Despite not attending, Queen Elizabeth II has made her presence known in a heart-warming sketch with Paddington Beat, one of the highlights of an epic star-studded concert outside Buckingham Palace.

In a truly exciting final, the winner of Unser Star für Baku and thus the German representative in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest will be Roman Lob singing "Standing Still".

See the winning performance of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest live from the Crystal Palace in Baku, Azerbaijan. WINNER: Sweden. Artist Loreen - Euphoria at the Grand Finale, May 26, 2012.

HAUSER performing Song to the Moon from Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák with the London Symphony Orchestra. From Hauser's new album Classic II.

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men. It was the longest-...

June 28, 1969: NYC police raided a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons, Village Voice reporters and the cop who led the raid, ...

Normal Doors feels like a natural evolution for him as a filmmaker. He has refined his voice quite a bit for this effort—developing an interesting tone that manages to be comical, endearing, and emotional. Focusing on all topics that could have all been cloying (from “meet cutes” to obsessive compul

A one-of-a-kind event was held in Azerbaijan as part of the kick off celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. People who attended reported that a large number of young people gathered at Baku sea front to fly sky lanterns into the sky. Beautiful!

My Favorite Time of the Year is a beautifully produced musical short showcasing Leigh Haggerwood music with the backdrop of Victorian England. This magical rendering of a favorite Christmas song is performed by the Florin Street Band.

Belgium enters song in Gobbledegook. Eurovision liberalized restrictions on permitted languages, prompting Belgium's Urban Trad to enter a song called Sanomi, which had lyrics from a made-up language.