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The gospel on celebrity and pop culture‎

Miley Cyrus is back ... on Twitter, that is, crediting her return to none other than Charlie Sheen. Oh, and her fans too. The teen star returned to the micro-blogging site on the heels of her favorite movie actress win at the Kids' C [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Japan tsunami seriously damaged Matsushima cultural site

Partly because of its deep Shinto and Buddhist roots, Japanese culture exhibits a distinctive aesthetic relationship to nature. Rather than an assembly of individual parts seen and experienced in isolation, nature is a dynamic whole witn [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

The pop culture alliance of Lady Gaga, Google, Twitter — and...

Lady Gaga visited both Google and Twitter today and I’ve been wondering what that means for how celebrities are feeding off of Silicon Valley and vice versa. While Lady Gaga is a pop music star, people find out about her t [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Najaf unprepared to be 2012's Islamic Capital of Culture

A half-billion-dollar effort to showcase Iraq’s holiest Shiite city to the world is coming down to the wire as many contracts remain unsigned and funds are being hastily re-allocated. Preparations for Najaf to become the Arab world [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

E-culture Among University Students

Electronic technology is changing our life-style to a great extent. There are many areas of electronic technology helping different sections of a common man. For instance, terms like e-commerce, e-business, e-banking, e-mails, e-organiza [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Celebrating cultures with Family Heritage Festival

Where does your family come from? What culture is your family? Oftentimes the answers to those questions can be lost or forgotten. However, Woodbury Elementary is embracing the different cultures of its students. Woodbury Elem [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Celebration of Chinese culture rings in Year of the Rabbit

About 300 hundred people celebrated Chinese culture Saturday night in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom. People of all ages and backgrounds joined members of the Chinese American Student Association in welcoming and celebrating the Year of [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Chinese Lantern Festival traditions and culture

The Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Festival (simplified Chinese: pinyin: Yuánxiāojié) or Shang Yuan Festival (simplified Chinese: pinyin: Shàngyuánjié) in China is a festival celebrated on the fifte [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Traditional culture comes alive at school

An act by Kapila Venu, a leading exponent of the oldest form of Indian classical dance Koodiyattam, stole the hearts of many on Thursday. Koodiyattam is a dance associated with 2,000 years' history of Sanskrit theatre tradition in In [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Saints deny 'culture problem' despite latest scandal

St Kilda CEO Michael Nettlefold denies his club has a "culture problem" despite the suspension of four young players who broke curfew and misused alcohol and prescription drugs on a pre-season trip to New Zealand, the latest in [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Feature: Haiti in the Cultural Mirror of Africa

The one year anniversary of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti and left over 250,000 dead, a quarter of its civil servants killed and most of its infrastructure destroyed have brought into the forefront why is that 207 years of in [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Urs celebrations: Singing for Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai to th...

Devotees from across the country visited the shrine in Bhit Shah, near Hyderabad. Lights draped over the building glittered and flickered while the music gathered momentum throughout the evening. Disciples recited their own rend [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Ghana must make its culture attractive

Efo Kojo Mawugbe, Executive Director of the National Theatre of Ghana, has called on government to make Ghana's culture more attractive by positively projecting it as a living identity of the state. He said culture is currently perce [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Turku, Finland: European Capital of Culture 2011

Doctors in the Finnish city of Turku will this year be dispensing a new form of medicine to those feeling a bit down - a visit to a one of the thousands of cultural events taking place during the next 12 months. Alongside Tallinn, Turku [...]