Scottish singer Susan Boyle said she has a different sound in every song in her new album “Someone To Watch Over Me,” released Tuesday.The 10-track album features songs written by different musicians, such as “You Have To Be There” by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, and “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell.“Well, I try to add a bit of a variety to my songs. Otherwise people are going to get bored and stop listening,” Boyle said in an e-mail interview with The Korea Herald.“You’ve go to ex

Nov. 3, 2011

K-pop stars including B2ST, 4minute and G.NA will hold a concert in San Paulo, Brazil, in December, agency Cube Entertainment said on Wednesday.“United Cube Concert in Brazil” will take place at the Espaco das Americas on Dec. 13, it said.This will be the first time for K-pop artists to perform as a group in South America. Boy band Super Junior had planned a concert there over the summer, but later canceled it.After S.M. Entertainment initiated its family show SM Town Live Concert, other agenci

Nov. 2, 2011

Quick makeup services attract budget-conscious women who want more for same moneyDropping by a salon to get a touchup on your makeup and hair before brunch is no longer a luxury reserved for celebrities and the well-off. Makeup salons offering quick and reasonably priced makeup and hair services are emerging to attract beauty-conscious women who are reluctant to spend time and money on more up-market services. Park Dong-mi, a 31-year-old office worker, dropped by blowblush, a hair and makeup sal

Nov. 2, 2011

The director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art abruptly quit four months before the end of his term of office. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism accepted the former MOCA head Bae Soon-hoon’s resignation on Tuesday. He is known to have submitted his letter about 20 days ago, soon after attending the parliamentary audit in which he felt extremely humiliated, according to museum officials. Several members of the National Assembly rebuked him for his “bad attitude” presented by cr

Nov. 2, 2011

BEIJING (AP) ― Outspoken artist Ai Weiwei said Tuesday that Chinese authorities are now seeking $2.4 million in back taxes and fines from him, a sign that the government is not easing pressure on the dissident detained for nearly three months earlier this year.Two officials from the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau delivered a notice to the artist Tuesday saying he owed just over 15 million yuan ($2.36 million) in back taxes and fines, Ai said in a phone interview. He had been served a tax notice i

Nov. 2, 2011

Singer-songwriter and rapper Tablo’s first solo album “Fever’s End Part 2” ranked first place on the iTunes hip hop/rap chart, as he returned to the music scene more than a year after he was embroiled in a controversy over his academic background at Stanford University.Hip hop group Epik High, of which Tablo is a member, reached top of the same chart with the album “Epilogue” in March last year.Tablo recently signed a four-year contract with YG Entertainment which boasts several K-pop idols incl

Nov. 2, 2011

LONDON (AP) ― America Ferrera is ditching the clunky braces and the thick fake eyebrows of “Ugly Betty” for sexy, slinky outfits in her West End debut as the showgirl Roxie in “Chicago.”The American actress who starred in the U.S. television series about a wise but wacky New York fashion magazine assistant is embarking on an eight-week stint in “Chicago” at the Garrick Theatre beginning Nov. 7.At a press conference Monday, the 27-year-old Ferrera said performing on the London stage is something

Nov. 1, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― Remember George Harrison’s unforgettable opening line in the Beatles’ 1969 hit “Something?” “Something in the way she moves/attracts me like no other woman.”Of course not, because he sings “lover,” not “woman.” But “woman” is what Harrison wrote before changing one word that could well have spelled the difference between a hit and a miss, an edit that’s on display at the Grammy Museum in “George Harrison: Living in the Material World,” a show focusing on the man pigeonholed early a

Nov. 1, 2011

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) ― Three decades after hundreds of strange wire-bound oddities were saved from the trash heap, an art gallery eight blocks from where they were dumped at a curb is featuring a selection of works made by a mystery artist now known only as the Philadelphia Wireman.“What was unique about this was the discovery, how it was found, and how many there were,” said John Ollman, an expert in self-taught art whose Fleischer/Ollman Gallery has 29 Wireman works on view through

Nov. 1, 2011

NEW YORK (AFP) ― Christie’s and Sotheby’s hold their big autumn art sales in New York starting next week, with both houses looking to Pablo Picasso to excite a robust market.The prominence of important works by Picasso, Matisse and other modern masters in the impressionist and modern art sales at Christie’s on Tuesday and Sotheby’s on Wednesday reflects the healthy appetite this year for big-ticket works, auctioneers said.A strong market is also expected the following week when the two houses ho

Oct. 31, 2011

Tickets to see boy band SHINee at the 6th London Korean Film Festival Opening Gala Concert have sold out. So many fans logged on to British online box-office website Odeon that it crashed just one minute after ticket sales began Thursday. The website was not restored for five hours, the group’s agency said.The group is to hold the one-hour gala concert on Nov. 3 at 4:30 p.m. at the Odeon West End Theater, opening the film festival, which will run for three weeks in London, Cambridge, Sheffield a

Oct. 31, 2011