Arts

New York museum opens space shuttle Enterprise to public - 07/20/2012

NASA administrator Charles Bolden and museum president Susan Marenoff-Zausner presided over the exhibit's opening ceremony Thursday, joined by three of Enterprise's original four pilots. The ceremony...

'Mad Men' dominates Emmy nominations - 07/20/2012

LOS ANGELES- "Mad Men" dominated nominations for the primetime Emmy awards on Thursday, a triumph for the 1960s-themed series that almost failed to return for its fifth season this year. The show is...

Stallone urges end to 'speculation' about son's death - 07/18/2012

LOS ANGELES- US screen actor Sylvester Stallone said Monday there was "no greater pain" than losing a child, and called for an end to speculation about the death of his eldest son Sage last week. The...

Britain's Tate Modern gets tanked up - 07/16/2012

LONDON- Britain's Tate Modern opens the former power station's giant underground oil tanks as an art space on Wednesday, vastly increasing the capacity of the world's most visited modern art gallery....

The play's the thing: a Jordan taboo tackled - 07/16/2012

The play spotlights proud East Banker Jaber and Zarifeh, his no-nonsense Palestinian-born wife, and their everyday differences often escalate into verbal duels. Satirist Kamel Nuseirat told AFP his...

Reading Shakespeare from cell to cell on Robben Island - 07/16/2012

ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa, Justine Gerardy- Nelson Mandela's handwritten memoirs were smuggled off South Africa's Robben Island to become an international bestseller after his release from 27 years...

Sylvester Stallone 'devastated' by son's death - 07/15/2012

LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Hollywood A-lister Sylvester Stallone was described as "devastated" Friday after his 36-year-old son Sage, also an actor, was found dead, reportedly following a drug...

Mandela museum stages youth art exhibit for icon's birthday - 07/14/2012

QUNU, South Africa- The Nelson Mandela Museum on Friday opened a youth art exhibition on the South African democracy icon's life in his childhood home Qunu ahead of his 94th birthday next week. Eight...

Kennedys honor Taylor Swift with 'social change' award - 07/14/2012

WASHINGTON- Chart-topping country star Taylor Swift is to be honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights for her "commitment to social change," the non-profit organization...

Vienna in a mood to dance with 29th Impulstanz Festival - 07/11/2012

VIENNA, Sim Sim Wissgott- Dance in all its forms, from performances to workshops, lectures and parties, takes over Vienna for a month starting on Thursday, as the Austrian capital welcomes the 29th...
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