, or visit www.volunteerhouston.org . Add extra dimension to your life by volunteering as a host at Houston's newest and only '4D Theater' at a child- and family-oriented health museum near Hermann Park. This theater features digital 3-D, surround sound
Lighthouse Keepers, SLOPE plan joint fundraiser The Point San Luis Lighthouse Keepers is joining forces with the San Luis Outdoor Painters for the Environment for a fundraiser to aid the restoration of the historical light station. The art show, sale and
Joseph Stein is standing in the center aisle of the small basement theater, a hand on each hip, watching a rehearsal of his show Enter Laughing: The Musical. As the cast runs through a mock-funeral scene, he bends over to whisper. Funny number, he says.
NEW YORK -- One in a series of encounters with emerging artists How do you design half a mirror? You can make a whole mirror, easily enough. And a skinny or a squat one isn't hard. But how about one that seems 50 percent missing? That's the kind of
Take the ferry to Bumpkin Island this weekend, and you may come across a woman lurking in the underbrush, wearing burlap covered with leaves. Don't be alarmed: She's not a kook. She's an artist. So are the men in kimonos staging lectures and the folks
THE Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University music department will bring great excitement to opera lovers at the Port Elizabeth Opera House next weekend in their production of Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium. The spine-chilling opera under dramatic
Arts Correspondent THE Savoy Theatre in Port Elizabeth will present the award-winning comedy drama Art, written by Yasmina Reza, next week. Since hitting the theatrical scene several years ago, this comedy about friendship has been translated into 28
Opera Software this week announced that it had partnered with MTN Opera Software this week announced that it had partnered with MTN in Uganda to bring the mobile Web to the company's nearly three million subscribers. 'Africa has tremendous growth
Liangzhu Culture Museum in east China's Zhejiang Province will open to the public on Oct. 1 after four years of construction at the helm of a British architect. The museum, in Liangzhu Cultural Village in a suburb of the provincial capital Hangzhou,
EDINBURGH - Whether they were examining social ills of the near-present, investigating governmental lapses of the past or envisioning a nightmare future, the British writers presenting new work this year at the Traverse Theater, the locus of much of the
DENGFENG, China - Midway through the grand spectacle Zen Shaolin, a blue-robed monk on a huge outdoor stage crowded with martial-arts performers appears to banish evil spirits rhythmically with his fists in an artistic meditation of motion and fury. The
Aug. 28--EL PASO -- Leslie Novick, executive director of the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center, announced Wednesday she will retire from the museum effective Nov. 30. Novick, who has been with the museum for 11 years and the director for the past
Banksy Banksy Tags the Big Easy Charity Cases Banksy Pans His First New York Show Banksy Identity Revealed? The Week That Was (June 13 ? 20, 2008) Banksy Works Lead London Urban Art Auction Starting a Collection on the Cheap Send a letter to the Editor
uditions for the Chapel Choir of the University of King's College will be held on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the King's Chapel. All students (undergraduate and graduate) attending Dalhousie and King's are eligible to try
MOST of us have had enough politics to last several lifetimes. Though many politicians continue fervently to believe that life is politics and politics is life, frequently politics turns out to be a grave threat to human existence. Its time to escape
It was a magnificent day when our guide, Ossi Kaufman of Rent-a-Guide Tours, picked us up in a new Mercedes van just after breakfast. We began our day with a tour of the Knesset and at 11:00 am we stopped to view a powerful sight - the Menorah given to
Looking for some inexpensive art? CraftStylish.com suggests trying to frame a piece of beautiful wrapping paper. Many stores, like Paper Source, now sell single sheets of high-end wrapping paper, or you can simply cut a piece from your favorite roll.
ROME (Aug. 28) - An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials. The board of the foundation of the Museion in the
If Honda New Zealand put its Accord Euro Tourer through a customer clinic, it would probably explain why the company has placed the model just a few levels out of reach of its average sedan punter. Customers would have told Honda that if an Accord Tourer
MERIDEN, Conn.During the Great Depression, Meriden artist John Backstrom created 12 landscape paintings a month as part of a federal employment project. He never knew what happened to most of the canvases.Seventy years later, the whereabouts of much of
Thanks to Derek Walcott?s comments at Carifesta (SN August 25), everyone wants to know just how much Caribbean governments should be contributing to the arts. The answer, quite simply, is nothing. To begin with, art paid for by the government becomes
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) The capital added another first to its list of art initiatives by throwing open the first art bookstore-cum-reading room here Friday. Set up by the Vadehra Gallery, the store in Defence Colony also has a large reading room
Turkish-Japanese dialogue expected to flourish in 2010, designated as Japanese Year in Turkey. The year 2010 will also be the 120th anniversary of Turkish-Japanese friendship, which began after an Ottoman frigate sank off the Japanese coast in 1890Mge
By DENNIS GASGONIA abs-cbnNEWS.com Despite his courageous stand against a much taller opponent, local martial artist Adrian Hillana lost his title under a barrage of punches in the main feature of Fearless Fighting Championship?s (FFC) 'Fearless
