It’s the day you’ve been waiting for: Oscars night! The brightest stars in Hollywood have assembled for the biggest event in the entertainment industry, a whirlwind of pretty dresses, dashing suits, and enough...

In Child’s Pose, director Călin Peter Netzer’s latest film, both the 2013 winner of the Golden Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival and the official Romanian entry for Best Foreign Language Film for this...

To Alice Herz-Sommer, "music [was] God." It was the religion by which she lived out her days. When times were dark, she preached the beauty of life without saying a word, sitting at her piano at the end of the world....

On February 11, 2011, the world watched in anticipation the aerial views of tiny bobbing heads and flags snapping in the wind; Egypt was poised to add a very important chapter to its beleaguered political history. In a...

Tragedies, accidents — you see or read about them every day. A grainy photo pulled from a social media site goes up on a local news channel. The site of a wreck might be shown, with a close-up of taut police tape...

With over two million people -- young, old, women, men, poor (and some rich) -- of all skin colors serving out sentences behind the bars of United States correctional institutions, it isn’t a wonder that their lives...

“In vino veritas” means “there is truth in wine.” And sometimes, there is. The rest of the time, wine -- or any alcohol, for that matter -- leads to bluster, empty impulsivity, and posturing. The wine in the...

Are you a fan of The Blacklist, Homeland, Girls or American Horror Story? Did you happen to spend over three months binge-watching all 14 seasons of Law and Order: SVU in a darkened basement covered in a light dusting...

Who is Mercedes Sosa? For starters, she is the subject of Rodrigo H. Vila’s biographical documentary, Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America. Her remarkable voice gave rise to the Nueva Canción (New Song)...

Ra Paulette is a self-proclaimed “digger of caves and piler of rocks.” Is it a true statement? Generally speaking, yes -- he does quite literally dig caves and shift around large mounds of rubble, and has been doing...