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Fans, rescued miner fete Elvis’ 76th birthday

MusicJan 9, 2011

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) ― Hundreds of Elvis Presley fans, including Chilean miner Edison Pena, gathered at Graceland to sing “Happy Birthday” on the late rock ‘n’ roll icon’s 76th birthday. Pena, th...
Film fest showcases joy of cinema

FilmJan 7, 2011

Movies can mean a lot of things. They can be made, studied, critiqued and simply watched. They can give multiples of meanings and hardships, as well as aspirations and enormous wealth. The 6th Cinem...
events calendar

TheaterJan 7, 2011

Exhibition “Christian Marclay: What You See Is What You Hear”: Three of U.S. artist Christian Marclay’s labor-intensive media works are on display at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art’s Black Box in Hann...
National Museum of Korea

TheaterJan 7, 2011

“Hamheung: the Hometown of Joseon Royal Family”: Hamheung, the central city in the northeast of Hamgyeong Province, used to be regarded as “an uncultivated place far from the capital” before the mid-...
Box office

FilmJan 7, 2011

The Be All And End All (U.K.) Opened Jan. 6 Comedy. Directed by Bruce Webb. Fifteen-year-old schoolboys Robbie and Ziggy are best friends living in Liverpool, England. One day, on the way back from...
Box-office rankings (Dec. 31 - Jan. 2)

FilmJan 7, 2011

1. The Last Godfather Opened Dec. 29 Directed by Shim Hyung-rae Starring Shim Hyung-rae 2. Hello Ghost Opened Dec. 22 Directed by Kim Yeong-tak Starring Cha Tae-hyeon, Kang Ye-won 3. The Yell...
Dark is just ‘Biutiful’ to Inarritu and Bardem

FilmJan 7, 2011

As director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu remembers it, he and Javier Bardem first met at “The Losers Party.” It was Oscar night 2001 and Inarritu had just been overlooked by the academy ― for the fir...
Bodyguard: Jackson doc said to hide vials

MusicJan 6, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― As Michael Jackson’s lifeless body lay on a bed in his palatial mansion, a bodyguard obeyed a frantic doctor’s instructions to bag up medicine bottles and intravenous bags and shie...
Chinese artist brings childhood nostalgia to Seoul

TheaterJan 6, 2011

Song Yige’s perspective rich, imaginative She had a perfect childhood in Harbin, China, and those innocent days made her who she is as an artist today. Song Yige is holding her second solo exhibiti...
The King is dead, long live the King’s hair

MusicJan 6, 2011

CHICAGO ― Collectors and auctioneers are getting flush off the lavatories of the rich and famous, which isn’t just a play on words. It’s also a chance to make a bunch of money by selling somebody els...
World tour in Palm Springs

FilmJan 6, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― Few events straddle the glitz and grit of world cinema quite like the Palm Springs International Film Festival. That’s thanks to the affair’s wildly divergent aims ― to be the U.S.’ def...
Artday app adds culture to smartphones

TheaterJan 6, 2011

English version of popular application to be released by the end of February The mobile art application artday is increasingly popular among both Android and Apple smartphone users, on the back of i...
Far East Movement breaks new ground for Asian-American rap

MusicJan 5, 2011

SEATTLE ― You can’t escape the song. “Like a G6” topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart and is still riding high at No. 14. The song is by the Far East Movement, reportedly the first Asian-American grou...
N. Korea flaunts laptops, football skills in Moscow art show

TheaterJan 5, 2011

MOSCOW (AFP) -- A ponytailed worker taps on a laptop and rosy-cheeked children sport baseball caps in a rare exhibition of contemporary North Korean art that is now on display at a trendy Moscow gall...
Incheon to send research team to Russia to file Korean relics

TheaterJan 5, 2011

INCHEON (Yonhap) ― The Incheon Metropolitan Government will send a team of experts to Russia to catalog Korean historic relics scattered across the Eurasian country and work toward having them exhibi...