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 ...

At the 2017 Fire Island Dance Festival, Havana, Cuba’s Acosta Danza, led by dance legend Carlos Acosta, presented For Us, a mesmerizing ballet that explored the passion, frustration and sadness of a couple in love. Dancers Mario Sergio Elías and Raul Reinoso expressed this tragic love story through

What is billed as France's biggest and best festival of lights begins in earnest tonight. "La fete des lumieres" takes place each year in the south-eastern city of Lyon and this edition, the 13th, promises to be bigger than ever.To honour the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is the s...

Community of Lights captured this amazing cloud at the end of July in the late afternoon in Fire Island Pines, a beautiful barrier island off the coast of New York. The cloud was about 500 feet wide and sever miles long covering the entire island as it went by, and then vanished in the Atlantic Oce...

All the best for Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights.

Fire Island Pines (often referred to as The Pines) is a hamlet in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States, and is a barrier island on the southern side of Long Island. Fire Island Pines derives its name from the scrub pine trees in the area, which, according to legend, starte...

Fire Island Dance Fesitval 16, produced by and benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, raised over $260,000.
FIDF 16 performers included: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Camille A. Brown, Fabrice Calmels & Erica Lynette Edwards (Principal, Joffr...

A short video on the Fire Island Pines Gay resort located in Long Island, NY. To access Fire Island you need to take a ferry to the harbor in each neighborhood. The white sandy beaches and 360o views are showcased in teh is video with a house tour of 455 Ocean Walk and its panoramic views from the r...

MIDSUMMER KUPALA NIGHT is a Slavic feast associated with the summer solstice of the Sun, celebrated in the shortest night of the year. This is festival of water and fire. On June 21, 2015 in Poznan, Poland near the Warta River, this feast was also a flash mob in which participants have released one ...

While their cameras bore witness, cinematographer Steve Holleran and his film crew were trapped as this particular fire “basically just blew up and split around us, and cut us off from being able to leave,” Holleran told The Atlantic. “We'd been told this was a safe zone. It all happened really fast