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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 ...

  • The Picture House launches With a new digital projector the Cramphorn Theatre in Chelmsford is offering screenings of classic films as well as...

    The Picture House launches ; With a new digital projector the Cramphorn Theatre in Chelmsford is offering screenings of classic films as well as ballet and opera TO celebrate the installation of the brand new state-of-the-art digital film projection equipment at Chelmsford's Cramphorn Theatre, a fresh new identity has been launched to mark the exciting change to the cinema. The Chelmsford ...

  • Groovin again with the Rascals Steven Van Zandt gets 60s group to reunite for Broadway-styleshow.

    Back in the days before he was Little Steven Van Zandt and was justlittle Steven Van Zandt, the future bandanna-wearing tele- mobsterchampion of all things rock and roll went to see his very firstconcert -- The Rascals. It's fair to say that it blew his mind. "Their idea of blue-eyed soul was way more localized than (that of)the British invasion, even though they were all white kids ...

  • Eileen Chang gets B’way-style musical

    Eileen Chang is one of the best known female writers in Chinese modern history. Her novels about romance and relations have contributed to many film and TV productions, including Ang ...

Movie Review

Clueless [Blu-Ray]

Clueless [Blu-Ray]

Amy Heckerlings Clueless offers some of the best humor, entertainment, and social insight the teen comedy genre has to offer. And, while that may sound like damning praise, I do not hesitate to suggest that the teen comedy is one of the most unfairly maligned and underappreciated genres ... ...

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  • Cicadas Take Stage for Their Final Act on Staten Island

    Cicada casings hung from the leaves in Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island Wednesday. Millions more cicadas will climb from the ground in which they have spent the better part of two ...

  • Zaha Hadid launches new design gallery

    From jewellery that should come with a hazard warning to tables that have given up on legs, Oliver Wainwright delves into the inimitable world of Zaha Hadid ...

  • Stage set for voters to decide Texas water plan in November election

    Action Wednesday in the Legislature puts the issue of the state's water plan to voters in November. It will likely be up to Texas voters to decide whether the state should dip into its Rainy Day Fund to pay for water infrastructure. Action by lawmakers Wednesday sets the stage for a November vote on the $2 billion State Water Implementation for Texas (SWIFT) plan to pay for new water ...

  • Tough group stage gave Dortmund 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 ...

  • U.K. believes in the economic power of arts startups

    . As his theory goes, cities with high concentrations of creatives - designers, musicians, tech workers, artists, and so on - tend to experience higher levels of economic development. But it's not necessarily the creatives themselves who drive growth, per se; to those who accept Dr. Florida's ideas (and he has had considerable influence on some city planners), the creative class is ...

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