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
May 10 Jim Lehrer on the Road: Dispatch from Austin, Texas The end is near... After Minnesota--Minneapolis and Hibbing--I was back on the route of the Super Chief, spending three days each in Albuquerque and Los Angeles. Both cities have energetic booksellers as well as public television stations that are… Continue reading
May 07 Analysts See Signs of Recovery in Latest Jobs Report Editor’s note: According to the latest jobs numbers released Friday, the U.S. economy added 290,000 jobs in April, a welcome sign that an economic recovery may be taking root. But the unemployment rate also rose to 9.9 percent. We asked… Continue reading