Singer/songwriter Paul Simon will be featured in an exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Calif.,  April 27-Sept. 3, 2017, according to a March 21, 2017, announcement. The exhibition, originally curated by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, will walk visitors through…

<img src="http://i.axs.com/2017/03/28607-optimized_58cec6339869c.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" MC Lyte ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> As rap and hip-hop have become more mainstream, countless documentaries, books, and even college courses have surfaced, validating the genre’s place in the annals of American cultural. Sadly, most historic reviews of hip-hop focus on the men who ushered in the movement—the most successful […]

Rich Reynolds notes that reports of small humanoid-like entities tend to have a geographic “mental flavor” to them. Do different UFO occupants have their particular vacation preferences, or is there something in the ways that the phenomenon is perceived that tend to vary depending upon what branch of humanity (and its own particular culture) is […]

Girls are rapidly closing the maths gender gap as a study reveals that ‘social and cultural factors’ rather than natural ability have previously held them back.

So it was brilliant this year to see Her Story and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture receive such positive recognition. Her Story, Sam Barlow's ingenious mystery, was the winner of Debut Game, and my own personal choice for the award. No, both Her Story …

This year, alongside the usual random bits and pieces — a “Vampire” breast lift, a sex-toy, and a lifetime supply of Lizora skin creams — there is an unusual contribution: A five-star luxury trip to Israel for every nominee in the main acting and …

Once a year, The Downtown Theatre on Allen Street in State College, Pennsylvania, becomes an art gallery and performance space devoted to alternative dialogues and difficult differences. Cultural Conversations was created in March of 2007 in order to …

There have been fights over books, music, plays, funding for the arts and academic awards. This being Israel, they have been underpinned by fierce rhetorical exchanges about democracy, fascism and zealotry, identity, the future of the state and the …

Prior to an Israeli Knesset conference this month concerning the delegitimization of Israel, M.K. Michael Oren called for a "legal and hasbara Iron dome." The way to counter the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) effort against Israel, opined the …

It's been a year of everyone suing everyone else, grappling over intellectual property, and spending too much at the auctions. Only yesterday a dispatch box used by Maggie Thatcher sold for £200k plus commission at Christie's, smashing its initial …