English Village Set An Example By Quietly Cleaning Up Its Own Patch

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. But a small village of England, Ashton Hayes teaches the lesson to the rest of country by becoming Bri...

Theatre Will Shrink, Like Cinema Viewing Has: Naseeruddin Shah

Last weekend, veterans Ratna Pathak Shah and Naseeruddin Shah (right) — as Mrs Patrick Campbell and George Bernard Shaw, respectively — staged the play, Dear Li...

Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma Team Up With India's First Transgender Band

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan along with actress Anushka Sharma and noted singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan have joined hands with Y-Films' transgender music group 6-pack band....

Martina Mcbride Bands Against Cancer

Award-winning country superstar Martina McBride has released her 13th studio album, RECKLESS, and also teamed up with Band Against Cancer, the Sarah Cannon Tour. The organi...

Get A Fly-On-The-Wall View Of John Lennon Recording & Arranging His Classic Song, “Imagine” (1971)

In a recent interview, the perennially cheerful Paul McCartney talked candidly about his depression after the Beatles’ 1970 breakup, a revelation that may have come a...

Israel Film Festival In New York

As the art houses that were prevalent across America slowly disappeared and commercial theaters remained reluctant to exhibit subtitled movies, it became harder and harder ...

Napa’s Bottlerock Inspires Music-Festival Envy

From a Sacramento perspective, it was easy to feel a bit of envy while strolling around Napa’s BottleRock music festival.
As a Rolling Stones cover band played a...

Sacramento Music Festival Returns With Swing, Latin Rock And, Yes, Jazz

The Sacramento Music Festival’s organizers are singing an upbeat tune as a weekend of music descends on Old Sacramento. Advance ticket sales are up 7 percent compared...

The Jazz Way Of Life

Israeli jazz band the Ehud Ettun Trio on their Indian connect and their curiosity for new music

For most jazz musicians, the genre is a fluid, organic and highly im...