The culmination of Avurudu preparations in my childhood with my grandparents was marked by the ritual of Kevum-making.

Newton Gunasinghe, a pioneering Sri Lankan sociologist and Marxist scholar, made significant contributions to the study of ...

The founders of the famous Woodford Folk Festival are “at breaking point”, their eldest son says, after being hit by a series of tragic events. Festival founders Bill Hauritz and Ingrid ...

“Episode from the Greek War of Independence,” Eugene Delacroix, 1856. In the collection of the National Gallery of Greece. Public Domain Greek folk songs from the 1821 Revolution not only told the ...

A Halifax-based folk music duo say police who pulled them over on an Ohio highway earlier this month accused them of having drugs in their rental car and questioned them about their allegiance in ...

Directed by Philip Barantini, Adolescence tells the story of Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), a 13-year-old boy who is arrested for the murder of his classmate Katie Leonard. Graham plays his father ...

The Sinhala translation of the book 'Bianka' was launched today at the auditorium of the Russian Centre. The book was originally written by Russian writer and President of the Russian Children's ...

Making the circuit at film festivals in 2017, just as the modern folk horror revival was kicking off, Lost Child tells the story of Fern (Leven Rambin), a young woman who takes in a young boy ...

While Jamie’s story told in Adolescence isn’t based on a single incident, it does draw influence from a handful of real-life reports of young boys involved in knife crimes. In the UK in March ...

Farmers and rural residents say the changes don't "pass the pub test", but others are hopeful for the future. The appointment of state ministers for each of WA's regions has been met with mixed ...

The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83. Jesse Colin Young, the leader of the ‘60s group the Youngbloods, died Sunday at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, according to a ...