The Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia houses the biggest, and most complete collection of contemporary art in Southeastern Europe. Which for a city that many people have never heard of, is astonishing but the reasoning is not without a tinge of saddness. On July 26th, 1963, in the early morning hours an earthquake shook Skopje, killing over ... Read More »
Celebrate: The inaugural TEDxJamaica event will take place this Saturday at the Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, University of the West Indies, Mona under the theme “Innovation without Boundaries.” Intended to inspire, and to promote the view that powerful ideas have the capacity to positively impact the world, the inaugural event will have four live speakers, Professor Robert Trivers, Professor ... Read More »
The Oak and The Ax describes itself as “a music venue, cafe, bar, screening room.” An eclectic mix which in its short existence, has made the venue the cultural touchstone for Biddeford, Maine, a small town adjacent to the capital Portland. And the word is spreading. Bands and guests have started to trickle in from around the country to play ... Read More »
Like many older uptown and midtown churches, St. Bartholomew’s first began downtown in 1835, near the greatest concentration of New Yorkers. But as its congregation grew, it soon built a large new church uptown on Madison Avenue in the year 1872. The church was designed by James Renwick and later embellished with a triple portal by Stanford White. In addition ... Read More »
Celebrate: It’s Halloween! And since this year the holiday falls on a Sunday, the celebration will be lasting all weekend. Read up on our guide to New York City’s Halloween and get going on those costumes! Watch: Monsters – Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to ... Read More »
Disney has released the new video for the song ‘Derezzed’ from Daft Punk for the December film Tron: Legacy. Though the video is obviously just an excuse to release a new trailer for the film, the song featured has been receiving buzz from all corners of the web. The video features the guest appearance the French electronic duo make ... Read More »
There is no spookier and more spirited place in America to spend the week of Halloween than in Salem, Massachusetts. Located about 30 minutes north of the state’s capital, Salem is most well known as the location of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 (though most of the actual “witches” lived in nearby ‘Salem Village’, now known as Danvers) ... Read More »
The American Cinematheque announced today that it will feature a two-day retrospective of the film collaborations of Academy Award®winning director Martin Scorsese and three-time Academy Award nominated actor, Leonardo DiCaprio on November 13 and 14 at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The two-day event will feature screenings of the four acclaimed films on which Scorsese and DiCaprio have collaborated: ... Read More »
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