Arts

Jazz Vocalist Nancy Wilson talks about her career, her inspirations and the music industry today.

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On Martin Luther King's birthday, a documentary on PBS's "American Experience" looks at the last five years of his life. An excerpt is posted here.

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The publishers of La Opinion, the leading Spanish-language daily newspaper in Los Angeles, and El Diario/La Prensa, a leading New York Hispanic daily, are combining to form the first national Spanish-language newspaper company.

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The successful TV sitcom "Friends" is coming to an end this season, but essayist Roger Rosenblatt looks at how the human theme of friendship is only becoming stronger.

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Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming visits a traveling history exhibit.

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Jeffrey Brown speaks with actor Kevin Kline about the challenges of portraying Sir John Falstaff in the new production of Shakespeare's Henry IV at New York's Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre.

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A Roman Catholic Church audit released Tuesday found that almost all dioceses in the United States fully comply with a new mandatory policy aimed at preventing sex abuse by priests, although some victim advocates criticized the audit's methodology.

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Essayist Roger Rosenblatt looks at the annual ritual of reflection at the beginning of the new year.

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Essayist Richard Rodriguez looks at the work of photographer Diane Arbus, who opened her shutter on subjects that rarely blinked at life.

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Jeffrey Brown speaks with John Updike about his early career as an author. Updike recently published "The Early Stories: 1953-1975," an anthology of the short stories he wrote in his 20s, 30s and 40s.

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