Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North Vietnam (officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (officially the Republic of Vietnam). Conflict between the two sides intensified in what is known as the Vietnam War with heavy intervention by the United States on ...

Marcin Patrzalek is a Polish percussive fingerstyle guitar player, composer and producer. He is known for combining fingerstyle, percussive guitar techniques as well as electronic and orchestral production.

After a long journey, the InSight spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet on November 26, 2018. Learn about the punishing entry, descent and landing sequence and what it takes to safely land on Mars.

Olga Costa was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1913, at the outset of World War I. Her parents, Jacobo Kostakowsky and Ana Falvisant Bovglarevokeylandel, were immigrants who had fled czarist Russia to escape persecution of the Jews. Costa and her younger sister Lya were raised in Berlin, where their fat...

The anticipated remake boasts a star-studded voice cast featuring Donald Glover as an adult Simba and Beyoncé as Nala. Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner play Timon and Pumba. The cast also includes John Oliver as Zazu, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, and Eric André as Azizi.

Three young cantors, all rising stars in the American Jewish music scene, are brought together in Amsterdam’s revered 17th century Portuguese Synagogue for a concert of Jewish sacred and secular music arranged for orchestra and choir. The New York Cantors, all serving synagogues in New York, are: Br

A young transgender girl and her father share a tender embrace in “The Real Thing,” filmmaker Brandon Kelley’s heartwarming short that hit the internet Monday in honor of both Veterans Day and Trans Awareness Week. The seven-minute film follows Allie (Sophie Giannamore), who has transitioned while

A young German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search for the wife and son of his dead lover. The Cakemaker quietly turned into their biggest box office hit ever this summer. The drama about a grieving gay German man who seeks out the widow of his lover (who was unaware of her husband’s affair

Berlin-based Turkish pop singer-songwriter Anthony Hüseyin released the video for “I’m Falling in Love”, one track from a concept album called The Lucky One which tracks the stages of a developing and disintegrating love affair. Hüseyin worked with a fashion photographer, four different fashion desi

A woman who shared a video of Eritrean children enjoying their first Toronto snowfall says the positive Twitter reaction gives her “hope for humanity.” Rebecca Davies is part of a group that sponsored the refugee family of five. (Nov. 12)