Mar 25 Weekly Poem: ‘Cuckoo Flower on the Witness Stand’ By Tom LeGro Li-Young Lee is the author of four books of poetry: "Behind My Eyes" (2008); "Book of My Nights" (2001); "The City in Which I Love You" (1991); and "Rose" (1986). Continue reading
Mar 25 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A man gets a tattoo at the International Tattoo Convention in Frankfurt, Germany. More than 700 artists from all over the world made more than 3,000 tattoos at the three-day show. Continue reading
Mar 25 Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns Take Aim at Key Senators New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Lawmakers are on recess for the next two weeks, but for 15 senators, there is no escaping New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the upcoming debate… Continue reading
Mar 22 ‘Please Please Me’ at 50: How Well Do You Know the Beatles? By Tom LeGro "Twist and Shout," "Love Me Do," "I Saw Her Standing There." It might be hard to believe that these three songs, belonging to the soundtrack of a generation and beloved by several more, sprang from a single album 50 years… Continue reading
Mar 22 Remembering Nigerian Novelist Chinua Achebe By Molly Finnegan Nigerian novelist, poet, essayist, statesman and dissident Chinua Achebe died Thursday in Boston after a brief illness. He was 82. Achebe emerged upon the literary world in 1958 with the publication of his novel "Things Fall Apart," which has sold… Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch ‘The Girls of Atomic City’ Book Conversation Ray Suarez with author Denise Kiernan… Continue watching
Mar 22 Adventurous, Patriotic ‘Girls of Atomic City’ Traveled South for Nuclear Jobs By Cassie Chew In this interview, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez chats with Denise Kiernan, author of "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II." In the book, Kiernan tells the story of the women… Continue reading
Mar 22 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A visitor looks at photographs by Marven Graf at "From Beckmann to Warhol: Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries," an exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. The show, which features works by Picasso, Chagall, Warhol, Miro, Richter and others from… Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch Remembering the Faces of the Iraq War Through the Eyes of Photojournalists Remembering the Faces of the Iraq War Through the Eyes of Photojournalists… Continue watching
Mar 21 From War Zones to Museum Walls, Capturing the Iraq War at Eye Level Photographer Thorne Anderson captured this image in Najaf, Iraq, in 2004 while working as a freelancer covering the Iraq War. When photographers go into the field to cover a war, it would seem that making art to hang in… Continue reading