Sep 29 Could your new house have a history of “Breaking Bad?” Plus: 10 strange locations for cooking meth By Elizabeth Shell Photo by Phillip Spears/Getty Images The final episode of "Breaking Bad" is Sunday, and that inspired us to research meth labs. It turns out, you don't want to be where a meth lab has been. The… Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch Graham Nash Talks ‘Wild Tales’ and Musical Friends A member of the 1960s British rock group the Hollies and one-fourth of the super-group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Graham Nash has just come out with a new memoir of his life called "Wild Tales." Jeffrey Brown caught up… Continue watching
Sep 26 How Doing the Hustle at Your Cousin’s Wedding is ‘Art’ When was the last time you went to a museum? Or read a short story? Or danced "the hustle" at a wedding? If it was in the last year, consider yourself engaged with the arts. At least according to the… Continue reading
Sep 26 Graham Nash looks back on his music career in his new memoir, ‘Wild Tales’ Graham Nash, famed rocker and music activist, has released a new memoir titled "Wild Tales." In the early to mid-1960's, Nash had numerious number one pop hits with the British band, "The Hollies" and eventually helped found the eponymous… Continue reading
Sep 26 Barilla pasta boycotted for chairman’s offensive remarks Flickr user kugel Chairman for Barilla pasta manufacturer Guido Barilla told Italy's Radio 24 Wednesday that his company would never feature gay people in its advertising. Continue reading
Sep 26 Artist fills Boston streets with pianos .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Boston sidewalks are littered with… Continue reading
Sep 26 Lowly Worm goes on one more adventure Book cover by HarperCollins Children's Books Fifty years after the first edition of Richard Scarry's classic 'Best Word Book Ever' hit bookshelves, the author is back with a posthumously published title about fan-favorite Lowly Worm. Continue reading
Sep 25 Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is ‘Great Loss’ for Ghana and Poetry By Tom LeGro Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanaian poet, diplomat and academic, was among the victims murdered in a terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi. Awoonor's nephew Kwame Dawes, another renowned poet, was traveling with his uncle to attend a literary festival… Continue reading
Sep 25 Poet Kwame Dawes Remembers Kofi Awoonor With Reading of ‘The Weaver Bird’ Wednesday on the PBS NewsHour, poet Kwame Dawes remembers his uncle, Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, who was killed in the terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Dawes read one of his uncle's most famous works, "The Weaver… Continue reading
Sep 25 Kwame Dawes Reads ‘The Weaver Bird’ by Kofi Awoonor Poet Kwame Dawes' uncle, the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, was killed in the terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Dawes read one of his uncle's most famous works, "The Weaver Bird."… Continue reading