They killed Brian © Fox On Sunday, November 24, one of the main characters of the American animated series "Family Guy" (Family Guy) is a talking dog named Brian. In an interview E! Online producer of Gryffin Steve Kallagan explained the decision to get rid of one of the characters by the fact that the series needed a “shake”. According to Kallagan, the scriptwriters faced a choice: to kill one of the Gryffin family members or a dog, and Brian seemed the least painful loss.

Stoppard's play “The Dark Side of the Moon” comes out © BBC / Faber and Faber Today, November 25, the cd edition of the play “Darkside” by the British playwright Tom Stopard, including music from the Pink Floyd “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973). According to Guitarplayer , Darkside can be ordered at the Amazon online store.

Konstantin Seliverstov, the most independent of the Russian independent directors, who began to make post -domestic cinema before the appearance of this term, shot a strict adaptation of the “process” of Kafka - with professional actors and a full -fledged film crew. Seliverstov collected part of the budget on the Craudfunding platform "Boomstarter".

Non/fiction children's program has been announced The theme of the Non/Fiction Book Fair program, which will be held from November 27 to December 1 at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow, “I believe/do not believe: to whom and why we believe and trust.” “How do we focus in various sources of information, to whose opinion we are ready to listen to, in what cases do we trust ourselves, but in which ones are not?

Premiere of columns on COLTA . Ru : The prize laureate Sergei Kurekhin Stanislav “ HMOT ” Sharifullin Monitates the new electronic (and not only) music. Our sensory organs sometimes pull out the most unexpected detail from the oversaturated information of the media space. So, once during the next wandering on foreign blogs, the eyes caught on his native (albeit written by Latin) the word “ udacha ” .

The Kremlin tried to buy a documentary about Sochi On Sunday, November 24, in Amsterdam, the premiere of the documentary “Putin's games” about corruption in the preparation of the Olympics in Sochi took place. In order for the film not to be shown, the Russian authorities were ready to pay 600 thousand pounds. This amount, twice the cost of the production of the film, was offered to producer Simone Bauman, reports The Telegraph . She said that they tried to bribe her three times.

In New York, the "Church of Stop Hoping" is judged © Billy Talen / YouTube The leaders of the group of singers-acting Church Stop Hoping are accused of threats and the organization of riots for the action arranged in the New York Bank.

The prosecutor who wanted to prohibit Yesenin and Nabokov was fired The prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory fired her employee Kurbangali Sharipov, who informed the media about the seizure of the books of Yesenin and Nabokov from the schools of Stavropol. According to Gazeta.ru , the senior assistant to the prosecutor for the supervision of the implementation of the laws on minors and youth was recognized as a violator of the two orders of the Russian Prosecutor General.

Rihanna at the age of 25 became an “icon” © ABC On Sunday, November 24, in Los Angeles there was a ceremony of presenting the awards by American Music Awards. The artist of the year for the third time was named 23-year-old cantor-singer Taylor Swift, the rank of “icon” was received by the 25-year-old R'N'B performer Rihanna. During the awarding, Rihanna was presented as the “voice of the 21st century,” Reuters reports. The largest number of prizes - four - received Taylor Swift.

The new - for Russia the second in the row - the season of showing British performances on the screens of the world cinema is dedicated to the anniversary of William Shakespeare, and part of his program is therefore solemnly called the Shakespearean theater festival. It was based on the performances of National Theatre and the Globus (they can be seen now), the completely new Richard II RSC and Coriolan theater Donmar Warehouse are also promised (which should only take place the premiere).

The peak of the Moscow concert season was passed - 4 concerts played the most legendary orchestra of the world, Vienna Philharmonic in the Chaikovsky hall. In recent years, he has been in Moscow with Gergiev and Barenboy, but in this case we are talking about incredibly duty - five -day - presence and very serious statement.

"Book" started a page on Bookmate The All -Russian contest for the best work for children and youth "Booker" has its own page on the website of the Bookmate electronic library.

It has been verified many times - the conversation about our international journalism almost immediately turns to the question: “Why, earlier, in Soviet times, international journalists are how they thundered, but now they are not rattling?” Before I start answering why there were more than the current one, a small reservation. Not all thundered: and then, as now, no one knew a TASS correspondent from the TASS Coroned somewhere in Jakarta or Luanda.