Cinema has a deep distrust of the devout. Even though many movie types are tied up in all sorts of personal spiritual ...

First published in 1725, Fantomina tells of a woman who adopts disguises to keep her lover’s attention. While avoiding moralism, it skirts questions of consent.

Brooklyn welcomed the Year of the Fire Horse with a little bit of ice and snow on Sunday as the Chinese American Social ...

A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes, until fear and violence brought it to a tragic end.

Malcolm Purinton teaches history at Northeastern University in Boston, but he's also known as the Beer Historian. He pointed to one of the most famous Revolutionary events as an example of how central ...

John Ruzicka wasn’t quite himself when he stepped into the large, stately room at the top of a grand staircase in the Elks Lodge in downtown Alameda. On that Tuesday night in November, as on most ...

Liu Ren-haur. In Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung’s Birdy, the dancers wear 4-foot-long pheasant feathers on their heads. The effect, according to a review in the Vancouver online magazine Stir, ...

After an admittedly up-and-down year managing her daughters’ emotions, Kelly Stafford celebrated a hopeful step in the right direction. Kelly, the wife of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford ...