Sep 27 Rowling’s Greatest Work Isn’t Her New Novel; It’s Bringing Attention to Books This fall readers can find a shelf full of new books by big name authors, from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to Salman Rushdie to Orhan Pamuk. But not even books by Pulitzer, Orange, Booker and Nobel Prize winners, respectively,… Continue reading
Sep 27 The Daily Frame Employees of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris sweep around a bronze sculpture by Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed of the headbutt given by former French soccer player Zinedine Zidane to Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World… Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch In Swing States, Elusive Youth Voters are Politically Jaded and Still Undecided In Swing States, Elusive Youth Voters are Politically Jaded and Still Undecided… Continue watching
Sep 26 Watch Spanish and Greek Responses to Debt Crisis Unleash Backlash from Citizens Spanish and Greek Responses to Debt Crisis Unleash Backlash from Citizens… Continue watching
Sep 26 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation. Continue reading
Sep 26 The Daily Frame A fire dancer performs during the first ever Backstreet Festival in Alexandria, Egypt, which runs through Saturday. An initiative of the International Association for Creation and Training, the festival celebrates art in non-traditional spaces. Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch Where They Stand: How Voters, Pollsters and Historians Judge Presidents Where They Stand: How Voters, Pollsters and Historians Judge Presidents… Continue watching
Sep 25 Helping Where ‘There Are More Cell Phones Than Toothbrushes’ By Fred de Sam Lazaro Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was one of the speakers at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. NEW YORK CITY | The annual Clinton Global Initiative is intended to bring together… Continue reading
Sep 25 The Tuesday Cutline…a Contest! We here at Art Beat enjoy a good contest. So today we unveil the Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo and win a prize. Continue reading
Sep 24 Weekly Poem: ‘Intravenous’ Hugh Martin recently won the Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award from The Iowa Review for his poetry. His upcoming book, "The Stick Soldiers," received the A. Poulin Jr. First Book Prize from BOA Editions. Hugh served in Iraq for 11 months. Continue reading