Through happenstance, family celebration, and international air travel, I found myself in the United Kingdom this past week. Meaning that I could watch, for the first time in more than a decade, the ...

The words “Eurovision Song Contest” probably stir some dim images, at best, for the average American. Imagine one overlong, annual episode of American Idol, featuring…mostly professional singers from ...

Since Eurovision adopted its current voting system, where dozens of countries assign between one and 12 points to the competition’s entries via telephone voting, only 14 songs out of thousands have ...