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Female Vocalist of the Year Carrie Underwood holds her award at 52nd Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday. — Reuters
Carrie, Chris and Keith steal the show at the Country Music Awards
LOS ANGELES — Chris Stapleton was the big winner but Carrie Underwood and her unborn baby stole the limelight at the Country Music Association (CMA) awards on Wednesday.A heavily pregnant Underwood, one of country music’s biggest celebrities, chose the live televised show in Nashville to reveal for the first time that the second child she is expecting is a boy.Underwood, who co-hosted the show with singer Brad Paisley, won female vocalist of the year for the fifth time and brought the house down with an emotional performance of her single about bringing people together, “Love Wins.”“Thank you God. I have been blessed with so much in my life,” Underwood said.Stapleton won three awards — male vocalist of the year, single and song of the year for “Broken Halos.”But in a...
November 15, 2018

Carrie, Chris and Keith steal the show at the Country Music Awards

Art Jameel opens new multidisciplinary art space in Dubai
Art Jameel opened a new multidisciplinary art space on Nov. 11 on Jaddaf Waterfront, Dubai. The 10,000-square meters space responds to the surrounding urban landscape and the Centre’s mission to be open and inclusive.Designed as an intimate setting for experiencing and producing different forms of art, Series Architects’ inspiration for Jameel Arts Centre was drawn from local vernacular architecture: the UAE’s sha’abi housing typology and the traditional medina.Featuring more than 40 artists, the center represents an innovative new cultural hub for the region. The opening show includes works by artists including Saudi artist Maha Malluh, Hassan Sharif, Wael Shawky, as well as an installation by Aseel AlYaqoub and Puerto Rican-Kuwaiti artist Alia Farid.Jameel Arts Centre is an...
November 14, 2018

Art Jameel opens new multidisciplinary art space in Dubai

Almosafer Year-To-Date insights show Saudi Arabia travelers are exploring new destinations with longer stays
Almosafer.com, the Saudi homegrown online travel platform which offers a seamless booking experience for over one million hotels and flights on over 450 airlines, is celebrating its sixth anniversary by releasing travel trends from yet another record year.Over this past summer, travelers who booked on Almosafer increasingly favoured visits to countries in Europe with London, Munich, Paris, Cannes, Geneva and Amsterdam being amongst the top booked destinations.Compared to the summer travel season, travelers who booked ahead for the long winter break are not only opting to stay within the Middle East as they traditionally had, but are venturing out further with Bali, Belek and Orlando as newcomers on the list of trending destinations.Travelers are also opting for longer vacations, with the...
November 14, 2018

Almosafer Year-To-Date insights show Saudi Arabia travelers are exploring new destinations with longer stays

Louvre Abu Dhabi celebrates one-year anniversary and over one million visitors
Louvre Abu Dhabi announced that it welcomed more than one million visitors in its first year, establishing itself as one of the leading cultural institutions on the global stage.“One year ago we spoke about Louvre Abu Dhabi as Abu Dhabi’s gift to the world – and today we are proud to have shared it with more than one million visitors already. Louvre Abu Dhabi has become an icon and a favourite destination in Abu Dhabi both for our local communities and visitors to the city. Our strong collaboration with our French and regional partners supports the museum’s mission to tell universal stories and we thank them. Yet our greatest success, 10 years in the making, is the next generation of Emirati museum professionals who are trained to the highest standard in the cultural sector and are...
November 14, 2018

Louvre Abu Dhabi celebrates one-year anniversary and over one million visitors

Being friends with your backpack
Saudi GazetteWhat is the most important thing to take with you when you are going to school? Is it your lunchbox or your books? No! The most important thing is your backpack. Backpack carries your lunch box, books and stationary inside of it.It helps you to assemble and keep things together. Whether you move around between classes, or stay in one; your backpack always helps you. Even if you are going on a trip, or staying at a friend’s place your backpack will hold everything you need while leaving your hands free.Backpacks are helpful and there are no reasons you should not be carrying one. However, you need to take care a bit otherwise it could be dangerous.• While walking around in school or in a bus make sure you backpack doesn’t hurt anyone.• Someone can fall by tripping...
November 14, 2018

Being friends with your backpack

Aretha Franklin performs during the commemoration of the Elton John AIDS Foundation 25th year fall gala at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, in New York on Nov. 7, 2017. — Reuters file photo
Aretha Franklin’s 'Amazing Grace' concert film finally debuts
NEW YORK — Three months after her death and 46 years after she first recorded it, Aretha Franklin's live gospel concert is coming to the big screen."Amazing Grace," filmed in January 1972 when the Queen of Soul was just 29 years old, follows Franklin over two nights giving a concert at the New Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.Belting out gospel songs like "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," "Climbing Higher Mountains" and an 11-minute version of "Amazing Grace," Franklin brought churchgoers and guests (including Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger) to their feet.But Franklin herself stands still, saying little in the 90-minute film."It's a church service. It's basically just our aunt standing there singing," Sabrina...
November 14, 2018

Aretha Franklin’s 'Amazing Grace' concert film finally debuts

A custom bound one-of-a-kind hardcover book that includes the first 10 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man,
Stan Lee's legacy: Ubiquity of superheroes in pop culture
Paris — The face of superhero culture may be gone with the passing of Marvel legend Stan Lee, but there is no risk of his work fading into the pop culture background.Instead, the indelible characters he created such as Spider-Man, The Hulk or the X-Men are essentially modern mythological heroes, whose place on the big screen is immutable."Graphically and culturally, these characters have influenced fashion, street art, pop art, design, television and cinema: their importance is significant," said Jean-Jacques Launier, the founder of the Art Ludique museum in Paris.The museum -- dedicated to the "art of entertainment," according to its website -- staged an exhibit on Marvel superheroes in 2014 and then a similar one for DC Comics last year.Superheroes first entered the...
November 14, 2018

Stan Lee's legacy: Ubiquity of superheroes in pop culture

Jean Paul Gaultier
French fashion giant Jean Paul Gaultier goes fur-free
Paris — Animal rights groups hailed on Monday Jean Paul Gaultier's announcement that he is joining the growing ranks of fashion designers to ban fur from their collections.The enfant terrible of French couture announced the decision in a television interview on Saturday, describing the methods used to kill the animals as "absolutely deplorable"."Fur is more sensual than fake fur, but you can find other ways of staying warm," the 66-year-old told Canal+.Animal campaign group PETA said that "corks are popping" at its headquarters after Gaultier's announcement."This decision is a sign of the times," its international director Mimi Bekhechi said in a statement."The vast majority of people want nothing to do with items that have come from...
November 13, 2018

French fashion giant Jean Paul Gaultier goes fur-free

John Lennon
Man who tried to sell stolen John Lennon diaries charged in Germany
BERLIN — A 59-year-old man was charged in Germany on Monday on suspicion of trying to sell stolen diaries and other items that had belonged to the late Beatle John Lennon.The suspect, identified by the Berlin prosecutors' office only as Erhan G., in 2014 commissioned an auction house in Berlin to sell the items, receiving an upfront payment of 785,000 euros ($884,000), the office said in a statement.The items, which were stolen from Lennon's widow Yoko Ono in 2006 and ended up in Berlin, also included letters, a recording of a Beatles concert and a pair of Lennon's glasses.Among them was Lennon's last diary which ended on Dec. 8, 1980, the day he was shot and killed in New York.It contained the entry that on that morning Lennon and Ono had an appointment with photographer...
November 13, 2018

Man who tried to sell stolen John Lennon diaries charged in Germany

Flowers and mementos are pictured on the star of late Marvel Comics co-creator Stan Lee on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California. — Reuters
There will never be another Stan Lee
LOS ANGELES — Stan Lee, who dreamed up Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Black Panther and a cavalcade of other Marvel Comics superheroes that became mythic figures in pop culture with soaring success at the movie box office, died at the age of 95, his daughter said on Monday.As a writer and editor, Lee was key to the ascension of Marvel into a comic book titan in the 1960s when, in collaboration with artists such as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he created superheroes who would enthrall generations of young readers."He felt an obligation to his fans to keep creating," his daughter J.C. Lee said in a statement to Reuters. "He loved his life and he loved what he did for a living. His family loved him and his fans loved him. He was irreplaceable."She did not mention the...
November 13, 2018

There will never be another Stan Lee

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