Khalid Abol Naga, a young Egyptian actor, producer and director, was in Abu Dhabi last month for the screening of his award-winning film Microphone. Weekend Review caught up with him as he spoke about his work, the lessons he has learnt and the relationship between political change and the Egyptian filmmaking industry. Excerpts: In [...]
Calico Joe by John Grisham From ebooks.com Price Dh90 John Grisham is the master of the legal thriller, but he’s also a baseball superfan, so this novel hones in on the world surrounding the sport. The story is about a fateful day in 1973 when, during a major league game, one baseball player hits another and [...]
India’s information and broadcasting ministry was behind the last-minute cancellation of the premiere of The Dirty Picture on Sunday. The airing was stopped despite 59 cuts in the film to make it suitable for television viewing. While the film’s director Milan Luthria is shocked, filmmaker Karan Johar branded it hypocrisy. Information and broadcasting ministry officials [...]
Tamil star Dhanush is upset with reports that his father-in-law, the legendary Rajnikanth, is reimbursing the Telugu distributor’s revenue losses for his movie 3. Dhanush, who became a sensation across the country with his song Kolaveri di, is married to Rajnikanth’s daughter Aishwarya, who has directed 3. "How I love the stories that are created [...]
For more than 30 years their name has been synonymous with bright, sophisticated and authentically-brilliant pop music. Close your eyes and the Bananarama sound is timeless. Open your eyes and they don’t look far off it either. The girls were in town to officially open the Hard Rock Café Dubai. Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward [...]
Story By: by Felix Contreras Something about tradition inspires reverence and creativity. Throughout Latin America and parts of the U.S., musicians are exhuming centuries-old musical cultures and infusing them with new life to create songs that sound both familiar and new. Peru’s Novalima is doing just that with Afro-Peruvian music. Over the course of three [...]
When the Hives last played at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the appearance could have been considered a victory lap for the band. It was 2003, and the practitioners of lean, fashionable rock ‘n’ roll had a year earlier seen their air-guitar-ready scolder Hate to Say I Told You So crack the top-100 [...]
Los Angeles: Lindsay Lohan, on the comeback trail after being released from formal probation last month, on Monday strongly denied a claim that she had shoved a woman in a West Hollywood nightclub. Lohan’s spokesman said the 25 year-old Freaky Friday actress was never at the nightclub in question and called the allegations "malicious and unfounded." [...]
By Mike Collett-White LONDON | Mon Apr 2, 2012 2:33pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Some artists prefer not to talk about the value of their work. Damien Hirst clearly revels in it, going so far as to call art “the greatest currency in the world”. On the eve of Hirst’s first major retrospective in his [...]
NEW YORK | Wed Apr 4, 2012 6:41pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday filed suit demanding auctioneer Sotheby’s forfeit a 10th-century sandstone statue the government says was looted from a Cambodian temple. The statue, known as the Duryodhana, is believed to have been stolen from the Prasat Chen temple at Koh [...]