2021-03-27 Wine Experts Taste Space Wine
It tastes like flowers. It smells like a campfire. What is it? It is a $6,000 bottle of Petrus Pomerol…
2021-03-24 Official French Dictionary Now Includes Worldwide French Usage
Have you ever thrown a camel? Camels are large and heavy animals, so it would be hard to do. But…
2021-03-22 Labrador Retriever Still Top Dog in US, French Bulldog in Second
Could the cute little French bulldog become America’s favorite purebred? That honor has gone to the Labrador retriever for 30…
2021-03-20 Movie Industry Honors More Women, Blacks with Oscar Nominations
It is a year of diversity and firsts for Oscar nominations. The Oscars given by the Academy of Motion Picture…
2021-03-16 Women Break Records at 2021 Grammy Awards
Female performers including Beyoncé and Taylor Swift had a record-making night at the 2021 Grammy Awards Sunday night in Los…
2021-03-10 K-Pop Band BTS ‘Honored’ to Receive First Grammy Nomination
Members of South Korea’s K-pop band BTS say they feel honored to be competing for a Grammy at Sunday’s award…
2021-03-12 Digital Artwork Sells for Nearly $70 Million
A piece of art that exists only on a computer, created by BEEPLE, sold Thursday for nearly $70 million. BEEPLE’s…
2021-03-07 Company Withdraws Dr. Seuss Children’s Books over ‘Hurtful’ Pictures
The business that oversees the work of children’s writer Dr. Seuss will stop publishing six of his books. In a…
2021-03-06 In Mississippi, Small-town Musician Keeps Blues Alive
The town of Bentonia, in the southern state of Mississippi, has fewer than 500 people. But it is known as…
2021-03-05 Rare Piece of Chinese Art Found at US Home Sale
A small bowl bought for $35 at a home in Connecticut turned out to be a rare piece of ancient…
2021-03-02 Art Lover Buys Digital Work for $6.6 Million
When a painting by a famous artist like Vincent Van Gogh sells for millions of dollars, it makes headlines. But…
2021-03-03 Historic Philadelphia Market Learns to Survive the COVID-19 Crisis
The Reading Terminal Market, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is 128 years old. It is a historic place with almost 150 different…
2021-03-01 Norwegian Museum Solves the Mystery of a Famous Modern Painting
Norway’s National Museum says a sentence written on Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting “The Scream” was put there by the Norwegian…
2021-02-28 A Black-Italian Designer Aims to Change Italy’s Fashion Industry
Stella Jean is a Haitian-Italian clothes designer who is trying to change the Italian fashion industry by working with African…
2021-02-27 French Bread Makers Seek UN Recognition of the Baguette
The United Nations’ cultural agency may consider the making of French bread, known as the baguette, for its list of…