Indian Romance: Life! Events
ART CHINESE ACTRESSES OF THE GOLDEN ERA Library@Esplanade, Till Feb 28: 11am - 9pm (Mon - Fri), 11am - 8pm (Sat & Sun), Free, Tel: 9010-3413 Artist and writer Tam Hoe Yen displays paintings of Chinese actresses of the 1920s to the 1950s. Check out his acrylic paintings of the elegant Li Li Hua and melancholic Ruan Linyu. Their films on DVD and VCD can be borrowed by library users.TRAVEL LIGHT: STORIES FROM ASIA Library@Orchard, Orchard Road, Till Sun: 11am - 9pm, Woodlands...
Indian Romance: CD REVIEWS
MARIA BAYO RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) The imprint of 18th century Italian opera was felt far and wide across the European continent, and across the English Channel as well, where Handel was its famously shining ambassador. This enticing new release will open listeners' ears to the little-known music of Spain's Italianate Baroque zarzuelas. (Later examples of the zarzuela tradition, popularized by Placido Domingo and others, are better known.) Here, in...
Indian Romance: MOUNTAIN SHOWS DYING CHIEF GOT HIS WISH
Indian Face on Lookout Mountian near Chattanooga has an interesting legend.The tale is told of an Indian chief, the last of a once powerful tribe, who lay dying in Lookout Valley. He prayed to his gods for a sign that his tribe should not perish. A great storm swept the valley, throwing down huge rocks. The next day the dying chief looked up and saw on the mountain his own likeness silhouetted in rock against the sky. He died content. The community of Eve Mills in the Fork Creek Valley of...
Indian Romance: Weekend TV Picks
TOP OF THE TUBE THE INFORMANT Sunday at 8 p.m. on Showtime No merry St. Patrick's Day picture, this. Adapted from Gerald Seymour's book "Field of Blood," it's a hard-edged but ultimately intimate examination of "the troubles" as seen through the 1983 dilemma of an ex-terrorist who'd like to stay ex, but gets dragged back into the game and, then, into being a turncoat...
Indian Romance: ALSO SHOWING
BROKEN FLOWERS (M) 105 mins, US * * * * Bill Murray seems to have cornered the market in male mid-life crises.Jim Jarmusch directs him in this mischievous, tender and at times very funny film about an ageing commitment-phobe who visits a string of old flames (including Sharon Stone and Jessica Lange) in search of a son who might not even exist - and discovers a few home truths in the process.Selected cinemas CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2 (G) 94 mins, US * * Even the...