Browsing: Arts and Life

Seeing a great work of art from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence more clearly on your laptop than in person seems unrealistic.

Troubled film financier David Bergstein has sued the owners of Miramax, alleging that they denied him money and an equity stake owed for his role in the acquisition of the film label from Walt Disney Co. in 2010.

I leapt from my mother’s 1994 Mercury Villager, bounded for the front door, and with haste jumped the stairs to the room I shared with my younger brother. I had just returned from Blockbuster, my young mind’s pinnacle of joys — a reward for cleaning my room. I held the limited edition green case in my hands.

Located near Elm Mott, Café Homestead is an ideal place to take out-of-town visitors or quell your appetite after a day exploring Homestead Heritage’s grounds.

While the dancers looked at their watches to check the time, the light surrounding the audience starts to dim. Suddenly the bright stage lights begin to shine on 16 poised dancers. Then their music begins.

Three-dimensional cinema may well be the future of movies. But it’s also the past — and not just because a lot of old-timers would pick “House of Wax” (1953) as their favorite 3-D film. Consider the situation at Disney:

The Electronic Entertainment Expo — or E3 as it’s more commonly known — created in 1995, has always been a location for video game companies, as well as technology innovators, to reveal groundbreaking achievements and long-awaited products to the masses. This year is no different.

Fifth and Fite, along with fellow Uproar Records artists O, Loveland and Trannie Stevens, performed Thursday for Baylor’s second annual Project Greenway fashion show.

The Baylor Lariat will provide live coverage of the event.

If you thought the world of “Game of Thrones” was incredibly vast and complex and festooned with a crazy multitude of characters, brace yourself for Season 2 of HBO’s awesome fantasy epic.

Ever broken the sound barrier? I have. Granted, it was technically done virtually on “XG3: Extreme G Racing,” but as anyone who has ever played the game can tell you, it felt real.

“The Hunger Games,” the teen action-adventure film that opened to big numbers last weekend, is, without question, a parable of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s also a cautionary tale about Big Government. And undeniably a Christian allegory about the importance of finding Jesus. Or maybe a call for campaign-finance reform?

Yale University’s study abroad summer session in Auvillar, France, is a prestigious studio arts program for skilled art students.

Diadeloso is right around the corner, and already the university has a full day of entertainment lined up.

The Baylor community can expect a large dose of Texas over the next month.

On Sunday, Waco’s Got Talent announced its winners for the 2012 talent competition season. Labraska Washington won the adult category, while the duet group of Reagan Bruce and Lillian Kennedy won the child category.