In the nick of time, the Man of Steel saved a family’s home … for real. A couple facing foreclosure found the collateral they desperately needed with the discovery of an Action Comics #1 (aka, the Holy Grail of comic books) in their basement.
As any true fanboy knows, Action Comics #1 is the most significant comic of all time because it was Superman’s debut. In fact, the issue birthed the entire genre of the superhero.
NEW YORK – The Black Eyed Peas have more proof of the ubiquity of “I Gotta Feeling.”
Their No. 1 hit has become the first song to reach the 6 million mark in digital downloads.
The milestone was announced Friday and confirmed by NielsenSoundScan. For the group’s leader, will.i.am, the moment is about much more than the song.
“We came out in ’98 and our career, if you would look at it on chart, there’s no dips in it,” he said in a phone interview Thursday. “For our career to still be healthy and vibrant and doing things like 6 million downloads, it’s pretty significant.”
Fez, Morocco — Five times a day, from the tops of mosques across the ancient city of Fez, Morocco, the soothing voices of muezzins calls Muslims to prayer.
But each summer during the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music those sacred chants in the majority Muslim country mingle with the sounds of music from a variety of other faiths and cultures including Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian.
The annual Fes Festival began 16 years ago in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. Organizers say the hope was that musical harmony would drown out the noise of political differences.
The show argues forcefully that the paintings produced by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the last three decades of his life – he died in 1919 at 78 – are a crowning achievement.
There’s persuasive testimony for that conclusion from many sources, including Henri Matisse and Albert C. Barnes. Barnes owned more Renoirs than anyone needs (181) and considered Renoir and Paul Cezanne equally important as precursors of modernism.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
CBC news
A Montreal violinist has won the $25,000 Virginia Parker Prize for young Canadian performers of classical music.
Alexandre Da Costa, 31, has played more than 1,000 concerts with symphonies around the world, including the Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras.
He has recorded CDs for the XXI-21 Records and ATMA labels, among them the world premiere recordings of violin concertos by Portuguese composers Luis de Freitas Branco and Armando José Fernandes. His next CD will be a concerto recording with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Pedro Halffter.
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