“American Idol” 2011 winner Scotty McCreery has just released his debut album and he's already setting records. “Clear As Day” is the debut album by Country singer Scotty McCreery. With first-week sales totaling close to 197,000 copies, he became this year’s first new Country artist to debut at Number One on the Billboard...
Only five years ago, Lady Antebellum was performing in small Nashville nightclubs. Three Number One albums later, the Country trio has become internationally famous. Lady Antebellum’s latest album is “Own The Night.” Lady Antebellum’s recent Number One Country single, “Just A Kiss,” debuted at Number 7 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart to give...
Coco Chanel was one of the world's all-time great couturiers. She died in 1971 at the age of 87. Her rags-to-riches tale inspired films, plays and television series. Book authors have also found her story worth researching. "Coco Chanel: The Legend and The Life" is the newest book to explore the Chanel mystique....
The first film about Egypt's revolution is one of eleven movies from the Arab world captivating audiences at the Arabian Sights festival. Now in its 16th year, the event is presented annually by the Washington DC International Film Festival. This year's spotlight is on Egyptian cinema. The five featured films from Egypt cut...
Singer Glen Campbell is saying farewell to his illustrious recording career with his final studio album, “Ghost On The Canvas.” When Glen Campbell announced that he had Alzheimer’s disease, fans thought he would retire and never be seen again. But, at age 75, Campbell had no interest in calling it quits. He released...
As Egypt goes through fundamental political change, people fascinated by the country's ancient civilization worry that a new government might restrict loans to museums overseas. Among the most successful commercial ventures involving Egyptian antiquities have been traveling exhibits of treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun, Tut as he is better known. One...
An American ballet star has joined the Bolshoi Ballet as what's called a premier dancer. David Hallberg is the first American to achieve such a distinction. They call him the Prince, that's the Prince of Ballet. He is 29 year-old David Hallberg of Rapid City, South Dakota. This young dancer, who hails far...
Cataclysmic events are the backdrop of two dark films about the fragility of the human psyche as well as the world we live in. Jeff Nichols's film, Take Shelter , focuses on Curtis, a young husband and father who experiences visions about the end of the world. Curtis is a loving father and...
Nearly 3,000 people showed off their skills as artists in Los Angeles on Sunday, creating a panoramic scroll one kilometer long. The event was called The Big Draw. It was one of 60 art events taking place around the city this month. Some were aspiring artists - teenage students of Ryman Arts, a...
George Clooneys' political thriller, The Ides of March , is the latest film to zoom in on American society and politics. The film takes its name from a reference in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar to the Ides, or middle, of March and the sense of doom that accompanies it. The film is a...