Dec 14 Watch President Obama Honors Shooting Victims, Families: ‘Our Hearts Are Broken Today’ President Obama Honors Shooting Victims, Families: 'Our Hearts Are Broken Today'… Continue watching
Dec 14 Social Media Response to Shooting A shooting Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has left at least 27 dead including 20 children, according to the Associated Press. We collected tweets, photos and updates as events unfolded Friday. Continue reading
Dec 14 Shooting Affects the Newtown Community to the Core In a news conference Friday afternoon, state police Lt. Paul Vance announced that police responded to 911 emergency calls from Sandy Hook Elementary School received at 9:30 a.m. this morning. A shooter was reported to have entered… Continue reading
Dec 14 The World of the Hobbit By Colleen Shalby Original illustrations of "The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien and photos from Peter Jackson's film. Continue reading
Dec 14 Fatal Shooting at Conn. Elementary School By Ellen Rolfes A shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Friday left the gunman dead and at least 28 dead, including 20 children. Continue reading
Dec 14 The World of Tolkien’s Hobbit By Colleen Shalby Tolkien scholar Jason Fisher discusses Tolkien's ability to bridge mythology and language. Continue reading
Dec 14 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro The David-Apollo by Michelangelo, on loan from the Museo Nazionale del Bargelloe in Florence, Italy, is on display the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the only exhibition in the United States of the sculpture. The David-Apollo was first… Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch The Last Days of Mes Aynak Documentary filmmaker Brent Huffman on Mes Aynak… Continue watching
Dec 13 The Last Days of Mes Aynak By Tom LeGro When documentary filmmaker Brent Huffman first visited the Buddhist archaeological site of Mes Aynak in eastern Afghanistan in June 2011, he was awed by the 2,600-year-old city, how it stretches for 100 acres, encompassing artifacts, monasteries and more than 200… Continue reading
Dec 13 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A painting of French writer and film director Marguerite Duras by Swedish neo-modernist painter Carl Kohler is on display at Umea University Library in Sweden. The exhibition of his work runs through Jan. 28. Continue reading