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Punk culture vs sharia in Aceh

“We’re not criminals, get us out of here,” appealed Yudi from behind bars. Yudi and 63 punk members were detained by the city police of Banda Aceh for allegedly having made a false proposal in order to stage a punk rock [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Russian invasion on culture

Russian culture is gripping Morjim. Locals are learning Russian and many can even carry out a conversation. Advertising boards, computer key pads at cybercafes, restaurant menus are in Russian. Shack owners, shop owners, taxi drivers, mas [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Finding the culture sector's leaders of tomorrow

It's now nearly 10 years since the Clore Duffield Foundation set up a task force to find out why there weren't enough successful cultural leaders to go around. That research discovered that leadership development was often a quest [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Insular culture at PSU, passed responsibility mark case

The warning signs were there for more than a decade, disturbing indicators that Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was breaching boundaries with young boys - or maybe worse. Yet the university's top administrators k [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Official calls for healthy online culture

A senior government official is calling for authorities to "strengthen the construction and management of an online culture" and work to promote a "healthy and optimistic" online environment. Wang Chen, minister of Chi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Culture and Religion: A Mixed Race Relationship

As of ten days ago, Muslims entered the first month of the Islamic New Year 1433, a month known as Muharram. To non-Muslims, this will most likely not mean very much, so I shall explain. Muharram is a period of 40 days in which some Musli [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Culture of entitlement a road to nowhere

Australians love government. Many will try to claim otherwise, but evidence suggests that they are happiest when receiving a gentle drip-feed of government money and services. As a nation, Australia's cultural identity is built upo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Zynga's tough culture risks a talent drain

Zynga's chief executive, Mark Pincus, got an earful from employees last month. In dozens of e-mails to a company-wide list, frustrated workers complained about the long hours and stressful deadline periods. The quarterly staff survey [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Zynga’s Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain

Zynga’s chief executive, Mark Pincus, got an earful from employees last month. In dozens of e-mails to a companywide list, frustrated workers complained about the long hours and stressful deadline periods. The quarterly staff survey [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Return of the culture vulture

I was taken to the opera at Covent Garden a week or so ago, Bellini’s La Sonambula, to be precise. I’ll pass over the fact that what was meant to be a jolly village drama about sleep- walking in early 19th-century Switzerland [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Pop-culture convention this weekend

By this weekend you should be coming out of your turkey-and-pie-induced torpor enough to stagger down to Erie's first Paper Asylum Vintage Paper & Pop Culture Convention at the Bayfront Convention Center. You might want to step liv [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

“It is through dance and culture that we can connect”

Dancer, activist, and artist Sheema Kermani shares her thoughts and experiences with Muniza Agha-Fawad Classical dance in Pakistan is closely tied with identity politics, projected by a section of society as “Indian” or &ldquo [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Sindh Culture Day celebrated

Slogan ‘Long Live Sindh’ reverberated in the province as well as the city, as the people celebrated Sindh Culture Day with traditional fervour and zeal on Saturday. Sponsored by the Sindh government in collaboration with a con [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Sindh Culture Day celebrations continue on second day

The people of Sindh continued the celebrations of Culture Day of Sindhi Topi and Ajrak on Sunday across the province. They wore Sindhi Ajrak, Topi and Shalwar Kameez. Big rallies were taken out while there were also programmes of folk dan [...]