In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women sway to Arabic music as they practise belly dancing -- an activity that ...

The streets outside Moroccan eatery Tazin are usually lined with lux modern whips, far from the camel you might see tethered outside a North African resto serving the same cuisine. But the glittery ...

In the 1960s, Tiffany Madera’s parents fled Cuba during the revolution. Like many other refugees, they landed in Miami and started a family. Madera and her bother were born here and grew up in Coconut ...

The heck with lap dancing. Tara Eivers, owner of Sinbad’s restaurant in Tempe, has the jump on the next hot trend in entertainment. Several nights a week, Sinbad’s features a bevy of belly dancers who ...

In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here.

They’ll be a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on at the Orpheum when Miles Copeland’s bevy of belly-baring babes hits the stage in this touring production featuring high production values and teensy-weensy ...

What do Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali have in common, beyond really awesome names and, yes, making a living interpreting dreams? These two also shared a love of a unique form of entertainment and ...

Bill Noren is a musician and composer. He sat down at his computer to order a new doumbek — a goblet-shaped drum — that he’d use to keep the beat with his Middle Eastern belly dance drum group. Noren ...