By Doug Levine Washington 24 September 2007 Record companies may come and go, but for blues label Blind Pig Records, the music just keeps getting better with time. VOA's Doug Levine reports on a new compilation that celebrates Blind Pig's 30th annive...
By George Dwyer Washington 18 September 2007 American musical theater celebrates a major anniversary in 2007. Fifty years ago this month - on September 26, 1957 - West Side Story opened on Broadway. Based on William Shakespeare's famous tragedy Rome...
The happiest place on earth is officially middle-aged. Disneyland has just turned fifty and Disney is marking the occasion with a huge celebration. The southern California icon has inspired a number of spin-offs and imitators. To keep up. Disneyland...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 25 May 2007 Traffic hawkers in the streets of Dakar, Senegal Friday marks 150 years since French colonists first established a port in what is now the Senegalese capital of Dakar. Originally a small fishing village, Dakar has...
By Efam Dovi Accra 06 March 2007 Thousands of ordinary Ghanaians, as well as heads of state and other dignitaries, gathered Tuesday in Ghana's Independence Square in the capital, Accra, to celebrate the west African nation's 50th anniversary of inde...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 26 January 2007 The Islamic militant group Hamas is marking the one year anniversary of its landslide victory in Palestinian elections. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the occasion was marred by f...