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Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra will perform music of Edward Elgar, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georges Bizet and other masters in a nod to the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts of the United Kingdom, on Saturday and Sunday, 7.30pm at Katara Opera House. Scots...
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Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art marks the end of its first solo artist exhibition, Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab, with a closing celebration on May 26, from 11am to 6pm.
The ceremony will include Cai Guo-Qiang in conversation with Qatari artist and writer...
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Anecx-Qatar, the Qatar chapter of the Alumni of NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, India, is all set for its upcoming sports and cultural extravaganza titled Anecx Aaravam 2012. The main attraction is an Inter-Alumni Volley Ball Tournament, wh...
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BY RAYNALD C RIVERA
Groundbreaking Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil (‘Circus of the Sun’) is set to capture the hearts of thousands of Doha audience as it debuts here with its longest-running touring show ‘Saltimbanco’.
A viv...
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Events & Beyond in cooperation with Transfast World Wide money transfer will be organising the first-ever mini concert of TreceFamilia, a rap group in Qatar. The group composes original lyrics and tunes for various programmes and events like the jing...
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InterContinental Doha in association with Global DJs and ILQ-iloveqatar.net will host for the first time in Doha the artist behind popular hits Deja Vu, Hot, Love, No Limit, 10 Minutes, Amazing, Club Rocker, Wow and many more. Romanian superstar “I...
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A new art fair devoted to “affordable” contemporary art will be held in Hong Kong next year, organisers said yesterday, confirming the city’s new status as a regional art hub.
The fair is being put together by Affordable Art China, which has...
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Models presents a creation by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his 2012-2013 Cruise collection show for French fashion house Chanel at the Chateau de Versailles (Versailles Palace), outside Paris.
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It is time to address your prejudices against leather. Not the prejudices about it being a bit saucy (we’ll get to those in a minute), but about how it feels to wear. The sensory experience of wearing clothes is often neglected, which is odd,...
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Vidal Sassoon, who has died aged 84 after suffering from leukaemia, became the most famous hairdresser of the 1960s, creating styles that caught and then boosted women’s new feelings of personal freedom. In doing so, he changed the craft of h...
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By L.V. Anderson
It’s asparagus season — or Spargelzeit, as it’s delightfully called in German. There’s very little to be said about how to cook asparagus. Granted, you can roast it, stir-fry it, or bake it into a frittata. But when yo...
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Chopsticks restaurant at Wyndham Grand Regency Doha Hotel has started business lunch promotion. The interesting part of the promotion is the ‘59 minute promise’ by the hotel – three-course lunch served in only 59 minutes for QR59 or else ...
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Il Teatro at Four Seasons Hotel Doha was crowned “Best Italian Restaurant” in Time Out Doha Restaurant Awards 2012 for the 2nd consecutive year Chef Matteo Arvonio’s sublime yet simple approach to contemporary Italian cooking is complemen...
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Kempinski Residences & Suites, Doha, General Manager and Food and Beverage staff with the award.
Kempinski Residences & Suites, Doha’s all-day restaurant Aroma has been awarded the “Best contemporary European restaurant” award at the Time Ou...
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Nominated for the first time by Time Out Doha Awards in two categories - Contemporary European and Romantic, The Torch Doha received the ‘Highly Recommended’ award for Three Sixty revolving restaurant.The Torch Doha General Manager, Gerhard Fol...
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By Warren Brown
Electric vehicles are likely to remain a minority of the cars and trucks sold in America for most of the 21st century. That’s okay. They are here to stay.
It’s simple. Electric vehicles make sense, especially in the limite...
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Oman’s Team Qadiroon, made up of Azzan Abdul Amir Hameed, Faisal Fadhil Mahmood Al Bakri and Issam Abdullah Said Al Kharusi, won the Ford Focus Rabaa inter-GCC Rally challenge. Al Yaqdan Alhooti, an avid supporter of the challenge who score...
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Jaguar Land Rover has posted strong sales results for the Menap region at the end of its fiscal year.
Sales for its luxury SUV brand, Land Rover, in the Middle East and North Africa region were up 40 percent on the previous year in what is the 6th...
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by Steven Morris
Police chiefs are calling on users of online social networking sites to be the “eyes and ears” of officers to help combat the menace of ‘trolls’ who bully or abuse via the web.
Police forces across the UK are investin...
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Google’s self-driven cars will soon be appearing on Nevada roads after the state’s Department of Motor
Vehicles approved the nation’s first autonomous vehicle licence.
The move came after officials rode along on drives on highways, in Carson ...
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SAN FRANCISCO: Internet security specialists have applied for a “.secure” domain that they plan to turn into an online safe zone where bad guys aren’t allowed.
San Francisco-based Artemis was awaiting word from the Internet Corporation for Ass...
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SAN FRANCISCO: Internet security specialists have applied for a “.secure” domain that they plan to turn into an online safe zone where bad guys aren’t allowed.
San Francisco-based Artemis was awaiting word from the Internet Corporation for Ass...
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WASHINGTON: More smartphones means more Americans are using the devices to get location information or to share their whereabouts with friends, a study showed.
A Pew Internet & American Life Project report found 74 percent of US smartphone owner...
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In his second visit to Cairo, Mohammed Iqbal finds a new Egypt, where people are not scared to disscuss politics, voice their opinion and harbour hopes for a bright future.
Sitting in a taxi on my way from the Cairo International Airport to ou...
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By Alonso Duralde
From A Room with a View to Enchanted April, it’s been a movie truism that British people have to leave Britain if they want to unshackle themselves from their soul-crushing Britishness. And so we have The Best Exotic Marigo...
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By Zorianna Kit
Working with director Tim Burton, Johnny Depp has played many eccentric characters in the movies, from lonely monster Edward Scissorhands to eccentric filmmaker Ed Wood and the Mad Hatter of Alice in Wonderland.
But there was ...
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By Neely TuckerThirty-something years ago, Martha Grimes (pictured) was a single mom with a drinking problem. She taught English 101 at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland, a job she couldn’t stand. She argued so vehemently with post ...
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by Genevra Pittman
Children and teens who watch a lot of television are less likely to get their fruits and vegetables and more likely to snack on candy or drink soda every day, according to a survey of close to 13,000 U.S. students.
The link...
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Thinking of liposuction to trim your tummy? You may want to make sure you exercise after that, or risk putting on even more unhealthy fat.
According to a Brazilian study, women who have liposuction may actually gain some fat deeper within the abdome...
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Experimental drugs that show a big effect early in development for treating serious or life-threatening diseases would get a faster and cheaper path to US approval, under a proposal likely to become law this year.
US drug regulators would be a...
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