When the 10th London Palestine Film Festival opens this week, Londoners will have greater access to films made in the Palestinian territories than many people living in the region. Today, there is only one movie theater operating in the West Bank. Gaza has none. The "Al Kasaba" theater in Ramallah is the only formal film venue for a population of nearly 2.5 million in the West Bank. Due to travel restrictions it is virtually inaccessible to the one ...

For some concertgoers, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival really kicked into action on Day Two. Day One was leisurely and pleasant -- the weather was mild, the acts were fairly mellow and the big headliner was Paul McCartney. On Day Two, someone took the dial and turned it up a notch, as the desert sun beat down a little harder, the music pumped a little louder and the crowds who packed the VIP tent threw a little ...

The souvenir booth at the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival said it all. At one end, a T-shirt was proudly exclaimed: "I'm here for the opening bands." At the other end, a collection of merchandise was printed with a single name, "Macca." Most of the 43 acts in Friday night's lineup were buzzworthy indie artists. But topping it off was one of the most commercially successful musicians of all time: Macca. Paul McCartney. While booking the former ...

British singer Amy Winehouse has been charged with "common assault" in connection with an incident last September, and will appear in court later this month, Scotland Yard said Friday. In the incident, on September 26, the singer allegedly hit a fan at a charity ball, British media reported. A spokesman for the 25-year-old Winehouse said in a statement that she "voluntarily attended a police station in London yesterday morning. "She was questioned by appointment in relation to an accusation ...

The New York International Children's Film Festival , which opens this weekend, is the biggest children's film festival in the U.S. This is not the kind of event where they screen Dr Seuss' Horton Hears Another Who or Madagascar 3: Botswanarama! This is a venue for those budding cineastes between the ages of 3 and 18 for whom this weekend could not be complete without screening a film in the Children and War series — or another of the ...

For more than 80 years, Dayton, Tennessee has had a monkey on its back. That monkey is the English naturalist Charles Darwin, whose 200th birthday will be celebrated on Thursday in hundreds of cities around the world. Darwin's treatise On The Origin of Species was instrumental to the town's famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, which pitted noted trial lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other in a fight to determine whether evolution should be taught in Tennessee ...

It's a question surely as old as vanity itself: How can you look young forever? A forthcoming study in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery offers one surprising idea: as you age, don't be afraid to put on a few pounds. Fat, it turns out, can significantly smooth out wrinkles and give you a younger-looking face. The authors of the new study, a team led by Dr. Bahman Guyuron of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, are plastic ...