As world leaders descended on New York on Monday for an annual gathering, South Korea’s top boy band, BTS, took advantage of the spotlight to urge young people to join …
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Arts and entertainment news. Arts encompass a wide range of human creative activities that express imaginative, conceptual, or technical skill. This includes visual arts like painting, sculpture, and photography, performing arts like music, theater and dance, as well as literary arts such as writing and poetry. The arts serve not only as a reflection of culture and society but also as a medium for personal expression and emotional exploration
Score! Scrabble Dictionary Adds ‘OK,’ ‘ew’ to Official Play
Scrabble players, time to rethink your game because 300 new words are coming your way, including some long-awaited gems: OK and ew, to name a few. Merriam-Webster released the sixth …
your ads here!Filmmaker Ken Burns Turns Attention to Mayo Clinic
After spearheading an epic, 18-hour documentary on the Vietnam War, acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns has turned to more personal subject matter — one that knows him very intimately, too. Burns …
your ads here!Celine Dion to End Las Vegas Concert Residency Next Year
Celine Dion has announced she will end her Las Vegas residency next year. The singer announced on social media Monday that she will leave Caesars Palace in June 2019. Dion …
your ads here!Oklahoma Astronaut Corn Maze Photographed from Space
It’s apt that a maze cut into an Oklahoma cornfield featuring the likeness of a former NASA astronaut can be seen from space – and has been photographed by a …
your ads here!Will Bill Cosby, 81, Go to Prison? A judge is Set to Decide
Bill Cosby faced the start of a sentencing hearing Monday at which a judge will decide how to punish the 81-year-old comedian who blazed the trail for other black entertainers …
your ads here!Sentencing Hearing for Comedian Bill Cosby Opens Monday
Comedian Bill Cosby will likely learn his fate this week as the sentencing phase in his sexual assault trial begins Monday near Philadelphia. Cosby was convicted in April on three …
your ads here!Tiger Woods Seals First Win in Five Years With Tour Championship
Tiger Woods scored his first victory in more than five years on Sunday, completing a two-shot win at the Tour Championship to crown a fairy tale comeback after a near …
your ads here!Treasure Trove of Cars Displayed in a Secured Underground Vault
Inside a hidden vault in Los Angeles, California, is a treasure trove of cars from around the world. It’s the collection of the Petersen Automotive Museum, and it is now …
your ads here!Afghan Orchestra Flourishes Despite Violence, Social Pressure
The consequences of Afghanistan’s increasingly deadly war are weighing heaviest on the nation’s civilians, with women bearing the brunt of the violence. The Taliban banned music and girls education, and …
your ads here!Afghan Orchestra Flourishes Despite Violence and Social Pressure
The consequences of Afghanistan’s increasingly deadly war are weighing the heaviest on the nation’s civilians. But violence and social pressures have not deterred members of the country’s nascent orchestra of …
your ads here!Iranian Twin Sisters Win Over the US with Their Emotional Art
The most beautiful art is born where there is pain. This idea became the moving force behind the success of Iranian-born twin sisters Bahareh and Farzaneh Safarani. They moved to …
your ads here!Path Partially Clears for Russia’s Return to International Sports
Russia cautiously celebrated a move by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to reinstate its own laboratory for testing athletes for performance enhancing drugs, a decision that has divided the sports …
your ads here!Anti-Doping Agency Is Compromised, Group Contends
A leading anti-doping group hinted at changing the structure of the World Anti-Doping Agency, saying the decision to reinstate Russia’s drug-fighting operation was a sign that WADA leaders were saddled …
your ads here!Kenya Lifts Ban on Lesbian Love Tale, in Time for Oscar Nominations
A Kenyan court on Friday temporarily lifted a ban on the movie Rafiki. Justice Wilfrida Okwany said that during a seven-day period, the film, a lesbian love story produced in …
your ads here!Questions Raised About US Museum’s Abraham Lincoln Hat
It has been a question plaguing the museum dedicated to one of America’s greatest presidents: Is the hat real? The hat in question is of the stovepipe variety that adorned …
your ads here!‘Star Wars’ Fans Applaud Movie Release Slowdown
Plans by Disney to slow down the release of future “Star Wars” projects are getting a thumbs up from fans, who also hope that new movies in the multi-billion dollar …
your ads here!Refugees Get Turn on Big Screen in Kenyan Film Festival
A film festival in Kenya this month highlighted a group not often seen on the big screen: refugees. The festival, organized by the nonprofit group FilmAid in collaboration with Amnesty …
your ads here!Prince Vaults Open Up with Jazzy ‘Piano & A Microphone’
A nine-track album from Prince’s vast vault of unreleased material goes on sale Friday, along with a new video highlighting gun violence. “Piano & A Microphone” is compiled from a …
your ads here!Suge Knight Pleads to Manslaughter Over Fatal Confrontation
Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest Thursday to voluntary manslaughter for running over and killing a Compton businessman nearly four years ago and agreed to serve nearly …
your ads here!Making, Drinking Arak a Source of National Pride in Lebanon
Every part of Lebanon’s national drink, arak, is infused with tradition — from distilling the aniseed-tinged liquor to the ritual of mixing it at the table, when the transparent liquid …
your ads here!Egypt’s Ancient Temples Rescued From the Nile 50 Years Ago
One of the world’s biggest archaeological rescue operations was successfully concluded 50 years ago after a massive ancient Egyptian temple complex was dismantled and hoisted to higher ground to prevent …
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