Arts

For generations, Chinese culture has traditionally enjoyed and celebrated cross-gender artists. Peking opera is the most well-known of all Chinese operas, which finds its home in Beijing. But in Peking opera, men have played the part of women for centuries.

People with curls and locs have long endured inadvertent (and sometimes overt) microaggressions. Increasingly, however, natural hair in all its forms is all the rage.­­

Baruch Inbar is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, designer and children’s book author. Born in Moldovia (the former Soviet Union), Inbar’s family immigrated to Israel when he was 6. Due to various family hardships, he spent many of his formative years (ages 10 to 18) in foster care. The artist’s foster home, where many other children had experienced abuse and neglect, was structured much like a boarding school.

As a young child in Santiago, Chile, where I lived near my father’s family, I learned Spanish and English simultaneously and was always encouraged to make art. My Chilean father and American mother ran a theater company there with players from many different countries.

London Brown holds his own alongside Adult Third Culture Kid powerhouse actors Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Troy Garity (of the Fonda acting family) in the gritty, in-your-face, and ultimately message-filled, drama that is Ballers, an HBO drama series rooted in the world of professional sports management. Here, Brown reveals the secret to his down-to-earth demeanor and sense of style.

Social scholars consider food to be a cultural pillar, in part because it is idiocentric to societies worldwide. Food has been used to mark countries and peoples for generations. It follows, that in Zhaojialou, an ancient water town in Shanghai, China, local cuisine takes top billing among the regional treasures for travelers to explore.

Culture brings people together in shared values, practices and behaviors.

When the 91st annual Oscars aired live at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. this past February, Culturs was in the building. Take a behind-the-scenes look at our Oscar night, including the Roger Neal after-party, for a glimpse of your […]