The lovers of secret teachings have always known that time itself yearns toward a sabbath, a thousand-year hush, the veil of rest. Not a sleep, but a settling. Not an erasure of the world, but its ...

Before Salome danced for the head of the Baptist, it seems the goddess Ishtar achieved entrance to the Underworld by dancing at each of the seven gates of Hell. Dropping a veil each time, she entered ...

In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director ...

Was Amanda Seyfried surprised when the offer came to star in “Seven Veils,” a movie about the Biblical teen temptress Salome who had John the Baptist beheaded — and she was not going to be doing the ...

Amanda Seyfried, seen at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., plays a director in "Seven Veils." File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI LOS ANGELES, March 6 (UPI) --Amanda Seyfried says she ...

The first caucus votes for presidential nominations will be cast in Iowa just 13 months from now. In the same month, we'll have votes in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. The hurry-up calendar ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...