In the 1960s and ’70s, Los Angeles had a thriving Middle Eastern-themed club scene. Venues like the Fez, Haji Baba’s, and the Seventh Veil (now a strip club) boasted live bands, elaborate decor, and a ...

Ever considered belly dancing to ease pregnancy? Middle Easten women have been belly dancing during pregnancy and labor for years. In fact, that's how belly dance started said Emily McKeon,34, who ...

Gulliver's hamburger : defamiliarization and the ordinary in the 1960s Avant Garde / Sally Banes -- Anna Halprin and the 1960s : acting in the gap between the personal, the public, and the political / ...

Traditional belly dancing arose in Egypt in the early 20th century with the rise of evening cabarets and has been declining a century later owing to the lack of suitable public venues It is a late ...

Remember when libraries were exclusively for quiet reading and study? Those days are long gone. Go into the Weston Library on a Saturday morning these days and you’re likely to hear the strains of ...