Millions of people are addicted to playing games on mobile devices, with rivals and teammates spread around the world. A company in Austin, Texas has developed such a game, known as a mobile multiplayer online game, for the Apple iPhone and iPad, basing it on a pen-and-paper game that was popular in the...
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Superheros Unite to Save Earth From Extra-Terrestrials in ‘The Avengers’
In The Avengers , billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man , is on board along with other characters including Captain America, Thor, Nick Fury, Black Widow , and The Incredible Hulk . They team up to save Earth from extra-terrestrial invaders …and rival, evil superheroes. Robert Downey Jr., who has...
New Exhibit Shows Africa’s Influence on Diaspora Art in US
The West African man is dressed in the khaki uniform and red fez worn by French colonial soldiers of the era. But he wasn’t a French soldier – he was a famous Senegalese dancer based in Paris at the time, Francois Benga. Now immortalized in James A. Porter’s 1935 painting, “Soldado Senegales,” his portrait...
Film Highlights Perils Faced By Iraqis Who Helped US
There are more than 3,000 names on Kirk Johnson 's list -- a list that has brought him incredible joy but which has also taken an emotional toll. The names are of Iraqis who worked alongside Americans as translators and advisers during the more than eight-year-long Iraq war and who now fear for...
New Documentary Focuses on Aftermath of Bhopal Disaster
One of the world’s worst industrial disasters struck Bhopal, India in the early morning hours of December 3, 1984 when a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide leaked methyl iso-cyanate gas. A cloud of lethal gas drifted over the city of more than 900,000 people, exposing many to contamination. At least 10,000 people...
New Documentary Focuses on Aftermath of Bhopal Disaster
One of the world’s worst industrial disasters struck Bhopal, India in the early morning hours of December 3, 1984 when a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide leaked methyl iso-cyanate gas. A cloud of lethal gas drifted over the city of more than 900,000 people, exposing many to contamination. At least 10,000 people...
Bruce Springsteen Headlines Jazz Fest
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are set to headline the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 29. It’s been six years since Springsteen made his first appearance at Jazz Fest. New Orleans was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina which had devastated much of the city eight months earlier. His...