Art & Culture

"Rethinking Sex: A Provocation" by Christine Emba. Sentinel (New York, 2022). 204 pp., $27.

The visitors browse the intricately carved wooden Nativity sets or dive into some mouthwatering creamy Italian ice cream at the Eiscafe Paradiso. Thousands from the world over are descending on this picturesque Alpine village to see the famed Passionsspiele, or Passion Play, held here every decade for nearly 400 years.

Nicaragua’s bishops’ conference on Sunday marked the second anniversary of the attack against the image of the Blood of Christ, a historic crucifix that was burned after an unknown person threw an incendiary device into the Cathedral of Managua.

More than a million flowers were used in the arrangements at Santa Ana Ixtlahuatzingo Catholic Church in preparation for the parish's feast day: July 26, feast of St. Anne, grandmother of Jesus, and St. Joachim, his grandfather.

By 1922, the film industry, which had begun to migrate from the East Coast to Hollywood about a decade earlier, was well-established and thriving. A century later, many of the movies released that year have perished. But some have survived while others have been rediscovered or restored.

Titled, "In Viaggio" ("Traveling"), the film is directed by Gianfranco Rosi, an Italian-American documentary filmmaker who won the Venice Film Festival's best film award, the Golden Lion, with his 2013 film, "Sacro GRA." He won the Golden Bear -- the Berlin Film Festival's best film award, with his 2016 film, "Fire at Sea."