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What struck me right away about this music was its amazing ability to mix the feel and power of village dance music with the personal contemporary sensibilities of the players.

Staten Island is still reeling from the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. Nearly half of the 42 killed by the storm in New York City...

There may be a whole new generation of Chris Browns cropping up. The controversial singer recently launched Symphonic Love Foundation, a nonprofit that offers art...

Vic and Conrad renew their nuptials, Gordon Murphy dies a second time, and the Stowaway re-opens with the help of a foreshadowed bad guy. Oh, and Emily and Fauxmanda teeter dangerously at the edge of having their true in...

Change is coming to Downton. According to series creator Julian Fellowes, another season of "Downton Abbey" wouldn't be complete without the inclusion of racially diverse...

I have also come to love what the linguist Charles Mackay described as the "lost beauties," of our mother tongue, archaic words worthy of revival, such as oubliette, a forgotten place, hwyl, a sudden outburst of eloquenc...

By: Mike Wall Published: 11/05/2012 01:15 PM EST on SPACE.com A prominent astrophysicist has pinned down a real location for Superman's fictional home planet of...

Walter Smith says he creates art, but officials at his daughter's middle school, where he's recently been banned from attending career day, aren't buying any...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than $1 billion worth of fine art, from Picassos and Monets to Rothkos and Richters, will be auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's in sales that officials say are shaping up to be some of the bi...

Shouldn't we be skeptical when contemporary art museums aim to act as political as well as cultural players?

"Vamps," the first reunion between Alicia Silverstone and Amy Heckerling since "Clueless," was not supposed to light up the box office: The film was given...

The story of Martin Greenfield, the 84-year-old, Czech-born tailor to presidents, proved particularly resonant with families touched by the Holocaust—or as in his case, devastated by it. My colleague Alice Crites ...

Because they set the bar so high, even the worst Cirque du Soleil production is still pretty good. Instead of leaving with a Giaconda smile and sparkly eyes, though, you walk out feeling let down.

Registered voters, likely voters, undecided voters... they're all anyone is talking about leading into tomorrow's election. But what about that other demographic: the non-voter. What...

Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace Little, Brown and Company, $26.99 November 6, 2012 What is it about? It's a posthumous book of...

Fine arts deans know that merging art and science, having more interdisciplinary and project-based learning, ushering in a whole new curriculum and a having truly creative community are essential to America's future.

LONDON (Reuters) - Leading figures in the art world, including Danny Boyle who oversaw the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, have urged a council in east London to reconsider plans to sell off a valuable Henry Moo...

In a field where few of us have the resources to engage a 'number two' executive, there is no large pool of trained leaders ready to move up to the top spot without some risk.

"Made In Jersey" lives again ... sort of. CBS has scheduled already-produced original episodes to be burned off on Saturdays, according to Deadline.com. New episodes...

In the same way that the Mormons and Orange County Republicans who financed the Prop 8 campaign couldn't have imagined that their hate and ignorance would spawn Homo Riot, I had no clue that my anger-fueled work would co...

LOS ANGELES — NBC says its benefit concert for Superstorm Sandy victims drew nearly $23 million in donations to the American Red Cross. Friday's hour-long...

"Da Vinci's Demons," Starz's latest period drama that's described as a historical fantasy series, will tell the untold story of Leonardo Da Vinci's early life...