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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | |  DeMille's Oscar by The Ovi Team
On March 19, 1953, legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille wins the only Academy Award of his career when The Greatest Show on Earth takes home an Oscar for Best Picture. The film, a big-budget extravaganza about circus life, starred Charlton Heston, Betty H | | | |  1st St. Patrick's Day parade by The Ovi Team
March 17th 1762; in New York City, the first parade honouring the Catholic feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is held by Irish soldiers serving in the British army. Saint Patrick, who was born in the late 4th century, was one of the mo | | | |  Art, High and Low by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
It is to me an amazing fact that today the common opinion is that there is no difference between high and low art, high and low culture. The point of this paper is to reiterate the differences, and to explore reasons for the current confusion. | |
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| | |  The Love Bug by The Ovi Team
March 13th; on this day in 1969, "The Love Bug," a Walt Disney movie about the adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie, opens in theatres across the United States. The film, which was based on a 1961 book called "Car, Boy, Girl" by Gordon Bufor | | | |  Paul weds Linda by The Ovi Team
March 12th 1969; on this day Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman in a civil ceremony in London. Hundreds of people gathered outside the Marylebone Register Office to catch a glimpse of the couple as they arrived with Miss Eastman's six-year-old daughter | | | |  Barbie makes a debut by The Ovi Team
March 9th; on this day and ironically only one day after the international women's day in 1959, the first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Eleven inches tall, with a waterfall of blond hair, Barbie was the first mass | | | |  Oscars for "The Artist": When the voiceless American people is crying for help by Newropeans-Magazine
First it is recognizing a work of great artistic quality, for each winner but also of the whole team (including the great Berenice Bejo). The "mise en abyme" of the film talking about films that don't speak, a silent film actor who isolates himself in | | | |  Women's Domination - Short Story Competition by Mahmoud Mansi
Women's domination, and its impact upon economy, art and the environment as a whole, has always been a controversy constantly debated by both men and women. | | | |  Carmen premieres in Paris by The Ovi Team
March 3rd 1875; George Bizet's Carmen premieres in Paris. Today, it is one of the most popular operas in the standard repertoire, but Georges Bizet's Carmen faced many obstacles in even reaching the stage, let alone becoming a success. With a libretto b | | | |  Dylan Thomas by The Ovi Team
February 20th 1950; Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrives in New York for his first reading tour of the United States. His four U.S. tours were wildly successful but ended with Thomas' death at age 39. Thomas was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, where he was | | | prev | | next | | |
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