Dallas Brown can still see the bullets coming for him 50 years later, smacking into the dirt at his feet as north Vietnamese soldiers fired on his platoon during an …
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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
Daughter: Popular Crooner Vic Damone Dies at 89
Vic Damone, whose mellow baritone once earned praise from Frank Sinatra as “the best pipes in the business,” has died in Florida at the age of 89, his daughter said. …
your ads here!Giving City Kids an Opportunity to Enjoy Winter Fun
As the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics get underway in South Korea, here in the U.S., a group of schoolchildren is hitting the slopes in Vernon, New Jersey, enjoying the expensive sport …
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Four years ago, American skaters Mirai Nagasu and Adam Rippon were upset that they failed to make the Olympic team. They drowned their sorrow in hamburgers that they ate on …
your ads here!Royal Wedding Guess List: Who Gets a Nod from Harry, Meghan?
Forget the Winter Olympics, the Champion’s League or the Super Bowl. The real competition right now is who’s going to be invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. Everyone …
your ads here!The Insult – Controversial Drama Throws Light on Divided Lebanon and Gets Oscar Nomination
Ziad Doueiri’s film ‘The Insult’ is one of this year’s Oscar nominees in the Foreign Film category. The film, largely a courtroom drama, tackles the cultural, religious and political rifts …
your ads here!Drama ‘The Insult’ Throws Light on Divided Lebanon, Gets Oscar Nomination
Ziad Doueiri’s film The Insult is one of this year’s Oscar nominees in the Foreign Film category. The film, largely a courtroom drama, tackles the cultural, religious and political rifts …
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A teenager has won the first U.S. medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics, and it’s gold. Seventeen-year-old Red Gerard, from Silverthorne, Colorado, in his debut Olympics, won the men’s slopestyle snowboarding …
your ads here!High Winds Postpone Men’s Olympic Downhill Skiing Event
High winds have led Pyeongchang Olympic officials to postpone the men’s downhill skiing event planned for Sunday. Winds were gusting to 72 kph (45 mph) at the Jeongseon Alpine Center. …
your ads here!In Photographs, Famous and Unknown, ‘The Beauty of Lines’ is Felt as Much as Seen
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” — an old saying that often elicits groans — is just what organizers of an exhibition of 20th and 21st century photographic …
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The exhibit features 160 photographs from the New York-based Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla collection …
your ads here!Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Feb. 10
We’re soaring with the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending February 10, 2018. This is a rare week. Not only …
your ads here!African Nations Make History with Winter Olympic Competitors
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games have officially begun in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with a spectacular light show and the traditional parade of athletes entering the Olympic stadium. This year, Nigeria …
your ads here!Olympic Gymnast Simone Biles Takes On New Role: College Student
World champion and Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles has 19 medals to her name, but there’s one accolade that’s been out of her reach. Until now. VOA’s Tina Trinh met …
your ads here!16 Years Later: Salt Lake City’s Olympic Legacy
Salt Lake City, Utah, which hosted the Winter Olympics in 2002, is considering making a bid for the Winter Games in 2026 or 2030. Rafael Saakov from VOA’s Russian Service …
your ads here!It’ll be Lights Out at Statue of Liberty for Electrical Work
It will be lights out on part of the Statue of Liberty as work is done on the monument’s electrical system. The National Park Service says the lights that …
your ads here!World’s Most Popular Dinosaur on the Move at Chicago’s Field Museum
When she emerged from obscurity in the rock formations of South Dakota in the early 1990s, the world’s largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was only beginning a long legal and physical …
your ads here!Egyptian Start-Up Tackles Social Issues with Video Games
An Egyptian startup is designing video games in which the object is not just to win, but to become aware of social issues. Faith Lapidus reports. …
your ads here!Child With Down Syndrome Chosen as Gerber Spokesbaby
Since 1931, the Gerber baby food baby has been one of the world’s most familiar and ubiquitous trademarks. This year’s Gerber spokesbaby is extra-special, he is 18-month-old Lucas Warren from …
your ads here!Bollywood’s ‘Period’ Drama Boosts Menstrual-solution Entrepreneurs
Bollywood’s first film on menstrual hygiene, due for release on Friday, has boosted business for entrepreneurs providing affordable sanitary pads to women in India, manufacturers said. Even the trailer for …
your ads here!Female Songwriters in Nashville Say ‘Time’s Up’
Female musicians in Nashville have long complained about the lack of representation on country radio, but now a collective of female songwriters are singing “Time’s Up.” The Song Suffragettes were …
your ads here!Casino Mogul Wynn Resigns After Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Billionaire casino mogul Steve Wynn has resigned as head of Wynn Resorts, less than two weeks after the Wall Street Journal published a report about decades of allegations of sexual …
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