http://www.go386.com/culture/ Art, literature, video games... there are many cultures out there, and we cover them all. en Copyright 2012 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:05:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Marvel Comics is updating the origin of the Fantastic Four this week in a sleeker tale dubbed "Season One" with a more contemporary vibe. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/marvel-hits-reset-button-on-fantastic-four.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/marvel-hits-reset-button-on-fantastic-four.html Books Fantastic Four Marvel Comics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:05:00 -0500 Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new project now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that marks a departure from her popular celebrity portraits. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/close-ups-and-personal-photographer-annie-leibovitz-takes-new-perspective-on-life-work.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/close-ups-and-personal-photographer-annie-leibovitz-takes-new-perspective-on-life-work.html Books Feature_Culture Feature_Main Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 Mama leaves her twins, 13-year-olds Herbie and Ella, to help handyman R.E. Mital clean and fix up their new home while she goes shopping for needed supplies. Little do they suspect that along with their work, they'll get hands-on history lessons. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/youngsters-meet-inventors-through-handymans-tales.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/youngsters-meet-inventors-through-handymans-tales.html Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 "In 'Life Upon These Shores,' " Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes, "I set out to picture African-American history, to find a new way of looking at its full sweep. I imagined a book with an abundance of images of the great and small events and significant individuals who shaped the heritage of the African-American people and the history of our nation." http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/black-history-told-in-images-essays.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/black-history-told-in-images-essays.html Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 A new book is contradicting what our grade school textbooks have included for ages and could change the way history is written about the Western Hemisphere. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/were-africans-the-first-americans.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/were-africans-the-first-americans.html Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 Capt D. Randy West in his life of sailing throughout the Caribbean, the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans has experienced and survived 18 hurricanes to date. Here are those tales told by the storytelling captain about his childhood memories in Florida, storms at sea and historic hurricanes in Hawaii, Bermuda and even France. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/area-author-d-randy-west.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/area-author-d-randy-west.html Books area author Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 The Friends of the Library will sell hardcover books and paperbacks from 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.Friday and from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the DeLand Regional Library auditorium, 130 E. Howry Ave., DeLand. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/book-sale-at-deland-library.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/book-sale-at-deland-library.html Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:05:00 -0500 Poet Tim Siebels will deliver a performance of poetry and spoken word at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Gamache-Koger Theater at the Ringhaver Student Center of Flagler College, 50 Sevilla St., St. Augustine. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/poet-to-perform-in-st-augustine.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/poet-to-perform-in-st-augustine.html Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:05:00 -0500 The University of Central Florida and the Florida Society of News Editors have partnered to produce a three-day writing workshop. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/writing-workshop-at-ucf.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/writing-workshop-at-ucf.html Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:05:00 -0500 Novelist, short story writer and creative writing professor John Dufresne will visit St. Augustine for a one-day novel-writing workshop that will help participants prepare a full novel manuscript in six months. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/workshop-at-flagler-college.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/workshop-at-flagler-college.html Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:05:00 -0500 Mark your calendar for 7 p.m. Thursday to attend a segment of the President's Speaker Series events at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/talks-and-book-signings-at-erau.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/talks-and-book-signings-at-erau.html Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:05:00 -0500 Balloons and streamers fill the interior of Jeff Allen's Ormond Beach home as he prepares to celebrate the 60th birthday of his partner, Jim Geary. Birthdays have special meaning to the two men who are HIV positive. Nearly two decades ago that diagnosis may have been a death sentence, but, with early detection and drug improvements, HIV/AIDS patients are able to live a full life and manage the disease. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/traveling-florida-exhibit-aims-to-promote-awareness-of-hivaids.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/02/traveling-florida-exhibit-aims-to-promote-awareness-of-hivaids.html Arts Feature_Culture Feature_Main Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:05:00 -0500 For a time in the 1980s, Alice Johnson became a black artist. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/01/alice-johnson-celebrates-85th-birthday-with-palm-coast-exhibit.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/01/alice-johnson-celebrates-85th-birthday-with-palm-coast-exhibit.html Arts Feature_Culture Feature_Main Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:05:00 -0500 For photographer, filmmaker and cinematographer Curtis Wehrfritz, ritual is not something practiced only by indigenous or tribal cultures, or something conjured only in religious settings. http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/01/photographer-aims-to-make-work-a-religious-experience.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/01/photographer-aims-to-make-work-a-religious-experience.html Arts Feature_Culture Feature_Main Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:30:00 -0500 By Tim Dorsey's 15th book about lovable, homicidal Serge Storms, do you even need to know the plot to buy it? http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/01/serge-vs-spy-pineapple-grenade-a-sneaky-one.html http://www.go386.com/culture/2012/01/serge-vs-spy-pineapple-grenade-a-sneaky-one.html Books Feature_Culture Feature_Main Tim Dorsey Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:15:00 -0500