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Heavy metal band The Hu are taking their mix of Metallica-style thrash and Mongolian steppe music to rapt audiences across Europe this summer.
Mongolian throat-singing rockers take on Europe
BELFORT, France, — Heavy metal band The Hu are taking their mix of Metallica-style thrash and Mongolian steppe music to rapt audiences across Europe this summer.The four long-haired leather-clad Mongolians, who have been hailed for their mesmerizing live performances, grew up listening to a mix of metal and rock, from Metallica and Sepultura to the Foo Fighters.But while their Western idols belt out songs about love lost and the meaning of the universe, The Hu, who rocked the Eurockeennes festival in the eastern French city of Belfort Thursday, sing about upholding Mongolian traditions and respect for the ancestors.What makes the head-banging foursome particularly compelling though is that three of the four — Gala, Enkush and Jaya — do traditional Mongolian throat singing or...
July 08, 2019

Mongolian throat-singing rockers take on Europe

Models present a creation by Christian Dior during the Women's Fall-Winter 2019/2020 Haute Couture collection fashion show in Paris. — AFP
Off with their heels! Dior leads footwear revolution
Paris — Off with their heels! Dior had fashionistas rocking back on their stilettos Monday by taking footwear down to earth with a bump in its Paris haute couture show.Citing a famous quote that high heels "were nothing but a modern version of Chinese foot binding", proudly feminist designer Maria Grazia Chiuri went full tilt for the liberating power of flats.She took a saw to the tottering stiletto to create black elasticated spartan sandals that almost doubled as tights, giving them "a couture allure that also frees up movement so you can be in contact with nature," she told AFP.On a day when women creators dominated the Paris catwalks, the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen also sheared off her heels, cantilevering the stilettos that went with her stunning ethereal...
July 06, 2019

Off with their heels! Dior leads footwear revolution

General view of a bowl of strawberries as a match is played in the background. — Reuters
Wimbledon serves up strawberries, vegan cream
London — Wimbledon is synonymous with strawberries and cream but this year the prestigious tennis tournament is serving up vegan cream in response to changing British tastes.The All England Club is dishing up lashings of the alternative topping -- as well as beetroot quinoa burgers -- as ever-increasing numbers of people bring vegan options into their diet."We've had a very large focus this year on improving our vegan plant-based offer," Anthony Davies, Wimbledon's head of food and drink, said Friday."Across the UK in the last 12 months, the British public and their approach to eating has changed quite significantly."There's been a huge increase in the amount of flexitarianism and therefore we needed to make sure that we improved our offer to match...
July 06, 2019

Wimbledon serves up strawberries, vegan cream

US actor Kevin Spacey arrives at a fashion show in Milan, Italy, in this June 21, 2016 file photo. — AFP
US accuser drops civil suit against Kevin Spacey
NEW YORK — A young man who accused Kevin Spacey of a sexual assault in a Massachusetts bar has dropped his lawsuit against the award-winning actor, ahead of a new court hearing that could prove delicate for the accuser.A motion for "voluntary dismissal" of the civil complaint against the former "House of Cards" star was filed in Superior Court in Nantucket, Massachusetts, with no reason given.A hearing on the criminal charges against Spacey is set for Monday in the District Court in Nantucket, the posh island community where the alleged aggression took place in July 2016.The accuser, William Little, has said he took a smartphone video of the incident, which he says took place when he was an 18-year-old busboy in a Nantucket bar/restaurant.The smartphone images, which...
July 05, 2019

US accuser drops civil suit against Kevin Spacey

Maggie Lindemann
US pop singer arrested during Malaysia performance
KUALA LUMPUR — US pop star Maggie Lindemann was arrested during a performance in Malaysia for failing to have proper permits, officials said Friday, with the singer describing the experience as a "living hell".The 20-year-old "Pretty Girl" singer, who found fame after posting videos on social media, was doing a show at a Kuala Lumpur shopping mall on June 21 when she was detained."I'm sorry to the fans that came out to the Malaysia show," she wrote in an Instagram post. "I was detained and arrested midway through my set and...confined in a living hell."Kuala Lumpur immigration chief Hamidi Adam said she was arrested for failing to have the correct permit for an artist performing in Malaysia.Immigration officers detained her after a tip-off and...
July 05, 2019

US pop singer arrested during Malaysia performance

Joss Stone
Joss Stone deported from Iran ahead of 200th world tour gig
LONDON — British singer Joss Stone said she was "gutted" after being deported from Iran ahead of the latest leg of a world tour that has already taken her to Syria and North Korea.She was held shortly after arriving at Kish airport, according to a post on her Instagram account, as authorities suspected she was planning to play a public gig.Women have been banned from singing solo in public in Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979."We were aware there couldn't be a public concert as I am a woman and that is illegal in this country," she wrote, without specifying where or how she had hoped to play."So close yet so far, this moment broke a little piece of my heart," she wrote it the post, below a picture of herself wearing a head scarf.Iran confirmed it...
July 05, 2019

Joss Stone deported from Iran ahead of 200th world tour gig

 Karen Mok
Actress and singer Karen Mok hopes to bring Broadway to China
LONDON — Karen Mok may be currently performing on what she says will be her final concert tour but the Hong Kong-born actress and singer has no plans to retire just yet, setting her sights on bringing Broadway-style musicals to China.The 49-year-old has released 20 solo albums and starred in more than 40 films during her 25-year career including Keanu Reeves' "Man of Tai Chi" and Wong Kar Wai's "Fallen Angels". She also worked alongside fellow Hong Kong star Jackie Chan in "Around the World in 80 Days"."It doesn't mean that I'm retiring or anything...I could never quit the stage but I just feel that it's a good time to call it a day where pop concerts are concerned," Mok said in London while on a visit to promote her...
July 05, 2019

Actress and singer Karen Mok hopes to bring Broadway to China

Laetitia Delaloye, head of antiquities of Christie's, poses for a photograph with an Egyptian brown quartzite head of the God Amen prior to its' sale at Christie's auction house in London, Britain, on Thursday. — Reuters
Tutankhamun relic sells for $6 mn in London despite Egyptian outcry
LONDON — A 3,000-year-old quartzite head of Egyptian "Boy King" Tutankhamun was auctioned off for $6 million on Thursday in London despite a fierce outcry from Cairo.Christie's auction house sold the 28.5-centimeter (11-inch) relic for £4,746,250 ($5,970,000, 5,290,000 euros) at one of its most controversial auctions in years.No information about the buyer was disclosed.The famous pharaoh's finely-chiselled face — its calm eyes and puffed lips emoting a sense of eternal peace — came from the private Resandro Collection of ancient art that Christie's last parceled off for £3 million in 2016.But angry Egyptian officials wanted Thursday's sale halted and the treasure returned.About a dozen protesters waved Egyptian flags and held up signs reading "stop...
July 05, 2019

Tutankhamun relic sells for $6 mn in London despite Egyptian outcry

A woman holds a rooster in her arms and talks to a supporter holding a banner reading
Cock-a-doodle-don't: Rowdy French rooster at center of legal battle
ROCHEFORT, France — A rooster named Maurice, whose early-morning crowing has got under the skin of neighbors on the French island of Oleron, was at the center of a court battle on Thursday that has raised howls of protest in the countryside.Maurice himself was not present for the proceedings in the western town of Rochefort, and nor were his accusers, a retired couple with a holiday home on the picturesque island who claim his dawn chorus rouses them from their slumber.But feathered fans of the celebrity cockerel were on parade outside the courthouse, among them a chicken called Pompadour and giant Brahma rooster called Jean-Rene.The case has attracted attention not only because the rooster is one of France's national emblems, but because the complaint is seen by some as an attack on...
July 04, 2019

Cock-a-doodle-don't: Rowdy French rooster at center of legal battle

German artist Sebastian Koerbs, left, German artist Lydia Paasche, second left, Irish artist Lorcan O'Byrne, second right, and Italian photographer Michele Caliari, right, pose outside the
Artists battle expulsion as rents rise in booming Berlin
BERLIN — A cemetery has popped up outside a Berlin block of art studios called Treptow Ateliers, with half a dozen crosses marked "Demolition" or "Expulsion".The small "graveyard" is an installation by painters, sculptors and photographers who face losing their work spaces because of gentrification in the booming capital."It's an installation to draw attention to what's happening here," said painter Lydia Paasche, 41. "Something is being lost here. There won't be one cross standing in the end."All 30 artists in the building have received a notice to vacate the premises they have used since 2013.They have been told to leave by March 2020 as the space is to be demolished and replaced by a five-story mixed-use complex.Their fate...
July 04, 2019

Artists battle expulsion as rents rise in booming Berlin

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