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Woodward culture unites cruisers across generational divides

They gather on opposite sides of Woodward at 13 1/2 Mile: the baby boomers who created Woodward Dream Cruise culture and the "Fast & Furious" youth movement who will someday inherit the avenue's most celebrated day. " [...]

Posted On : Aug, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Gangster culture

What was the cause of the riots in the United Kingdom? This wasn’t a political riot. There wasn’t anything political about it. It wasn’t even race-on-race rioting. It was races rioting together — rioting against th [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

A Future Wrapped in 1980s Culture

Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One” is a book filled with references to video games, virtual reality, ’80s pop-culture trivia, geek heroes like E. Gary Gygax, and funny-sounding cult items like Frobozz and Raaka-Tu. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

POP CULTURE'S MOST MEMORABLE WRESTLERS

What do you get Hulk Hogan on his birthday? I mean, aside from a new shirt? The guy's big day was Aug. 11, so we're celebrating with a look back at some of pop-culture's hardest-working performers: pro wrestlers. Hulk Hog [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Sexualized portrayals of females are norm in pop culture

Examining how men and women have been presented in popular media, University at Buffalo sociologists looked at more than 1,000 images of males and females on the Rolling Stone magazine covers over the course of 43 years. Their conclusion: [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Bengali culture was not hidden from me: Mahesh Manjrekar

Mahesh Manjrekar says that his Tollywood launchpad, 'Ami Subhash Bolchi', caters to both whistleblowers and frontbenchers. Even while making issue-based films, he is okay with commercial tadka There are many freedom fighters wh [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Columbia Basin Culture Tour this weekend

To meet local artists behind the scenes and see first hand what their newest creations are, residents are invited to participate in a free self-directed tour through out the Columbia Basin this weekend. Nearly 100 artisans are hanging [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Yak Butter Tea and Tibetan Culture

This morning my friend Kemo, the cultural resources person in the science office, decided to ride with us to a village to interview elders. As we turned up the steep road, two older women popped into sight. Kemo immediately had the driver [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Randy Edsall sets about changing the culture of Maryland’s f...

Randy Edsall has set limits on players’ facial hair and stripped their surnames from the backs of jerseys. He confined academically borderline players to study hall during spring practices and banned earrings and baseball caps. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Asian Culture fest set at Sonnenberg

Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park, 151 Charlotte St., Canandaigua, will present an Asian Culture Festival from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 13. Proceeds will help fund Sonnenberg's Japanese garden renovation project. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Quebec offers gems in culture

Quebec's Outaouais region posed three problems before I'd even arrived - how to spell it, how to pronounce it and how to find it on a map. The first two were overcome by memorization, the third by learning that Outaouais (pronounc [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

The Impacts of the Canadian Culture on ....

The notion and mentality that Africa is a land of multi-cultures still remains unadulterated. Africa as a continent has uncountable cultures and beliefs. Despite these uncountable and numerous cultures, how often one practices them depend [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

For it lives and dies in a culture of blood

Many years ago, this writer as a stripling in the garden of life, worked at an abattoir. He was 17. He needed money for a surfboard. (This also necessitated him joining the Army Reserve for the longest two weeks of his life. The money was [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Demonstrations change Jerusalem culture of centralized prote...

Jerusalem has seen much larger demonstrations than the housing protest that took place on Saturday night. All those, however, were rallies that were organized by large organizations that brought participants to Jerusalem by bus from Tel A [...]