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
Dec 14 Weekly Poem: 'From Here to There' Brad Leithauser is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently, "Curves and Angles" (2006). He has received many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Continue reading
Dec 11 Study on Hispanics Presents Complex Picture of a Growing Demographic By Quinn Bowman The NewsHour's Judy Woodruff spoke with Mark Hugo Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Research Center about their Pew's new study on Hispanics in America. The study reveals a complex portrait of the largest minority population in the United… Continue reading