The nominees for Best Song at the 2026 Oscars include tunes sung by the 'KPop Demon Hunters' trio, Nick Cave, and Miles Caton singing Raphael Saadiq.

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The Iranian government has exerted forceful control over its citizens since the Islamic Republic seized power nearly 50 years ago. The pop star Googoosh has firsthand experience of opposition to the ...

Iran has been here before. For decades the country has gone through cycles of protest and repression at the hands of the ...

The weekly food festival is back. Here's your guide to more than a dozen new vendors, from Persian pizzas to plant-based ...

Today, defenseless people inside Iran are crying out to you, asking for help as they face these ongoing crimes against ...

Hollywood's awards season will kick off with the 83rd Golden Globe Awards at 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific.

Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

The year is coming to an end, and it has seen some big-name artists drop new albums. From one of the biggest pop superstars of the 21st century to a familiar Beatles face, here are some of 2025’s best ...

When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home before long. At 29, he’d already established himself as an innovative force in ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...