Culture
Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section.


	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.
	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...

	Woody Guthrie by The Ovi Team October 3rd 1967; Woody Guthrie, godfather of the 1950s folk revival movement, dies.
	Tom Clancy by The Ovi Team October 1st; on this day in 2013, espionage and military thriller author Tom Clancy, whose books include "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games," dies in Baltimore at age 66 following a brief illness.
	Jalal al-Din Rumi (30 Sept 1207 - 17 Dec 1273) by Rene Wadlow Rumi, a poet and mystic of Persian culture, was born in what is today Afghanistan and died in what is now Turkey. He used the image of a person as the flute of the Spirit. Man is a flute for the breath of God...
	James Byron Dean, the legend's end by The Ovi Team On September 30, 1955, Dean and his mechanic Rolf Wutherich set off from Competition Motors, where they had prepared his Porsche 550 Spyder that morning for a sports car race at Salinas, California.
	Miles Davis by The Ovi Team On September 28, 1991, jazz trumpet legend Miles Davis dies in a California hospital at the age of 65.
	European Day of Languages by The Ovi Team September 26th; there have never been more opportunities to work or study in a different European country - but lack of language competence prevents many people from taking advantage of them.
	Michael Douglas by The Ovi Team September 25th; on this day in 1944, Michael Douglas, who will become one of Hollywood's A-list stars in the 1980s with such blockbuster films as Wall Street and Fatal Attraction, is born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
prev		next