What are the key elements in advertising today? According to Richard Bronshvag, Group Creative Director at ad firm Dailey and Associates, it's all about creating a mythology, having a great brand manager, and the power of media both new and old. These elements have helped Bronshvag and Dailey craft winning...
A-Max to Host Investor Conference Call on July 25th to Review Annual Results and Provide Update on Current Business Activities HONG KONG -- A-Max Holdings Limited (HK:0959) ("A-Max" or "the Company") today announced that its results for the financial year ended 31 March 2008 will reflect a non-operational,...
PARIS AFP — Pluto -- downgraded two years ago to the status of a dwarf planet -- has an exotically-named chum on the fringes of the Solar System. The Paris-based International Astronomical Union IAU has decided to honour a Kuiper Belt object, 2005 FY9, with the name of...
1 What was Sue Tilley's occupation when she was painted by Lucian Freud? 2 The conversation parties held by literary hostesses like Elizabeth Montagu in the 1750s were not confined to women, but what word was used to describe the women who attended them? ...
A RIVER CALLED TIME By Mia Couto trans David Brookshaw SERPENT'S TAIL Pounds 10.99 (231pp) Pounds 9.89 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 Mia Couto from Mozambique has witnessed his country's tumultous struggle for independence, the drama of revolution, and a protracted civil war as a journalist...
The Lure of the East (TATE BRITAIN, LONDON) Nineteenth-century British painters do the Near and Middle East: William Holman Hunt, Lord Leighton and Richard Dadd and others contemplate turbans, harems and hookahs. (020-7887 8888) to 31 Aug ...
Couscous (15) A leisurely paced but thoroughly engrossing masterclass in film naturalism, set around the dinner tables of an ordinary but completely fascinating extended French-Arabic family. A rich and fully flavoured treat. The Visitor (15) A wry and touching drama by...
Mat Collishaw Although Mat Collishaw's latest show (which includes Ultraviolet Garden, right) reflects his continuing interest in the relationship between the real world and its representation, whether in films or photographs, it's far from a purely cerebral exercise. Indeed, for the installation Shooting Stars, he projects Victorian...
Few would doubt the brilliance of Robert Graves, a man considered to be one of Britain's foremost war poets whose verses on Greek mythology and frontline conflict cemented his name in literary history. But one academic has accused the poet of stealing ideas, literary criticism and poetry...
Honest Jon's record label is putting on a cross-cultural spectacular at London's Barbican. TIM CUMMING reports Honest Jon's is one of the few independent record shops surviving on London's streets. It is a fixture of the Ladbroke Grove scene, with its unreconstructed Portobello Road premises, where anarcho-...
ASBURY PARK, N.J. AP -- Fortune teller Madam Marie, a figure of rock 'n' roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, has died. She was in her mid-90s. Sally Castello tells the Asbury Park Press that her great- grandmother, Marie Castello, died Friday. The psychic reader and adviser...
The Courtauld Cezannes (Courtauld Gallery, LONDON) Card Players, Man with a Pipe, Mont Sainte-Victoire and several more, showcasing the gallery's collection of the French master painter. (020-7848 2777) to 5 Oct Antony Gormley's Field for the British Isles...
The World Behind the World Michael Meade Greenfire Press c/o Mosaic Multiculutral Fondation 4218 1/2 SW Alaska, Suite H, Seattle, WA 98116 9780976645061, $17.95, www.mosaicvoices.org Is there wisdom for the modern world to be found in the ancient...
LOGAN -- Less than five minutes into Utah State University wildlands scientist Fred Provenza's short course on range management, it's obvious why previous audiences almost always use the word "provocative" to describe the session. More than a few of the 40 or so land use experts on...
Antony Gormley's Field for the British Isles St Helens College One of the hits of the 1990s: a sea of 40,000 pint-sized clay folk - obedient, expectant, all eyes, stopping dead in a line at your feet. (01744 455 492)to 23...
Radical Light (National Gallery, LONDON) Segantini, Volpedo, Previati? Discover the Italian Divisionists who, between 1891 and 1910, linked their pointillist painting techniques with left-wing politics. (020-7747 2885) to 7 Sept Cy Twombly (Tate Modern, LONDON)...
Chamberlain’s deal with Hitler has become shorthand for naive, weak leadership. But governing by analogy can be a mistake, too. If you were making the movie, the scene might go something like this: It is late May 1940. France is collapsing and the Nazis are pushing the British...
Running the Silk Road Palace Theatre, Watford Running the Silk Road mixes a contemporary story with tales from Chinese mythology, and peoples it with a handful of humans who encounter gods, floods and a plague of locusts. Yellow Earth Theatre bites off more than...
Running the Silk Road mixes a contemporary story with tales from Chinese mythology, and peoples it with a handful of humans who encounter gods, floods and a plague of locusts. Yellow Earth Theatre bites off more than it or we can really chew, but since the play is delivered with...
World News IN BRIEF *ROME A shy young deer called "Unicorn" because of the single horn growing out of the centre of his head has attracted hundreds of visitors to a nature reserve in Tuscany. The one-year-old roe deer was born with an apparent...
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