Art & Culture
International Dance Festival 2010 - Bangkok/Phuket, March 5-14, 2010
International Dance Festival is one of Thailand's first and largest festival devoted to the Performing Arts. Held annually at major theatrical venues in Bangkok, the International Dance Festival is highly renowned for its great selection of artist...
Tokyo's weirdest museums
Here are some of the Japanese capital's weirdest museums, which are hard to find in your ordinary guidebook.
About 5,200 naked people have lined up to embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's Opera House for a photo shoot by American nudist photographer Spencer Tunick.
Youngsters from two Nepalese villages in the south of the Himalayan country had equipped themselves with the juiciest insults for a 10-day annual "cursing festival" that ended Sunday.
Thai cowboys flock to Northern Thailand
Isaan, Thailand's northeast region, has developed its own cowboy culture, since US troops stationed in the country during the Vietnam War over forty years ago, locals say.
The Most Beautiful Libraries In The World
Below are some of the most beautiful libraries from around the world.
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"This stunning debut novel finds the beauty – and confusion – in a young life touched by tragedy." - Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor
Bangkok has some amazing tranquil places to work, contemplate or just relax and read a book.
J.K. Rowling, the world’s richest author, is accused of stealing ideas for "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire" from another British author's children’s book. Rowling was added as a defendant to an ongoing legal claim filed against her publisher ...
Spotlight proves too much for 7-year-old samba queen at Rio carnival
A Michael Jackson impersonator performed atop a silver float, and Madonna and Jesus watched from a crowded balcony, but all eyes were on seven-year-old samba queen Julia Lira as she strutted her stuff in front of thousands of people at Brazil’s wo...
Carnival erupts in Rio amid scorching heat wave
RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival's raucous street parties flooded Rio with drum-beating local revelers and sweaty foreigners escaping snowbound cities.
Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures.
Sotheby's Sells Giacometti for Record $104.3 Million
A 1960 Alberto Giacometti sculpture sold for £65 million ($104.3 million) at Sotheby's, setting a record price for a work of art at auction and signaling a potential resurgence in the art market.
Ramayana Casts Its Ancient Spell
SINGAPORE — With numerous heroes and villains and its powerful feel-good message of good triumphing over evil, the Ramayana has been one of the great epic poems of Indian culture for centuries. Originally attributed to the Hindu Sanskrit poet Valm...
Battle of the elephants: Giant warriors re-enact ancient fight in Thailand
With lightning speed and military precision, they lock dusks and dodge the lethal spears carried by the warriors on their backs. These stunning beasts are re-enacting the ancient fighting scenes of their ancestors.
'People's History' author, historian Howard Zinn dead at 87
Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale,...
'A Path to Enlightenment' . . . the Art of Dharma' art exhibition from now until 27 Feb. 2010
A Path to Enlightenment . . .the Art of Dharma by Komkrit Sawatdirom & Paramat Lueng-on Gossip Gallery @Silom Galleria From now until February 27th, 2010
Google named 'word of the decade' by American speech scholars
Google's dominance of the internet has spread to the world of linguistics with the verb spawned from the brand name being voted word of the decade.
Jeffrey Deitch to Head L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is expected to announce later today that Manhattan gallery director Jeffrey Deitch will take over as director, according to people close to the matter.