Many Americans are recalling an icon in the entertainment industry following the death of longtime African American TV producer and music show host Don Cornelius. The 75-year-old Cornelius, who had been in declining heath for years, died Wednesday, February 1 from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The professional American football championship game, also known as the Super Bowl, will be played Sunday in the Midwestern city of Indianapolis, Indiana. The kickoff is scheduled for about 6:30pm EST, 2330 UTC. The nation’s biggest annual sporting event attracts die-hard fans as well as casual observers.
Immigrants are often caught between the cultures of their homeland and their adopted country. Mexican American playwright Josefina Lopez is showcasing the struggles of Latino immigrants through film, and through a community theatre in Los Angeles. Our correspondent spoke with her about bringing those immigrant stories to the public.
It is not easy finding a difficult way to perform a easy task. But New Yorker Joseph Herscher takes the trouble to do so, for the sake of making people laugh. A video of his latest outrageously complicated contraption is a huge hit on YouTube. It took a complicated series of preposterous and unexpected actions to set up this smashing punch line in a video called The Creamed Egg.
Obese people, homosexuals, people with disabilities, people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds – why do we set them apart? The Quai Branly museum in Paris addresses this question by revisiting one of the darkest aspects of Western colonialism – events in the not-so-distant past when humans were put on exhibit, often in cages like animals, in Europe and the United States.
Katherine Heigl plays Stephanie Plum in the first film based on the popular mystery novels by author Janet Evanovich. Here’s a look at One For The Money. Plum is out of work, laid off from her department store job and back in the Trenton, New Jersey working class neighborhood where she grew up.
The Academy Award nominations have confirmed the buzz about sure bets, but also added some surprises. In the category Best Actor in a Leading Role, some of the five nominees were expected to be in the mix. Others were upsets. In The Descendants, a bittersweet family drama directed by Alexander Payne, George Clooney plays Matt Smith, a successful lawyer who finds himself at life’s crossroads.
British pop singer Adele continues to set records this week as her album “21” spends a 17th week atop the Billboard 200 chart. Billboard reports that she now has the longest run at Number One since the soundtrack to “The Bodyguard,” which ended its 20-week reign in May 1993. Adele also reaches the top spot on this week’s Hot 100 chart. Her latest single, “Set Fire to the Rain,” is the third consecutive Number One hit from “21.” According to ...
Director Jeanne Hallacy stated former political prisoner and activist Ko Bo Kyi inspired her to make “Into the Current.” A documentary film about Burma’s political prisoners premiered this week in Asia, drawing attention to the plight of the country’s activists as the government releases hundreds of prisoners in an amnesty program.
At least two American Muslim organizations are calling for the resignation of New York City’s police commissioner and his spokesman for their involvement with a film criticized as anti-Muslim propaganda. The film, The Third Jihad, made by a private group, purports to show that violence and radicalism are the “true agenda” of many Muslims in the United States.
Forty years ago, a new women’s magazine appeared on American newsstands alongside the periodicals exclusively devoted to housework, motherhood, and catching a man. Ms.Magazine, founded by veteran journalist and feminist Gloria Steinem and backed by glossy New York Magazine, promised to be something more: a place where women could read about real women like themselves, and connect to the nascent women’s movement – devoted to equality in the work place and in all aspects of their lives.
Remnants of war, including unexploded ordnance and landmines, are still found in many countries around the world – even decades after conflicts have ended. Those dangers often devastate the lives of local inhabitants, who might not be aware they live in the middle of a minefield. An international organization that helps clear and destroy weapons left behind in war zones recently screened a documentary called Surviving the Peace, which shows how remnants of a conflict affect people’s lives, even after ...
In the mid to late 18th century, missionary schools were opened on Native American reservations in the U.S. The goal was to convert young people to Christianity and immerse them in Western culture. Native languages and culture were discouraged. Over decades, many grew up knowing tiny about their culture or languages.
Legendary blues singer Etta James, whose influence spread to generations of pop, rock and rhythm-and-blues performers, died Friday, Jan. 20, in California from complications from leukemia. She was 73 years old. The award-winning singer was ideal known for her moving rendition of the blues standard, “At Last.” Right click (Control click for Mac) and select Save Link/Target As When Etta James sang Mack Gordon and Harry Warren’s “At Last,” the dozens of other versions by everyone from Nat “King” Cole ...
The true story of black American fighter pilots in World War II inspired the new action film produced by George Lucas of “Star Wars” fame. Among the millions of Americans who joined up in World War II, black soldiers found themselves in a racially segregated Army, mostly restricted to menial jobs away from the front lines.