Jan 29 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! By Colleen Shalby By George, your submissions were witty. Ranging from the first president's insecurity that the portrait adds weight, to his disbelief that he's in fact dead. But our favorite caption suggested that George was a bit out-of-touch with modern society. Continue reading
Jan 29 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A woman interacts with "You and I, Horizontal" by Anthony McCall at London's Hayward Gallery exhibition "Light Show," which features 25 illuminated installations and sculptures by artists from the 1960s to the present. The show opens Wednesday and runs through… Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch Bipartisan Senate Proposal on Immigration Reform Reflects Election Response Bipartisan Senate Proposal on Immigration Reform Reflects Election Response… Continue watching
Jan 28 Weekly Poem: 'Frogs' By Tom LeGro Gerald Stern is the author of several collections of poetry and is the winner of numerous awards, including the National Book Award for "This Time: New and Selected Poems" (1998). Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch Weekly Poem: Gerald Stern Reads 'Frogs' Gerald Stern reads "Frogs", a poem from his book "In Beauty Bright."… Continue watching
Jan 28 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro "Temporary," an installation by Delicia Sampero, is part of the outdoor exhibition Sculpture On the Gulf on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch News Wrap: President Obama Talks Gun Violence Prevention With Police Chiefs In other news Monday, President Obama met to talk about gun violence with police chiefs from Aurora, Colo., Oak Creek, Wis., and Newtown, Conn., sites of the three worst mass shootings in 2012. Also, a $50 billion dollar disaster aid… Continue watching
Jan 25 Background Checks Don't Threaten Second Amendment, Biden Says A gun store employee in Los Angeles inspects a semi-automatic rifle. An Obama administration plan to reduce gun violence includes restricting sales of assault weapons. Photo by Reuters/ Lucy Nicholson. Vice President Joe Biden said that a proposal to… Continue reading
Jan 25 Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis? By Tom LeGro In a new book, "Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers," Dr. John J. Ross of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital looks at how disease and mood disorder may have infected the lives, creativity and words… Continue reading
Jan 25 Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis? EmbedVideo(5569, 482, 304); Writing a book is "a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness," George Orwell once said. The literary giant behind "1984" and "Animal Farm" was comparing his life's work to the… Continue reading