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photo: Imagno/Austrian Archives Famed Viennese painter Gustav Klimt, at an artists' party hosted by Otto Primavesi at his house in ...

I came across these images of Mike Love from a post on the super super music blog Aquarium Drunkard. It presents and discusses a video of T...

I've reported on occasion about the bohemian hipness of turbans in the US. Notable why? Because it seems to fly in the face of endemi...

Thanks to Nabeel for informing me about this gallery of African-American entertainers turbans, posted by Freddie Patterson for India Music ...

Thanks to Jerry Zolten, the author of "'I Ain't Lyin'!: The Unexpurgated Truth about Rudy Ray Moore" ( Living Blues , ...

Iqbal Singh does Elvis. "A Beautiful Baby of Broadway," from the 1960 Hindi film, Ek Phool Char Kaante .

Kirsten Luce for The New York Times I clipped this article from the New York Times last fall, but it got misplaced in some pile or other, ...

Hard Kaur is the UK's first Asian female rap artist, according to the BBC . "Desi Dance," recorded with Detroit's D12 (Emi...

Still trying to make sense of the circulation of the turban (and fez/tarbush) in African-American popular culture. I just ran across an arti...

People keep sending me this stuff. So here goes... #1. The Akshay Kumar and Snoop Dogg video, "Singh Is Kinng." Kumar can be spott...

I finally found a photo of Kim Wilson in a turban. Kim Wilson, the great lead singer and harmonica player of The Fabulous Thunderbirds. The ...

Blues/Rhythm & Blues artist Chuck Willis , routinely wore a turban on stage when he performed (he reportedly owned 54 of them), and so w...

A glance at the photo might lead you to think that this group dates from the '50s. But no, The Fabulous Ottomans are a working band, bas...