Art & Culture
Lessons From Premiere Week: Comedy Up, NBC Down, Nostalgia Mixed
So we're a week into the meat of the networks' fall season. Premiere ratings only go so far in terms of their instructiveness; as recently as last year, Outsourced did okay on its first outing, and it's dead now. Very dead.
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Ty Segall: Campy Irreverence, Sincere Appreciation
Ty Segall's "Goodbye Bread" unfurls into a disarmingly mellow, casually masterful bit of haiku rock 'n' roll existentialism.
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'Moneyball': A 'Bad News Bears' For MBAs
Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's, in the movie Moneyball.
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Rin Tin Tin: From Battlefield To Hollywood, A Story Of Friendship
The original Rin Tin Tin was born in 1918 and died in 1932.
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Convergence 2011: Australian content state of play
To help inform the discussion around the Australian Government's Convergence Review, Screen Australia has released a comprehensive analysis of Australian content across all media platforms.
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The Creative Arts Emmys: The Hard Work Of Television Gets Its Due
Janie Bryant of Mad Men is nominated for an Emmy Award for costuming for the episode, "The Beautiful Girls."
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Australian households embrace digital TV
Australians are embracing the move to digital television with an average of 82 per cent of households across the nation already converted to digital TV, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said today.
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Splendid Treasures: A Hundred Masterpieces of the National Palace Museum on Parade
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Academy Brings "Giant" to NYC
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Monday Nights with Oscar® will present "Giant" on Monday, September 12, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. The evening will also feature actress Carroll Baker and historian Foster Hirsch in an onstage discussion about the making of "Giant" and working with George Stevens.
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13th Annual Sky High Hot Air Balloon Festival at Callaway Gardens
Are you lamenting the end of another Summer? Worry not…at Callaway Gardens®, things are looking up - way up - with the return of the Callaway Gardens® Sky High Hot Air Balloon Festival for its 13th year.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020