The controversy over digital audiotape (DAT) may be coming to a head in Washington, reports Billboard.
The French government is proposing new American-style grants to promote private and corporate funding of the arts.
Only 26 days remain for TV evangelist Oral Roberts to raise the $8 million he says God told him to raise, or perish in the attempt.
More confrontations between the artistic community and business factions of show business are on the horizon.
Justine Bateman, Melissa Gilbert and Marlee Matlin were among 500 people who celebrated the first anniversary Wednesday night of Young Artists United at a benefit dinner and sock hop at Ed Debevic's Short Order.
Anti-apartheid activism has replaced anti-nuke consciousness as the cause of choice for rock musicians.
The Directors Guild of America is scheduled to announce today its five nominees for best film director of 1986, an event that is usually a reliable tipoff to the movies that will dominate the Academy Awards.
The first comprehensive exhibition of 16th- and 17th-Century Italian paintings from the North Italian region of Parma, Ferrarra and Bologna will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York March 26-May 24.
New York's predominance as a dance mecca is being threatened by a surge in real estate values that is forcing artists into the streets.
If you own a Mercedes-Benz, a Cadillac or other car with a prominent hood ornament, better keep an eye on the bauble--because they're becoming popular as body jewelry, thanks in part to the brat-rap group, the Beastie Boys.
Thousands of Soviet Jews in Israel are tuning in to Soviet television via rooftop satellite-dishes.
Dragomir Djurdjevic, a Yugoslav inventor, said he has found a way to prevent Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa from eventually toppling over.
Canada, which is quickly becoming Hollywood North, wants to reduce American domination of its motion-picture industry with an import licensing system.
Comedian Bill Cosby will perform in a benefit in Boston Saturday, kicking off a $2-million fund-raising drive for the Judge Baker Children Center, a nonprofit mental health services facility.
Announcements on prime-time schedules for the new fall season at ABC, CBS and NBC are just around the corner.
Wall Street's insider-trading scandals are becoming the stuff that dreams are made of--Hollywood-style dreams, reports the Wall Street Journal.
American cable television viewers will get their first look next week at typical live Soviet TV programming, ranging from prime-time news to aerobics and music videos, officials of the 14-million-subscriber Discovery channel said Wednesday.
MTV breaks from of its traditional music-video format Sunday with a gritty and controversial documentary about "groupies" who follow rock musicians from city to city in hopes of having sex with the stars.
As Carnival time approaches in Rio de Janeiro, the erstwhile official music--the carnival samba--is being challenged for dance party supremacy by pagode , a mixture of traditional Brazilian cross-rhythms, African percussion and working-class-blues lyrics. " Pagode is a reaffirmation of Brazil's black African culture," said Sergio Cabral, a music critic...
Ticket sales for the Los Angeles Festival have surpassed $500,000 only 11 days after they went on sale, a spokesman said Thursday.