2019-07-13 Federer, Williams Looking to Add Records at Wimbledon
Younger players may have to wait another year for a chance to win the world’s oldest tennis championship, Wimbledon. Switzerland’s…
2019-07-13 Show Tries to Recover Culture Lost During Conflict
The image of a lion, about the size of a large piece of bread, represents the latest step in the…
2019-07-02 Museum Celebrates History of California Wine
In California’s Napa Valley, light shines from the windows of a large house built in the 1800s. Inside, visitors study…
2019-07-10 UNESCO Announces New World Heritage Sites
The United Nations Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, meets each year to choose the latest additions to its World Heritage list.…
2019-07-06 Harriet Tubman Museum Benefits from Viral Photo
Harriet Tubman was a slave, rebel and human rights leader from the early 1800s to 1913. The Harriet Tubman Museum…
2019-07-04 On Independence Day, A Love Letter to Black America
The Fourth of July is Independence Day in the United States. On this holiday, Americans often remember their country’s founders…
2019-06-29 College Music Program Finds Long-Lost Funk Recordings
In the summer of 2005, Drexel University’s Music Industry program got a strange phone call. The caller was the owner…
2019-06-27 Lost Voice of Mexican Icon Frida Kahlo Surfaces
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits made her world famous. She and her husband, the painter Diego Rivera, revolutionized Mexican art…
2019-06-25 Scamp the Tramp Named World’s Ugliest Dog at California Fair
Scamp the Tramp will never win a beauty competition. But he has won an ugly competition. Scamp’s eyes stick out…
2019-06-22 Hungry for More ‘Hunger Games?’ Prequel in Progress
Ten years after finishing The Hunger Games book series, American writer Suzanne Collins is returning readers to Panem. A prequel,…
2019-06-21 Meet America’s First Native Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be named U.S. poet laureate, has been ready for such a responsibility for…
2019-06-15 Scorsese Gets Playful with Dylan in ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ Film
Film director Martin Scorsese has made his second film about singer — and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature…
2019-06-12 Beyond World Cup, US Team Hopes for Greater Support for Women’s Game
The U.S. women’s national soccer team began its effort to capture a fourth World Cup championship Tuesday with a record-breaking…
2019-06-11 ‘Hadestown’ Is the Big Winner at the Tony Awards
Hadestown, a musical about a young couple’s dark trip to the Underworld, was the big winner Sunday night at the…
2019-06-09 American Craft Brewers Experiment with Taste
Pickle pilsner, tamale lagers, and carrot stouts. These were among the beers at the Strange Brew Festival in Reno, Nevada,…