"The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was an all-girl swing band formed in 1939 at an African American school for orphans in rural Mississippi. The Sweethearts went on to become a professional band of musicians from mixed racial backgrounds. This was revolutionary for that time and place. In the South, so-called Jim Crow laws made it illegal for races to mix. The Sweethearts were violating that code by performing and even traveling together. Despite...

When these twelve sisters start to swing, it drives the Nazis insane. After seeing the Nazis' evil first hand during the Kristallnacht, which they would forever refer to as 'that night,' the twelve die Fürstin sisters learn never to trust their parents or the Nazis again. Over the next two years, the twelve of them are periodically sent to the boarding school of Linden Academy on the Germany/Switzerland boarder to be "educated" somewhere away from...

The vaudeville era of the early 20th century dominated American entertainment with an endless array of "specialty" acts. Thousands of performers emerged from familiar American lives to test their novel talents with a voracious public in search of the next fad. Violin concertos were played on bicycle pumps, and contortionists defied gravity and the limits of human anatomy. Animal acts of every variety sought to up the ante in bringing the exotic to...

The lead singer of the glam rock band Scissor Sisters examines his life and career

With the rebellion in full swing, fifteen year-old Nya's loyaltie are put to the ultimate test,and she is forced to choose between leading an army against the Duke or abandoning her people to save her sister.