Gomorra, Film Poster

At the 2008 European Film Festival, in Sevilla, Spain, director Matteo Garrone’s film will be presented during the festival’s opening night.

The film, called “Gomorra”, is based on the book with the same name, written by the Italian journalist Roberto Saviano.

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People Bidding at a Christie's Auction

If anyone needed one more piece of evidence that America is going through an economy crisis, they have it now.

The latest painting auction organized by the New York auction house Christie’s has been a major disappointment. Read More…

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Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize Winner

The son of Studs Terkel – the Pulitzer award-winning American author- has announced that his father had passed away yesterday, in Chicago, at the age of 96.

He was born in 1912 in New York, and his family moved to Chicago eight years later.

Studs Terkel is famous for books such as “Working” and “Division Street: America”. Read More…

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Barcelona Chair in Living Room

Contemporary interior design is more and more based on minimalism; the furniture, the accessories, the architecture, they all tend to be minimalist these days.

Also known as the ABC art, the minimalist art is an artistic movement initiated in the 20th century, which tries to reduce, as much as possible, the number of colours, shapes, lines and textures used in any form of artistic creation.
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Channel 4 Logo

One of the latest projects announced by Channel 4 has been the launch of three digital radio stations. This project seems to have come to its end earlier than expected and Channel 4 says it is because the sums of money companies pay for radio advertising have decreased very much in the last years.

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Argentinian Tango Dancers

It normally takes two to tango; but the TANGO PASION company has more than two members. Ever since they started their activity, more than ten years ago, this American group originally from New York, has been collaborating with Read More…

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Negotiating

2008… Job, career, family life, personal life… for all these you have to negotiate in order to obtain them. Wife, kid, colleagues, neighbors, friends, bosses… with all these you have to negotiate on order to obtain the first ones.

What is negotiation after all? Well, nowadays negotiation has become an art, because this is one of the ways of getting what you want.Here are some tips to a successful negotiation:

1. Be realistic! Never ask for something that you, yourself, cannot do or obtain. Read More…

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Flower Shoe

Can art still be reinvented? Can we make art out of anything? Michel Tcherevkoff, a famous photographer, looks one day at the photo of a leaf that he uses in his photo shootings and says: “Hey, that looks like a shoe!” And so the fantasy began…

Little by little flowers began to take the shape of a shoe.
It has been called the “shoe-fleur” concept and it worked. Tcherevkoff’s hands brought to life fantasy shoes: shoes that can be worn by fairies and magic little creatures. Read More…

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