coverage in the developing world poses a question that interrogates over why much interest is given to developed countries, and why the important developmental events in the less-developed countries are ignored and the reality mostly distorted.
By Abhinav Kaul
Every year Dussehra is celebrated by millions of people in India by burning effigies of 'Ravana'. The story tracks the plight of these effigy makers in Delhi.
By ROBERT OTIENO APIYO
Reggae nights are just the best. With Reggae being the outcry of the opressed, i would preffer to work six days a week and attend a Reggae Night on the Seventh.
By Vincent Nzemeke
Imagine a hundred room hostel housing over a thousand students; they are students who live like prisoners. Vincent Nzemeke who visited the Hostel writes.
By Furquan A Siddiqui
Lucknow, India, has always been a special place for Muslims to celebrate Muharram, especially its "tazia" market in the Sultanul Madaris neighborhood.
By hyojoon jun
The 2009 New York Auto Show had a lot of motor vehicles. And they each have their own face.
By hanna aritonang
So many place we can visit in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, to improve our knowledge and one of them is TMII.
By hyojoon jun
Everyone has different point of view even pigeon has a ( ).
By Michael Marconi
Traditional Irish music is not dead in Arizona. Four Peaks Irish Arts, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of traditional Irish music in Ari
By li xue
Macau Fringe 2009 is an arts festival with a large number of cultural events, which is hosted by the government, and invites a wide range of arts groups and artists all over the world to perform in Macau.
By Mohd. Reyaz
Book: Imagining India- Ideas for the new century
By ashim sunam
RICHNESS OF THE NEPALI CULTURE
Dusshera, the most awaited festival, injects a new lease of life into the residents of Dajeeling(Indi
By Mona Zainal
Fewer U.S. college students are traveling for their education, according to a national survey.
By Nishath Nizar
Love, life, luck? A look on the contemporary Muslim wedding south of India in God's Own Country - Kerala.
By Chandrani Ray
A Smithsonian Museum curator says it might not make sense to return museum pieces to their nation of origin, as international debate continues.
By Stephen Ackley
RICHMOND, Va - It is more profitable than baseball, basketball and football combined.
Men will spend an estimated $3,000 a second on internet pornography.
By Kris Johnson
Students aren’t staying in New Orleans to work after graduation, and Loyola University wants to change that.
University officials hope two new programs will
By Yvonne Cappel-Vickery
New Orleans is home of Mardi Gras, it is also a university town. What kind of advice are the non-native New Orleanian students given about Mardi Gras?
By Samir Alam
New Delhi's Bengali neighborhood celebrates Durga Puja Festival amongst overwhelming evidence of rampant commercialization aof religion and culture.
By Gianni Giosue
MMCC stands for Mobile Mini Circus for Children, an International NGO which has been operating in Afghanistan since 2002. Their main goal is to provide education to children in Kabul. At the Children Culture House pupils can learn how to juggle, do acrobatics, sing and dance. About 100 well trained Junior Artists constantly perform in Kabul and 16 other provinces in Afghanistan. They have also performed in Europe and Japan. The Japanese counterpart is called Japan MMCC and they operate from their offices in Saitama Prefecture.
By Sasa Milosevic
Danube River tourists are once again flocking to Serbia after years of shunning the country. Belgrade is a stop on a popular Western Europe river tour.
By Marion Batts
The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University used its weekly Women of Color Discussion group to introduce VCU students to stu
By Melissa Mistero
Mill Avenue Farmers Market is just the latest colorful addition on Sundays to the bustling Tempe, Ariz., business district.
By li xue
T street Creative Bazaar in Shenzhen,China is a very interesting fair to attract creative peple all over the China to display this creative commodity,and not that easy,this eassy interviewed some of the ventors in the bazaar to get the more detailed information about what creativity really is .
By woraphanit ruayrungruang
The famous 27-year-old Chinese pianist Lang Lang hosted a charity concert whose theme was “Sunshine on Fingertips” The performance was presented on Saturday.
By Daniela Dello Joio
A brief article about one of the United States' largest immigrant communities.
By William James
A look at how the traditional pastime of angling has evolved into a new and hugely popular sport in the UK. The universal appeal of the hobby examined against a backdrop of recession.
By Sarah Jaeger
A new reading group at the Capital Area District Library targets immigrants. They read aloud from books and magazines and work on pronunciations.
By Harumi Gondo
The Nippon Club is displaying the Japanese calligraphy of Fuyoh Kobayashi from September 9-15. This will be Kobayashi’s first New York exhibition, and she com
By William Gomes
Sex and love are the most antic force that leads the world everyday to new problems and possibilities around the world.
By li xue
a live performace of the punk band “Reflector”
By Charis Liew
Despite China's Internet censorship, foreign students find ways to bypass it to access banned social media websites.
By Lisette Jackson
Mardi Gras is no holiday for Starbucks baristas.
By Loida Dioneda
Earn any degree your way, your place and your time; A preview of Distance Education’s pros and cons.
By li xue
Creative goods and live show
By Xiaoming Shi
“No money, no honey” is an old adage which takes on new meaning for Chinese post-80s in today’s materialism-saturated culture.
By Erichson Sihotang
What is it going to be, if a choir competition followed with only two competitors? Probably this rarely in any competition, especially in choir world. Principally, choir competition followed by at least ten contestants. Sometimes it depends on the competition level. Less mean harder and selection became the essential one.
By Tara Bennett
Hellions, poltergeists and ghosts abound at West End’s terrifying staged play entitled “Ghost Stories.”
By Evelyn Ticona-Vergaray
four-day marine extravaganza filled with boats, marine products and accessories, the 25th annual Palm Beach International Boat Show took place at the West Palm
By jimmie kairu
By Jimmie Kairu
Hip hop is an art, it is the ability of transforming a message to a particular group of people through words that trigger the mindset and m
By Maurice Dudley
Before venturing off to Thailand for the first time, I had heard various stories of the place from numerous US military service members who had traveled to the country primarily under orders, although no one had to twist their arms, to participate in bilateral/multilateral training exercises. Word of this exciting Asian location led me to do a little research online. Of course, there are many images of children begging in the streets as well as the active night life that can be found almost anywhere you look. However, taking the time to make the treck was a rewarding experience, one that allowed me to take in some of the sights, sounds and smells for myself. I couldn't wait to get back home and share just a few of my pictures with others.You won't see examples of the aforementioned children or night life images in my posting, instead the intent is to shed some light on what I found to be interesting aspects to life in Southeast Asia. To be fair, perhaps I should rephrase that to say life on a long strip of just one section of a major city in Southeast Asia. Surely there is more to Thailand, even more to Bangkok, than this photo grouping reveals. Still, below are a few my personal favorites.
By William Gomes
Sex and love are forces that, every day, lead to new problems and new possibilities around the world. In male-dominated societies, like in Bangladesh, women can
By Nanien Yuniar
Friday the 13th on November 2009 became the memorable day for Horror-Movie-Freak in Indonesia
By Serena Wang
Midi Music Festival makes a comeback in Beijing after a year hiatus.Over 120 bands--home and abroad-- will rock Beijing with numerous music lovers at Haidian Park, 1st til 4th May 2010.
By Alexandra Davis
With recent acceptance and enactment of the Schengen agreement in Switzerland, discussions are reemerging again if Switzerland may now join the European Union.
By Shailesh Palekar
The region of Ladakh, nestled in northeast India’s Jammu and Kashmir state, is renowned for its pristine mountain landscapes and centuries-old Tibetan culture. But due to its strategic and sensitive location, tourism remains restricted and the region well guarded by armed forces.
By Clara Wells
Southeastern Louisiana University's Zachary Boudreaux hoped to take his award-winning play to a regional competition when he learned that the university couldn’t fund the trip.
By Helder Santos
Christ Redeemer is a 120 ft tall statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is located at the peak of the 2,300 ft on the Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city. It is the tallest of its kind in the world. The statue is now considered one of the 7 new wonders of the world.
By Ana Gomes
It was my first time there... Amazing!
By Xiaoming Shi
More than 1700 prominent monks, dignitaries in Buddhism, political leaders and people from all circles of life convened in Wuxi,China for the opening ceremony of the 2nd World Buddhist Forum today.
By Charles Kemboi
Nation media group commemorated its golden jubilee since the maiden publication of their print outlet, Daily Nation on 18th March 1960.
By Abdi Latif Dahir
Kenyan journalists joined their counterparts in the world to celebrate World Press Freedom Day.
By Shanley Knox
Jan Kapple Klein designs her own villa in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern Calif where the artist finds her inspiration.
By Ireti Adesanya
Lucas Fritz is a 21-year-old jazz student who is making waves in Richmond, Va., with his musical aspirations.
By Vivian Atakos
A fair at Nairobi National Museum highlighted the cultural diversity and national identity found in traditional foods.
By Charlotte Kerr
Many dismiss pop music as an unoriginal, trashy, profit-driven heap of rubbish. But hope is not lost.
By Avery Jones
Esmel Meeks, 23, is a Virginia Beach native and an entrepreneur clothing designer.
By Henry Serpas
This is a description of the current Hammond, La music scene.
By Xiaoming Shi
Clad in grey business attire, Hong Huang easily drew in the audience with her stylistic casual talk and straightforwardness. But how to introduce herself? She paused.
She has too many titles---CEO of China Interactive Media Group which publishes fashion magazines like I Look, Time Out and Seventeen, an iconoclast from a traditional diplomatic family, ex-wife of a top Chinese director Cheng Kaige and most important of all in her own standard, a blogger.
By Nicole Seah
National University of Singapore student journalist
By Maggie Liu
Universities in China have begun their annual tradition of announcing the list of students who have passed the graduate school entrance exams, thereby marking the fate of those who seek to enter the graduate school of their choice
By Isaac Pacheco
iSmoke is a pastiche of conversations and photos that seeks to take an inside look at the culture and mindset of cigarette smokers. Darkly humorous, sometimes tragic, and often ironic, these personal interviews explore the love/hate relationship between smokers and their addiction--their savior and their vice.
By Isaac Pacheco
iSmoke is a pastiche of conversations and photos that seeks to take an inside look at the culture and mindset of cigarette smokers. Darkly humorous, sometimes tragic, and often ironic, these personal interviews explore the love/hate relationship between smokers and their addiction--their savior and their vice.
By Isaac Pacheco
iSmoke is a pastiche of conversations and photos that seeks to take an inside look at the culture and mindset of cigarette smokers. Darkly humorous, sometimes tragic, and often ironic, these personal interviews explore the love/hate relationship between smokers and their addiction--their savior and their vice.
By Isaac Pacheco
iSmoke is a pastiche of conversations and photos that seeks to take an inside look at the culture and mindset of cigarette smokers. Darkly humorous, sometimes tragic, and often ironic, these personal interviews explore the love/hate relationship between smokers and their addiction--their savior and their vice
By Isaac Pacheco
iSmoke is a pastiche of conversations and photos that seeks to take an inside look at the culture and mindset of cigarette smokers. Darkly humorous, sometimes tragic, and often ironic, these personal interviews explore the love/hate relationship between smokers and their addiction--their savior and their vice.
By Meg Guliford
My 2009 Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery forever changed my perspective of America's veterans and their surviving family members.
By neerat kaur
Indian Classical Dances are gaining popularity world over.Dancers from around the world are coming to India every year to under scholarsips.
By andrew norman
Michigan State University offers many resources to help international students transition into American culture. Sometimes, assimilation techniques come from within.
By Karlie Ho
Have you ever thought about keeping lizards and geckos as pets? You may not have considered them, but some people find them cute and easy to look after.
By Medill Washington
A music production program at Blow Pierce Junior Academy in northeast Washington gives students like Anderson time for creativity and collaboration.
By Saira Aslam
The Parathe wali Gali at Chandni Chowk in Central North Delhi, India is one place where anyone, from the commoner to the connoisseur, cannot resist going.
By Saira Aslam
The number of restaurants offering at least one global cuisine is on the rise. The good news is that they are opening in almost every market place in Delhi.
By SarahMarie Harman
Big Ant International, a small design studio based out of NYC, recently developed a set of highly acclaimed but controversial posters.
By Abhirup Bhunia
Availing public transport is more of a compulsion than option for the average Indian. Calcutta has a diverse public transport system
By Samantha Lenkic
In 2008, acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz released a new series of celebrity portraits in conjunction with Walt Disney. Titled Disney Dream Portraits.
By Silvano Ateka
The mp3 player and the internet with its social network sites are killing our society. Young scholars are becoming proccupied with facebook. They have also perfected the art of plagiarism...
By Navina Smith
Economic realities eclipse a family's legacy on one New Zealand farm, where Ian Smith wonders what will happen to the land after he leaves.
By Franco Fernandez
The top ten match ups, battles and cross overs in the Marvel/Disney Universe.
By ang hui min
As more chain stores enter Singapore's pawn shop market, existing stores are trying to come up with ways to beat the competition.
By Tommy Lopez
Weekend hours for Virginia Commonwealth University meal plan locations are shorter than their weekday counterparts due to lower student interest, creating a difficult situations for hungry students.
By Abhirup Bhunia
Presently India is up from gloom. MNC's, FDI's, big money, all are part of present India. Perhaps the biggest sign of sumptuousness is the fleet of malls.
By Isaac Pacheco
The farther away a depiction of suffering takes place, either geographically, socioeconomically and/or culturally, the less likely we are to be repulsed by it.
By Caitlin Lynch
As the global recession lingers in Australia, social service workers say that more of the region’s senior citizens are seeking help to stay active.
By andrew norman
The author of "Taqwacores" discusses how the novel reversed a common trend and spawned a number of Islamic punk rock bands.
By rachita kauldhar
Education for disabled is still a challenge faced by government in India.Most of the efforts till now has been taken by NGO's.To some extent they have been successful.
By Tara Bennett
Known to avid lovers of theater as "Theatreland," the West End holds a plethora of entertainment and is linked with the art form's modern culture.
By Kamini Mirchandani
Public schools in Indonesia have new weapons in their struggle against better-funded private schools.
By Khadija Ghani
Putting up Christmas lights to celebrate my sister's wedding as part of South Asian wedding customs
By Tiffany Baptiste
London, England- It is not every day that a group of college students from the United States can take a master class for acting at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
By ektaa malik
a trip to the sunday market will leave one enriched. Literally.
By tilak jha
Aurangzeb, one of the most powerful rulers of India, throughout its history, belonged to the Mughal family which ruled India for more than 300 years. Infamous
By Erika Baggs
The life of the director of the Queen Creek Performing Arts Center has been altered by theatre and its magical effects.
By Maira Iqbal
Struggling to manage school, work, friends and kidney failure, Tabish Naqvi shares his story to give hope to others with his condition.
By Dalal Shadid
Does the way we dress define us? Are our behaviors and costumes a symbol of our identity and nationality?
Students coming from diverse backgrounds, tradition
By Michael Bow
Opening Day on the Bay is a quintessentially San Franciscan event, but why is it so important for the Bay Area's boating community? Here we find out.
By Danielle Le Clair
Executive Director of the 100 club of Arizona opens up about her personal experience with tragedy.
By Ross Holberg
Popular D.C. punk band Me Monster will be entering the studio later this year to record a follow-up to their debut EP "Operation Sellout."
By Neil Bh P
Kolkata - The hell hole of India. Infamous for its crowd and its man-pulled-rickshaw, it is the homeland for the language that is known to be the sweetest of al
By Samantha Womer
Corona del Sol High School Choir, from Tempe, recently visited a local mall to sing for shoppers and buy presents for children.
By Fransiska Lusuba
Apart from political and economy problem faced by Indonesia, actually Indonesia has rich culture that it could be a national power to solve the problem. But it
By Khadija Ghani
Of the pre-wedding rituals in Pakistani and Indian weddings, the mehndi is often the most important, and the move fun.
By Therese Patricia San Diego
A review of two websites that promote Philippine poetry
By Emily Morrell
Kid Architect, a Washington D.C. area band has left a memorable impression on the local music scene leaving people wanting more.
By John Hendel
Journalism can be fun,
By John Hendel
The Australian edition of the reality show "Big Brother" won't return to Network Ten after its seventh season ends this month, the network said.
By John Hendel
Irish actor Paudge Behan has been released after he was questioned in connection with the stabbing death of a 72-year-old businesswoman in Italy, police said.
By John Hendel
Screen Actors Guild leaders reportedly are considering submitting the final contract offer from a group of U.S. TV and film producers to their members.
By John Hendel
The U.S. cable television network FX announced in Los Angeles that its plastic-surgery drama "Nip/Tuck" is scheduled to end in 2011 after 100 episodes.
By John Hendel
"CSI" Executive Producer Carol Mendelsohn says Jorja Fox will return to the top-rated U.S. crime drama next season just as William Petersen is leaving.
By John Hendel
A representative for Nicole Kidman said the U.S.-born Australian actress doesn't plan to sell photographs of her newborn daughter, Sunday, to a magazine.
By Medill Washington
Parties. Pizzas. And paying the bills. That's what college has become to many young people. More than two-thirds of college students will graduate with loan debt, according to the Institute for College Access and Success.
By Harumi Gondo
Japanese “monster parents” have been a hot topic of online discussion in recent times.
By Harumi Gondo
Neko no Mise, or “Cat Store” is a cat café, which charges customers 800 yen (roughly US$7.20) an hour to play with cats.
By Alice Roschuni
Hundreds of artists and art-lovers gathered in the name of world peace for the first day of the Art Festival for World Peace in Yokohama on Wednesday. The festival, which is held every four years, is sponsored by Bijutsu Sekai and will be open through the thirty-first.
By Hojin Han
Have you ever heard of an word ‘Sunfull’.
By Jeff Chouw
Singapore - Living in the urban landscape of Singapore bores me, maybe I have just been here for too long. I became visually ambivalent to the monotonous urban landscape and turned my attention to the hidden and obscured. As I wondered along, going through my paces in my city slicker ways, I started noticing messages written in in-comprehensive English all over the power boxes in the City Central. Messages with no grammar; sentence structures that are nonsensical. Go figure “ 2001 year ago swamp Ubin Island shoe un-dry no water tap”…
By Al Ebnereza
This photo captures the cherry blossoms in Washington, DC on the first day of the National Cherry Blossom festival, March 28, 2008. I used a Nikon D80 for this shot and was lucky to catch the perfect few moments of light in the early evening.
By Christina De Nicola
Sophomore Mike Collier took psychology as an elective during his freshman year. He did not like it, and while scrolling online for classes the next semester, decided to sign up for professor Patricia Dolan’s Introduction to Theatre. That changed his life.
By Cerelia Lim
The Call Home
By Cerelia Lim
University Town: will it really wow?
By Cerelia Lim
BINU and the Great Wall: The Myth of Meng chronicles a peasant's journey across China, which ends at the Great
By Erichson Sihotang
Il est ne le divin enfant, jouez haut bois resonnez musetes. Il est ne le divin enfant, chantons tous son avenement … (Un to us a child is born. See him in a mangerly sing. Un to us a child is born, hail o hail trice happy morn).
By Isaac Pacheco
FAIRFAX, Va.--Students at George Mason University recognized diversity on campus with a week-long celebration that included student group-led cultural dance presentations and food from various countries. George Mason boasts one of the nation's most diverse student bodies, and is consistently ranked as a Top 10 culturally active university in Princeton Review's annual survey.
By Alex Hargraves
With the whirring noise from the nearby steelworks ever present, this isn’t the place you’d expect to find a Buddhist sanctuary of solitude and reflection.
By Sitaresti Astarini
On the October 2, 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian batik, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. A lot of people in Indonesia in many places were celebrating it by wearing Batik during the day.
By Alexandra Carter
As more American undergrads pursue the Arabic language, they develop new understandings about Islam through their studies.
By Joanna Arpie
Today the names Hilton and Cruise are almost as common as Obama and Clinton when it comes to the news. A panel of scholars discuss how fame has become a central part of our society and what impact that has on journalism.
By Joanna Arpie
As a result of technology and the changing focus of the media--just some of the factors which have brought about new ethical dilemmas, scholars contemplate the kinds of ethical decisions we can expect in the future.
By Shanley Knox
Every year, tourists from across the globe flock to Washington, DC to enjoy thousands of blooming cherry trees during the city's Cherry Blossom Festival The tradition began in 1912 with Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo's gift of 3,000 cherry trees to the city of Washington.
By Jaclyn Reiss
College freshmen often have different expectations when it comes to sex, at least one women's studies professor says.
By Min Cheng
The different way of consuming in Starbucks comes from the deep cultural tradition in this article.
By Maurice Dudley
An amazing thing happened to me in October last year. I was invited to a Japanese elementary school undoukai (sports day). The following images depict the action of the event.
By Saiam Hasan
The morning of Eid is extravagant with decorated narrow streets of the city. The city was echoed with traditional Banarasi bhajans as Navaratras advanced. The flavour of true Banarasi traditional Eid is mesmerising: Eid in this city of temples is entirely different, despite being similar to the Eid elsewhere. At the Eidgaah people were united with love and peace, and sharing a gesture of real kindness.
By farida karu
Qarina the enchantress, infamous for devouring men
A whiff of her perfume enough to drive you wild
A trail of broken hearts she leaves behind
Without a care
By Furquan A Siddiqui
Makers of traditional Indian embroidery are threatened by machine-made competition from China.
By Sumit Singh
Legacy of Emotions
By Sumit Singh
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Art is a form of expression, through which one can explain his/her
By Gargi Nim
In the last 50 years, thousands of Tibetans have escaped from their homeland to take shelter in India. Out of 111,170 Tibetans in-exile, 85,000 live in India. Mcleodganj, in northern Indian Himalayas, has become the capital of the Tibetan exiled government and the nerve centre of Tibetan life outside Tibet.
India brings to you different aspects of Tibetan life in-exile after 50 years of Chinese invasion of their country.
Tibetan Children
Little Norway is a home to Tibetans orphans aged 0-4 years. Most of them have lost their parents while trying to cross the Himalayas into India. Many kids’ parents send them to India for good education and Buddhist training under the Dalai Lama. Photojournalist: Gargi Nim
Tibetan Children’s Village is an educational training centre for child refugees from Tibet. This village consists of 43 homes each sheltering 30 to 40 students. With a total strength of nearly 2,000 students, the institution promises better future by offering a right blend of academics and vocational training.
By Gaurav Shukla
The four-day India Art Summit culminated on Saturday in New Delhi. The second edition of this summit featured works from over 50 galleries.
By CALVIN NIX JR
[Baton Rouge}-Tangipahoa Parish School Board members made a unanimous decision to approve the adoption of the proclamation establishing March as Youth Art Month
By Kris Johnson
Community Care Hospital, an in-patient and outpatient hospital for people with mental disabilities, is a businesses that is required to stay open when almost th
By Mohd. Reyaz
A week long Kathak festival, held at various places across Delhi ended on 29 March. The festival was organized by the Kathak Kendra, a wing of the Sangeet Natak Academy. Mohd. Reyaz visit the fiesta and brings out this report.
By Gianni Giosue
These photos were taken in occasion of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visiting Japan in January 2009. Pitt was in Japan for the Japan premier of the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Burton.
By Gaurav Shukla
by Gaurav Shukla and Gaigongmei Gangmei
Remember those hand-painted larger than life billboards at your favorite cinemas? Today, they are nowhere to be seen, except as vintage collections. Technology has led to the downfall of this art and no one seems to care for the beleaguered artists, who are struggling to keep the art of handmade posters alive.
They have switched to petty jobs to survive their sudden state of unemployment. The advent of digital posters have turned the former hand-painted posters into “art objects” and collectors are spending huge sums to buy them.
In this photo story, we tried to catch a glimpse of the lives of these forgotten artists and their new age cousins.
By Maurice Dudley
Whether I can personally claim Uchinanchu or shima-gaijin is unsure. However, the following is a personal reflection on two common terms that are frequently used here in Okinawa.
By wellwen Gong
On Apr 21, Chinese show their condolence on the mourning day; however, according to the government announcement, no entertainment behavior is allowed, thus the video websites in china shut down their entertainment parts.
By Sai Li
The annual Plum Week in Beijing Botanical Garden was unveiled on 22nd April with the "Carbon Sinks" activities introduced firstly.
By hanna aritonang
The Indonesian film industry has seen a revival in part due to the insertion of sexuality in its scenes.
By Young Liang
Aiming at exhibiting the enormous glamour of Asian modern fine art and leading the future direction of Asian art, the China Korea Modern Art Fair kicked off in
By jimmie kairu
Kenyan Born, Thika based gospel hip hop artist James Kairu Mwangi (More of Jesus Everyday) or otherwise known as M.O.J.E is currently back in studio and working on his self titled album which is set to be ......
By charles udenze
Wherever their spirits might be resting, Adam and Eve will be stirring. Another Eden may not exactly have been replicated, but the 20, 156 square KM land mass that is the present Cross River State of Nigeria is not far from the feat.
By Stephanie Katz
Theater Students from Southeastern Louisiana University experience the height of London theater.
By Djamila Ould Khettab
Social networks, a new phenomenon in France, are still considered as a threat by a majority of French media.
By Chanee' Patterson
STRUT is a fashion show founded by Kelli Lemon with a determination of creating anything appealing to all VCU students and surrounding neighborhoods.
By Joshua Mumphrey
Since I was young, I always dreamed of traveling around the world, visiting many countries and reporting on world hunger, genocide and various topics of common
By Whitney Sessa
After years of being drawn to the theme park driven cities of Orlando and Tampa, more and more Britons are now opting for a South Florida lifestyle than ever before.
By Marion Batts
Dahc Christian is student at Virginia Commonwealth University, with an extraordinary talent. He is an up-and-coming rapper.
By Joseph Stashko
The iPhone, iPad and Kindle are vaunted to usher in a new age of interactivity regarding the way we read books, newspapers and journals.
But are reading habits really changing?
By Evelyn Ticona-Vergaray
The Mar-a-Lago Club, owned by Donald J. Trump, will host the 52nd annual American Cancer Society Ball this Friday, Feb. 5.
This is the fourth consecutive yea
By Lescha Mayseeta
Many visitors at Jakarta Convention Centre (JCC) are allowed to create their own design of Indonesian genuine heritage, Batik.
By nadia Feroz
As one gets off from the Ramakrishna Marg metro station and walks towards the market, one is greeted with scenes of cows walking on the street alongside tourist
By Arun George
"Kudamattam" - puzzle over that word!! Kudamattam is a ritual associated with temple festivals in Kerala
By Lydia Charney
Ancient Greek artifacts from the Parthenon in Athens are currently on permanent display in the London Museum of History. Greek citizens and government are dema
By Wei Li Fong
National University of Singapore student journalist
By Katrina Jeffs
SYDNEY: Local Christian alternative rock band The Understatement are continuing to take their music, filled with messages of hope and positivity, to anyone that wants to listen.
By Rachael Domiano
Downtown District Development Director announces Hammond's newest cultural event.
By Alexandra Carter
A new course at Michigan State University teaches students how to deal with the complexities of reporting on Islam in a post-Sept. 11 world.
By rachita kauldhar
High increase in health clubs and gyms in the metro city Delhi is attributed to people thinking of being healthy and fit.
By Keith McCreary
This is a story about a band in Tokyo called B.B. Mojaco. After attending a show, I befriended the band, despite our inability to speak the same language. Since then, I've seen them several times and hung out with them often and we have become good friends. I took some time to interview them to see how they functioned as a band.
To view the band's official website, go to http://www.geocities.jp/bbmojaco/
This documentary was part of a project at Temple University Japan.
By Isaac Pacheco
The mass media industry’s present-day digital evolution, or “technological revolution,” has brought about issues of credibility and reliability in journalism.
By Joshua Newman
By: Olivia Bernardo and Joshua Newman
Dr. Jaime Suchlicki is the director of the Institute of Cuban and Cuban American Studies, which he helped found in 1999. He is a Cuban Jew who graduated from the University of Miami in 1964 with a B.A. in history and a master’s the next year, in the same field. He went on to Texas Christian University, and in 1968 completed his Ph.D, also in history. He began teaching for UM as an assistant professor in February 1968 and has been a consultant on Cuba and Cuba-US relations for the United States government for the past 30 years.
By tilak jha
R. G. Collingwood wrote in his book, "The Principles of Art", wrote, the making of a tune, a poem, or a particular picture is an instance of imaginative creation which goes in the artist's head and nowhere else. As the world witnesses, the growing clout of religious fundamentalism, the freedom, the spirit that creates any art, be it literature or painting has come under threat. Humanity needs to stand up against such efforts.
By paramitha buwana
Yogyakarta is one of tourism destination in Indonesia. The temporary data of Baparda (Regional Tourism Committee) Yogyakarta showed the number of tourists both
By Rafael Gomes
During almost 10 days, the main cities from the northeast of Brazil celebrate what it is so called. “June Parties”. A traditional party that mix Catholicism
By Krishnamachari Venkat
One of the best things to happen to Hindi movie industry was the arrival of Urdu poets, in the 1940s and 50s. Before that, songs were highly mediocre in nature,
By Rick London
Rick London, founder of Google's #1 ranked offbeat cartoon "Londons Times" and actress/author Mariel Hemingway were both working on the Internet, 3700 miles apart. Both are descendants of famous
authors, Hemingway, of course, maternal granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, and Poetess Emmal
Lazarus was a great great etc. aunt/or cousin of London. The two met, and went into business together,
on Twitter.
By Junelynn Tran
Hundreds of students from across Virginia stood in the cold outside James Madison University’s Grafton-Stovall Theater, anticipating Wong Fu Productions, an Asian-American filmmaking group.
By Abhirup Bhunia
New age courses are slowly proving to be futile despite the fact that these were introduced with the radical thoughts of the youth and the generation.
By Lauren Jost
Minnesota jazz trio, The Bad Plus, have been around for nearly a decade but are changing the genre of jazz and bringing in new listeners: youth.
By Joshua Newman
Temple Beth Shmuel Cuban Hebrew Congregation was once a fading congregation, but the rising number of students at the temple’s Jewish Montessori School helped revitalize the congregation.
By Danielle Le Clair
Owner of Royal Coffee Bar, located in the heart of downtown Phoenix, opens his second coffee shop, just one block away from ASU downtown.
By Ross Holberg
The Escape Artist, a prominent D.C. emocore band.
By John Hendel
Recording artist John Mellencamp stopped by Copley Square Farmers Market in Massachusetts Tuesday to announce that Farm Aid 2008 is to take place in Boston.
By John Hendel
U.S. broadcast journalist Brit Hume is leaving his anchor position at Fox News, but will stay on at the network as a senior political analyst, sources said.
By John Hendel
Heath Ledger's parents and sister attended the New York premiere of the late actor's movie, "The Dark Knight," but reportedly didn't walk the press line.
By John Hendel
The U.S. Postal Service says it will offer a series of stamps highlighting the African-American cultural experience through vintage publicity posters.
By John Hendel
Natalie Cole's publicist has confirmed the Grammy Award-winning U.S. singer has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C.
By John Hendel
Actor Michael J. Fox is set to appear in four episodes of Denis Leary's New York-set firefighter series, "Rescue Me," FX has announced.
By Sonja Eberly
In July 2008, the non profit organization, International Relief Friendship Foundation took 20 volunteers to San Juan Del Alto, Peru to build a multi-purpose meeting hall and community playground. IRFF's goal in building these amenities was to help promote a system of sustainable democracy within the community, which had specifically identified their need for a place to hold town hall meetings. The volunteers came from the United States, England, and Peru.
By Medill Washington
In July, the State Department began issuing a new type of passport - a card that has all the authority of the familiar blue book if you're traveling by land to Canada or Mexico.
By Harumi Gondo
Despite heavy rains hundreds of thousands traveled from throughout Tokyo to take part in the 28th Asakusa Samba Carnival on Saturday, August 30th. Held annually on the last Saturday of August since 1981, when the mayor of Tokyo’s Taito ward invited the winning team of Brazil’s Rio Carnival to perform in his ward, the event this year probably drew less than the 500,000 that attended last year’s carnival due to rain.
By Kate Walton
Have you ever wondered why Australian musicians take on a particular accent in their music? AMRAP Correspondent, Kate Walton went on a mission to find out why.
By Hojin Han
In Korea, one of the peak seasons to release newly-made films is near Chuseok day (August 15th on the lunar calendar), which is a Korean harvest festival similar to the United States’ Thanksgiving daybecause it is common for people to enjoy their free time watching movies with their families.
By Michael Balcomb
Approximately 2,000 people joined a high-spirited peace march through the ancient Albanian city of Korça to mark the Global Peace Festival on October 18. Led by the Korça City Band and hundreds of Ambassadors for Peace, the throng of peace marchers grew so rapidly that it became clear there wouldn’t be enough space at the main celebration in the Sports Hall for all the marchers to join an even larger crowd who were already assembled there.
By Rachel Palting
Students Undecided on Costumes, but Set on Celebrating this Halloween
By Cerelia Lim
MARY J. BLIGE (R&B/SOUL)
By Cerelia Lim
Bondless for more success
By Deborah Acosta
Romero Britto added the final thick, black brushstrokes to a densely colored cityscape in his Miami studio, while Madonna’s “Get into the Groove” played from a small radio on his work table.
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