Best things about visiting Turkey – including the weather, the culture, and the food
Turkey has emerged as the fastest-growing holiday destination of the last five years – with over half of those who have visited saying it has…
‘It’s gone forever’: Wildfires ravage town at heart of Hawaiian culture | Climate Crisis News
Wildfires have left a trail of destruction on the Hawaiian island of Maui, killing at least 36 people and forcing thousands to flee their homes.…
Singer Sixto Rodriguez, subject of Searching for Sugarman, dies at 81 | Arts and Culture News
The US singer and songwriter who was the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugarman has passed away in Detroit. Sixto Rodriguez, the obscure…
Sebeiba festival: Algeria’s 3,000 year-old tradition | Arts and Culture
Thousands from the Tuareg community in Algeria flock to the annual Sebeiba festival held in an oasis town deep in the Sahara. Sebeiba is an…
Mourners gather in Ireland to bid farewell to Sinead O’Connor | Arts and Culture News
Large crowds of people have lined a coastal road in Ireland to pay their respects to Sinead O’Connor, the gifted singer and lifelong activist who…
How California, not Florida, wins the Black history culture war
Tolani Britton and Travis Bristol, a husband-and-wife team of associate professors of education at UC Berkeley, possess the sort of pragmatism that I wish I…
How the ‘Dark Winds’ Season 2 cast got Navajo culture right
When I was a kid, my parents briefly moved the family to a conservative border town just off the Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona so…
DeSantis stokes new culture war fight over psychology curriculum
The quarrel puts the state’s education system back in the national spotlight as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis continues a presidential push emphasizing his fight against…
How Belgium’s PM lobbied to save his F1 grand prix from being cut – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. STAVELOT, Belgium — As American greenbacks and Gulf petrodollars pour into Formula 1, little…
How LGBTQ+ youth are changing the country’s culture
In the southern part of the Podkarpackie region close to Sanok, the town of Lesko has been a ‘gay-free zone’ for almost four years. This…
LGBTQ+ culture war enters Riverside County congressional race
What could have been a routine vote in Congress to approve transportation funding has become a culture war flashpoint in one of the nation’s most…
The choir helping people reclaim the voices they lost to cancer | Arts and Culture
London, United Kingdom – It is a sunny day in early April, and a performance is under way in a gleaming concert hall in central…
Senate aims to sidestep culture war land mines in race to pass defense bill
Schumer, who wants to see the defense bill pass before senators leave for August, has warned against “toxic” amendments that could tank the package. Chief…
‘Barbenheimer’ conquers box office with $235m opening | Arts and Culture
Barbie and Oppenheimer deliver a boost to Hollywood amid strike and sluggish start to the summer at the box office. The films Barbie and Oppenheimer…
Legendary US singer Tony Bennett dies at 96 | Arts and Culture News
Bennett was the last of the great saloon singers, whose devotion to classic songs graced a decades-long career. Tony Bennett, the smooth singer and last…
World Cup promotes indigenous New Zealand Maori culture
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Ceillhe Sperath’s ancestors arrived in New Zealand nearly two centuries before Christopher Columbus sent off for the New World. Yet for much…
Brian Cox does his best Logan Roy, bashing ‘woke culture’
Brian Cox’s anti-millennial comments this week have critics confused about the Scottish actor’s politics. The “Succession” star seemed to take a page out of a…
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being author, dies | Arts and Culture News
Kundera, who moved to France in 1975, was one of Czechoslovakia’s best-known writers. Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an…
World Eskimo-Indian Olympics: How ripped ears are preserving a rare culture in Alaska
Matthew Chagluak takes part in the two-foot high kick, where competitors aim for the suspended target while attempting to hold their balanceSign up for notifications…
Jury declares pages from Aretha Franklin’s couch to be her will | Arts and Culture News
Franklin’s sons have disputed which version of their mother’s will is valid following the singer’s 2018 death. A jury in the United States has ruled…