Because we feel that it offers us a toolset to speak about contemporary issues to a contemporary audience.
He has become a symbol of those differences -- a contemporary face of a decades-old movement to make the ancient religion more relevant.
The Opera House had already said it favoured a contemporary story with a touch of humour but nothing really coalesced until Turnage met Richard Thomas, co-author of Jerry Springer: the Opera.
Mr Houellebecq's unflattering vision of a contemporary France with a disaffected far-right and out-of-touch elites is shared by other young writers such as Virginie Despentes and Vincent Ravalec, who also employ a direct, corrosive style.
Chef Pui Gor of Tim Ho Wan, a cheap, hole-in-the-wall, dim-sum-only restaurant with a cult following, makes a contemporary version of a bean curd skin roll, filling it with light shrimp rather than the traditional fatty minced pork.
He could write in very diverse styles, a very contemporary sound for A Chorus Line, in a nostalgic style for The Way We Were.
Now, Goei is busy developing five film scripts: two comedies set in Manhattan, a contemporary Singapore melodrama, a futuristic Asian action adventure and a ghost story set in Japan.
Vision in a Cornfield is a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit that brings these perspectives together in a quirky meditation on the spiritual aspect of abandoned automobiles within a contemporary framework.
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It is both the blessing and the curse of contemporary life, and of a contemporary politician.
Also on the second level is a contemporary-looking kitchen with a curved white wall and three wine refrigerators.
"NYC Loop combines a beautiful, contemporary payphone with a uniquely tailored public space that can be chosen to suit New York's diverse communities, " said the NYC LOOP team.
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After studying music to A-level, Lesley Garrett spent six years at the Royal Academy of Music, where singer Annie Lennox was a contemporary, studying to be a soprano.
Speyer is a major collector of contemporary art and a champion of new artists.
The diamond is set within a contemporary openwork diamond mounting designed as a flower.
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At a time when much contemporary art has a taste of cardboard about it, it is encouraging to see a true original.
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"What Maisie Knew, " described as a "contemporary imagining" of a Henry James story, is told from the point of view of Maisie, who is buffeted by her self-involved parents' divorce, especially when her father, played by Steve Coogan, marries her baby sitter (Joanna Vanderham) and her mother takes up with a handsome young bartender (Alexander Skarsgard).
The Netherlands is considered a contemporary-design superpower and has fostered a number of notable figures, whose limited-edition creations often combine industrial design with sculpture.
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She was a contemporary dancer in Vancouver and is now a personal trainer and specializes in Stott Pilates and exercises with Swiss Balls and other stretching techniques.
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At the entrance to the bar, Kazuhide Asaba has contributed a contemporary piece from his personal collection: a futuristic black sculpture flashing red LED numbers by the artist Tatsuo Miyajima.
Award-winning restaurant Cochon opened in 2006, offering a contemporary twist on traditional Cajun cuisine, and a new 1, 100-room Hyatt hotel and conference centre opened in November 2011 next door to the re-branded Mercedes Benz Superdome.
After a contemporary American dish, like asparagus flan with a scoop of pistachio pesto, and chilled lobster topped with pickled white asparagus, skip the sweets and order the Evolution of Cheddar flight (after all, you are in Wisconsin).
And it's not a contemporary historian you need, like me, David, but a medievalist, because it's all about courts.
Architects were brought in 10 years ago to look at turning the site into a contemporary arts space, called The Depot, as part of a Cardiff city of culture bid.
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The annual pilgrimage to Switzerland is in full force as a hodgepodge of contemporary art collectors, artists and A-list celebrities from around the world gather in Basel for the biggest and most prestigious contemporary art fair in the world.
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Sometimes Allison's aphorisms have a more contemporary sound: He's a big fan of Ayn Rand.
"The DSM-5, in many ways, reflects the politics of psychiatry these days, " said Dr. Joel Paris, author of "Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry, " a psychiatry professor at McGill University and researcher at Mortimer B.
He was relentless and creative in cultivating celebrities for the cause, including Sting and Daryl Hannah, and in eliciting support from wealthy patrons such as Russ DeLeon, a law-school contemporary who had made a fortune through an online-gambling venture.
There will be a range of music from Bothy Nichts traditions to the contemporary interpretations of a Karine Polwart or Alasdair Roberts, from Nordic Fiddlers Bloc to Shooglenifty, from the Lowland Pipes of Hamish Moore to the step dance rhythms of Fin Moore.
The duo own and operate SD26, a contemporary Italian restaurant in New York, and each year they hold a celebration of the tartufi bianchi that appear each autumn from the Piemonte region, which includes the epicenter of Italian white truffle mania: the city of Alba.
Designed by star architect Norman Foster and located on the northern shore of Victoria Harbor near the International Commerce Centre, it will include major performance venues, a flagship museum for contemporary visual art, a sizable park, rehearsal and studio areas, as well as dedicated spaces for recitals and shows when finally complete.
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