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  • 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 ...

  • Seattle Arts and Lectures appoints Ruth Dickey new executive director

    Seattle Arts & Lectures has appointed a new executive director. It’s Ruth Dickey, director of Cincinatti’s Clifton Cultural Arts Center. In a press release, the organization cited Dickey’s programming and fundraising abilities, saying she raised $2 million for capital renovations for the Cincinatti organization, doubled the number of individual donors and created a ...

  • ‘Li’l Red’ puts a modern musical spin on a classic tale

    In Richard Kinter's modern adaptation of the classic fairytale, which opens the summer season for Johnny Appleseed Children's Theatre at Apple Hill Playhouse, the wolf that frightened the little girl on her way to see her grandma is more "cool dude" than scary ...

  • Twelve writers vie for 2013 international writing prize

    LONDON | Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:11pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Six awarding-winning writers are among a group of 12 poets, authors and academics vying for the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing with themes ranging from the Australian war effort in France to opium sellers in 19th century India. The prize, handed out every two years since 2009, was set up as an international, cross-disciplinary ...

Movie Review

Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues [DVD]

Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues [DVD]

It's never a good sign when a movie has serious problems with its title. Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues, which has also been known as The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II, is a sequel not to a movie called Boggy Creek or ... ...

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  • Kandinsky work auctioned for $21 million but misses the mark

    By Paul Casciato LONDON | Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:08pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky's expressionist masterpiece "Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909" was the highlight and leading indicator for a flat Christie's London Impressionist and modern art sale on Tuesday. The painting fell short of its top estimate and a record for the artist at auction when ...

  • The Writer of Walk Dont Run Who Had a Revered Technique

    Johnny Smith, a jazz guitarist who was considered one of the emerging greats of his generation when he left the limelight in 1958 to move to Colorado, open a record store and become a full-time parent, died on June 11 at his home in Colorado Springs. He was 90. His daughter, Kim Smith Stewart, confirmed his death. ...

  • Theatre review Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandages 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 ...

  • Planetariums a new kind of star power for the arts

    Perhaps your last cultural experience in a planetarium involved Pink Floyd and a mind-altering substance. Well, high art under the impressive dome is making a comeback - no lasers required.In Vancouver, a new site-specific work by the Electric Company Theatre ...

  • Theatre review Full Monty an ode to the amateur spirit

    From left, Jordan Ward, Gregory P. Caswell, Brian Christensen, Orville Charles Cameron, James Toupin and David Johnston in The Full Monty, from Two One-Way Tickets To Broadway ...

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