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Weekly Poem: 'Advertisement for the Mountain'

Christina Davis is the author of "Forth A Raven" (Alice James Books, 2006). In February, Poet Laureate Kay Ryan chose Davis and Mary Szybist for the 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships.

Jeffrey Brown Previews the Academy Awards With the AFI's Todd Hitchcock

By Arts Desk

Jeffrey Brown previews the Academy Awards with the AFI's Todd Hitchcock.

For Documentary Filmmakers, Prestige of Oscars Helps Put Spotlight on Issues

By Meaghan Wilson

For documentary filmmakers, the reward of an Oscar nomination is twofold: It raises awareness around the film's subjects or issues and generates interest in a genre that ticket buyers don't generally flock to.

An Eye for Fashion at the ICP

Fashion Week in New York ends Friday, but take a short walk from the big tents (which, face it, you're not going to get into anyway) and you'll see enough models making fierce faces and striking poses to last the…

Stanford Group Leaves Houston High and Dry

This week the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Texas banking billionaire R. Allen Stanford with over $8 billion in fraud, leaving depositors throughout Latin America wondering where their money is and whether they'll get it back.

Dance Dance, Science Revolution

Most of us aren't asked to dance our life's work, and that's probably a good thing. But John Bohannon, a visiting scholar at Harvard University and writer for Science Magazine, believes dance is the ultimate translation challenge for scientists.

Harlem Renaissance Visits Oklahoma City

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1901 in the Atlantic Monthly. What soon followed was an intellectual and artistic revolution that was first embodied in the Harlem Renaissance.

Author Offers New Look at 'Hemingses of Monticello'

National Book Award-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed speaks about her book, "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" and what sparked her interest in the family's complex history.

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From YouTube to Carnegie Hall

Say you're an awesome cymbal player and you have a Web cam. Or maybe marimba is your thing. You catch wind of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra project, read the rules and upload a video of yourself playing.

At Age 112, Montana Resident Reflects on More Than a Century of Changes

Born in 1896, Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Mont., is the oldest living man in the United States. Breuning discusses his lifetime spent working for the railroads and the changes he has witnessed.

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