Dec 23 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "Spider-Man" on Broadway gets checked out by the Labor Department. Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch Denver’s Elaborate Plan to End Homelessness Sees Big Successes Correspondent Tom Bearden looks at an ambitious plan to end homelessness in Colorado's capital. Denver's Road Home was launched in 2005 with the lofty goal of ending homelessness in 10 years, and its executive director says the program is on… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch Live: President Obama’s Year-End News Conference By News Desk Before he joins his family in Hawaii for vacation, President Obama will deliver remarks on the latest congressional actions and take questions from reporters in a year-end news conference. Continue reading
Dec 22 Conversation: Best Unsung Films of 2010 By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post about the best under-appreciated films of 2010. Continue reading
Dec 22 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, visitors to London galleries who come off the city's snowy streets have been tracking in art-harming salt. Continue reading
Dec 21 Nutcrackers Around the Nation Display Regional Flair When "The Nutcracker" premiered in America in the 1940s, the holiday show became a perennial favorite and a reliable moneymaker for big and small ballet companies around the country. Since then, Tchaikovsky's ballet has been re-imagined innumerable times, customized to… Continue reading
Dec 21 A Seasonal Standby, Re-envisioned to Reflect Local Flair By Molly Finnegan The Nutcracker is the cash cow of ballets, with performances raising between a third to the entire amount of a company's annual budget. Companies big and small put their own spin on their productions to differentiate it from others nearby… Continue reading
Dec 21 Conversation: Best Unsung Books of 2010 By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Andrew Altschul, books editor for the Rumpus, about the under-appreciated novels of 2010. Continue reading
Dec 21 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years in jail and banned from filmmaking. Continue reading
Dec 21 Festival Gives Cubans a Window to the World By Tom LeGro The grand lobby of Havana's historic Hotel Nacional de Cuba was humming with activity earlier this month as documentary filmmakers, directors, actors and producers from around Latin America gathered to pay homage to their craft at the International Festival of… Continue reading