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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | |  The Shawshank Redemption by The Ovi Team
September 23rd; on this day in 1994, The Shawshank Redemption, starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, opens in theaters around the United States. Based on a short story titled "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,"... | | | |  Amgalan, a Buriat Doctor, Speaks about Buddhism by Valerie Sartor
Buddhism is a great social and cultural tradition. Buddhism has the power to impart to the ordinary people its own characteristic values and attitudes and has a profound influence on the values of the home as well as the nation. Ling also asserts that Bud | | | |  Paulo Freire: Popular Participation by Rene Wadlow
In the Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action adopted by the 1976 World Employment Conference it is stated, "A basic needs-oriented policy implies the participation of the people in making the decisions which... | |
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| | |  US Immigration vs. Charlie Chaplin by The Ovi Team
September 19th 1952; The United States is to prevent the film legend, Charlie Chaplin, from returning to his Hollywood home until he has been investigated by the Immigration Services. | | | |  Rock legend Hendrix dies after party by The Ovi Team
September 18th 1970; Guitarist Jimi Hendrix has died after collapsing at a party in London. Police say there was no question of foul play. A number of sleeping pills were found at the house in Notting Hill Gate... | | | |  The Who & the BBC explosion by The Ovi Team
September 17th 1967. In introducing them at the Monterey Pop Festival three months earlier, Eric Burdon of the Animals had offered high praise for the up-and-coming British rock band the Who... | | | |  When the memory fades by Amir Khatib
Once I somehow tried to define homeland. Homeland is the tenderness our mothers gave us; it is the cold winter next to the warm stove and a cup tea waiting to go to school... | | | |  Robert McCloskey by The Ovi Team
September 14th; on this day in 1914, children's author and illustrator Robert McCloskey, whose books include such classics as "Make Way for Ducklings" and "Blueberries for Sal," is born in Hamilton, Ohio. | | | |  Roald Dahl by The Ovi Team
September 13th 1916, Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) and James and the Giant Peach (1961), is born in South Wales. | | | |  Flowering Judas by The Ovi Team
Katherine Anne Porter's first collection of short stories, Flowering Judas, is published September 11th 1930. The title story, which appeared earlier that year in Hound and Horn magazine... | | | prev | | next | | |
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