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Hooray for Hollywood!

Hooray for Hollywood!

In the Old Testament, a young shepherd vanquished a formidable giant in the Valley of Elah. At the 2010 Oscar ceremony, David again triumphed over Goliath with a stone called “The Hurt Locker.” The flood of awards moved viewers around the (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Wajid Ali Syed

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Rapper’s Eurovision performance leaves Spanish TV red-faced

Rapper's Eurovision performance leaves Spanish TV red-faced

Mario Baquero has had his 15 minutes of fame - one which undoubtedly left Spain’s public broadcaster Corporación Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) rather red-faced and television viewers more than a little open-mouthed. Appearing under the alias of (...)

1 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

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Jessy Matador is Eurovision-bound for France

Jessy Matador is Eurovision-bound for France

It’s official. This year’s French entry at the annual musical jamboree, the Eurovision Song Contest, will be sung by Jessy Matador. Who? You might well ask! Probably unknown to many in this country, the choice was immediately (...)

23 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

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French entry for Eurovision Song Contest - Christophe Willem?

It’s one of those rumours that has been doing the rounds on the Net over the past week, and just like any speculation, once it’s out there it seems that it won’t go away - even though it has been denied. Christophe Willem, the winner (...)

10 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

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Avatar, the movie

Avatar is not just a state-of-the-art 3D movie, it’s the right movie to sum up the first ten years of the 2000s. After almost 3-hours of screenplay (and God Almighty, please let the director have stored another two hours for a special DVD-edition, (...)

14 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Paolo Sandro

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François Pinault’s "Mapping the studio", Venice

François Pinault's "Mapping the studio", Venice

When French billionaire François Pinault gave up his attempts to build a museum on L’île Seguin, an island on the river Seine in the suburbs of the French capital which was once the site of a Renault factory, he chose the Palazzo Grassi in the (...)

11 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

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Flamenco in Paris, Sara Baras style

Flamenco in Paris, Sara Baras style

If your idea of what flamenco dancing is all about is a woman in a frilly polka-dot dress stomping her way across the floor to the clatter of castanets, the accompaniment of twanging guitars and the loudest of gypsy songs - think again. Sure it’s (...)

11 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

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Immigrant = guilty until (or even if) proven innocent

Immigrant = guilty until (or even if) proven innocent

Immigration Procedures: The USA is becoming a police state (if it has not yet turned into one). Immigrants are snatched from their homes and sent to jails (same place they keep hardened criminals) for mere violation of immigration status. In other (...)

29 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Bakoh

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Paris comes alive to "The Sound of Music" - finally

Paris comes alive to "The Sound of Music" - finally

Celebrating 50 years of The Sound of Music - the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical classic makes its Paris debut. Ask many a native English speaker to hum or sing a tune from the musical "The Sound of Music" and the chances are they’ll at (...)

14 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

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Music, Fashion & Religion Do Mix at Pope Benedict’s Alma Mater.

La cantante Yasemin Sannino in abito Michele Miglionico

Great success for the Opening global live concert performance in London’s Westminster Cathedral. Westminster Cathedral, the most important temple of England Catholic, for the launch concert of the Alma Mater with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, (...)

7 Dec. 2009 | | Michele Miglionico

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Soan Faya’s debut album - it ain’t half bad

Just five months after winning the 2009 edition of Nouvelle Star (the French version of Pop Idol), Soan Faya has released his debut album, "Tant pis". Even though he was undoubtedly the "enfant terrible" of the TV talent contest and (...)

4 Dec. 2009 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

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Natalie Dessay steal the show in la bohème

Natalie Dessay steal the show in la bohème

Actually that’s not quite right as the current run of Giacomo Puccini’s four-act work at the Opéra Bastille in Paris came to and end on Sunday. But for many in the audience, Natalie Dessay’s presence was probably the reason for (...)

30 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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Jorge Ameer’s latest controversial film "D’Agostino" unravels the benefits & perils of human cloning

Jorge Ameer's latest controversial film "D'Agostino" unravels the benefits & perils of human cloning

A soon to be released film by auteur Jorge Ameer tells the story of what can happen when one fed up man, Allan Dawson, has too much time on his hands. This story takes place in the future, where science and technology has advanced to such depths that (...)

30 Nov. 2009 | | Hollywood Independents

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Michele Miglionico as the world premiere of the “ Alma Mater” concert in London

Michele Miglionico Fashion designer

Normal 0 21 For the worldwide debut of the first album of His Holiness the Pope Benedict XVI called "Alma Mater", on 2 nd December, the Vatican Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform in a concert together with the solo singer (...)

30 Nov. 2009 | | Michele Miglionico

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Feel Good Tour : on the road again

Feel Good Tour : on the road again

With Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, it’s steal as much as you can get away with, give back as little as possible, and then sue your own customers, calling them criminals and thieves. Fortunately, however, their attitude (...)

18 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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Michael Bernard Fitzgerald Lands in Toronto and Lands Supermarket Residency

Michael Bernard Fitzgerald Lands in Toronto and Lands Supermarket Residency

Besides being a mouthful of a name, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald (MBF) has been steadily growing as a Canadian commodity in the west for the past few years. The Calgarian has become a staple in his hometown, playing the last two Virgin Festivals in his (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | BlogTO

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Morocco nominated for foreign language Oscar

The full list of the 65 nominated countries has been released with only Morocco representing Arab language cinema in the foreign language Academy Award list The contender is Morocco’s Casanegra by Nour-Eddine Lakhmari. Zakaria Rmidi, on the blog (...)

10 nov. 2009 | | The View From Fez

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Paris sways to the Soweto Gospel Choir

Audiences at the Théâtre du Châtelet in the French capital this past week have been delighting in the sights and sounds of the Soweto Gospel Choir. In a run lasting just six days, the group has been serving up its own mix of traditional African gospel (...)

9 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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Art Deco Icons : London Transport - BBC4

Art Deco Icons : London Transport - BBC4

I forgot to blog about this show when it was on over the weekend, but if you’re in the UK you can watch it on BBC iPlayer. "David Heathcote explores the dramatic 1930s London Transport HQ in St James’, London. When it was built in the (...)

3 nov. 2009 | | Annie Mole

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Toronto at 4am : All Hallows’ Eve at the Port Lands

Toronto at 4am : All Hallows' Eve at the Port Lands

The Toronto Port Lands area is always delightfully spooky and beautiful close to dusk. So, I thought... what could possibly be better than pulling an all-nighter at the Port Lands on Halloween - the spookiest time of year ? In undertaking such daring (...)

3 nov. 2009 | | BlogTO

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