This week in SundayArts News: The Cloisters, Brits Off Broadway Festival through 1/3 at 59E59, Alvin Ailey 2009 New York City Center Season 12/2 - 1/3, Tim Burton at MoMA 11/22 - 4/26, Eero Saarinen Shaping the Future at MCNY through 1/31, and Chanticleer NYC concerts - 11/30, 12/1, 12/3.
(menos)
A trio of women called Les Cocottes Codec or The Darling Chicks swept to the finish line in France’s high-heeled relay race. The prizes for the winners were, perhaps unsurprisingly, gift certificates for shoes. Duration: 00:51.
(menos)
Big and small... shiny and pink... you can make a fashion statement with firepower. Gun sales are blasting to new heights in the US, as the economic crisis increases fears that crime will take off. This weekend, a gun show in Chantilly, Virginia is drawing thousands of interested buyers. Duratio...
(menos)
Sergiev Posad is one of the most beautiful Orthodox monasteries in the Moscow region, and also the site of a special kind of school. Every year, nearly 60 students meticulously learn to paint religious icons, retracing the same brushstrokes of masters from centuries ago. Duration: 01:50.
(menos)
With no evidence of a firm recovery, there will be no new spending, announces the finance minister. As for the ballooning deficit, he says the government will take care of that when the time is right.
(menos)
Massive flooding, following a record amount of rain in England, forces a major rescue operation, causes deaths and drives hundreds from their homes.
(menos)
Have the nuts and bolts of reporting the news changed to reflect the tumultuous media landscape? We’ll talk with Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; in Art&Seek, Carl Hamm of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
(menos)
A spa outside Tokyo celebrates the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau wine by pouring red wine into outdoor pools and inviting the adventurous in for an invigorating bath. Duration: 01:56.
(menos)