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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | |  Arthur Rimbaud by The Ovi Team
October 20th 1853. On this day, Arthur Rimbaud is born in Charleville, France. His father, an army officer, deserted the family when Rimbaud was six. Rimbaud was a brilliant student, and his first poem... | | | |  Book review: Sartre's "Nausea" by Joseph Gatt
There are really two ways of reading Sartre. One way to read him is to read his books like it's his point of view, one that you think is correct or incorrect, but that you don't necessarily want to follow. | | | |  The Failure Of Success by Jan Sand
I was inspired to think about this by the sculpture of Damien Hirst of a skull inset with an entire surface of diamonds. Hirst is a very successful and very controversial artist who does extremely well in his... | |
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| | |  Phillis Wheatley free by The Ovi Team
October 18th 1775; African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. Phillis Wheatley (1753-December 5, 1784), enslaved at the age of eight, is widely known as the first African-American woman in US history... | | | |  Oscar Wilde by The Ovi Team
October 16th 1854. Oscar Wilde is born on this day in Dublin, Ireland. He grew up in Ireland and went to England to attend Oxford, where he graduated with honours in 1878. A popular society figure known... | | | |  Mood Indigo by The Ovi Team
October 15th 1930; the legendary composer and bandleader Duke Ellington was so famous for his poise and charm that it should be no surprise that he had a pithy story at the ready whenever he was asked about one of his most famous... | | | |  Pulp Fiction by The Ovi Team
October 14th 1994; the writer-director Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, a crime drama featuring multiple storylines and a large ensemble cast including John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Harvey Keitel, opens in theatres. | | | |  Paddington Bear by The Ovi Team
13th October, 1958; the first of a series of books featuring Paddington Bear is published "A Bear Called Paddington", the first story is about a bear who is found at Paddington railway station in London by the Brown family. | | | |  Back on the Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Wins Over Spirit by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
In March, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal upheld an original jury finding that Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven did not infringe copyright in Spirit's 1968 song Taurus. Michael Skidmore, who had filed the suit in 2014 as trustee... | | | |  Porgy and Bess premieres on Broadway by The Ovi Team
On October 10, 1935, George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess premieres on Broadway. Porgy and Bess began its journey to the Broadway stage in 1936, when George Gershwin wrote a letter late one night to the author of a book he was reading proposing that th | | | | next | | |
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