Super Bowl Expected to Set Betting Record, But Dont Bet on Taylor Swift The gambling industry expects this Sunday's Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers to smash betting records. The American football game is the...
Dong Tao Chicken, Food of Choice for Lunar New Year Dong Tao chicken has been a food of choice for generations in Vietnam for the Lunar New Year, or Tet. The rare bird is known for its strangely large feet. It is also known as a dragon chicken. The c...
Will AI Mean Death of Music or More Creativity? Inside a recording room at Queen Mary University of London, several researchers are working with new artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Their aim is to develop what they call the new virtual worlds of...
Japan's Cafs Where People Can Pet Pigs In Japan's big cities, small restaurants that serve coffee, called cafs, are known for starting trends. First there were pet cafs, then cat cafs. The latest trend in Japan is a caf that has pigs. It was wonderfu...
Remembering Chita Rivera Groundbreaking American performer Chita Rivera died on January 30 in New York. She was 91 years old. The famed dancer, singer and actor won many awards and honors in her long career on Broadway and beyond. Her work also broke...
Women to Take Center Stage at the Grammys The American music industry holds its highest honors Sunday night in Los Angeles at the 67th Grammy Awards ceremony. Artists including Taylor Swift and SZA, as well as songs from the Oscar-nominated movie Bar...
It Has Never Been More Costly to See the Super Bowl Tickets for the American football Super Bowl game are among the hardest to get in all of sports. Because of that, some websites that buy and re-sell tickets have set prices for the upcoming game in...
Australian Filmmaker Shows Japanese Single Mothers, Children Face Poverty In wealthy countries, like Japan, poverty is sometimes considered a taboo subject. But an Australian filmmaker, Rionne McAvoy, wants to share the stories of women and children...
X Blocks Taylor Swift Search after Deepfake Image Spread The social media site X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to an online spread of pornographic deepfake images of the singer. A deepfake is an image, sound recording, or vid...
2024 Academy Award Nominees: Surprises, Snubs and Fun Facts The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday announced the nominees for Hollywood's highest movie awards --- the Oscars. As usual, there were surprises. And there were snubs, m...
US Scientists Advice Shocks British Tea Drinkers An American scientist has started a tempest in a teapot by offering Britain advice on its favorite drink: tea. Tempest in a teapot is an expression to describe a strong, noisy, and angry reaction over...
Croatian Artist Makes Life-size Sculptures with Matchsticks Croatian artist Tomislav Horvat is not the first person to make models out of matchsticks, but he might be creating the largest projects. A matchstick is the short, thin piece of wood that i...
Oppenheimer and Poor Things Lead Oscar Nominations 《奥本海默》和《可怜的东西》领跑奥斯卡提名 Oppenheimer, the film about the lead scientist in the American project to create a nuclear weapon, led the Academy Awards, or Oscars, w...
Cookbooks Show American Culture Are you interested in food, United States history, and the English language? If so, American cookbooks provide wide information in all three subjects. The first, published in 1796, started a market that continues in th...
Artist Puts Re-imagined Spanish Painting on Venezuelan Streets A collection of modern statues has been placed around Venezuela's capital Caracas in an attempt to increase local interest in art. A total of 19 fiberglass pieces created by Venezuelan ar...
