Mar 23 Spotz Rows Into History, Raises Thousands for Clean Water Projects Seventy days, five hours and 22 minutes. That's how long it took 22-year-old Katie Spotz to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a high-tech rowboat -- part of a fund-raising effort that also set a new record. Fresh… Continue reading
Mar 23 Coming Soon to Hollywood: Movie Derivatives Moviegoers will soon be able to decide which films to see based not on stars or tomatoes, but on how well they're being traded by investors. Two investment firms are working to develop a futures market for movie derivatives that… Continue reading
Mar 22 Weekly Poem: 'Achilles' By Jason Breslow British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy wrote "Achilles" after English soccer player David Beckham suffered a season-ending injury last week. Beckham, 34, was headed for what would have likely been his last World Cup this summer. Continue reading
Mar 19 Shields and Brooks on Immigration Reform and NCAA Upsets By Hari Sreenivasan While most of the political attention in Washington in focused squarely on the fate of the health reform bill, demonstrators are planning rallies in Washington this weekend to bring more attention to the seventh anniversary of the U.S. Continue reading
Mar 19 Conversation: Still Unsolved, Gardner Heist Remains Largest Art Theft in History By Tom LeGro Twenty years ago this week, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was the site of the biggest art heist in history. Jeffrey Brown talks to Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist" and who has been following recent developments… Continue reading
Mar 19 Around the Nation Roundup Here's a selection of art and culture reports from local public broadcasting stations and national producers. Continue reading
Mar 19 Jay Rosen on SXSW, Future of News Context, Prophecy of 'Max Headroom' This year, none of us here at the @Newshour were lucky enough to get to #SXSW (that's Twitter shorthand for the South by Southwest conference/festival/gathering in Austin, Texas), so we lived vicariously through the posts of some… Continue reading