HORECA offers a taste of Lombardy spirit
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-12 15:18:16 -0700 | entertainment-news
Taste buds were on the brink of surrender after sips of five or so different wines in rapid succession. But the final wine was like a breathless cello note ending a hectic symphony. It was a ruby red Moscato di...
Olive oil judge brings expertise from Jordan
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-12 15:18:16 -0700 | entertainment-news
The Daily Star Batsh says the method of harvesting plays an important role in olive oil quality...Batsh heads the Olive Directorate in Jordon's Agriculture Ministry. In other words, Batsh makes sure the thousands of tons of olive oil produced yearly...
Is the Arab world ready for a sexual revolution?
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-12 14:26:18 -0700 | entertainment-news
The Middle East and North Africa have been very much in the spotlight over the last two years thanks to the Arab Spring revolutions. As international policymakers grapple with the question of what comes next politically in the region, others...
Abstraction of a mystical bent
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-12 14:26:17 -0700 | entertainment-news
Massive canvases, geometric shapes, explosions of color, and diversity in style. These are some of the features awaiting anyone entering Mar Mikhael's Galerie Tanit-Beyrouth nowadays. Vous Avez Dit Abstrait? (Abstract You Said?), the space's present exhibition, features 19 works by...
Arab women honoured at film festival
Source: BBC
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-11 04:27:56 -0700 | entertainment-news
Female Arab directors honoured at film festival On the Edge, Kilani's first feature, was inspired by true events Women film-makers from Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon have been honoured by the Birds Eye View Film Festival in London, which this year...
Mika tops program of artists at Jounieh International Festival
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-10 15:20:08 -0700 | entertainment-news
The Daily Star Lebano-British popster Mika will return to Lebanon on July 3. Lebano-British popster Mika will return to Lebanon, gracing the Fouad Chehab Stadium courtesy of the 2013 edition of the Jounieh International Festival. Dignitaries, including Jounieh Mayor Tony...
Bodies speaking what words cannot
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-09 15:41:58 -0700 | entertainment-news
The body, the iconic U.S. choreographer Martha Graham once opined, says what words cannot...Maqamat's goal is also to build Lebanon's contemporary dance infrastructure. The 2013 edition of the festival will open Thursday with a window upon Belgian contemporary dance.
Classic car show attracts young and old
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-08 15:55:02 -0700 | entertainment-news
Perhaps the only thing more intriguing at Faraya's classic-car show than Michael Jackson's Rolls Royce was its current owner. Hamad and Edwin Mouawad are 15- and 21-years-old respectively, and they were far and away the youngest vintage car collectors among...
Exploring life as a Muslim woman
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-08 15:15:41 -0700 | entertainment-news
As everything gradually moves online from reading and shopping to watching television and talking to friends and family the art world is keeping in step. While physical exhibitions, museums and art fairs still play a major role when it comes...
The friend zone: tricky territory to navigate
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-07 16:38:08 -0700 | entertainment-news
It can be the glass ceiling of relationships where someone sees the object of their affection before their eyes, but can't figure out how to reach them. The friend zone can certainly be frustrating, but getting out of it can...
A week of listening with the brain
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-07 14:50:04 -0700 | entertainment-news
The two-stepping art critic and writer smiles above the welter of sound emanating from the disc jockey's post. They make you listen with your brain all week long, then at the end they let us dance. The critic, who no...
Qi Juices introduces country's first juice fast
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-05 16:50:55 -0700 | entertainment-news
Put down the steak, throw out the cigarettes and lock up the coffee the juice fast has come to Lebanon. The Qi Juices cleanse is the country's very first juice fast a break from tobacco, solid foods and drinkable vices...
Writing that embraces society's realities
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-05 15:06:27 -0700 | entertainment-news
Me, She and Other Women author Jana Fawaz el-Hassan started her career as a teenager, ghostwriting love letters for her friends. Though she may have moved on to more serious literature her second novel has been short-listed for the International...
Toying with the arranged-marriage bed
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-05 15:06:24 -0700 | entertainment-news
There was a time when couples around the world would forego weddings. Back in the 20th century, people seriously thought marriage would one day become extinct...Such expectations swam against the tide of some millennia of conventional practice. It is said...
Lebanon's good ol' days go online
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-05 15:06:10 -0700 | entertainment-news
Much has changed since then, in terms of urban landscapes, traditions and ways of life. The long and bloody 1975-1990 Civil War and successive severe political crises that followed the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri have transformed...
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