Since the first performance in 1995, the annual Fire Island Dance Festival has become the Island's most anticipated cultural event of the season. Fire Island Dance Festival features an eclectic mix of world-renowned and emerging dancers, dance companies and choreographers. The weekend-long festival ...

An animation of a fly-through of some of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay route. Will the Olympic Torch be passing you? View the London 2012 Olympic Torch route in this animated film and see if you are close to any area of the relay.

In this thirty first episode of MALE BALLET DANCERS we showcase Elisha Nielsen and Amar Smalls during a training exercise as well as cuban Jorge Barani "having fun in the studio." We also include superstars Kimin kim from South Korea and Japanese ballet dancer Tetsuya Kumakawa and a former princi

Yom Kippur 5775, is celebrate on Saturday, October 4th, 2014. Note that in the Jewish calendar, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Jews will celebrate Yom Kippur on the sunset of Friday, October 3rd,2014. It is a day of remembrance for loved ones who died.Yom Kippur (H

Escher's work covered a variety of subjects throughout his life. His early love of portraits, Roman and Italian landscapes and of nature, eventually gave wayto regular division of the plane.. Over 150 colorful and recognizable works testify to Escher's ingenuity and vision. He managed to capture the...

This edition of the series "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS", profiles Robby Sherwin, a native of Washington DC who attended Colorado State College and lived in San Francisco during the Harvey Milk era. Robby has worked in Hotel Management and as a Chef throughout his career. He is currently retired liv...

Janet Mock, a writer living in New York, tells her story of growing up transsexual in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she was born male and transitioned from Charles to Janet during her freshman year of high school. Due to her adolescent transition, she was bullied, teased and taunted through the halls of h...

Jimmy Kimmel showed off another must-watch clip that should have played at the Oscars — the trailer for Movie: The Movie, something Kimmel says "packs everything moviegoers love into one spectacular motion picture event." Ryan Phillippe, Jessica Alba, Taylor Lautner, Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin,

Celebrating in 2016 the "Festival of Lights" (December 24 - 31, 2016) with the story of Hanukkah and what it represents. For eight consecutive days, people light candles adding one more every day. The master candle, also known as the "Shames" is always used to light the other candles. The tradition ...

Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apa...