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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | |  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. Mad | | | |  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. | | | |  Jayaprakash Narayan: Advocate of the Nonviolent Total Revolution by Rene Wadlow
Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-1979) whose birth anniversary we mark on 11 October, was an Indian social reformer in the struggle for Indian independence led by Mahatma Gandhi and a social reformer after the independence of India. | |
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| | |  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 | | | |  Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) The Highest mountains stand as the witnesses of the Great Reality by Rene Wadlow
Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter, explorer, and cultural activist, whose birth anniversary we note on 9 October, stressed throughout his life the role of beauty and culture in bringing humanity together in unity. | | | |  Great Balls Of Fire by The Ovi Team
October 8th 1957. Jerry Lee Lewis was not the only early rock-and-roller from a strict Christian background who struggled to reconcile his religious beliefs with the moral implications of the music he created. | | | |  Two Glimpses into American History from Down Under by Ovi Magazine Guest
Back in April 1980, this writer was stationed at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo. Returning from a late-night meeting he turned on the TV to catch up on the news. | | | |  Barbara Barnouin & Yu Changgen, Zhou Enlai: A Political Life by Rene Wadlow
In early April 1976, during the Qingming festival when the Chinese traditionally mourn their dead and sweep their graves, millions of people went to Tiananmen Square to pay tribute to Zhou Enlai as a symbol of reason... | | | |  Jane Eyre is published by The Ovi Team
October 6th, on this day in 1847, Jane Eyre is published by Smith, Elder and Co. Charlotte Bronte, the book's author, used the pseudonym Currer Bell. The book, about the struggles of an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess... | | | |  Isaac Singer and the Nobel Prize by The Ovi Team
October 5th; on this day in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Singer wrote in Yiddish about Jewish life in Poland and the United States, and translations of his work became popular... | | | | next | | |
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