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TVDRAMA Russian Classics Reinvented ADVERTISEMENT Period dramas and film versions of classic novels have long been hallmarks of Russia Television and Radio’s catalog, and the genres remain in high demand globally, according to Julia Matyash, director of Sovtelexport. “Period drama maintains its position as one of the leading genres on the international market,” Matyash says. “Last year, it had the most success.” The epic historical production Ekaterina, including seasons one and two and the long-awaited continuation of the saga, Ekaterina. Pretenders, has been a best-seller, she ...

New Sauk Rapids summer concert series performer lineup announced Times staff report View Comments SAUK RAPIDS — The City of Sauk Rapids has announced the lineup for 10 weeks of music at Sauk Rapids' new Southside Park.  The new music series, called Rock the Riverside, will start July 1 and conclude Sept. 2. Each Thursday night performance will feature an hour-long opening act, then a 2 1/2-hour headliner performance.  Here's the lineup, as published in the city's summer newsletter: July 1: Paul Diethelm - Stretch opening, Strange Daze headlining July 8: Todd Michael Jameson opening, Aren...

The American Rose Society and American Rose Center will dedicate new gardens within the ongoing Great Garden Restoration Project on June 5.

Book review: Novelizing Taiwan’s White Terror Our reviewer says that this is the best book of any kind, fiction or non-fiction, about this dark period in Taiwan’s history By Bradley Winterton / Contributing reporter Prison books are a semi-major literary genre. Works such as Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle, flanked by One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, are classics, with Dickens, Genet and Nelson Mandela also featuring. Most of them are at least partly autobiographical, and Tehpen Tsai’s (蔡德本) Taiwan White Terror novel, Elegy of Sweet Potatoes, is no exception. It was ori...

Whatever injustices he may have endured in his career, Cornel West is still part of the privileged class in academia.