World Dec 14 Italian olive trees are withering from this deadly bacteria The Salento region in southern Italy is synonymous with its renowned olive groves, some of which are thousands of years old. But a deadly bacteria, which causes trees to wither, is threatening a critical part of Salento's livelihood and very…
Arts Oct 27 The crumbling, picture-perfect Italian town that’s making a comeback There are just seven year-round residents -- and who knows how many cats -- in the Medieval Italian town of Civita di Bagnoregio, also known as the dying city. The picturesque hilltop town, visited by droves of tourists, is built…
Arts Oct 27 Photos: Visit a crumbling medieval town that’s slowly falling off a cliff There is something attractive about a place slated to disappear. At first glance, Civita di Bagnoregio is just that.
Arts Oct 26 Decades after Florence’s great flood, an art hospital renews still-damaged treasures It's part museum, part workshop, part hospital for threatened treasures. At the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, Italy, conservators work to restore cultural and artistic masterpieces, some of which still bear the damage of a devastating flood nearly 50…
Arts Oct 26 Photos: Inside the Florence lab saving priceless works of art In the 14th century, Florence was the center of the Italian Renaissance, but after a devastating flood in the 1960s, it became something else: one of the world’s foremost centers of art preservation and restoration.
Arts Sep 09 Why Salman Rushdie is probably quitting Twitter Salman Rushdie will be the first to tell you that free expression is imperative to society. But there's one way the award-winning author does not always enjoy speaking out: on Twitter.
Arts Sep 08 Salman Rushdie unleashes the genies in his new novel In "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," the genies are out of the bottle and on the loose in New York City. Author Salman Rushdie combines magic and reality, myth and history in his latest novel. Jeffrey Brown interviews…
Arts Jun 17 The Fixer’s Tour Guide to Havana Cuba is a place where it helps to "know a guy," and for journalists, that guy is your fixer. Our fixer Josue Lopez seemed to know someone in just about every place we went. So on our last evening in…
World Jun 16 Photos: In Havana, beauty and decay coexist You see it as soon as your plane touches down in Havana -- in the decades of texture worn into a pastel wall, in a brightly colored car parked on a quiet city street, in an elderly woman with flowers…
Arts Apr 15 Rhiannon Giddens performs ‘Julie,’ a song inspired by a slave’s story Singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is the first to admit she's big into history, and in particular the history of the South and the Civil War.