"The Invasion" of the Fire Island Pines is now an annual tradition and a day of joy. But Thom Hansen was there when it began as a protest. Americans across the country have many traditions when it comes to celebrating Independence Day. But it’s possible that none are as distinctive as Cherry Grove’s

Overcome with emotion, the 21-year-old singer – who, since releasing her first song at age 14, has made a meteoric rise to reach the upper echelon of the Israeli pop scene – burst into tears. The next night, the tears of joy turned into screams of elation as Kirel turned in a performance that would

The University of Warwick Rowing Club has stripped down for the fifth year in a row for a nude calendar, with proceeds helping to fight homophobia. The University of Warwick Boat Club was founded in 1966 and is "on the verge of top tier status in British rowing." The Warwick Rowing Calendar was foun...

Katy Perry's "Firework" is the first non-Christmas song I synchronized to lights. The song is a favorite with the entire family and my wife and kids sing along whenever it is on. In October 2011 Light-O-Rama came out with their new S3 software and I was really excited to sequence a song, and I'd bee...

A Tom Daley nude portrait by artist David Hockney has gotten the diver’s seal of approval: Daley stopped by the esteemed Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to check out “82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life,” a new exhibition by the 81-year-old gay artist. Husband Dustin Lance Black snapped an Instag

In this clip of the 1992 movie Charlie (Matt Damon) provokes David (Brendan Fraser) with a racist joke and a fight breaks out in the shower room. An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene,...

Twelve-year-old Anna believes she sits outside the invisible magic circle to which most people belong, and shuts herself off from everyone around her. Concerned for her health, Anna's foster mother decides to send her to rural Hokkaido to stay in a sleepy town by the sea. As she dreams her days away...

In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his lon...

Remembering George Michael (June 25, 1963-December 25, 2016). He won a Grammy Award in 1988 for “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me),” a duet with Aretha Franklin, and “Faith” won the Grammy for album of the year. In Britain, he was showered with awards, and in 2004, Britain’s Radio Academy said he ha

The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok , Russia , just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the c...