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Cultural Exchange: Hong Kong comics industry back in the game
Hong Kong — Times were good in the 1970s and '80s for Hong Kong comics — so good that one publisher was listed on the stock exchange and a newspaper dedicated to the genre published daily for two years. They were, in the words of Tony Wong,...
Tags: Cartoons, Arts, Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, Hong Kong
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Cannes 2012: Brandon Cronenberg takes a (sort of) familiar path
24 FramesDavid and Brandon Cronenberg are the first father-and-son tandem to premiere movies in Cannes in the same year. The 32-year-old Brandon's first feature, a horror-movie-cum-social-critique called “Antiviral,” had its premiere in the Un... -
Trailer Trash: New preview for Ben Affleck's 'Argo' [Video]
24 FramesBen Affleck's next movie, "Argo," scheduled for Oct. 12, presents the hardest test yet of his expertise behind the camera, as he steps into a genre -- Middle Eastern conflict -- that has felled any number of skilled filmmakers.... -
Foreign actors in India do well by playing the bad guy
MUMBAI, India — To prepare for one of his many Bollywood roles playing a nasty foreigner, Gary Richardson doesn't do a lot of research, embrace method acting or even give the character much thought. "This is stereotype acting," the American said....
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Julia Roberts, Mumbai (India), Amitabh Bachchan, Tom Cruise
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Drummer-composer Matt Chamberlain talks improv and Mint residency
Unless you're a regular subscriber to Modern Drummer magazine, the name Matt Chamberlain may not ring immediately familiar to you. If you're a jazz or rock fan, however, you would be amazed how many times you've heard Chamberlain's work in recent years....
Tags: Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam (music group), Kanye West, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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Summer Night Life Special
It's Memorial Day weekend, and the hot season of Southern California night life is here. Get off on the good foot with our Summer Night Life Guide: a great drink poolside, a movie in the grass, a ridonculous day-party, a midnight bike ride. It's the start...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Foods and Beverages, Concerts, Demetri Martin, Human Interest
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Donna Summer ruled majestically, if uneasily
Pop & HissDonna Summer's controversial international hit "Love to Love You Baby" was, according to her, recorded as something of a joke. It wasn't supposed to be the singer's calling card on the world stage. It wasn't meant to be one of...... -
Piano and flute in India, where the sitar is king
NEW DELHI — When Gavin Martin and his family moved here from southern India in the early '70s, the country's capital city offered the gifted young pianist exactly one option for continuing his music education: the Delhi School of Music. It was...
Tags: New Delhi (India), Education, Culture, Teaching and Learning, Classical Music (genre)
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Classic Donna Summer: Online catalog shows top singer in control
Pop & HissThe late disco siren Donna Summer had several clips that were staples of the early music-video era. Here's a sampling.... -
Maurice Sendak dies at 83; author of 'Where the Wild Things Are'
He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time....
Tags: People (magazine), Concerts, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Science and Technology, Danbury
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Los Angeles Review of Books aims to 'revive' literary culture
On the home page of the Los Angeles Review of Books, a crisp color image of a couple treading water in a pool fills much of the screen. An essay probes the meaning of pools "in our lives and in our art." That piece sits atop a video interview with...Tags: Culture, Amazon.com Inc., Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine, Arts and Culture
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K-pop enters American pop consciousness
The nine young women of Girls' Generation sauntered onto the performance stage of "Late Show With David Letterman." Flanked by a DJ and live drummer, the South Korean pop group wore lacy black mini-dresses and thigh-high leather boots, as if they were...
Tags: Concerts, Satellite and Cable Service, SUVs and Crossovers, Black Eyed Peas (music group), Science and Technology
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