May 12 Watch Author Wes Moore’s Book Explores His Own Alternate Reality Judy Woodruff talks to Baltimore native Wes Moore about his new book, 'The Other Wes Moore' which explores the stories of two inner-city young men who share the same name, but lead very different lives. Continue watching
May 11 Trying to Strike a Chord with Fans, One Recycling Bin at a Time By Arts Desk On Earth Day, Art Beat profiled two companies who are almost as devoted to environmentalism as they are to producing and playing music. Here are two more groups who have changed their operations to be more green while encouraging others… Continue reading
May 11 First Lady Calls for Coordinated Effort to Reduce Childhood Obesity A federal task force called for marketers of sugary and other unhealthy foods to voluntarily limit their advertising to children on Tuesday. The recommendation is one of 70 in a wide-ranging new report on reducing childhood obesity that was commissioned… Continue reading
May 11 Shanghai World Expo: Serious Business with a Side of Campy Fun World's fairs are fun. There, I've said it. Campy fun, perhaps, but fun all the same. Traditional music and native dress. Buildings that attempt to boil down the essence of a country's identity into a striking, but affordable structure. Continue reading
May 10 Watch OK Go’s Damian Kulash Fixes a Studio Light OK Go's Damian Kulash Fixes a Studio Light… Continue watching
May 10 Weekly Poem: ‘Light’ By Tom LeGro C.K. Williams has published many books of poetry, including "Repair," which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, "The Singing ," which won the 2003 National Book Award, and "Flesh and Blood," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize in 1987. Continue reading
May 10 Lena Horne Dies at Age 92 By Tom LeGro Groundbreaking singer, performer and film star Lena Horne died Sunday night in New York at the age of 92. Horne, the first African American to sign a long-term contract with a major film studio, broke down racial barriers, most memorably… Continue reading
May 10 Obama’s Second Supreme Court Nominee: Who is Elena Kagan? By Jason Breslow _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f54qe9c',482,304,""); President Obama has nominated U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the 112th justice on the Supreme Court. During an East Room ceremony on Monday, President Obama described Kagan "as one of the nation's foremost legal minds," and called… Continue reading