| 'Heroes' Getting Spoofed in Comic Book
Popular NBC series Heroes has spawned its very own parody in the form of Hewoes #1, according to the official press release. Parody Press Comics will put out the mock comic in July, complete with two "collector's edition" covers. "When cheerleader Klair Bendit discovers her weird flexibility powers playing Twister and her dad's secret project involving strangers from around the world, the fun begins," said Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Don Chin. .
Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover DVD Box Set Available Fall 2007 Will ...
NEW YORK (Bondi Digital Publishing) - Bondi Digital Publishing, the first and only company solely focused on digital magazine archive products, today announced an exclusive publishing and software partnership with Wenner Media, publisher of the world-renowned Rolling Stone magazine. As part of this exclusive deal, New York-based Bondi Digital Publishing will convert the iconic magazine's entire printed history to digital format and use its proprietary digital archiving platform to publish Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover: The First 40 Years. The unique searchable DVD will contain digital replicas of every article, review, and photograph just as they appeared on the pages of the famed magazine. To be released in the Fall of 2007 in celebration of its 40th anniversary, Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover will be the first digital archive of the magazine.
Show takes modern approach to culture
Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students as well as prospective high school seniors on campus for Spring Visitation weekend experienced an exhibition of Latin culture Friday at La Alianza's annual Latin Expressions event.
The show, a mix of songs, dances and poetry recitations, was held in Saint Mary's O'Laughlin Auditorium. The theme for this year's performance was MetropoLatino, a celebration of urban Latino life.
Sophomore Prisma Garcia said she enjoyed the performances that expanded on the theme of urban culture.
"One of the most interesting parts was when the emcee came out after the show and displayed a variety of flags from Hispanic regions around the world as a sign of unity," Garcia said.
Senior Nancy Weaver, who has helped with the show for four consecutive years, said the production describes what it is like to be a Latino and so "enhances the sense of community for Latinos at Notre Dame."
"One of the purposes is to see what the Latino community at Notre Dame is about and to show prospects that there are several different ways to express your culture," Weaver said.
Roads to Freedom
Forty-four years after the March on Washington, the civil rights movement is in no danger of being forgotten. The image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is familiar to every American. Ground was broken on the national King monument in Washington, DC, in November 2006, within a year of huge media extravaganzas over the funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King. Nearly all American politicians pay lip service to the memory of the struggle--even President Bush had himself photographed hugging Mrs. King in front of King's tomb in Atlanta on King's seventy-fifth birthday in 2004, over a chorus of boos from protesters. A rich crop of new books does much more than continue to remind the nation of its great radical movement. These works compel readers to see that civil rights leaders' choices were never as straightforward as people today nostalgically assume.
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As if the new issue of Jump Cut weren't offering enough reading on "China and China disapora film," Chuck Kleinhans introducing that special section, adds an annotated list of recently published books for further reading. Anyone prepping for Cannes, whether or not you'll actually be going, will want to get in the mood for Wong Kar-wai (whose My Blueberry Nights opens the festival) with Allan Cameron's piece on the films "which deal most specifically with cultural translation and travel: Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000) and 2046 (2004)." Stephen Chow, whose latest, A Hope, has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, has been invited to consult on a Japanese sequel of sorts to Shaolin Soccer, Shaolin Girl. Here, Kin-Yan Szeto examines how Kung Fu Hustle "depicts an imaginary China in ways that commingle various historical and political meanings." For many, Curse of the Golden Flower, just out on DVD in the US and now opening in theaters in Europe, finds Zhang Yimou teetering on the edge of a rut.
Clash Over Affordability
BEBINGER: Few people who are following the roll out of the state's health care law are surprised that this sticky issue of defining "affordable" has become so divisive. The state's law says individuals will only be required to buy health insurance if it is affordable.
Stuart Altman, who specializes in national health policy at Brandeis University, says no one should have assumed that forcing people to buy insurance, at any price, would be easy.
STUART ALTMAN: I've been anticipating this day since the legislation was, even before it was passed, because I could see it coming. I think it was not given enough attention during the passage of the law, because I think this group is the least politically connected group in our system.
BEBINGER: Altman leans towards the argument that most uninsured residents can afford the coverage being offered...but adds that it would make sense for the state to be flexible in the first year or so of mandatory health insurance.
Istanbul to highlight Tehran culture
A week-long exhibit featuring the art, culture and tourism industries of Tehran will open in Turkey to introduce the flourishing city to future visitors.
The exhibition which will be held in Istanbul sometime in 2007 will feature more than 20 short and feature-length movies as well as a showcase of photography from Tehran's most popular tourist destinations.
A number of Iranian music ensembles are also scheduled to perform during the event, Mehr news agency reports.
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