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  • Mexico City hosts chili pepper festival

    Chili peppers and sauces will take centre stage at a festival being held this week in Mexico City, where the spicy plant, one of the pillars of Mexican cuisine, will be honoured, organizers said. The first Chilis, Sauces and Mortars Festival, which will be held Friday to Sunday, is being organized by the Enchilada Fair, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. Mexico ...

  • Man found hanging at St. Petersburg theatre

    A workman who disappeared from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre in December was found hanging in the theatre's attic, investigators said. The body of the 22-year-old man was found hanging from a rope. Investigators believe he hanged himself. The legendary Mariinsky Theatre opened a new $700-million stage earlier this month in a gala ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin. --IANS/RIA ...

  • Tough group stage filled Dortmund with confidence

    Jrgen Klopp told UEFA.com the way his Borussia Dortmund side played in the group stage was "surprising" and gave him belief they could achieve something special this ...

  • Kuwait sees quiet revival in arts scene

    After two lacklustre decades, Kuwait is experiencing a quiet revival of an arts scene once known as the most avant garde in the Gulf, thanks to a new generation eager to tackle sensitive issues using cutting-edge art ...

  • Sydney dance school closes after founder charged with child sex offences

    Chiswick 2046 A dance school in Sydney's inner-west has made the decision to close down after its founder was charged with multiple child sexual assault offences. Grant Davies, the 39-year-old founder of RG Dance Studio in Chiswick, was arrested last week. He is facing four counts of aggravated sexual assault, and two counts of aggravated indecent assault of a person under 16. The former ...

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Vanilla Sky [DVD]

Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's faithful Hollywood remake of Alejandro Amenabar's (The Others) 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), is many things all at once. It is a romantic melodrama, a murder mystery, an existential thriller, and a perplexing dream-logic puzzlebox, not to mention a barely disguised cinematic meditation on the larger-than-life perfection ... ...

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  • S.J. opera scholarships awarded to students

    The 13th Stockton Opera Guild Kathe Underwood Scholarship Competition was held recently at the historic St. John's Anglican Church in downtown ...

  • Apparel Workers stage ‘warning’ strike

    Clothing workers in KwaZulu-Natal went on strike on Tuesday and yesterday to protest against wage levels that the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) said were below the legal minimum. About 10 000 workers mounted a ';warning'; strike against member firms of the United Clothing and Textile Association, mainly in Newcastle and QwaQwa, Sactwu said. The ...

  • CA slams Revillame as it affirms show suspension over boy’s lusty dance

    MANILA, Philippines – Calling its host ';insensitive,'; the Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) when it suspended TV5's ';Willing Willie'; for a month over its episode in which a 6-year-old boy was cajoled into dancing like a lusty macho dancer. In its 11-page decision, the appeals court, through ...

  • Wagners 200th birthday celebrated with opera singalong

    In the shower or in the car -- with the windows rolled up -- weren't the only places amateur Seattle opera singers could perform Wednesday night. More than 200 Seattle opera fans belted out classic Wagner pieces at the Seattle Center Armory. The Seattle Opera's Wagner singalong celebrated the composer's 200th birthday and the opera's upcoming August performances of the ...

  • Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley puts foot down over false report he wants a UK passport

    A Donegal man has been charged with murdering four British soldiers over 30 years ago in one of the most notorious IRA atrocities of the ...

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