Mar 04 Study Reasserts That Asteroid Blast Wiped Out the Dinosaurs About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid traveling 20 times faster than a bullet crashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, sending up projectile debris with such force that the debris rained back down as far away as New Zealand. Continue reading
Mar 04 At the Oscars, Documentarians Hope Films Inspire Change By Tom LeGro The Best Documentary Feature category for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards is crowded with films that hope to make the world a little brighter. Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch 'Hurt Locker' Takes Flack from Iraq Vets Amid Critical Praise The Academy Award-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" has been lauded for its portrayal of the war in Iraq, but some veterans say it paints an unfair picture of life on the ground for troops. Jeffrey Brown talks to a film… Continue watching
Mar 03 Around the Nation Roundup: May-the-Best- Artist-Win Edition Here's a selection of art and culture reports from local public broadcasting stations and national producers. Continue reading
Mar 02 Artists Shake Up Elvis Presley's Image By Arts Desk "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… Continue reading
Mar 01 Weekly Poem: 'scenes from the trip we didn't take to the antarctic' By Tom LeGro D.A. Powell is the author of "Chronic" (Graywolf Press), which won the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is given annually by Claremont Graduate University to honor work by a mid-career poet. Continue reading