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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas laid to rest in native Lithuania
VILNIUS — The ashes of Lithuanian-born American filmmaker Jonas Mekas were buried back in his home country on Sunday, months after his death in New York, public broadcaster LRT reported.In a private ceremony, his ashes were buried next to his parents at a cemetery in Semeniskiai, northeastern Lithuania, where he was born in 1922.Mekas was a key figure of US underground cinema and was widely regarded as the "godfather of avant-garde cinema".After being imprisoned in a labor camp in Germany during World War II, Mekas settled in New York in 1949, where he went on to become a pillar of independent film."He has always been deeply connected to Lithuania through the memory dimension in his films and his Lithuanian poetry," art critic Lolita Jablonskiene said.At the time of...
June 16, 2019

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas laid to rest in native Lithuania

Saudi opera singer Sawsan Al-Bahiti opening the event with the Kingdom’s national anthem, which was sung in operatic style.
Saudi Al-Bahiti renders Saudi national anthem in operatic style
Saudi Gazette reportRIYADH – The Ministry of Culture organized a concert on Friday proved a major draw with Saudi opera singer Sawsan Al-Bahiti opening the event with the Kingdom’s national anthem, which was sung in operatic style. Al-Bahiti received a standing ovation for her rendition.The Italian opera "La Scala" by the Teatro Alla Scala Academy performed at the King Fahd Cultural Center here, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said Saturday.Over 3,000 spectators, including artists, poets and those interested in musical arts attended the much-sought-after event.The Teatro Alla Scala Academy, which debuted in Riyadh on Friday, is one of the most famous opera houses in the world.Dating back to almost 250 years, the academy offers world-class training in all disciplines of symphony,...
June 15, 2019

Saudi Al-Bahiti renders Saudi national anthem in operatic style

In this file photo taken on Jan. 11, 2000 Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti (R) jokes with Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli during a press conference in Rome, three days before the first presentation of Giacomo Puccini's
Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director, dies at 96
ROME — Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the world's greatest opera singers and brought Shakespeare to the cinema-going masses, has died. He was 96. In a statement, his foundation said he died in Rome on Saturday. "Ciao Maestro," said the announcement.Often appreciated more by the public than critics, Zeffirelli was the last of a generation of Italian film giants who came of age after World War Two, including Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica.He directed more than two dozen films, working with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, Faye Dunaway, and Jon Voight."Franco Zeffirelli, one of the world's greatest men of culture, passed away this morning," Dario Nardella, the mayor of Zeffirelli's...
June 15, 2019

Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director, dies at 96

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event about expanding health coverage options for small businesses and workers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, Friday. — AFP
Trump gets harpooned for 'Prince of Whales' spelling error
WASHINGTON — There he blows again. President Donald Trump's erratic spelling habits on Twitter spouted again Thursday when he wrote about having recently met with the "Prince of Whales."That would be Charles, Prince of Wales, whom he met last week at World War II commemorations in Britain.The error prompted a wave of hilarity online, with one Twitter critic asking if the president had made the mistake "on porpoise."Trump, who is an enthusiastic user of social media and has some 61 million Twitter followers, quickly corrected the original tweet. But his new version did not change another inaccurate reference, this time to the "Queen of England."Elizabeth II, who hosted Trump at a state dinner in London, is actually queen of Great Britain and Northern...
June 15, 2019

Trump gets harpooned for 'Prince of Whales' spelling error

Pakistani children point at a computer screen showing a screen grab of a press conference attended by provincial minister Shaukat Yousafzai and streamed live on social media, in Islamabad on Satursday.  A minister in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province had to face hilarious situation after his entire media talks went live with a cat filter on by his social media team. — AFP
Pakistan politician does livestream with cat whiskers, ears
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A politician in northwestern Pakistan was given paws for thought after his press conference was streamed live on Facebook with the "cat filter" turned on, giving him on-screen whiskers and ears.The online stream of regional minister Shaukat Yousafzai speaking with journalists went viral on Friday after a member of his social media team accidentally activated the filter on the social network.Comments started pouring in as Facebook users noticed pink cat-like ears and whiskers had appeared on the heads of the minister and two accompanying officials.There's "a cat in the cabinet" one said. Others were more literal: "Shaukat Yousafzai looks like a cat — Meow meow meow,".The video — seen by an AFP reporter — was deleted minutes...
June 15, 2019

Pakistan politician does livestream with cat whiskers, ears

GEA to initiate action against ‘Project X’ event organizers
JEDDAH — The General Entertainment Authority (GEA) has opened an immediate investigation into video clips that went viral on social media on Wednesday on an event in Jeddah.The event held by Project X was in contravention of the legal and regulatory procedures in force and it was not licensed by GEA.Originally, the license was for holding another event, but its organizer took advantage of the Authority’s license and extended the holding of the event until Shawwal 11, 1440H, hence, committing a grave and unacceptable violation.GEA said organizers of the event will be referred to the pertinent authorities.
June 14, 2019

GEA to initiate action against ‘Project X’ event organizers

Workers carry a painting believed by some experts to be Caravaggio's
Art expert stakes reputation on 'lost' $170 million Caravaggio
PARIS — Art expert Eric Turquin is not only convinced that a canvas found in the attic of an old house in southwest France is a Caravaggio — he believes it is a revolutionary masterpiece.France's leading authority on Old Masters paintings has staked his reputation on the assertion that the work — left forgotten under an old mattress for 100 years — is the fiery Italian artist's lost "Judith and Holofernes".The painting depicting a grisly biblical scene of the beautiful Jewish widow Judith beheading a sleeping Assyrian general will be displayed in Paris on Friday before it goes under the hammer on June 27 in Toulouse, the city where it was discovered five years ago.Turquin said it should sell for between 100 and 150 million euros (up to $170 million)."Not only...
June 14, 2019

Art expert stakes reputation on 'lost' $170 million Caravaggio

A rare gold boxing glove made to commemorate Muhammad Ali's
Muhammad Ali's autographed gold glove fails to sell at Turin auction
TURIN, Italy — A rare gold boxing glove made to commemorate Muhammad Ali's "Fight of the Century" against Joe Frazier in Madison Square Garden nearly 50 years ago failed to find a buyer in an auction in Turin on Thursday.The glove was produced by Everlast to promote the world heavyweight title fight on March 8, 1971 during which Ali suffered his first defeat.But it failed to get an offer for the 5,000-euro ($5,637) asking price at Sala Bolaffi in Turin.The glove returns to the collection of its Italian owner, Ezio Scime, a former record company owner, who was in the front row of the fight in New York."We had ringside seats, between Woody Allen and Frank Sinatra," recalled Scime."We were so close that when they punched each other we were covered in splashes of...
June 13, 2019

Muhammad Ali's autographed gold glove fails to sell at Turin auction

Scotland's Joanne Love and Fiona Brown during Women's World Cup training at the Allianz Riviera, Nice, France. — Reuters
Fowl ref! Scotland bring out the rubber chickens at World Cup
PARIS — Scotland's hopes of reaching the last 16 at their maiden women's World Cup were dented by defeat to England in their opener but they have responded by bringing out their secret weapon for their next game against Japan — rubber chickens.Footage posted on the Scottish national team's Facebook site showed players haring around the training field in a bizarre game of tag in which they attempt to avoid being touched, or in some cases whacked, by the squeaky rubber fowl."Do not get touched by the chicken," yells a coach in one of the videos as attacker Fiona Brown smacks a teammate over and over with it.The Scots will hope to get their campaign back on track with a win over Japan on Friday and forward Lisa Evans said there was much to build on from their...
June 13, 2019

Fowl ref! Scotland bring out the rubber chickens at World Cup

File photo shows Katherine Johnson receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. She provided pivotal contributions to American space flight research alongside Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.
NASA renames street for 'hidden' black women mathematicians
WASHINGTON — NASA has renamed the street outside its Washington headquarters to honor three black female mathematicians whose pioneering work on the agency's early space program was chronicled in the film "Hidden Figures".Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson provided pivotal contributions to space flight research from the 1940s through to the 1960s, when the United States first sent men to orbit and then walk on the Moon.Despite their achievements, all three had to confront the racial segregation of the era.They were among dozens of African-Americans, both male and female, who worked as mathematicians and physicists for the US space program, even as they were forced to use separate bathrooms from whites, and were barred from the same restaurants and schools...
June 13, 2019

NASA renames street for 'hidden' black women mathematicians

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