If you missed out, organizers say they’re already looking forward to planning another Holi celebration next year.
A lost 5-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple. Two decades later, he makes his way back.
Katherine Boo won the 2012 National Book Award for non-fiction last night for her three-year study on a slum on the outskirts of the Mumbai, India airport.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is predicatable and sentimental, but the acting makes it a pleasant enough stay.
Bryan Singer spent something like $200 million a few years back trying to revive the Superman movie franchise. Shaikh Nasir’s Malegaon ka Superman came somewhat more frugally: about two grand. But every rupee of that modest sum is on the screen. He shoots on a handheld digicam. A “dolly shot” consists of three guys stabilizing him and pushing him forward on a bicycle while he clutches the camera with both hands. And he sure…
Ever wonder how much luck is involved in the success of the average quiz show winner? Sure, being a brainiac doesn’t hurt, but no matter how much you know, unless the Venn diagram of your knowledge and those questions has significant overlap, you’re done and luck trumps preparation. If Ken Jennings’ first Jeopardy! appearance had the set of questions from the day on which he eventually lost, instead of being the most famous game show…
Bhangra, an infectious folk music and dance style from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, has slowly crept into the mainstream club scene. The driving force behind this increase in popularity are the South Asian DJs of Great Britain and North America, who took this traditional form and infused it with the programmed sounds of hip-hop, dancehall, and techno. One of the most well-known names in this movement is DJ Rekha (pictured), a New…
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: Romance & Cigarettes John Turturro’s third film as a director is the sort that seems tailor made to become a cult classic. Not nearly polished or glamorous enough to be the sort of Broadway to big screen musical hit that Chicago or Hairspray was, it was too oddball to fit into the heads of most…
Reuters has a video up of a performance outside the White House yesterday by a Dutch magician called Ramana, in which he appears to levitate. Ramana apparently trained at something called the Academy of Magical Sciences in India, but sources tell us he had to drop out during his senior year to go on a long, circuitous trip with his two best friends in search of an evil nemesis. Now that David Copperfield has…
Written by DCist contributor Meghan Welsh Cultures will collide this weekend at The Kennedy Center as Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company presents the world premiere of “Chico Latino,” a work which explores the intersection of Asian American and Latin American communities throughout the Americas. “Chico Latino” is a fusion of Latin and Asian modern dance, and the program will also include classic works by the choreographer, inspired by his experiences, such as a visit…
