Despite its title, the Spanish horror series 30 Coins is mainly just about one coin, which finds its way to the small town of Pedraza in Spain. The ancient silver ...
Leonardo da Vinci had a 'super-fast eye' that let him capture momentary changes like the flutter of a dragonfly wings or the 'enigmatic magic' of Mona Lisa's ...
Sue Fleagle Ranard passed away in Ottumwa, Iowa. This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Services by Reece ...
Painter may have had a superhuman trait, shared with top baseball and tennis players, that 'allowed him to see in a freeze-frame way', researcher says.
When the 2006 movie was released all the signs were there that it would be one of the best films of the year. A stellar cast, an Oscar-winning director and a plot ...
A new study of the microbial settlers on old paintings, sculptures, and other forms of art charts a potential path for preserving, restoring, and confirming the ...
Salvator Mundi, a famous painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and depicting Jesus clad in Renaissance dress became the most expensive painting ever ...
Five hundred years after his death, we're cashing in on the unique Renaissance genius of Leonardo da Vinci and the pickings aren't always in the most ...
The main flaw with “Angels and Demons” is that it asks us to take it seriously. That's not the only flaw. It fails on two major fronts – as a would-be controversial ...
Popular lore among elementary art teachers is that scissors were invented by Leonardo da Vinci. That has been roundly disproven—they've been around at ...
Netflix's modern-day fantasy series Warrior Nun starts with a bang. The first episode shows a squad of women wearing stealth suits and chainmail, crashing into ...
If the world had ended between last week and this—destroyed, perhaps, by a swarm of giant flying shrimp—The Good Place would still have ended on a perfect ...
If the past is any indication, Wednesday's anonymous buyer didn't make a smart financial investment. After the family trust of the Russian billionaire Dmitry ...
PARIS — How can a huge show in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, a man widely spoken of as a universal genius, be so ...
BLAKE FLEETWOOD Guest Writer blake@lbknews.com. For thousands of years, citizens have been fighting about statues and public art. The ideals of truth, ...
I often forget that my eyes are bigger than my stomach. I'll order a delicious starter, like a bowl of French onion soup, devour it with all the complimentary bread ...
PARIS — Expectations have been high for the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition that is being mounted at the Louvre to mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's ...
An enlightened, scientific man in barbaric, medieval times, the Leonardo Da Vinci of David S. Goyer's “Da Vinci's Demons” recalls an earlier variation on ...
My favourite story about Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary life is his last great journey from Rome across the Alps to France. Travelling by mule, at the age of 64, ...
After spending a week with the new da Vinci 1.0 AiO all-in-one 3D printer, I've decided that first impressions can be deceiving. This printer, a first in the ...
As the Louvre prepares to mark five centuries since the passing of Leonardo da Vinci with a major exhibition of the Renaissance master's work, inclusion of the ...
How a $1000 art-auction bet turned into the 'Salvator Mundi,' a painting some believe to be a lost Leonardo Da Vinci work that later sold for $450 million.
After “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons,” who would expect “Inferno” — the latest movie to be adapted from novelist Dan Brown's series of thrillers ...
Don Millar's documentary chronicles the life and career of Fernando Botero, one of the world's most popular living artists. Don Millar's documentary about ...
After making a name for himself in his native France, particularly with his collaborations with action director Luc Besson, actor Jean Reno crossed the Atlantic to ...
It was the sunniest spring on record in the UK and for some places May was sunnier than parts of Spain, where there were bouts of wet and dull weather this ...
From plate tectonics to knee replacements, tribology plays a big part in our world. Here's how the science of rubbing built our past and will shape our future.
Under-secretary general at the UN, writer, politician, Union minister, charming socialite, and now, a fledgling stand-up comedian, Tharoor comes close to the ...
When Brian Grazer was recently asked by the New York Times to say a few things about Tom Hanks, the producer recalled a conversation he was having with ...
Imagine a world without the arts — a world without any music, film, dance, literature or any of the countless other mediums art exists through. That world is ...
IT was just a few little words, but oh how they resonated with every single first- time mother. Kate Middleton admitted this week that she felt “cut off and isolated” ...
Italian filmmaker Pietro Marcello has taken Jack London's 1909 novel about a young, uneducated, fiercely intelligent sailor who remakes himself into a famous ...
Its about that time. You are probably starting to wish you hadnt decided to give up your more enjoyable vices on January 1. Well, let me help you. Why not give ...
"Da Vinci Code" pulled from theatres,Movie theatres across the country will stop screening "The Da Vinci Code" from today, three weeks after its general release.
Last year, for the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine, we focused on the past. Given the tome of stories we'd told, and the trove of players and matches we'd ...
“Darkling” Written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky Directed by Alex Singer Season 3, Episode 18. Production episode 161. Original air date: February 19, ...
Subscribe to Welcome to Vinci, our podcast about "True Detective" in iTunes and Stitcher. We're also mapping the show's significant and lesser known locations.
There has always been a special relationship between video games and music. Try to imagine playing a fantasy game with no epic music in the background; ...
With car imports to the UK rising, the Guardian looked at the European motor industry and wondered whether the Common Market would dull national design ...
Developer Peel L&P's vision for a 31-storey tower at Princes Dock, the latest scheme at Liverpool Waters, has been approved by the city council, alongside SEP ...
Selling yourself often feels like a grotesque act. So job applicants' cover letters seem unlikely to contain much great prose. Instead, we tend to fill the page with ...
Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for November 2nd, 2020. We're kicking off a new week and a new month, one that promises ...
For several years, our doc On a Knife Edge had a great beginning and a wonderful middle but no end in sight. Here are some lessons we learned from that.
A dog-like robot could be deployed on large or dangerous sites in the UK next year. Scanning specialist Trimble and robotics firm Boston Dynamics have.
With Oscar Season just around the corner, finding movies in late October that are truly entertaining is a difficult feat. Tom Hanks' newest film Inferno is the ...
The Emirates Group today rolled out a COVID-19 vaccination programme for its substantial UAE based workforce in co-ordination with the Dubai Health ...
Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Naomi Osaka has worn masks, which have displayed the names of Black people killed or injured by police, before and after each of her ...
Published in the Sunday Times (19/07/2020). The Book of Longings *** Sue Monk Kidd Headline, R340. "I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus ben Joseph of ...
Khaled El Sawy has captured hearts of audiences over years, playing unique, complex characters across different genres. We sat down with El Sawy to discuss ...
Trust me, nobody ever wants to be caught with 'chop chop hair'. However, some things are quite unavoidable. So let's talk about frontal hair loss, its - Ayo ...
It's Tom Hanks' best movies (Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, a Toy Story here and there ) and a few of his worst (remember Bonfire of the Vanities?)
Tom Hanks sure has been out and about a lot this year for an aging superstar. Hanks reached such career heights during his heyday (roughly 1992 through ...
With YC's W20 Demo Day coming in at nearly 200 companies, we've decided to split our recap into multiple posts for easier reading. These are the hardware, ...
From the record-breaking sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi groundbreaking art show debuting in Asia, here are some of the major moments that ...
As a reader, you get to know about strange, exotic and new interesting places, cultures and people in the books which you don't otherwise in your daily life.
By now you've likely heard: They did surgery on a grape. But you may not have heard that the device in the meme is the subject of lawsuits. The da Vinci ...
Looking for a few suggestions on how to enjoy your time at home while disconnected from your favorite entertainment venues? Let's continue to enjoy life ...
How much credit can you give a tool for creating art? Surely it's like praising the paintbrush for a great painting, or the typewriter for a best-selling novel. And to ...
A new annual literary prize, named in honour of the late writing legend Carol Shields, will be launched in 2022 — awarding $150,000 to a single work of fiction ...
The Da Vinci Code: Thriller. Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno and Ian McKellen. Directed by Ron Howard. (PG-13. 153 minutes. At Bay Area ...
The three hours before an NBA game in an arena are pretty dull. I was covering a Warriors-Lakers game at Oracle Arena back in 2013 and it was 4:30 p.m. I was ...
It won't be as controversial as the book it's based on, but Netflix's Hillbilly Elegy is a vapid, cynical piece of awards-baiting nonsense that is, by a million miles, ...
As parishioners at St. Bernard in Cologne “beautified” their church two years ago, they were inspired by the church's decor in 1938 — but at the same time gave ...
Star Trek's Holodeck technology could conjure up pretty much any scenario you could imagine, but there were always a select few the crews of the Enterprise, ...
Check out this list of mythical creatures, including mythical beasts, magical animals, and mythological monsters. These are the coolest mythical creatures ever.
Tom Hanks reteams with his 'Da Vinci Code' director Ron Howard for another round of European adventures in this action thriller based on the novel by Dan ...
