by | Dec 27, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from The Guardian UK Descendant of Louis XIV tries to ban exhibition Lizzy Davies in Paris The Guardian, Saturday 27 December 2008 Article history He has seen off the conservatives who accused him of cultural vandalism, and triumphed over fears among sceptics in the...
by | Dec 27, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from The Times South Africa Creator of Bolt’s victory dance dead AFP KINGSTON – David Alexander Smith, the Jamaican entertainment figure who created the dance performed by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt to celebrate his victories, was shot to death at a Kingston...
by | Dec 27, 2008 | Culture Music Art
by | Dec 26, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from the Pioneer Press Eartha Kitt, sultry ‘Santa Baby’ singer who played ‘Catwoman,’ dies By Polly Anderson, Associated Press NEW YORK — Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an...
by | Dec 26, 2008 | Literary News
from Art Market Monitor People of the Book The Delmonico Collection of Important Judaica was estimated at $4.1 to $5.5 million and featured a 15th Century illuminated Hebrew Bible and forty separate lots–including eleven printed on blue paper–of the Babylonian Talmud...