Nov 18th, 2008 · As a child, musician Elizabeth Willis was formally trained in piano and violin, and often imagined she'd grow up to be a classical musician. But at some point along the way she decided to walk away from classical music and start writing grand and beautiful pop. The 11 songs on her self-titled debut bridge the gap between her two passions by pairing her distinctive vocals and pop stylings with cinematic string and piano arrangements. The result is refreshing and often gorgeous.
Keywords: Child · music · songs · beautiful · passion · Violin · cinematic · gorgeous · Elizabeth · Willie · refreshing · Overture In
Nov 17th, 2008 · Jazz is the only genre of music that uses the vibes as a lead or improvisational instrument. It's been a process in helping to save this beautiful-sounding and versatile instrument from extinction. Leading off with Lionel Hampton, here are five examples of that beauty and versatility.
Keywords: history · music · Jazz · extinctions · instrumentation · beautiful · genre · Improvises · beauty · versatility · VIBE · Lionel Hampton
Nov 16th, 2008 · A new exhibit at California's Huntington Library is opening up the work of the giants of science. Colorful star charts, close-up lunar sketches and dog-eared books reveal the world as seen by the eyes of Newton, Galileo and Copernicus.
Keywords: world · science · California · history · exhibit · beautiful · lunar · Newton · Galileo · Huntington Library · Copernicus
Nov 13th, 2008 · An adaption of Yasunari Kawabata's 1961 novella, Sleeping Beauties is a wistful erotic mystery centered around an eccentric German brothel. Mark Jenkins calls it artful and delicate — but with an oddly tone-deaf ending.
Keywords: lone · erotic · delicate · German · Mystery · comfort · beautiful · brothels · eccentric · 1961 · Novella · Jenkins
Nov 4th, 2008 · Artists and athletes, celebrities and scribes, the talented and the tainted promiscuously link arms and promenade in this exuberant collection of portraits from the Vanity Fair archives.
Keywords: athletes · artists · celebration · archive · beautiful · talented · Exuberance · portrait · promenade · emVanity
Oct 31st, 2008 · A new exhibit at California's Huntington Library showcases centuries of diagrams covering everything from anatomy to astronomy. Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World collects original drawings from scientists such as Galileo, Darwin and Robert Hooke.
Keywords: Scientists · science · California · original · centuries · exhibit · anatomy · beautiful · Darwin · astronomy · Diagrams · Galileo
Oct 24th, 2008 · On his third and latest album, iii, Canadian musician Michael Milosh serves up a collection of seductive, down-tempo electronica, inspired by his year living and recording on Thailand's tropical Koh Samui island. A classically trained cellist since the age of 3, Milosh writes on his MySpace page that he's "always had an intense attraction to songs that are sad, soft and beautiful" and that in his music, he attempts to "ride that thin line of mixing technology with some heart." On iii, he's succeeded in doing just that.
Keywords: music · technology · Canadian · songs · Tropical · Island · album · beautiful · Thailand · Cellist · electronica · seductive
Oct 22nd, 2008 · An hour southwest of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, eerily beautiful and strange ruins appear in the midst of sprawling olive groves. They're remarkable remnants of Byzantine farming villages that flourished in 4th and 5th centuries.
Keywords: city · Village · Syria · Strange · Syrian · era · centuries · beautiful · Byzantine · remnants · groves · Olive
