Christmas And Life’s Meaning
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 27, 2008
Despite the vaunted sophistication and intellectual high-mindedness of the modern world, particularly of the West, it is still a festival with religious roots which has this enormous and irresistible force to pull us together.
Christmas is now largely a secular celebration, despite the plaintive cries for us to “remember the true meaning of Christmas” and to [...]
Final Curtain Fear For Birkenhead Library Cinema Club
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 26, 2008
A CINEMA club based in Wirral’s historic Birkenhead Town Hall (now Wirral Museum) faces an uncertain future after the local authority announced proposed cuts in public buildings.
The Birkenhead Library Cinema Club is in its 37th season and has become known for showing films people would be unlikely to see in a multiplex.
Using projection equipment rescued [...]
New Space Toilet Is Literally Open For Business
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 22, 2008
The new Russian-made commode onboard the International Space Station is fully functioning except that the privacy curtain hasn’t been put up yet.
The curtain to the commode, however, hasn’t been put up yet because other work on equipment located near to the toilet is still being performed.
The toilet, called by NASA as the waste and hygiene [...]
Shoe Attack A Fitting Curtain Call For End Of Bush’s Failed Presidency
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 22, 2008
Ethologist Desmond Morris writes in his book, “Manwatching,” that humans possess a much broader range of ways to express contempt than any other animal. Among these behavior patterns, spitting and pinching one’s nose are signs that one considers the other party filthy. And filth, explains Morris, suggests vulgarity and indecency.
Shoes an Iraqi journalist hurled at [...]
Dancers Hawk Tickets To Avoid The Final Curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 20, 2008
It’s come to this: Sacramento Ballet dancers sold tickets Friday to upcoming “Nutcracker” performances on the corner of 19th and J streets in Sacramento as part of an effort to raise public awareness about their company’s dire financial circumstances.
The announcement comes in the wake of an emergency Wednesday board meeting in which Jill Kaiser Newcom, [...]
Jail For Mokbel Brother
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 17, 2008
Milad Mokbel, 40, will spend at least eight years in jail after pleading guilty to trafficking and attempting to traffic a large commercial quantity of methylamphetamine, and knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime and blackmail.
Justice Elizabeth Curtain sentenced Mokbel to 11 years jail, to serve a minimum of eight years. He has already served [...]
Curtain Up 4
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 16, 2008
For years, Tomer Sharabi and Maya Stern danced and created a line of decent duets based on subtle dance-theater esthetics and contact-improvisation technique. Their works were sensitive, composed, but never groundbreaking. The pair felt that now was the time to split and expand, using the Curtain Up framework to present the results; Sharabi did Monk [...]
Curtains Come Down For The 56Th Savai Gandharva Festival
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2008
Curtain rang down on the four-day of Savai Gandharva classical music fiesta here today which presented a memorable spectacle of Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi lending his ear to the melodious renderings sitting in his car.
With the age dictated restricted movements, the 86 year old maestro of Hindustani ‘Khyal gayki’ who started the event 56 [...]
Curtains Up For Elliott Clarke Dancers
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 12, 2008
A group of dancers from Elliott Clarke dance school, have been selected to take part in this years Christmas panto in Liverpool.
Thirteen dinky dancers from the performance school, auditioned earlier this month for parts in Cinderella, being staged at the Liverpool Empire.
The young dancers say they have been put through their paces in time for [...]
Curtain Up On New Look Salon For Crewe
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 10, 2008
BEAUTY salon owner, Elizabeth Hickson, raised the curtain on her new-look premises in Nantwich Road at Crewe with help from the cast of Jack and the Beanstalk.
They visited after their Thursday matinee performance and mingled with visitors as they enjoyed mince pies and mulled wine.
Company manager, Kevin McGreevy from Wish Theatre Ltd, which is staging [...]