Art and movie

SANTIAGO, Feb 20 (IPS) - Political science student Vlado Mirosevic, 20, is the proud editor of El Morrocotudo, Chile's first community newspaper, where hundreds of people like him post news items of local interest on the Internet.

BERLIN, Feb 18 (IPS) - Noted for its surprises, the Berlin International Film Festival sprang another at the weekend when it announced that Chinese director Wang Quan'an's movie ‘Tuya's Marriage’ (Tu Ya De Hun Shi) scooped the top Golden Bear prize at the end of the 11-day movie jamboree.

BERLIN, Feb 16 (IPS) - Protest singer Dean Reed's concerts were foot-stomping sell-outs from Santiago to Baghdad, Warsaw to Helsinki in the 1960s and '70s. But in later years, with his career in decline, his marriage shaky and little prospect of work if he returned to the United States, the despairing Denver-born crooner, who had settled in communist East Berlin in the Cold War years, drove his car to a lake and drowned himself.

BERLIN, Feb 12 (IPS) - The 57th International Film Festival in Berlin has got off to a strong start with the South African film Goodbye Bafana on Nelson Mandela's long incarceration emerging as an early front-runner for honours. In all 26 movies are chasing the top Golden Bear award.

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 12 (IPS) - A new book based on a journalistic investigation into major land purchases in Argentina's southern Patagonia region by foreign multimillionaires has been selling like hot potatoes, to both tourists and locals.

MONET, Mueck, and now Warhol. The National Galleries of Scotland has set its hopes for another summer blockbuster on the art of Andy Warhol, the painter, graphic artist, film-maker and 1960s icon of American pop art.

YOU'VE studied the history and seen the play - now get ready for Macbeth, the text message.

A COMMUNITY music group hopes to buy out Pathhead Primary School when it closes this summer and transform it into an arts centre.

A NEW Year's resolution by Midlothian artist Carol Adam, 44, has resulted in nomination for a prestigious European award.

ARTS and business leaders are backing a campaign to prevent Scotland's main cultural development agency being located outside Edinburgh.