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What if one day, for no explicable reason, every single one of these people - people like you and me and everyone we know - suddenly broke that long-standing contract we've made with society to keep our thoughts to ourse...

Art workshops are a hybrid form of instruction somewhere between hands-on art schools and home-study video cassettes. They provide an intense art experience, but for a relatively short period of time that may be easier f...

Welcome to Jurassic Park, Colin Trevorrow. The indie director behind "Safety Not Guaranteed" has been hired to direct "Jurassic Park 4" according to Deadline.com. Trevorrow...

Like anyone, the list of words I'd use for myself has grown with me. Over the years I've added other amazing terms like "artist," and "advocate," but I've also added some unexpected ones. Like "quadriplegic."

Igor Stravinsky arrived in America in 1939, an émigré of World War II who had lived in Russia, Switzerland, and France. But in truth, Stravinsky had debuted in the United States several decades earlier.

What would you say about a person who--in the matter of a few hours--would zoom in and out of three cities? In my case, Malibu, Oxnard and Santa Barbara... The only excuse for such a mad dash, of course, is the promise o...

If someone had stated ten years ago, when I first visited Dubai, that the Emirate would one day become a global art destination, I would not have believed them. Yet in the last couple of years, I increasingly find in Dub...

Katy Perry has found another way to both express herself and line up some more revenue at the same time. The "Fireworks" singer reportedly inked...

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” has stuck with us for five decades for many reasons, not all of them having to do with a shower curtain. As film scholar David Thomson and others have noted, “Pyschoâ...

Glowing reports hold true. The Trio Con Brio Copenhagen clearly occupies a lofty perch in today’s musical scene. On Tuesday, the ensemble (violinist Soo-Jin Hong, cellist Mathias Beyer-Karlshoj and pianist Jens El...

It’s a big week for the religious crowd. Yesterday Francis was plucked from House of Cards Argentina and declared, via smoke signals, the new Pope. Mazel tov, Francis! And over at the Kennedy Center, where mega-po...

There was no starter pistol, but Wednesday marked the first official day of music at SXSW, and it started with a bang-bang-bang. I managed to catch a brilliantly brooding set from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a dynamite ...

With minimal attention, Hellebores are long-lasting, colorful and deer-resistant… Click to Continue »

There’s nothing rational about it: Like pi itself, the list of books about pi goes on forever. Here’s a selection of titles that we’ve calculated you might be interested in today: Easy as Pi: The Cou...

"Doctor Who" is parting ways with executive producer Caroline Skinner. According to BBC, Skinner is departing the series to join BBC Drama Production in London....

AMC has released a slew of new "Mad Men" photos in advance of the Season 6 premiere. The 70+ new pictures bring the glamour with...

The Top Secret Drum Corps in Basel, Switzerland is renown for its members precision and dexterity. The Corps consists of 25 young male drummers and...

HONG KONG -- Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng's novel "The Garden of Evening Mists" has won the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize. Tan's novel is...

The (*) Inn explores Target Margin Theater's stated foundational principle: "that works of art return us to real truths more powerfully by their divergence from a strict illustration of reality."

Washington native Jennifer Miller is like a lot of bright, young writers hoping their first novel attracts attention. What sets her apart, though, is just how hard she’s willing to work to garner that attent...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Snoop Lion won't fire back at critics who say his backing of the Rastafari movement is simply another gimmick from one...

Who killed Rosie Larson? Netflix may not have the answer, but they'll stream "The Killing" for you. The series was officially un-canceled and a third...