Feb 08 On Tuesday’s NewsHour: Egypt Unrest, ‘Dirty Bombs,’ Toyota Investigation GOOGLE EXEC RELEASE BOOSTS CAIRO PROTESTS | An estimated 250,000 people gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square after a Google executive, who was released Monday after being detained for organizing recent protests via Facebook, re-energized anti-government demonstrations. Margaret Warner speaks with… Continue reading
Feb 08 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Maria Altmann, who escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna and won a fight to recover Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," the iconic gold portrait of her aunt, and other artworks, has died. Continue reading
Feb 08 Tool$ Tuesday: Currency Conversion and Haydn’s Messiah 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: Roland Weiser Question: I would appreciate the name of the site… Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch One-Woman Show Explores Human Side of Health Care Debate Judy Woodruff speaks with actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith about her one-woman play, "Let Me Down Easy," which tackles contemporary health care issues through the eyes of more than a dozen different characters, based on hundreds of interviews she… Continue watching
Feb 07 On Monday’s NewsHour: Egypt’s Future, Huffington Post Purchase EGYPT ATTEMPTS TO QUIET UNREST | The Egyptian government moved Monday to defuse protests, offering public-sector workers a pay raise. Margaret Warner reports from Cairo with reaction from people inside and outside the city's central square. Then Jeffrey Brown discusses… Continue reading
Feb 07 Monday’s NewsHour: Anna Deavere Smith in ‘Let Me Down Easy’ Monday on the NewsHour, Judy Woodruff sits down with Smith for a look at her latest work, Let Me Down Easy, which takes up the many-voiced debate on health care in America. Continue reading
Feb 07 Weekly Poem: ‘Poem in Which I Fail to Appear’ Sarah Perrier is the author of "Nothing Fatal" (2010, University of Akron Press) and the chapbook "Just One of Those Things" (2003). Her poems have appeared in the Cimarron Review, Hotel Amerika, the Journal, Pleiades and Mid-American Review. Her work… Continue reading
Feb 07 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Russian political documentary is stolen before its premiere. Continue reading
Feb 04 Have Some Art With Your Football When football fans enter the Dallas Cowboys stadium on Sunday to watch the Steelers and the Packers fight to become Super Bowl champions, they may get an unexpected eyeful of contemporary art. Continue reading
Feb 04 ‘Lombardi’ Makes a Play On Broadway Playwright Eric Simonson talked to Art Beat about adapting the iconic football figure Vince Lombardi for the Broadway stage, and the good timing of having the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl. Continue reading