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Pattern Pulp: When Did World Cultures Start Influencing High Fashion?
Traditional costuming from around the globe is a constant inspiration for the fashion industry.A Culture to Catwalk: How World Cultures Influence Fashion A by Kristen Knox ofA The Clothes Whisperer A traces the roots of today's ready-to-wear lines back to cultural styles from around the globe.
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VIDEO: Harlan Ellison's Take on the David Lynch's 'Dune'
Author/Screenwriter Harlan Ellison and Film Critic David Ansen discuss their thoughts on David Lynch's Dune , the 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel.
After an eight-year hiatus, Shihad are taking their live show to Tillermans Outdoors in Invercargill where the carpark will be converted into a venue fit for New Zealand's biggest rock band.
'Fela!' explores the turbulent life of Nigerian musician and activist
This picture of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti by Leni Sinclair is part of "Moving to His Own Beat - Fela: The Man, The Movement" exhibit through April 1 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.
Birmingham News: Bhangra singer Malkit Singh to be honoured with Broad Street Star
BHANGRA singer Malkit Singh is set to be the first Asian recipient of a Broad Street Walk of Stars award.
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David Lynch: It's 'Crazy Clown Time'
David Lynch is movie director, television producer, painter, animator, cartoonist, furniture designer, philanthropist, activist, mail order coffee mogul, amateur meteorologist, and several other things all at once.
Dr. Ali Binazir: Should You Date Outside Your Tribe?
I am at a point where I am ready to settle down and it seems like all the Persian men just want to play around.
KOCHI: Once it was the recreation centre of the elite, where British officers -- from pilots to engineers to captains -- gathered to spend their evenings playing table tennis.
Rexlaxing, reviving and refreshing travel in 2012
In February, when the holidays are through but winter still drags on, you're bound to start daydreaming about a vacation.
Charles Wright's 'Fela' exhibit studies the man behind Afrobeat sound
Few artists fused music and politics as effectively as Fela. The Nigerian instrumentalist and bandleader created the Afrobeat fusion sound, and wrote politically charged songs pushing for political reform in his troubled homeland that electrified Africans all over the continent.
Simple tweaks make soul food more heart healthy
Traditional soul food dishes popular in African American culture often are prepared with a lot of artery clogging saturated fat and blood pressure raising sodium.
Volvo Group sign MoU with Patria
Volvo Group and Finnish defense group Patria have signed a Memorandum of understanding regarding cooperation to offer the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration life-cycle support services for maintenance and logistics.
Children of God To Screen At Pan African Film Festival
Kareem Mortimer's film, Children of God is the winner of over 16 prestigious awards, including audience awards and jury prizes in Spain, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, Atlanta and New York Culver City, CAL - The Pan African Film and Arts Festival , America's largest and most prestigious Black film and arts festival, is gearing up for its 20th year of ... (more)
It's Time To Take Back Our Campuses- Like Penn. State
The writer is not politically correct. But then, neither is Arutz Sheva. Read and stop supporting universities that host anti-Israel conferences.. Twenty-eight years ago, intending it to be a joke, the members of a fraternity at the University of Pennsylvania dressed up as ku klux klansmen, in white sheets.
Ohio launches effort to warn youth of prescription drugs
The state hopes the stories of a veteran, a mother, an aunt and a friend -- all whose lives have been changed irrevocably by opiate analgesics -- will make youths think twice.
Syrian singer George Wassouf's good friend and concert agent Michele Hayek revealed that the singer's health condition has improved tremendously and he will be returning home by the end of the current week.
A tryst with Italy at Kolkata Book Fair
Kolkata, Feb 5 : Ramping up this year's international appeal two authors and a musician from Italy charmed the audience at the Kolkata Book Fair on Saturday.
Miami-based troops answer call to duty
Awash in pride and anxiety, an Army Reserve Unit based in Miami gets a rousing send-off en route to Afghanistan.
Waleed Tawfiq composes for Wassouf, Nancy and Elissa
Lebanese singer Waleed Tawfiq revealed that he is currently preparing three different song compositions for prominent Syrian singer George Wassouf and Lebanese singers Nancy Ajram and Elissa.
A documentary to be made on singer Yesudas
A short film on veteran singer K.J.Yesudas' achievements will be made by television channel Kairali TV, former education minister M.A.Baby said here Saturday.
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