Last December, a woman in Tehran stood on top of a utility box, hung her white headscarf on a stick and started waving it silently. She was protesting the compulsory covering of women in the Islamic Republic. Since then, some others have followed.

Lawmakers passed a bill this week changing the line “true patriot love in all thy sons command,” to “true patriot love in all of us command.”

John and Yoko’s son talks about growing up in their shadow ... and then stepping out of it.

A lot of singer-songwriters pour their misery into their lyrics. But for Rufus Wainwright, it isn’t necessarily cathartic.

The saxophonist Joshua Redman didn’t spend much time with his father growing up. But he spent a lot of time with his father’s music.

Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash makes the case for why this pop song from 1980 is worth a deeper listen.

Two girls, Abigail Anderson and Bingjie Turner, were adopted from an orphanage when they were 13 years old and brought to the US. They returned to their village recently to see what had happened to friends who were not adopted — called "left-behinds."

James Hunter loves soul and he's been a fan of the genre for a long time. He admits a lot of musicians in the UK try to emulate it, but the "results are mixed at best, I suppose." Hunter tells us who his favorite soul artists and picks a couple of tracks from his new album.

Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri was very happy when his new movie "The Insult" won a prize in Venice. But when he returned to Lebanon, he was promptly detained by authorities.

Bestselling authors write short stories based on this painter’s haunting pictures.