The very playful museum
AMHERST - At the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, which opens next weekend with a three-day celebration of reading and drawing, Eric Carle, 73, is seated on a sofa in the library. With white...
View Article'Beyond Belief' is a poignant, playful mix of sex and religion
Walking into the Lyric Stage theater these days, an audience member is sweetly seduced by the piped-in voice of Bing Crosby gliding through the pitches of ''Swing on a Star'' or ''Pistol-Packin'...
View ArticleSculptures are both playful and powerful
Installations, more than any form of visual art, invite the viewer to play. Two galleries have shows up now that can be seen as installation art -- one, at Elias Fine Art, simply because of the scale...
View ArticleRumsfeld, Myers blast critics of war plan
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, lashed out yesterday at critics of the campaign in Iraq, declaring that complaints...
View ArticleYahoo! News - Raeburn portrait of playful brothers added to Kimbell
Returning to its roots, the Kimbell Art Museum has purchased The Allen Brothers, an 18th-century portrait of two young boys...
View ArticleDoctors start separation of Egyptian twins
REUTERS DALLAS: Doctors on Saturday began to divide the shared circulatory systems of 2-year-old Egyptian twins joined at the crown of their heads in a risky operation to separate the pair that could...
View ArticlePavarotti turns in honorable performance
Luciano Pavarotti is seen during the curtain call of Puccini's "Tosca" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York Saturday March 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) NEW YORK -- Determined to end his great...
View ArticlePlayful Ramirez banters with reporters
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Manny Ramirez called reporters over to chat. He really did. The happy-go-lucky slugger who runs from the media faster than he runs out some grounders was in a playful mood in...
View ArticleWorld Guitar Congress set for June
Country-blues-rock style guitarist Johnny Hiland, who is legally blind, performs at the Hard Rock Cafe in Baltimore, Md., Thursday, March 4, 2004, as part of a news conference announcing the...
View ArticleU.S. deep in Iraq issues a year later
US troops run to secure the area of an attack on a US humvee in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, Friday March 19, 2004. No one was injured in the attack, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Karam Hussein)...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger avoids deposition in suit
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, shown in Sacramento, Calif., in this Jan. 6, 2004, file photo. Schwarzenegger will travel to Israel in May to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Simon Wiesenthal...
View ArticlePrince opens 'Musicology' tour in L.A.
Prince performs during the 46th Annual Grammy Awardsin Los Angeles, Ca.,in this Feb. 8, 2004 file photo. After a six year absence from touring, Prince and the New Power Generation open a sold-out,...
View ArticleExhibit explores the world of childhood
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The baby cradles on display have only their purpose in common. One is a wooden Biedermeier made in Germany around 1840, another was made by the Tsimshian tribe of the Pacific...
View ArticleBronze statue industry thrives in Oregon
Bronze statue artist Ramon Parmenter poses next to one of his works in progress at his Joseph, Ore. workshop, Jan. 27, 2004. A former timber town, Joseph is flourishing as a center of bronze statue...
View ArticleChatted to your potplant today?
Tokyo - Japanese romantics will have the chance to hear some truly flowery language with the help of a playful gadget purported to express the feelings of plants. Through the voice of a small doll, the...
View ArticleA play-ful evening in the Capital
Aamir Raza Hussain's play staged in the capital recently was attended by guests like Poonam Bhagat, Vijay Goel and JJ Singh... THEATRICAL TREAT: When Aamir Raza Hussain staged a play in the capital...
View ArticleWhen Lucknow got a li’l playful
Sitting ready to enjoy this over one hour long laughter ride were some prominent people from the city This was all the theatre lovers in the city could have asked for a five-day theatre festival that’s...
View ArticleA Play'ful' night in Nagpur
The serene and soft music, flickering of the lights and exotic costumes of the artists gave a lovely ambience and added to the over all effect of the show. The glint in the eyes of the theatre...
View ArticleA playful act of love
No one missed the candles and the cake because the nuances of acting took centrestage for a change. It was the best birthday gift that celebrated playwright Vilayat Jafri could have got from his...
View ArticleLillete's playful evening in Delhi
December seems to be theatre’s month totally. Many plays have been staged and there are more to come. THEATRE CALLING: Witnessing Lillete Dubey’s play Kanyadaan at the Old World Theatre festival were...
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