Chinese tourists used to flock to Hong Kong before the pandemic, bringing empty suitcases to fill with everything from baby milk powder, to cosmetics and nonprescription drugs. Large tour groups …
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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
Is Giant Panda Program in US a Victim of US-China Tensions?
The giant pandas that have been living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington for 23 years will return to China by the end of this year. VOA’s Veronica Balderas …
your ads here!Met Opera, Lincoln Center Theater Commission Work About Detained Ukrainian Children
A Ukrainian composer has been commissioned to write an opera about mothers from that country going into Russia to rescue their forcibly detained children. The Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center …
your ads here!NYC’s Famous Courtroom Sketch Artist Talks About Her Unique Job
Jane Rosenberg started her courtroom sketch artist career drawing prostitutes in New York’s night court in 1980. Four decades later, she is still making court sketches, but these days some of her portraits are of much more well-known …
your ads here!Zambian Film Focuses on Hardships Faced by Boy With Albinism
A 2022 film highlighting the plight of a person with albinism in Zambia is streaming on Netflix. “Can You See Us” is based on the true story of a boy …
your ads here!‘The Nun II’ Conjures $32.6 Million to Top Box Office
Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn’t scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for ” The Nun II.” The sequel to the 2018 hit, released in 3,728 theaters by …
your ads here!Israeli Delegation Attends UN Heritage Conference in Saudi Arabia
An Israeli delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to attend a U.N. conference on world heritage sites, in the first public visit by government officials to the kingdom, an …
your ads here!Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Poor Things’ Wins Top Prize at Venice
The Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival was awarded Saturday to a hilarious and shockingly explicit reworking of Frankenstein, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a sex-mad reanimated corpse. …
your ads here!For US Government, Art in Federal Buildings Is a Must
Budget for new public buildings includes allotment for original artworks …
your ads here!In US, Funding for Original Art Part of Most New Federal Buildings’ Budgets
Since its founding, the United States has incorporated art into its federal buildings. These days, one-half of one percent of a new building’s budget usually goes to funding original art …
your ads here!Ailing US Explorer Trapped 1,000 Meters Deep in Turkish Cave Awaits Difficult Rescue
Rescuers from across Europe rushed to a cave in Turkey on Thursday, launching an operation to save an American researcher who became trapped almost 1,000 meters below the cave’s entrance …
your ads here!Sudanese Artists Work to Heal From Trauma of War
It has been nearly five months since civil war erupted in Sudan. The U.N. refugee agency estimates that by year’s end, 1.8 million people will have fled to neighboring countries. …
your ads here!In Photos: Nevada Burning Man Festival Exodus
Thousands of Burning Man attendees readied to make their “exodus” on Monday as the counter-culture arts festival in the Nevada desert ends in a sea of drying mud instead of …
your ads here!Deserted NY Subway Glitters with Chandeliers, Skylights, Vaulted Ceilings
Decommissioned in 1945, the Old City Hall Station remains the ‘jewel in the crown’ for NY transit system …
your ads here!Spain’s Men’s National Team Denounces Rubiales Over World Cup Kiss
Spain’s men’s national team Monday denounced the “unacceptable behavior” of the country’s suspended football chief Luis Rubiales over his infamous World Cup kiss. Rubiales, 46, has defied expectations and refused …
your ads here!Get It Back: New Hunt for Missing Beatles Bass Guitar
A guitar expert and two journalists have launched a global hunt for a missing bass guitar owned by Paul McCartney, bidding to solve what they brand “the greatest mystery in …
your ads here!Chinese Artists Bring Art Installations to Burning Man
Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in Nevada closed its entrance Saturday due to flooding from recent storms. Some of the thousands of festivalgoers are being warned to shelter in …
your ads here!‘Equalizer 3’ Cleans Up, ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Score New Records
The third installment in the Denzel Washington-led “Equalizer” franchise topped the domestic box office this weekend with $34.5 million according to studio estimates Sunday. By the end of the Monday …
your ads here!Israeli-Iranian Movie, Filmed Undercover to Avoid Suspicion, Premiers in Venice
The first production co-directed by Iranian and Israeli filmmakers had to be shot in secret to prevent possible interference by Tehran, directors Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv told Reuters …
your ads here!Corgis Parade at Buckingham Palace, Marking Year After Queen Elizabeth’s Death
The changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace may draw tourists from far and wide, but Sunday visitors to the landmark were treated to a different sort of spectacle: a …
your ads here!Americans Have Long Wanted the Perfect Endless Summer; Jimmy Buffett Offered Them One
It seemed wistfully appropriate, somehow, that news of Jimmy Buffett’s death emerged at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, the demarcation point of every American summer’s symbolic end. Because …
your ads here!Flooding Closes Burning Man Entrance; Festivalgoers to Shelter in Place
The entrance to the Burning Man counterculture festival in the Nevada desert was closed and attendees were urged to shelter in place Saturday as flooding from storms swept through the …
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