The electric guitar Bob Dylan was playing at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when he got booed for playing rock 'n' roll, sold for $965,000 on Friday, which is a world auction record for a guitar. The 1964 Fender Stratocaster had been accidentally left on a private aircraft by the songwriter and his band in the months after the Rhode Island festival.
Imprisoned youth across Virginia have been given a creative voice after mentoring from Richmond artists and support from advocates for justice reform.
Dotan Negrin quit his job and started dragging his 500-pound piano around the world to parks, and plazas just to make your day.
The first Firebird Festival lit up the sky 12 years ago, a celebration in homage to the rebirth of one Pennsylvania town named Phoenixville. A former steel hub, Phoenixville rose to prominence in mid-19th century. When the factory began its decline–and eventually closed in 1986–the town, too, fell into disrepair. Slowly, Phoenixville has begun its resurrection […]
A little critter sneaking around doing random acts of kindness is the star of a new kids' story called Anonymouse.
Milwaukee theater professionals have been working with local veterans through intensive weekend workshops that allow emotions to boil from the cauldron of conflict within, using the words Shakespeare. The Feast of Crispian program, run out of the Milwaukee's Veterans Affairs hospital, has been such a success that last week it received a $50,000 grant from the Helen Bader Foundation to launch an all-veteran, fully-staged production of Julius Caesar.
Put some flourish in your festivities with these Thanksgiving themed nail polish designs and the brand new balloons blowing up the streets of New York.
The Foo Fighters finally performed in a small Italian city where 1,000 musicians had played a cover of a Foo song in an attempt to lure them on tour.
Nineteen street musicians performed the same song in four countries to create this fantastic Mashup of one of the greatest songs of all time.
If you've ever wanted to travel Europe, this man just showed you everything you would need to see in a 2-minute video filmed from his motorcycle.
Andreas Schmitz, a German man, received a lottery ticket as a wedding gift. It turned out to be a winner, worth a million marks. Instead of keeping the money, spending it on a fancy honeymoon, he donated it all to a dance company that was in financial straits.
Concerned with the growing number of public schools that have canceled music programs, cable channel VH1 initiated a rescue mission called Save the Music.
Everyone has a song playing in their head. The Ho Hum band asked people on the street to hum a tune so they can try to guess the song and play along.
Upon graduating from Baltimore's Maryland Institute College of Art with a degree in Fibers, 21-year-old Rachel Faller took the road less traveled. By "less" I mean virtually by no one, and by "road," I mean that she hopped on a plane, said goodbye to the comforts of American living, and launched a socially responsible fashion label in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. That is essentially what Rachel, now 26 years of age, accomplished on her own - to the great benefit of Phnom Penh families.
This Jurassic dancer is the most jazzy of his species, as shown in this demonstration in front of a New York dance class.
At the White House yesterday President Obama honored this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civilian honor. "I have to say, just looking around the room, this is a packed house, which is a testament to how cool this group is," chuckled the President, whose broadest grin came as he bestowed the medal upon the shoulders of Bob Dylan.
It can be unbelievably hard to get over a loss - that's why two women took charge and gave Lucy Kalanithi the boost she needed in her home.
"An 88-year-old Cambridgeshire man has starred in his first ballet after taking up dance at the age of 79."
The global expo in Milan has attracted millions to Italy this year to answer the question, "How will we meet the growing food demands of the planet?"
Two poorly performing Kentucky schools in downtown Lexington will receive $1.2 million to hire more teachers and offer chess, violin, foreign language and art instruction in an effort to boost student achievement.
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