Dec 23 Hallelujah! A Global Mash-up of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ The journalists who bring you The Rundown blog were debating last week what gift we could give you, our loyal readers, for the holidays. One thing sprang to mind that is almost universally enjoyed this time of year:… Continue reading
Dec 23 Thursday’s NewsHour: Garry Trudeau Looks Back on 40 Years of ‘Doonesbury’ It's been 40 years since Garry Trudeau first started to pen "Doonesbury", a comic strip that has entertained and provoked readers as a chronicle of the baby-boom generation, part sharp political commentary, part very funny comic strip. Continue reading
Dec 23 Conversation: Best Unsung (Critically, Not Literally) Music of 2010 By Molly Finnegan Jeffrey Brown discusses the best under-appreciated music of 2010 with critic Jim DeRogatis, co-host of WBEZ's Sound Opinions. Continue reading
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