KULLU: The saffron brigade is up in arms here over the sale of books denigrating Gandhi and India at an exhibition organized by the Kullu Gramudyog. While a book ‘Rangeela...
A red ribbon flutters in the wind. It's past noon. We try to ignore our baked backs as we take in the breathtaking view of the valley below the 2,700 ft Pavagadh hill. "Now!" We turn our heads to see a man running backwards with a giant bow-shaped parachute attached to...
From fashion to home furnishings, makeovers are all the rage on reality television and in popular magazines. Renovate or remodel has become a natural extension of the reduce-reuse-recycle mindset. In keeping with this trend, this week we're featuring some favorite...
By Geoffrey Clarfield, National PostFebruary 8, 2010 4:09 AM In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the most magnificent intact tomb of any Egyptian Pharaoh ever found in the royal burial grounds of the Valley of the Kings in the Egyptian desert. The...
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Quesa Fundido Starter. Photo by La Hacienda Restaurant. La Hacienda at The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess defined great Mexican fine dining in the Phoenix Valley for two decades before it closed a few years ago. January brought good news to the thousands of Valley...
Christine Ebersole materialized like a goddess formed out of the ectoplasm in screwball heaven at Wednesday's opening-night performance of her new show at the Café Carlyle. From what other celestial realm could this dizzy, curly headed blonde with a soprano whose...
Origin The roots for this celebration reach back to the Roman festival of Lupercalia. This was a fertility ritual that was held on February 15 every year. February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno. Juno was the Queen of the gods and goddesses with special meaning as the...
GEORGE TOWN: More than 10,000 lanterns and 230,000 decorative bulbs turned the Kek Lok Si Temple into a fairyland of lights as fireworks and firecrackers were set off to welcome the Year of the Tiger. This year's annual Chinese New Year lighting...
GEORGE TOWN: With a thundering roll of drums and cymbals, a huge group of "dragons" and "lions" came "alive" at the Goddess of Mercy Temple. The event - a grand eye-dotting ceremony to usher in the Year of Tiger. It was a sight to behold as the coterie of 26 lions...
FOR the last two years, Deity, a club on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, has attracted a mostly local crowd just as interested in listening and dancing to an eclectic mix of underground hip-hop, reggae and jazzy instrumental mixes as they are in settling in at the bar and...