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  • Post your comment Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 3:30AMTo log in enter your Email and your Password. If you forgot your Password click here . My iPhone broke, so I went to the Genius Bar at the Apple store. (Too much brand terminology; my apologies.) They're not shy, Apple, are they?
  • MUSIC & DANCE Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:19PM- In memory of the 55th anniversary of Thai TV Channel 4, the country's first TV channel, a group of TV announcers, singers, actors, producers and film dubbers are joining hands to present the ''55 Years of Channel 4 Si Yaek Bang Khun Phrom'' concert.
  • First Look: The Secret Sisters' PBS special from Hollywood Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 3:04PMCould it really be that in this age of pop music, often built on calculation and manipulation, that there’s still a place for bona-fide innocence? There is, at least in the parallel musical universe that producer T Bone Burnett is...
  • Warner Bros. Consumer Products Enlists Renowned Artist Thomas Kinkade to Create Paintings Honoring the 70th ... Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 2:44PMBURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Warner Bros. Consumer Products today announced a partnership with Thomas Kinkade, the world renowned artist known as the Painter of Light™, to create an exclusive, licensed collection of paintings based on classic Warner Bros.’ films and properties. This special collection of Studio Masterworks paintings will be released as both Limited Edition and Open Edition ...
  • Warner Bros. Consumer Products Enlists Renowned Artist Thomas Kinkade to Create Paintings Honoring the 70th ... Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 2:34PMBURBANK, Calif.----Warner Bros. Consumer Products today announced a partnership with Thomas Kinkade, the world renowned artist known as the Painter of Light™, to create an exclusive, licensed collection of paintings based on classic Warner Bros.’ films and properties.
  • I Foresee You Enjoying Southwestern Bulgaria... Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:57AMBulgaria has a deep history and much of the past remains for you to see. The spirit of Baba Vanga, Bulgaria's beloved mystical prophet, for example, lives on in the tiny mountainous village Rupite.
  • I Foresee You Enjoying Southwestern Bulgaria... Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:56AMThe town of Melnik with the so called Melnik Pyramids, miraculous rock formations, in the background. Photo by kordopulova-house.com
  • Which new hockey game feels like a classic in the making? Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 7:25AMWow. NHL Slapshot is a serious sleeper this year. It is the best hockey game I've played on the Wii. It's the type of game I will pull out when friends come over for a game party. I think it could become a classic if enough Wii gamers buy it.
  • Mike Ragogna: From The Grateful Dead to Rhythm Devils: A Conversation with Mickey Hart Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:17PMA Conversation With Mickey Hart Mike Ragogna: You're on tour now, right? Mickey Hart: I am on tour with the Rhythm Devils. I am in...
  • Bulgaria's Zemen Monastery - Mysteries Buried under Beauty Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 7:56AM“This evening Lyudmila learned the history of the monastery near Zemen. From the Princess of Monaco. The former Hollywood star. But it was not a Hollywood script; she told her facts.
  • Bulgaria's Zemen Monastery - Mysteries Buried under Beauty Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 7:55AMThe Zemen Monastery site consists of two connected whitewashed dwelling buildings, surrounding a lush meadow, a small bell tower, and a church in the middle of a spacious inner yard.
  • Kukunoor's 'Aashayein' touches the heart Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 1:30PMThis is a film about coping with dying. But that's not what makes it such a special experience.
  • What To Do Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:33AMWhat To Do is a free listing of special events in the city and region. Priority will be given to community groups, non-profit organizations and family activities. It is not intended as a free listing for businesses which have other promotional options within the newspaper.
  • Summer Sundae Festival, Leicester, 13-15 August - The DiS Review Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 5:06AMDiS went to Summer Sundae last weekend. We had a stage and everything. Here, three DiS scribes share their highlights from the weekend that was...
  • Janet's World: Hoarding luck with a mystical yard of charms Saturday, August 14, 2010 @ 11:11PMJanet's World Is good luck something you can amass and store up for future use, by simply acquiring large numbers of items that are widely regarded as good-luck charms?
  • Two Cheers For American Tolerance Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 9:01AMThe mosque controversy shows that America manages its hatreds better than any other country.
  • A mystical journey with Rumi Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 5:07AMIbrahim Gamard is a California-based sheikh of the Sufi Mevlana order and has spent his life translating the poetry of 13th-century Sufi mystic Mevlana Rumi. Murtazali Dugrichilov of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service spoke to Gamard about the problems of modern-day Sufism and why Rumi is so popular in the West.
  • Non-Catholics influenced Vatican II liberalization of Catholic church, new study says Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 9:07AMA new analysis of voting patterns among bishops at the Second Vatican Council points to the indirect influence of non-Catholic churches in the Council's liberalization of the Catholic Church.
  • Non-Catholics influenced Vatican II liberalization of Catholic church, new study says Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 9:07AMA new analysis of voting patterns among bishops at the Second Vatican Council points to the indirect influence of non-Catholic churches in the Council's liberalization of the Catholic Church.
  • Interview: 'Many Americans Love Rumi...But They Prefer He Not Be Muslim' Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 10:33AMIbrahim Gamard is a California-based sheikh of the Sufi Mevlevi order and has spent his life translating the poetry of the 13th-century Sufi mystic, Rumi. Murtazali Dugrichilov of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service spoke to Gamard about why Rumi is so popular in the West and the problems of modern-day Sufism. -RFE
  • Kelly seems great fit for Notre Dame Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 5:57AMSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- This is all you really need to know about new Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly: His football teams win. They win far more than they lose. They win more than they did before he arrived.
  • College Football Capsules: Texas G Allen aggravates foot injury Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 5:41AMAUSTIN (AP) — Texas right guard Tray Allen will likely miss the rest of training camp after aggravating a left foot injury he suffered this past spring.
  • ND FOOTBALL: Irish nab rising star in Kelly ... finally Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 10:04PMSOUTH BEND — This is all you really need to know about new Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly: His football teams win. They win far more than they lose. They win more than they did before he arrived. They win championships. The secret, if there is one, is this: Kelly is a smart and charismatic leader with an almost mystical ability to make any quarterback he touches play like an All-American.
  • Notre Dame Finally Catches the Rising Star Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 2:55PMCOLLEGE FOOTBALL '10: With hiring of Kelly, Notre Dame finally catches the rising star College football - Notre Dame Fighting Irish football - Sport - Notre Dame - Football
  • Movies that have golfers off to a tee Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 6:20PMMacnab turns up in London dressed in full Highland regalia (kilt, bonnet, sporran) and with his golf clubs on his shoulder. He is in town to stay with his cousin somewhere in suburbia. As soon as he arrives in the cousin's drawing room, Macnab starts some informal golf practice on the cousin's carpet. After a couple of ungainly swings, the overhead light is broken, the curtains are down and the ...
  • Anis Shivani: Independent Bookstore Spotlight: Interview with Claudia Maceo Sharp of The Twig Book Shop, San Antonio Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 12:22PMIn focusing on independent bookstores, I introduce you to The Twig Book Shop, long a fixture in San Antonio's literary community.
  • What To Do Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 2:34AMWhat To Do is a free listing of special events in the city and region. Priority will be given to community groups, non-profit organizations and family activities. It is not intended as a free listing for businesses which have other promotional options within the newspaper.
  • Sasha Frere-Jones: Drummer Klaus Dinger’s Krautrock. Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:11PMAt the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona in May, I heard at least three bands using the sounds of Krautrock, a name that seems condescending but is actually useful. Krautrock’s beat is driving but never heavy, more focussed on trance than explosion. Using constant sixteenth notes on the . . .
  • Sasha Frere-Jones: Michael Rother’s Krautrock. Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:11PMAt the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona in May, I heard at least three bands using the sounds of Krautrock, a name that seems condescending but is actually useful. Krautrock’s beat is driving but never heavy, more focussed on trance than explosion. Using constant sixteenth notes on the . . .
  • Richard Brody: Ying Liang’s “Taking Father Home.” Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:11PMparagraph class="noindent"To make his first feature film, “Taking Father Home” (Typecast), the young Chinese director Ying Liang worked with a borrowed video camera and a volunteer cast and crew; shooting without permits, he completed the film for several thousand dollars. He also eluded censorship to tell . . .
  • Peter Schjeldahl: “Andy Warhol: The Last Decade,” at the Brooklyn Museum. Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:11PMAnything negative you say, or even think, about Andy Warhol as an artist may come back to humble you. Some of us discounted the late styles of his painting and prints, up to his death, in 1987, as the phoned-in flailings of a tired talent, with exceptions. In the . . .
  • Joan Acocella: Mark Morris’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.” Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:10PMMark Morris’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato” (1988), based on poems by Milton and paintings by Blake, and set to an oratorio by Handel, is widely considered one of the great dance works of the twentieth century. In the course of its thirty . . .
  • Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:10PMgoatTitle--“WORD FOR WORD” Terry Teachout reads from and discusses his new book, “Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.” The jazz trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso will also perform. (Bryant Park, Sixth Ave. at 42nd St. For more information, call 212-768-4242. Aug. 4 at 12:30.) “ . . .
  • Goings on About Town: Classical Music Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:09PMPageBreak -- CONCERTS IN TOWN THE STONE Aug. 5 at 8: The composer-performers Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier are co-curating this month at John Zorn’s intimate music club. One of their first concerts is given by a great downtown piano stalwart, Kathleen Supové, who plays . . .
  • Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:09PMgoatTitle--NYC MUSICAL SAW FESTIVAL Folk meets classical meets avant-garde (and jazz and Broadway, for that matter) at this unique event, the labor of love of Natalia (Saw Lady) Paruz, who apparently dominates the genre: the ancient art of coaxing tones with a bow out of a carpenter’ . . .
  • Books: “The Thieves of Manhattan.” Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:09PMCrime caper meets metafictional satire of the publishing industry in this mischievous novel. Ian Minot, a hard-up writer from Indiana, moonlights as a barista in Manhattan while he watches “raptors and poseurs” rocket to fame on implausible memoirs and derivative stories. When an editor suggests passing off . . .
  • Books: “The News Where You Are.” Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:08PMO’Flynn’s plots unspool in the postwar English landscapes you never see on Masterpiece Theatre. Frank Allcroft is a television anchor on a Birmingham news show specializing in human-interest stories: local murders, savory-pie competitions, unexpected holes opening up in pensioners’ back gardens. But off . . .
  • Books: “The German Genius.” Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 11:08PMHow could a cultural superpower that gave the world Kant, Goethe, and Einstein have also produced Hitler? In recent decades, as obsession with the Third Reich has crested, Germanophiles have struggled to exalt the nation’s cultural virtues. Watson’s eight-hundred-and-fifty-page love letter to . . .
  • Thoroughly committed Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 7:36PMABILENE — Noel Singleton, 56, freely admits he’s not the stereotypical picture of someone who has devoted his life to Buddhism.
  • Author's debut novel set in Canandaigua Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 4:16AMIlie Ruby, a Brighton graduate, will return to the area for readings in Pittsford and Canandaigua.
  • 07/29/2010 12:06 VATICAN - CHINA Vatican: Bishops and priests in China, be united with the pope and each other, even ... Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 5:20AM» A letter from Cardinal Dias at the end of the Year for Priests, reiterates that loyalty to the pope is a "guarantee of freedom." At the same time he asks bishops and priests to rebuild unity in the Church in China, abandoning the desire for wealth or advancement in society and politics.
  • Meet Paul Yarrow, the 'Fat Guy' in the Background of Every Newscast [Television] Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:51PM# television This is Paul Yarrow , a community worker from South London. Do you recognize him? That may be because he's appeared on at least 20 different British news broadcasts over the last few months. In the background. More »
  • Chicago folks chill out in a desert of dunes Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 10:14PMPorter, Indiana - The afternoon silence in the dunes is eerie. A wind blows through both grass and hair and the scene is bathed in an almost mystical light as the sun tries to break through leaden clouds.
  • KEISSER: Misty is yearning for life off the sand Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 1:28AMRetirement? Really? stopped to autograph her shirt because the girl didn't have a program or photo.
  • Amankora, Bhutan: Luxury … With a Touch of Enlightenment Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 8:38AMwOw’s Gypsy, Mary Wells, brings us her favorite places in the world to see, sleep, eat, drink and canoodle … and has found just the spot in the Himalayas Adventure | Today 12:00 am "Bhutan, the land of the Thunder Dragon (that’s a good thing!), is in the mystical and medicinal Himalayas, a place that has escaped Facebook and "Mad Men." Aman has placed its poetically minimalist but luxe lodges ...
  • Stone me! New henge found Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 8:31AMWOODEN Stonehenge twin with same alignment found just metres from original
  • Human (and Mathematical) Equations Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 12:54PMShane Shambhu, seated at center, with Divya Kasturi, in “A Disappearing Number,” a British production, conceived by Simon McBurney, at the David H. Koch Theater.
  • The Vatican's new sex abuse guideline misstep Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 3:36PMThe church's tougher new stand on the issue still disappoints -- and manages to insult women
  • The Greatest Films Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 4:31PMSean is a senior critic for Filmcritic.com. Inspiration comes from the strangest places at Walt Disney Pictures. Recent films released by the studio can trace their roots back to classic works of literature ( Alice in Wonderland , A Christmas Carol ), video game franchises ( Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ), and a popular theme-park ride ( Pirates of the Caribbean ).
  • News Categories Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 2:39AMThe Sufis of the Alawiya Sufi order of Sana’a consists of about 70 Shafi’i males ranging from 12 to 75 years of age. Sufism has come to symbolize a wide and diverse range of perceptions to different people.