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What has music done for you?Music was my hobby and my getaway, it was my escapism in a box,and since it became my career years ago, I had the awakening that Ineed to do this to be happy, and since

Joe Sacco works as a war correspondent. He goes to a war zone, takes notes and photographs, then returns home, and creates a 250-page comic book.

Director Shekhar Kapur has hit out at claims his new movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age is anti-Catholic, insisting it is "anti extreme forms of religion." The Indian filmmaker reacted to allegations by Vatican-backed historian Professor Franco Cardini that his period

CBBC Newsround reports that newcomer Jessie Cave has been cast as Lavender Brown in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , opening in theaters on November 21, 2008. Cave will appear in the CBBC drama "Summerhill," which is set to

Today (today!), I am thrilled to announce that Miro, the open and free video player, has gone 1.0, and launched in a polished, slick package for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is the open and free alternative

Over at New York Magazine , Emma Pearse interviewed me about Boing Boing tv . We talked about what could possibly be more awesome than unicorns, and how one might create "functioning spaceships out of Popsicle sticks and rubber bands."

The Japanese animation company Production I.G announced that its "Asience: Hairy Tale" animated short is a Gold Winner in the Television/Cinema category, cel animation section of the 22nd London International Advertising (LIA) Awards. Kazuto Nakazawa ( Kill Bill's animated sequence,

A book about a four year old girl that gets kidnapped.

Gianni Amelio is one of those accomplished Italian filmmakers whose work is rarely screened in Beirut. Compared to neorealists like Roberto Rossellini but also to the work of Michelangelo Antonioni, the writer-director's films have been critically acclaimed for both their

Nada had no choice. The Sunni Lebanese woman decided to become a Shiite because that branch of Islam guarantees that her daughters will one day be her sole heiresses."If I became a Shiite it was not out of conviction," Nada

Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: In the documentary Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, which in some ways serves as a kind of alternative text book for adventurous cinephiles looking for a resource for finding important lost films, a commentator describes Berlin

LiveDaily.com) Alt-metal outfits Every Time I Die and Escape the Fate will headline the seventh incarnation of the Take Action benefit tour, which launches in February.

LiveDaily.com) Industrial-rock icons Ministry have announced dates for a purported farewell tour on the heels of the release of one last studio album from the long-running act.

LiveDaily.com) Duran Duran had smatterings of "rock band" in their persona back in the 1980s heyday, but underneath it all there was a strict code of dance that was adhered to (i.e., "The Reflex," "Wild Boys," "Is There Something I

At the beginning of November Mexico, Brazil, and, to a lesser extent, Spain and Portugal celebrated the Day of the Dead, a festive holiday whose symbol is a human skull. These cultures do not deny the finality of it all

ComingSoon.net has received two new featurettes on director Jon Turteltaub's National Treasure: Book of Secrets , opening in theaters on December 21. The anticipated sequel, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, stars Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Diane Kruger,

ShockTillYouDrop.com has posted an exclusive photo from Lionsgate's The Haunting in Connecticut , the horror-thriller starring Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan, Elias Koteas and Amanda Crew.