Oct 01 Friday’s Art Notes By Molly Finnegan In today's arts and culture headlines, a Tea Party coloring book and a congressional hold on building a National Women's History Museum. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch Writers in Danger Offered Safe Haven to Practice Craft in Pittsburgh In Pittsburgh, a special program offers foreign writers whose lives are endangered to get a new start and write freely. Continue watching
Sep 30 Even As a Small Stockholder, Why Don’t I Have Any Power? Name: Frances Pearson Question: I am a small stockholder. My portfolio is all blue chip. Stockholders in every company are trying to control executive compensation- to no avail. (I vote for all stockholder proposals and do not give my proxy… Continue reading
Sep 30 Conversation: Jonathan Franzen By Molly Finnegan The disintegration of a family in a very fractured and unsettled, post-9/11 America is told in "Freedom," the new novel by Jonathan Franzen. His last novel, "The Corrections," won the 2001 National Book Award. Continue reading
Sep 30 Thursday on the NewsHour: City of Asylum/Pittsburgh By Tom LeGro City of Asylum/Pittsburgh is a six-year-old program that provides shelter to foreign literary writers who have encountered dangers in their homeland. Watch online exclusive videos of the writers reading their work. Continue reading
Sep 30 Blueberries Among Top Tips to Avoid Alzheimer’s, Journalist Says By Betty Ann Bowser When health journalist Jean Carper discovered that she carried the ApoE4 gene that triples her risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, she became interested in finding out more about the latest research on Alzheimer’s prevention. More research and… Continue reading
Sep 30 Thursday’s Art Notes By Molly Finnegan In today's arts and culture headlines, actor Tony Curtis has passed away at age 85. Continue reading
Sep 29 Update | Round Two in the Lehman Art Auction By Paul Solman The Lehman art auction, part II, took place today at Christie's in London. Several works we covered in our popular slide show sampler of the auction -- Lucian (grandson of Sigmund) Freud's portrait etching and Gary Hume's "Madonna" --… Continue reading
Sep 29 Conversation: Director Nicolas Kent Brings Real Drama of Afghanistan Onstage By Molly Finnegan Starting with the 1842 Anglo-Afghan War and running through to the present day conflict in Afghanistan, a new theater production called "The Great Game: Afghanistan" attempts to educate audiences about the history of modern foreign intervention in that region with… Continue reading
Sep 29 Is Life Expectancy Changing Due to Our Terrible Economy? Name: Curt Carpenter Two questions: 1. Does the economic disaster of the last two years show up in our demographic data yet? (Life expectancies, birth rates and so on.) 2. What would a real economic collapse in the U.S. Continue reading