Gypsy

WATCH: Gypsy Punk Party On Delayed Flight

Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Punk, Air Canada, Video, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Gypsy, Air Travel, Airlines, In-Flight Entertainment, Canada, Travel News

Passengers on a delayed Air Canada flight from Toronto to Frankfurt were treated to an impromptu concert on Wednesday when the band Lemon Bucket Orkes...

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'My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding': No Non-Gypsies Allowed!

Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Gorgers, My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, Video, Tv Replay, Tlc, Gypsy, Priscilla, TV News

On this week's all new "My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding" (Sun., May 6, 10 p.m. ET), TLC's look at the American gypsy subculture continues in an epis...

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Playing From the Old Heart of Flamenco

Marty Lipp | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Camaron De La Isla, Roma, World Music, Gypsy, Gypsy Kinds, Andalucia, Spain, Flamenco, Jazz, Jazz Guitar, Paco De LucíA, Guitar, Video, Arts News

It's been more than fifty years since Paco de Lucía taught himself guitar and stunned the world of flamenco as a child prodigy, then went on to develop peerless technique and controversially reshape the boundaries of the genre.

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Oscar-Winner Makes Dreams Come True

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes 2 Score, Romani Gypsies, Hans Zimmer Composer, Hans Zimmer Roma, Gypsy, Ndi, Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes 2, Entertainment Features, Hans Zimmer, Roma Gypsies, Roma, Video, Human Rights, Sherlock Holmes 2, Celebrities, Entertainment News

Any time Hans Zimmer begins a project, he panics: no matter how many iconic movie scores he has composed, the Oscar-winner fears he'll be unable to co...

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Patti LuPone And Mandy Patinkin Reunite

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Broadway, Mandy Patinkin, Neil Patrick Harris, Evita, Third Age, Patti LuPone Mandy Patinkin, Gypsy, Patti LuPone, Fifty News

NEW YORK -- Here's a typical reaction after catching Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin's concert show now on Broadway: Oh, that's how it's done. In oth...

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Kids, Do Not Call Mom

Deborah Divine | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Bible, Power of Now, Gypsy, Mothers and Children, Don't Call Me, Parenting post50, Parenting, Mothers, Parents-Moms, Fifty News

I've told my adult children that for their own good - for their own, beautiful, hopeful, optimistic good, they are not to call me. No contact I said, until I can find a way to finally wrangle this malady to the mat.

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Child Beggars Raking In £100,000 A Year On London's Streets, BBC Investigation Reveals

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Romanians, John Sweeney, Panorama, London, Gypsy, Beggars, Romania, Home News

Child beggars on Britain’s streets are financing lavish lifestyles for Romanian criminals, according to an investigation by Panorama. Broadcast ...

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A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Zee Avi and Hindi Zahra Perform and Chat in NYC

Jon Chattman | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Billie Holliday, Nyc, Morocco, A-Sides, Gypsy, A-Sides-With-Jon-Chattman, Milestone Moon, Handmade, Malaysia, Zee Avi, Hindi Zahra, Ghostbird, Entertainment News

Zee Avi is a celebrated singer/songwriter from Malaysia who packs an emotional wallop with her retro cool indie-rock folkiness. Moroccan-born songstress Hindi Zahra has been called a modern day Billie Holiday thanks to her unique blues, jazz-infused gypsy sound.

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UN Moves To Distance Itself From Dale Farm Eviction Row

PA | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Essex County, Basildon Council, Travellers, Dale Farm Travellers, Dale Farm, Gypsy, United Nations, Eviction, Evictions, Basildon, Home News

The United Nations has moved to distance itself from an adviser who has claimed the planned clearance of the UK's largest illegal travellers site viol...

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PHOTOS: The New Nomads: Gypsies Navigating Contemporary Europe

Kisa Lala | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Spread Art Culture, Romanies, Iain McKell, Spread ArtCulture, Kisa Lala, Patrick Cariou, Photography, Gypsy, Miklosvar, UK Arts, Modern Gypsies, Gypsies Today, New Gypsiesromania, Contemporary Gypsies, Arts News

By Kiša Lala © Iain McKell - "The New Gypsies" (Published by Prestel) Wandering the edges of townships in the grey zones between cities, the Gy...

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Arthur Was Finally Noticed

Freddie Gershon | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Aurthur Laurents, Barbra Streisand, Broadway, The Way We Were, Gypsy, Arts News

I'm so sorry that the late playwright and director Arthur Laurents wasn't able to read what Charles Isherwood wrote about him in the Times, because the piece incisively focuses on what might have been his most remarkable gift.

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Roma Still Face Challenges Across Europe

Catherine Messina Paijic | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Roma, Gypsies, Gypsy, Roma Gypsies, The Roma, Video, World News

Commonly called "gypsies," the Roma are Europe's largest minority and fastest growing demographic, numbering nearly 10 million. But they are still largely excluded from political and civic life, battling centuries of discrimination.

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Streisand as 'Madame Rose'

Paul Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbra Streisand Gypsy Movie, Bette Midler, Emile Ardolino, Barbra Streisand, Gypsy, Arthur Laurents, Entertainment News

Barbra Streisand has confirmed her intention to tackle the role of Madame ("Mama") Rose in a second silver-screen adaptation of the venerable musical Gypsy.

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Barbra Streisand: 'Gypsy' Star & Director?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbra Streisand Gypsy Movie, Barbra Streisand Stephen Sondheim, Barbra Streisand Arthur Laurents, Barbra Streisand Broadway, Barbra Streisand, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Gypsy, Entertainment News

Barbra Streisand may be bringing her love of Broadway and Hollywood together in a big screen revival of 'Gypsy.' According to the New York Post, Stre...

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New York Gypsy Allstars and Selim Sesler at Drom (VIDEO)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fusion, Turkey, World Music, Gypsy Music, Ferus Mustafov, Serder Ilhan, Gypsy, Vasilis Saleas, New York Gypsy Allstars, Husnu Senlenderici, Selim Sesler, Mehmet Dede, Ivo Papasov, Roma, Turkish Music, Laco Tayfa, Greece, Drom, Romany, East Village, Arts News

You can't confine music to a political border. And with members from Macedonia, Greece, Turkey and, yes, even New York, The New York Gypsy Allstars have continued in that spirit of exploration.

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EU Launches Legal Action Against France Over Roma Gypsies

AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, France, European Union, Romanies, Roma, Roma Gypsy, Discrimination, Eu, Gypsy, Romany Gypsies, World News

BRUSSELS — The European Union decided Wednesday to take legal action against France over its expulsions of Gypsies, or Roma, to poorer EU nation...

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France Gypsy Expulsions A 'Disgrace,' Says EU

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Gypsy Deportation, Romany Gypsy, European Union, Romanies, Roma Gypsy, Discrimination, Eu, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gypsy, The Roma, World News

BRUSSELS — France's deportations of Gypsies are "a disgrace" and probably break EU law, the European Union's executive body declared Tuesday in ...

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First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim Wants to Know

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Broadway, Follies, Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy, Company, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Anyone Can Whistle, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, The Mad Show, Dick Tracy, Road Show, Arts News

In celebration of Stephen Sondheim's eightieth birthday, his songs are being sung even more this year than they usually are -- which in Manhattan intimate rooms is quite often, to say the least.

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'Baby June' Dies: June Havoc Of Vaudeville Fame Dead At 97

AP | BOB THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baby June, Baby June Dead, Vaudeville, 'Baby June' Dies, June Havoc, Gypsy, June Havoc Dies, June Havoc Dead, Entertainment News

Actress and writer June Havoc, whose childhood in vaudeville as Baby June was immortalized in the musical "Gypsy," has died in Connecticut at age 97, ...

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Roma Citizens Remain At Risk In Hungary, Reforms Needed

Human Rights First | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hungarian Elections, Robert Csorba, Fascism, Hate Crimes, Roma, Human Rights, Gypsy, Racism, Discrimination, Hungary, Extremism, Home News

By Joelle Fiss Pennoyer Fellow - Combating Hate Crimes A year ago today, on February 23, 2009, Robert Csorba, a 27-year-old man of Roma origin, and h...

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Elaine Stritch -- An Evening of Fire and Wisdom

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: At Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch, Upper West Side, A Little Night Music, Anyone Can Whistle, Jonathan Tunick, Jule Styne, Elaine Stritch, Rob Bowman, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Send in the Clowns, Gypsy, Company, New York News

You go to cabaret for an impossible alchemy of exposed emotion, phrasing, the occasional clink of a champagne flute, an evening of enriched uranium. You go to cabaret for Elaine Stritch.

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BBC: Gypsy Is A Racist Word

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gypsy Racist, Bbc, Gypsy, Media News

Comedian Ben Miller said the BBC tried to stop him using the word "gypsy" in his new sketch series with Alexander Armstrong because it could be seen a...

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Sixth Roma, Maria Balogh, Killed In Hungarian Racial Violence

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roma, Skin Heads, Maria Balogh, Hungary Gypsy, Gypsy, Roma-Gypsies, Hungary Skin Heads, Gypsies, Roma Gypsies, Hungary, World News

A sixth victim was found murdered in what is believed to be a spate of attacks on members of Hungary's large Roma community, BBC reports. The woman, ...

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Gypsy Brides on Sale and the Money Side of Traditional Matrimony

Jane Minogue | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage, Matrimony, Medieval, Traditions, Money, Gypsy, Love, Family, Chaucer, Healthy Living News

Marriage compromises love because marriage is a commercial arrangement; it can involve an exchange where people are considered as commodities.

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Romanian 'Gypsy' Children Become Engaged Aged 6 And 4

Telegraph | Last Updated: 12:07PM GMT 11 Mar 2009 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Romanian Gypsies, Romanian Gypsy Children, Romania Children Marriage, Gypsy, Romania, Romania Children Engagement, World News

A six-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl have become engaged to be married after a gypsy ceremony. ...

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