Culture
Participants wanted for Cuban essay contest
November 10, 2011Cuba's Ministry of Culture and others are inviting writers to submit essays for their ninth annual International Essay Contest, "Thinking against the Mainstream."
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“Skin I Live In” gets very weird
November 8, 2011Almodóvar is internationally famous for highly colorful, exceedingly dramatic, often perverse films. Some might find them shocking.
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Day of the Dead video
November 1, 2011Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is observed November 1 -2 in many Mexican communities in the U.S.
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In Time: One man’s immortality is another man’s death
November 1, 2011Time is money. In Time seems to take that quite literally. In what is a brilliant metaphor for modern day class segregation, the poor die young and the rich live forever. And a man named Will...
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TV’s Supernatural: A horror-drama about real family values
October 25, 2011Supernatural highlights family values, working class ideas and portrays bold and powerful statements against religion and politics that few other shows have dared make.
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