May 25 Watch After 25 Years Atop Daytime TV, Oprah Takes Final Bow to Run Network After 25 years, Oprah Winfrey signed off from her top-rated daytime television talk show for the final time Wednesday. Gwen Ifill discusses Oprah's lasting impact on television and American culture with Audrey Edwards, formerly of Essence Magazine, and The Los… Continue watching
May 25 Watch Blind Boys of Alabama Go Country for New Album A conversation with the Blind Boys of Alabama at the Birchmere Music Hall. Continue watching
May 25 Blind Boys of Alabama Go Country for New Album, ‘Take the High Road’ With more than fifty gospel and blues albums to their name since 1948, the Blind Boys of Alabama have recently have something new to sing about: a country music album. Continue reading
May 25 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Oprah ends her run as a daytime television host. Continue reading
May 24 Watch Frontline’s ‘WikiSecrets’ Explores Mysteries of Bradley Manning On Tuesday's edition of Frontline, entitled "WikiSecrets," correspondent Martin Smith unravels the mysteries of Bradley Manning, the Army private who allegedly stole thousands of classified government documents and shared them with WikiLeaks. In this excerpt, Frontline reveals the hacker who… Continue watching
May 24 Conversation: Bob Dylan Turns 70 By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to David Hajdu, author of "Positively 4th Street," about the career and influence of Bob Dylan, who on Tuesday turned 70. Continue reading
May 24 Making Sense: The Rising Price of Oil By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: William Bair Question: What, if anything, is be done on the… Continue reading
May 24 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "The Book of Mormon" and "Anything Goes" were the big winners at the Drama Desk Awards. Continue reading
May 23 Weekly Poem: ‘To Television’ Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky reads "To Television" from his "Selected Poems."… Continue reading
May 23 Making Sense: Is it Dumb to Play the Lottery? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: We received a fascinating email in response to last week's installment of… Continue reading