Dalai Lama

Global Voices: Tibetan self-immolation soars with despair

2013-06-06 05:00:00

“Fire in the Land of Snow,” a documentary examining the spreading phenomenon of self-immolation protests in Tibet, provides the latest troubling chapter in the history of a solitary population inhabiting the Himalayan highlands known as the...

Alison Wright, photographer, chases faces, grace

2013-05-15 06:00:00

Alison Wright got her first camera at age 10, a Kodak Instamatic. Then she learned there was such a thing as a photojournalist, a person who traveled the world taking pictures. So that was that. She had a career – a career that would eventually...

Oriental DreamWorks and Chinese partners announce Tibet movie

2013-04-20 08:00:00

Filmmakers doing business in China are often advised to avoid the three Ts, as in Taiwan, Tibet and Tiananmen Square. But that warning doesn't apply if you happen to be Jeffrey Katzenberg, the animation mogul who has been at the forefront of Hollywood's...

Harry Potter to flatten Gibson Amphitheatre, Curious George playland

2013-04-24 13:42:00

Universal Studios in Hollywood will raze the 41-year-old Gibson Amphitheatre to make way for its coming Harry Potter attraction, the�Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Like the Wizarding World in Orlando, the Hollywood Harry Potter will be a theme park...

Television review: 'Family Tools' still retooling

2013-05-01 07:00:00

Television is an unusually fluid art. Because a TV series exists in time, over time, change and revision are in its blood. It's as if painters went back to work on their paintings after they were hung in museums. Series of films or books based on...

Beastie Boys memoir in the works: No sleep till deadline?

2013-04-29 08:02:00

Rumors that the�Beastie Boys would soon be penning a memoir were confirmed on Monday by the book's U.K. publisher, Faber & Faber: "Yes, it is true," the imprint's blog said.�The book will be released in the U.S. by Spiegel & Grau, and is planned for...

Amphitheatre to close, make room for Harry Potter attraction

2013-04-25 05:00:00

First they put a lid on it, and now they're pulling the plug. Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre, a fixture on the Southern California live music scene for more than 40 years, will close in September and be demolished to make room for the new...

Asia: Kempinski opening hotels in China and India

2013-03-14 07:15:00

Another longtime European hotel group is making fresh inroads into Asia. Kempinski Hotels, one of Europe's oldest luxury hotel groups, is adding to its portfolio of 75 properties by opening three hotels in China and another in India. "We are opening...

Lance Armstrong and Steven Seagal: Doing good?

2013-02-12 11:32:00

Well, well. Two famous men, both wanting to give back. No wonder that hackneyed phrase “give back” makes my skin crawl. Lance Armstrong is reportedly volunteering to “help clean up” cycling and become the repentant poster boy...

Let the gym come to you with these fitness sites

2013-01-26 00:00:00

How many times did you go to the gym last year? If the answer is somewhere in the low double digits or fewer, maybe you're better off getting your workouts from the Web. Streaming fitness sites offer the convenience and variety that many people need...

Museums in Detroit and D.C. display Obama-themed art

2013-01-19 08:00:00

As the nation watches President Obama take the oath of office Monday for his second term, Americans may notice a more mature (and grayer) version of the hopeful candidate depicted in Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous 2008 campaign poster. Since then, Obama'...

Tibetans are content, China's Communist Party congress is told

2012-11-09 10:03:44

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley after the Dalai Lama spoke at the Comcast Center.

2013-05-07 00:00:00

The shrine room at Madison's Deer Park Buddhist Center features a statue of the Buddha and a photograph of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.

2013-03-31 17:27:20

Kunyang Norbu, sister-in-law of the Dalai Lama, has close ties to Kumbum Chamtse Ling Temple in Bloomington, Indiana.

2013-03-31 17:27:20