Jan 18 One Couch, Two Americas: a Weekend With George Saunders and NFL Football By Tom LeGro My assignment to myself last weekend: Rest, take it easy, fight off a cold. The only obligations: football and reading. Continue reading
Jan 18 Conversation: George Saunders, Author of ‘Tenth of December’ By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to George Saunders, author of "Tenth of December."… Continue reading
Jan 18 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A photo of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei appears on the exterior of the Newseum, which carries an inscription of the First Amendment on a 74-foot piece of marble. An exhibition of Ai's work is at the Hirshhorn Museum,… Continue reading
Jan 17 Around the Nation By Tom LeGro Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation. Continue reading
Jan 17 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A man walks past a photograph by Tim Flach at the London Art Fair on Wednesday. Continue reading
Jan 16 Never ‘Misunderestimate’ Word Power of the Presidency By Tom LeGro With the second inauguration of President Obama next Monday, we thought we'd take a different look at the American presidency. We often think of the White House as a seat of power in the country and in the world, but… Continue reading
Jan 16 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro Arkady Shilkloper plays an alphorn on the top of the Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival on Wednesday. Continue reading
Jan 15 The Tuesday Cutline…a Winner! By Colleen Shalby Did you coo over last week's Tuesday Cutline photo? A dog on Facebook looking at other...dogs? How adorable. It got us thinking about what dogs would say if they could actually speak. But more importantly--what would they Facebook?… Continue reading
Jan 15 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro "Ascension of Polka Dots on the Trees" by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is seen during the contempory art exhibition for the 2013 European Capital of Culture in Aix-en-Provence, France. Continue reading
Jan 14 Weekly Poem: ‘The Lion’s Gate’ By Tom LeGro, Mary Jo Brooks Titos Patrikios is one of the leading poets of Greece. Born in 1928 to parents who were actors, he spent his first years in the United States as they toured with a Greek theater company. He returned to Greece, where… Continue reading