http://www.curtainx.com Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:49:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.curtainx.com/curtain-rods/christmas-and-lifes-meaning.html Curtain has been drawn on hustings at all places in Barisal Division as other parts of the country at midnight yesterday in connection with the much awaited Monday's parliamentary elections. Showdown of the Awami League led grand alliance and BNP led four-party alliance in Barisal city at different times marked the ... http://www.curtainx.com/kitchen-curtain/curtain-drawn-on-poll-campaign-a-barisal-division.html Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia spent the final hours canvassing frantically to woo voters before the deadline for electioneering expired last midnight. Khaleda wrapped up her election campaign addressing a number of street rallies at various places in the capital. Hasina also addressed a few rallies through ... http://www.curtainx.com/shower-curtain/curtain-falls-on-polls-campaign.html The first thing you need to know about the Curtain Exchange is that it’s not a consignment or used drapery store. Owner Jane Waddell says the word “exchange” refers to a marketplace, a la the stock exchange. For the last three years, the 9-year-old shop has been located on Huff Road ... http://www.curtainx.com/country-curtain/curtain-exchange-adds-the-finishing-touches.html THE young players of the fledgling Gold Coast Football Club will experience big-game atmosphere as early as next year. They will host the Gippsland Power at Gold Coast Stadium on May 9, ahead of the Carlton-Fremantle clash. And on May 30 the Coasters will play the Oakleigh Chargers, before St Kilda and ... http://www.curtainx.com/shower-curtain/curtain-to-go-up-on-big-time.html 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 ... http://www.curtainx.com/curtain-rods/final-curtain-fear-for-birkenhead-library-cinema-club.html When New York City's Carnegie Hall faced demolition in the 1960s, a group of artists, musicians and enthusiasts, including Exeter resident Jean Antrim, marched the city streets in protest. "There's no reason something like that can't happen here. This is history. It shouldn't be lost," said the musician who played so ... http://www.curtainx.com/country-curtain/ford-to-pull-back-curtain-on-new-hybrid-in-09.html To publicise the opening of its new theatre, Alleyn's School in Dulwich staged one of the most critically acclaimed musicals of the twentieth century, writes Mark Campbell. The Michael Croft Theatre is named after the founder of the National Youth Theatre and a former teacher at the school. It's a spacious, ... http://www.curtainx.com/shower-curtain/jets-and-sharks-bring-curtain-up.html Rutherglen youngsters performed the show of a lifetime recently. The group had been rehearsing on Monday evenings and Saturday mornings to get the show ready. Taking on the role of Dick Whittington was Lynsay Scott, with Millie Brown as the cat Felix, and Fairy Silver Chime was Tessa Douglas. Also performing in the ... http://www.curtainx.com/country-curtain/curtain-rises-on-burnhill-panto.html 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 ... http://www.curtainx.com/curtain-rods/new-space-toilet-is-literally-open-for-business.html