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  • Mexico City hosts chili pepper festival

    Chili peppers and sauces will take centre stage at a festival being held this week in Mexico City, where the spicy plant, one of the pillars of Mexican cuisine, will be honoured, organizers said. The first Chilis, Sauces and Mortars Festival, which will be held Friday to Sunday, is being organized by the Enchilada Fair, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. Mexico ...

  • Man found hanging at St. Petersburg theatre

    A workman who disappeared from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre in December was found hanging in the theatre's attic, investigators said. The body of the 22-year-old man was found hanging from a rope. Investigators believe he hanged himself. The legendary Mariinsky Theatre opened a new $700-million stage earlier this month in a gala ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin. --IANS/RIA ...

  • Tough group stage gave Dortmund confidence

    Jrgen Klopp told UEFA.com the way his Borussia Dortmund side played in the group stage was "surprising" and gave him belief they could achieve something special this ...

  • U.K. believes in the economic power of arts startups

    . As his theory goes, cities with high concentrations of creatives - designers, musicians, tech workers, artists, and so on - tend to experience higher levels of economic development. But it's not necessarily the creatives themselves who drive growth, per se; to those who accept Dr. Florida's ideas (and he has had considerable influence on some city planners), the creative class is ...

  • Oklahoma’s lessons for teaching creativity. Hint don’t kill the arts

    For a long time, Susan McCalmont has worried about the marginalization of the arts in schools. As she saw it, music and fine arts were shoved aside as a result of prioritizing science and math. The focus on outcomes as defined by standardized tests only made the problem worse."What happens in the future if our children only become compliant test takers?" she wondered. "What if ...

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Live Free or Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard

The toughest thing about Die Hard sequels must be coming up with the new titles. Having eschewed the simplicity of just adding a numeral to the end of the title after Die Hard 2 (1990), which carried the it-has-to-be-a-joke subtitle Die Harder, the film ... ...

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  • Next to Normal musical explores bipolar disorder

    May 23--"When our long night is done, there will be light." This last line sung in the musical "Next to Normal" sums up the piece quite well, said Jordan Stocksdale, musical director of the show, in a recent phone interview. "It's a very poignant lesson especially today, when everyone is focusing on the bad in the world; if you think things through and if you ...

  • Accused teachers NSW dance studio shuts

    A Sydney dance school is reportedly closing its doors after one of its co-directors faced court on a number of child abuse and child pornography offences.The dance school in Sydney's inner-west announced on Thursday it had "ceased trading" and classes would stop, effective immediately, Fairfax reported.It comes after Grant Davies, who ran the studio along with his sister Rebecca ...

  • Myanmar US enter new higher stage of relations

    /enpproperty--> YANGON - Myanmar President U Thein Sein's working visit to Washington, who returned to his country on Wednesday night, has brought back positive achievements more than expected, signifying the entry of a new higher stage in Myanmar-U. S. relations, said some media and observers here Thursday. U Thein Sein's visit represented the first to the United States of a ...

  • Pitt struggles to remember faces

    Brad Pitt fears he has a memory disorder which stops him from recognizing the faces of people he has previously met. The Hollywood superstar often finds himself in trouble with acquaintances who he fails to remember - but is adamant his inability to recognize a face is down to suffering prosopagnosia, and not his inflated ego. He tells Esquire magazine, "So many people hate me because ...

  • S.W.A.T.s Steve Forrest dies

    The Longest Day and Spies Like Us star Steve Forrest has died, aged 87. The actor, who also played Lt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson in 1970s TV action series 'S.W.A.T.,' passed away on May 18. Forrest spent almost six decades on the big and small screen, appearing in TV classics like 'The Virginian,' 'Bonanza' and 'Gunsmoke.' Born in Huntsville, ...

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