Oct 15 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture, bed bugs make their (unwelcome) debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Continue reading
Oct 14 Conversation: Howard Jacobson, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize Howard Jacobson is a writer and journalist whose novel, "The Finkler Question", was named winner of the Man Booker Prize in London on Tuesday. Continue reading
Oct 14 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Rome trial over looted antiquities against former Getty curator Marion True has been dismissed. Continue reading
Oct 13 New Documentary ‘Of Dolls & Murder’ Explores Macabre in Miniature Created in the 1930's and 1940's, the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a collection of macabre dollhouses, each playing host to a different deathly crime. A new documentary peers into the tiny world of the tiny scenes and their… Continue reading
Oct 13 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Howard Jacobson wins the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch Franzen Explores the Post-9/11 Family in ‘Freedom’ Jeffrey Brown talks to best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen about new book '"Freedom."… Continue watching
Oct 12 New Documentary Explores How Music ‘Made’ Louisville By Molly Finnegan After the Great Depression and a horrendous flood devastated Louisville, the city's mayor and and the conductor of its symphony orchestra hatched a plan to make the city great again. Continue reading
Oct 12 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Man Booker Prize will be announced late on Tuesday. Continue reading
Oct 11 Weekly Poem: ‘In D.C.’ Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, raised in Washington, D.C., and attended Yale University, where she now teaches African American Studies. She is the author of six books of poems, including most recently, "Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010."… Continue reading
Oct 11 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, soul singer Solomon Burke has died at age 70. Continue reading