Curtain up on High School Musical
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on August 27, 2008
Disney’s High School Musical is set to take the stage at Rotorua’s Civic Theatre from Friday, featuring plenty of young local talent.
Rotorua Musical Theatre’s production secretary, Richard Nairn, says more than 100 local students auditioned for the 35 roles in the production, making the right choice a real struggle. “We have a lot of great [...]
‘Steel Curtain’ member White dies
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on June 11, 2008
Former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Dwight White, part of the defence that led the team to four Super Bowl championships in the 1970s, has died following surgery at a Pittsburgh hospital. He was 58.
“Dwight White was one of the greatest players to ever wear a Steelers uniform,” said team chairman Dan Rooney in a statement. [...]
Curtain comes down on HIFA
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 3, 2008
As the curtain comes down on the prestigious festival, an intriguing line up of internationally acclaimed artistes has been put up, setting the tone for ending the festival in style this evening.
As if to serve the best for the last, Afro-pop icon Oliver Mtukudzi, acclaimed guitarist Louis Mhlanga, flautist and saxophonist Steve Dyer and Afro-pop [...]
Kitchen Curtain Dynamic Design
Filed Under Cur Tainx | Posted on April 17, 2008
Four years ago, The Independent Weekly launched The INDesign Awards to honor the most innovative and thoughtful architecture, historic preservation projects and interior design in Acadiana. In its best and purest form, architecture reflects a community’s history and values and incorporates the past into forward-thinking designs for modern living.
For our fourth annual INDesign Awards, projects [...]
Mugabe The Writing’s On The Wall
Filed Under Curt Flood | Posted on April 1, 2008
The writing was on the wall for Robert Mugabe last night. It was pinned to the side of polling tents, posted on school fences and written on the walls of community halls. The election results that Zimbabwe’s president had made every effort to rig were coming in against him.
First to go were his chief lieutenants [...]
Sports Ex-Curtain anchor dies in car crash
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 19, 2008
DALLAS%26ndash;Ernie (Fats) Holmes, who won two Super Bowls as an anchor of Pittsburgh’s famed Steel Curtain defence in the 1970s, has died in a car crash. He was 59. Holmes was driving alone Thursday night when his car left the road and rolled [...]
Yours for the Peeping
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
JEREMY FLETCHER and Alejandra Lillo, designers at Graft, an architecture and design firm based in Berlin, Beijing and Los Angeles, were working out a dialogue between voyeurism and exhibitionism, they said, when they designed the swooping, shiny white interiors of the W Downtown, a glass-walled condominium tower to be built in 2009 in Manhattan%26#x2019;s financial [...]
Europe Fears That Meth Foothold Is Expanding
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
JESENIK, Czech Republic %26#x2014; The methamphetamine epidemic is not just a scourge of the American heartland. It has a powerful foothold here in the heart of Central Europe. Home meth labs are sprouting up all over the country to produce this cheap, potent drug using the pseudoephedrine found in common cold medications.
In 2000, the Czech [...]