| CULTURE: Local museums, art, more
BROOKGREEN GARDENS, U.S. 17, between Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island, is home to the Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington sculpture garden, featuring more than 550 works of American sculpture. The Lowcountry History and Wildlife Preserve houses waterfowl, river otters, alligators, foxes and deer in their native habitats. The Lowcountry Trail is a boardwalk that winds through restored rice fields and features archaeological sites of an overseer's home, a smokehouse and a slave's cabin. Also featured are Babette Bloch's sculptures of the plantation's historical figures. April 27 from 8:30-10:30 a.m., Brookgreen will hold "Hummingbird Banding," a talk given by local birding specialist Gary Phillips; cost is $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers and registration is required. Hours are 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m.
'Hero' went from techie to actor Oka's role is audience favorite
"Heroes" actor Masi Oka's talents are featured in the latest "Star Wars" movies, but you have to know where to look. Oka, now starring in this season's breakout hit TV show, didn't play a fighter pilot, second-tier Jedi or even an alien buried in makeup or latex. "The (scene) I really like is when Obi Wan and Jango Fett are chasing through the asteroid field in 'Episode II,' " Oka says. "They came to me and said, 'We need to destroy this huge asteroid into millions of pieces and don't have the software to do it. Can you help us?' I said, 'Yeah.' " Most "Heroes" fans know Oka as Hiro, the enthusiastic computer programmer who discovers teleportation and time-traveling skills that help him fight the forces of evil on the NBC drama -- which returns tonight with new episodes. His real story is almost equally fantastic.
GSN Orders New Series 'CAMOUFLAGE' From Disney's Buena Vista ...
GSN, the network for games, announced today that it has ordered 40 half-hour episodes of the new series, CAMOUFLAGE, an addictive hidden word puzzle and trivia game show from Disney's Buena Vista Productions. CAMOUFLAGE is the first collaboration between Buena Vista Productions and GSN. In making the announcement, Jamie Roberts, GSN's Senior Vice President of Programming, commented: "I couldn't be more thrilled than to be in business with Buena Vista Productions on this smart, playful, first-class game show. For viewers, CAMOUFLAGE is easy to follow and the type of show that pulls you in so that you can't help but play-along." Taping in Hollywood, CAMOUFLAGE is a fast-paced game show of hidden word puzzles with cross-word type clues ranging from general knowledge to pop culture.
Bright lights, hopeful city
Twelve years ago, para-bolas of green, red and yellow tracer fire used to arch over the city of Sarajevo at night, accompanied by deadly artillery shells. Look down now from the mountains onto the city after dark and one can imagine that the gunfire of the 1992-95 war has been replaced by something invisible and harmless, but just as omnipresent: blizzards of mobile phone text messages, fuelling the city's vibrant nightlife. .
Archbishop of Canterbury - church needs to listen properly to the ...
Apr. 16, 2007 -- The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan WIlliams, has told an audience of theological students that both intensely liberal and ultra conservative readings of the Bible are 'rootless' and are limited in what they can contribute to the life of the church. In the Larkin Stuart lecture, delivered today at an event hosted jointly by Wycliffe and Trinity theological colleges in Toronto, Dr Williams said that Christians need to reconnect with scripture as something to be listened to and heard in the context of Jesus's invitation to the Eucharist and to work for the Kingdom. "... The Church's public use of the Bible represents the Church as defined in some important way by listening: the community when it comes together doesn't only break bread and reflect together and intercede, it silences itself to hear something.
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