As drought and excessive consumption push the world toward a water crisis, officials and volunteers are paying more attention to how much H2O it takes to make our everyday meals, Mike Peters reports.
The late Robert Mondavi is widely credited with making California wines famous for quality, and his celebrated winery turns 50 this year. At a vertical tasting of some of Mondavi's best wines of the previous decade - the cabernet sauvignon reserves of 2002 and 2005-2009, media and the local trade got a quick lecture on how weather affected each year's production and blending.
In a celebration of tea-harvesting time, new teas are on show at this year's Beijing Spring Tea Festival on Friday and Saturday in the A Dream of Red Mansions Museum at Beijing Grand View Garden.
Quanjude, China's iconic restaurant chain for original Peking roast duck with a history since 1864, has embraced the nation's "Internet Plus" strategy, with a new online platform that features duck rolls and about 30 other dishes.
TV personality Mark Rowswell, a household name in China since the '80s, will present his stand-up act at the upcoming Meet in Beijing Arts Festival. Chen Nan reports.
After conducting a concert with Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra at the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires earlier this month, Zhang Guoyong went to watch a tango performance.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the great jazz musician in a recording studio. The footage was discovered in a storage facility.
More than 500 films, up to 90 percent of which have yet to be released in Chinese mainland theaters, are being screened at the Beijing International Film Festival. Xu Fan reports.
Wang Qian, a Beijing movie fan, finds herself in a fantasy world when she wears a headset to watch a trailer of the animation film Big Fish Begonia.
A feature of the ongoing Beijing International Film Festival, a South Korean film on an aging couple draws attention to a niche genre. Wang Kaihao reports. Wang Kaihao
Imagine moving along the cogs of giant machinery like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times, or tumbling down a cabin teetering on the edge of a cliff as he did in Gold Rush.
The most requested photo in the US National Archives is not the first moon landing or the burning twin towers after the attacks of Sept 11, 2001.
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