Mar 28 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Pritzker Prize is awarded to Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. Continue reading
Mar 25 Watch Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Corleone Correlations Syria faced escalating unrest as soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in several cities. Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch Syrian Troops Fire on Demonstrators in Several Cities The Syrian government faced its strongest challenge in years as protests escalated and government troops opened fire on demonstrators in several cities. In the city of Daraa, where protests grew all week, witnesses said up to 50,000 people flooded the… Continue watching
Mar 25 Poetry as a Weapon of War in Afghanistan By Tom LeGro According to two new reports by a leading Afghanistan watcher at the Naval Postgraduate School, "the Taliban blow us away" in getting its message out to the Afghan public by using poetry and music -- means the United States does… Continue reading
Mar 25 Stories from SXSW: A Small Indie Film Makes Its Debut For many directors, SXSW presents an opportunity not only to screen their films, but to screen them for the first public audiences. Continue reading
Mar 25 Watch Playwright Lanford Wilson Discusses His Ozark Roots A conversation with playwright Lanford Wilson from 1999… Continue watching
Mar 25 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, playwright Lanford Wilson has died. Continue reading
Mar 25 Can Babies Teach us Morality? What can one baby, three puppets and a tricky Tupperware lid tell us about the roots of morality? Can infants distinguish between good and bad at such a young age? NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on… Continue reading
Mar 24 Income Inequality: Where Do You Fall? By Paul Solman Updated March 25, 2011 at 1:33 p.m. with a fixed link to the Slate interactive. Income inequality has changed over time: today the richest 1 percent of Americans hold about 24 percent of U.S. wealth. But almost a century ago… Continue reading
Mar 24 All Grown Up, Boyz II Men Raise Money for Japan Disaster Relief Boyz II Men, one of the biggest R&B groups of all time, is raising money to support relief efforts in Japan. Continue reading