February 9, 2011  |   Nikita Z. Murray sees dollar signs -- not faces -- when he sits down to draw a portrait. It's a Friday afternoon in Arlington, Va., and Murray is working the shopping mall food court.

January 19, 2011  |   "The Onion News Network," a 30-minute, weekly television program, will debut on IFC on Friday. The show comes on the heels of "SportsDome," which premiered on Comedy Central and satirizes the round-the-clock coverage of sports channels like ESPN.

September 23, 2010  |   In the summer of 2009, with signs of the Great Recession scattered across much of California, filmmaker Drea Cooper and photographer Zackary Canepari decided it was time to work together full time to document what they were witnessing around them.

July 28, 2010  |   As soon as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law in April, grassroots groups started protesting. One of the main organizers is 23-year-old artist and activist Ernesto Yerena, who, growing up, didn't have to look very far to see that art and social issues could intersect.

July 14, 2010  |   Abigail and Lily Chapin have been singing and performing together since they can remember. Growing up in a family surrounded by musicians, they probably couldn't help it. We met the sisters at a recent tour stop at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

June 14, 2010  |   North Korea's national soccer team is something Gordon knows a lot about -- it took him four years to be granted access to make his first film, "The Game of Their Lives," a profile of North Korea's 1966 World Cup team.

May 13, 2010  |   The works of Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth and Stephen King are probably not the first influences that come to mind for a songwriter. But after hearing Josh Ritter sing, it quickly becomes apparent why authors are important to the Moscow, Idaho, native.

April 21, 2010  |   In the appropriately named Cash Room of the Department of the Treasury, Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios, along with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, unveiled a new design of the $100 bill Wednesday morning.

March 11, 2010  |   NBA basketball player Shaquille O'Neal curates an art exhibition called "Size DOES Matter."

March 9, 2010  |   A selection letters sent to Radio Free Afghanistan -- complaints of corruption, suggestions for rural development, song requests, poetry, tips for the president -- as well as photos and artifacts are at the Library of Congress in "Voices from Afghanistan."

March 2, 2010  |   "Echoes of Elvis" showcases works by artists created only after 1977, the year Presley died. But the show was organized with a very special anniversary in mind what would have been his 75th birthday. Therefore, the exhibit explores the many transformations the recording artist underwent during his lifetime: the rebel youth, the sex symbol, army sergeant, movie star, Las Vegas regular.

December 17, 2009  |   The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words may indeed be true, but photographer Joe Sohm has found that it has taken him thousands of pictures to capture just one word: democracy.

November 12, 2009  |   Herbert Block, better known as "Herblock," drew his first editorial cartoon in 1929, and over the course of the next seven decades sketched the major events of the second half of the 20th century for the Washington Post.

October 15, 2009  |   Andrew W.K., a solo rock act known best for his bombastic 2001 debut album, "I Get Wet," has earned a reputation as a party-friendly, long-haired headbanger who combines earnest optimism with exuberant piano playing plus some distorted guitar and frequent, frenetic dancing.

October 6, 2009  |   Critics have been praising the Wood Brothers since their first studio project together, a 2006 modern blues and folk album called "Ways Not to Lose." NPR named the album one of the best of the year.