Dec 18 Conversation: On ‘Avatar’ and ‘The Futurist’ By Tom LeGro To learn more about James Cameron's new film and the director himself, Jeffrey Brown speaks to Rebecca Keegan, who spent time on the set of "Avatar" and wrote the new biography, "The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron."… Continue reading
Dec 18 A Lesson in the Language of ‘Avatar’ Paul Frommer hadn't ever aspired to invent a language, but when James Cameron -- director of the highly-anticipated "Avatar" -- e-mailed the USC Linguistics department looking for someone to create a speech system for the movie, the professor was eager… Continue reading
Dec 18 Around the Nation, Friday Roundup Here are some of this week's arts and culture headlines from public broadcasters around the nation. Continue reading
Dec 17 Conversation: Harold Ramis and Bernard Sahlins on Second City’s 50th Anniversary By Tom LeGro On a cold December night in 1959, The Second City opened in the Old Town section of Chicago in a small space that had been previously been a hat shop and Chinese laundry. Fifty years later, Second City stakes claim… Continue reading
Dec 17 Everyone Smile and Say, ‘Democracy!’ The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words may indeed be true, but photographer Joe Sohm has found that it has taken him thousands of pictures to capture just one word: democracy. Continue reading
Dec 16 Two Exhibits Gaze Upon Man Ray’s Afterimage Art history knows him as Man Ray, the witty surrealist artist who helped legitimize photography as a medium of high art. But two recently-opened exhibits are changing his historical "afterimage," so to speak. Continue reading