For a teenage girl, it can seem as though everyone is a predator. Some are benign, like the boys leering through a fence at the beauty spending some late summer hours in her above-ground pool. Some are much more insidious. A lingering gaze without an invitation can be menacing. And actually letting someone in is, at best, a gamble - one that could turn out disastrously.
Who would have thought that China's most prominent filmmaker has more drama in his real life than the typical plot of some of his movies?
David Mitchell remembers the day he read the memoir of a 13-year-old boy with autism - hailing it a "revelatory godsend" that offered a window on the life of his own autistic son.
Critics have described the film Wolf Totem as a distortion of Mongolian culture, Xing Yi reports.
Having handed out more than $1 million to help independent bookstores, James Patterson is now sharing his wealth with some other vital, but often struggling, institutions: school libraries.
A centuries-old veneration of a sea goddess has evolved from worship to folk entertainment, as fishing communities launch a glowing tribute to their patron and protector. Ding Wanjing and Zhang Xiaomin report in Dalian.
Mountainside hikes along urban cityscapes. Ramen noodle bars, Korean tea houses and taco trucks serving every regional Mexican specialty.
In China, finding museums has seldom been a problem. But other than the big and established ones, many fail to be taken seriously by visitors because they don't have the resources to manage their collections or haven't been officially registered as museums.
For decades, the sound of Jamaica has been reggae, the infectious, uniquely syncopated music that transformed the small Caribbean island into a cultural powerhouse.
If you haven't seen one of Peter Max's paintings or drawings today, chances are you haven't opened your eyes yet.
For many Chinese people, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) and his music have been a gateway to Polish art.
The Middle East's first three-dimensional pavement art festival, starring works by international artists that appear to rise from the ground, kicked off last week in Dubai.
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