Category: Arts & Culture (艺术文化)

Fifty years ago, the well-loved musician Bob Dylan played at the Newport Folk Festival and was widely booed. The audience may have been unhappy but Dylan’s performance helped change the…

Director Maya Forbes tells about her family and its struggles with depression, poverty and sex discrimination in her new film, “Infinitely Polar Bear.” The film is not like other Hollywood…

In Israel, music is bringing young people together and to make more than beautiful sounds. Four young musicians – two Israeli Jews, two Israeli Arabs – perform under the name…

In the 1930s, Asian-Americans performers did not have many opportunities in mainstream U.S. entertainment. These performers were limited to roles that simply made fun of their cultural heritage. But in…

Sometimes you can feel the ring of a bell from your head to your feet. Take that idea and expand it and you may have an idea of what American…

Blues singer Evelyn Rubio has released a new CD that shows her abilities as a singer, songwriter and saxophone player. Ms. Rubio was born in Mexico but now lives in…

Monkeys are entertaining. They can swing through trees, hang by their tails, play, dance, kiss and argue. A new Disney movie captures all of that and more. The nature film…

BB King. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. Elmore James. These are some famous names in American blues music. You might have heard them before. But none of those beloved artists made their…

Eighteen-year-old Burnie Rollinson has Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. People with Asperger’s have difficulty with communication, eye contact and relationships. Burnie’s mother, Anita Rollinson, wanted to write a book…

Millions of Americans will attend opening day of Major League Baseball, a league of professional baseball players, on April 6. Then, at night, millions of people will watch on television…

Hollywood actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie told the world this week that she had had another operation to reduce her chance of getting cancer. On Tuesday, the 39-year-old actress published…

People began riding horses thousands of years ago. Saddles for horseback riding were invented soon after. Today, many companies manufacture saddles. But it is rare to find someone who designs…

Years ago, the American writer Kurt Vonnegut often said there was one story that would always make a million dollars: Cinderella. In Hollywood and in today’s economy, it is more…

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the largest event of its kind in the world. The yearly event features horse and bull riders from all over the huge state…

The movie “Fifty Shades of Grey” opened last week and sold more than $300 million worth of tickets worldwide. That is more than seven times the amount it cost to…