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Kate Moss is a Turkish delight in steamy photoshoot (Daily Mirror) 29 August 2008Kate Moss gets all steamy - as she poses in a Turkish bath.
'Born Yesterday' still feels current today (Cape Cod Times) 21 August 2008Cape Playhouse's period piece, set in '40s, finds parallels in contemporary political climate.
The Last Emperor and Beyond: The 11 Best Movies About Beijing (filmcritic.com) 18 August 2008The 2008 Summer Olympics gave us all a chance to take a good long look at China and to learn a lot about Beijing, the rapidly changing host city that's home to 17 million of China's new capitalist strivers.
Renaissance star 'Snot' dies at 58 (Denver Post) 12 August 2008Gary Mazzu, artistic director of the Colorado Renaissance Festival, will always remember how early and how quickly the stands filled for Puke 'n Snot at the Larkspur show.
Age of Conan: Upcoming Patch Notes Leaked (WarCry Network) 13 August 2008QJ.net posted today a massive list of patches from the upcoming Age of Conan update. Even though the leaked list is considered preliminary, it features significant updates and changes to every feature, and most notably to the massive PvP and player classes. Check the full list after the jump!
Swan Lake, Royal Opera House, London Raise the Red Lantern, Royal Opera House, London (Independent) 10 August 2008The Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China's Swan Lake is either sacrilege or a bracing slap to the face of classical ballet. I see no reason why it can't be both. Watching it performed at Covent Garden is like that moment in the first Batman movie when Jack Nicholson's Joker marches into the Gotham Art Museum and announces, "Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds...", before desecrating everything.
SWEET MANDARIN: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West (Book Reporter) 08 August 2008When Cambridge-educated Helen Tse and her two sisters opened their trendy pan-Asian restaurant Sweet Mandarin in Manchester, England in 2004, many (including their family) were taken aback to see three accomplished British-born young women turn their backs on hard-won careers in law, engineering and executive recruiting in favor of the wok.
On the release of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and CJ7, Stuart Jeffries considers China's influence on ... (Guardian Unlimited) 08 August 2008Hollywood keeps plundering China for ideas, talent and chop-socky. Stuart Jeffries on a west-east love affair
"Mei Lanfang" to open at year-end (China Daily) 07 August 2008Peking opera-singing Leon Lai and Zhang Ziyi are due to appear in movie theaters shortly before this year's Christmas holidays.
Still in love with the romance of Asia's past (Concord Monitor) 02 August 2008Been to China lately? There are a lot of new things to see. Avant-garde monoliths - the China Central Television tower, the National Center for Performing Arts and the National Stadium, to name just three - rise in Beijing. Shanghai's skyline looks like a fantasy straight out of The Jetsons. Guangzhou has been transformed almost beyond recognition.