Search Results for 'culture'

Debate on influence of Western culture

The department of English, Government College for Women, on Wednesday organized a debate on the topic 'Do Not Go West Young Women, Do Not Go West' on the college premises. Comparing was done by Upneet Dhaliwal, Jerry Jacob, Pre [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Festival of Indian Culture in Russia

A festival of Indian Culture in Russia will be held from 17-30 September 2011 across Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan. The Festival is being organised by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi and the Ministry of Culture of [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Indelible mark on Australian culture

Katharine Brisbane was a fledgling publisher searching for new Australian plays when in the early 1970s she arranged to meet a young playwright. He arrived, leather-clad and long of hair and leg, and handed her three scripts. The Comin [...]

Posted On : Sep, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Kalasha culture feels heat of modernity stealthily making in...

Away from the fevers and frets of life, a strange conglomerate of about 4,000 people dotting the picturesque countryside of Chitral valley, continues discreetly to battle with the temptations of modern life which apparently are impacting [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

GEEK CULTURE

Social media manager is not a job to covet after your company has spent the past week often mishandling the announcement of a huge transition. Especially if that transition involves getting out of your core business, canceling some much-h [...]

Posted On : Sep, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Arts academy to revive local culture

“The Gibran Adeel Cultural Academy will revive the dying local culture by imparting training to youths in singing, artwork, wax work, lacquer painting techniques, stone carving, dancing, crafting, calligraphy, visual, performing and [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Cycling festival boosts Fort Collins' biking culture

The Fort Collins Cycling Festival wrapped up a weekend of bikes, beer and international competition Sunday afternoon in Old Town Fort Collins. About 1,100 cyclists from the region, nation and across the world gathered in Fort Collins f [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon?

No British youth subculture worth its drugs has gone unnoticed by film-makers, but the 90s rave culture has proved notoriously difficult to pin down with any degree of artistic or box-office success. There was much to enjoy in 1999's [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

New York International Latino Film Festival celebrates Latin...

The big-time, high-end New York Film Festival kicks off at the end of next month, but until then the city has a few other great collections of flickering images to send the summer out. Here are three to put into your calendar: The New [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Woodward culture unites cruisers across generational divides

They gather on opposite sides of Woodward at 13 1/2 Mile: the baby boomers who created Woodward Dream Cruise culture and the "Fast & Furious" youth movement who will someday inherit the avenue's most celebrated day. " [...]

Posted On : Aug, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Gangster culture

What was the cause of the riots in the United Kingdom? This wasn’t a political riot. There wasn’t anything political about it. It wasn’t even race-on-race rioting. It was races rioting together — rioting against th [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

A Future Wrapped in 1980s Culture

Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One” is a book filled with references to video games, virtual reality, ’80s pop-culture trivia, geek heroes like E. Gary Gygax, and funny-sounding cult items like Frobozz and Raaka-Tu. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

POP CULTURE'S MOST MEMORABLE WRESTLERS

What do you get Hulk Hogan on his birthday? I mean, aside from a new shirt? The guy's big day was Aug. 11, so we're celebrating with a look back at some of pop-culture's hardest-working performers: pro wrestlers. Hulk Hog [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Sexualized portrayals of females are norm in pop culture

Examining how men and women have been presented in popular media, University at Buffalo sociologists looked at more than 1,000 images of males and females on the Rolling Stone magazine covers over the course of 43 years. Their conclusion: [...]