Tag: arts & entertainment
Buffy, Firefly creator Joss Whedon takes time to make a more conventional movie
Joss Whedon's dad has been asking him for years when he'd do a grown-up movie. You know, without fanciful creatures. Never, he vowed. Au contraire. Whedon's latest picture, Much Ado About Nothing, in theaters now, is grown up, for sure....
Superman reboot, Hollywood movie on Hollywood make big screen debuts this weekend
Superman is getting a moodier, darker reboot in "Man of Steel" -- the new Hollywood adaptation of the super hero classic out in theaters this weekend. It'll match up against "This is the End," a story about Hollywood actors facing the end of the world...
Apple seeks to chart new course with rollout of iOS 7 software
Apple reinvented the mobile space when it launched the iPhone, and then upended it again when it opened up its operating system, iOS, to third party developers. Now it's trying to recapture some of that mojo with its first major overhaul of the software, set to be released in the fall....
West Bank’s only ballet school offers refuge for Palestinian kids
Shyreen Ziadeh runs a dance studio in Ramallah, in the Palestinian Territories. It's not what she dreamed of doing, but it's all she can imagine doing these days. She introduces ballet to youngsters, and gives them a refuge from everyday life....
Iona Rozeal Brown creates Afro-Japanese art mashup
Iona Rozeal Brown's art fuses two distinctly different cultures into paintings that jar the audience with their atypical styles. Brown, an African American, grew up with an appreciation for Japanese culture. That appreciation and her own roots come together in her art....
VIDEO: Songwriter-actor Tim Minchin creates soundtrack for acclaimed Broadway hit Matilda
Matilda is up for a dozen Tony Awards at tonight's awards ceremony. The soundtrack for Matilda, based on the book by Roald Dahl, has been especially acclaimed, created by Australian Tim Minchin, who has a long affection for Matilda, and many of Dahl's books....
Brazilian rap artist earns high praise from country's music scene
Kleber Gomes, better known by his stage name of Criolo, is one of Brazil's most prominent rappers. His music, which draws inspiration from his humble upbringing in the favelas os Sao Paulo, has been praised by some of Brazil's most well-known musicians....
Sarah Sze set to represent U.S. at art's Venice Biennale
Sarah Sze makes ambitious sculptures, but practically always out of run-of-the-mill objects. Her sculpting will be on full display this year when she represents the United States at the art world's Venice Biennale....
Richard Wagner's 200th birthday passes with little notice in the U.S.
Richard Wagner's music was widely celebrated in the United States for nearly a century, until it became inextricably linked with Nazism in the mid-20th Century. In late May, Wagner's 200th birthday passed -- and it did so with almost no fanfare....
Well-known Scottish actor Alan Cumming takes all roles in new Broadway showing of Macbeth
Alan Cumming has played all manner of characters over the length of his career. In his latest role, he plays a number of characters in one single performance, a new Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth....
