Anti-Islam Film May Be Connected To Libya Attack
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to hear more now about the film that was, at least in part, the catalyst for the violence in Libya, as well as protests in Egypt. Some news outlets are...
View ArticleDelta Rae: Modern Folklore Music
Love songs are like the meat and potatoes of most rock and pop music, but sometimes you need something different. For the band Delta Rae from Durham, N.C., inspiration for new material comes from stuff...
View ArticleHilary Mantel First Woman To Win Booker Prize Twice
Writer Hilary Mantel has won her second Man Booker prize. She was recognized for her book, Bring Up The Bodies. Mantel is the first British writer and woman to win the award more than once.
View ArticleImpersonating The President: From Will Rogers To Obama's 'Anger Translator'
Political commentators will be working overtime in the countdown to the presidential election. So will political comedians, including the candidates' impersonators.Impersonators have been part of the...
View ArticleEtsy Crafts A Strategy For Staying Handmade And Profitable
Etsy has gotten very big, very fast. This year, sales are at about $800 million."Their growth on all the major metrics you want to look at has accelerated really consistently," says journalist Rob...
View ArticleRemembering Fontella Bass, Voice Of A Soul Classic
R&B singer Fontella Bass has died at a hospice in St. Louis. She was 72. Bass is best known for the soul classic "Rescue Me."
View ArticleWorld War II Exhibit Asks Visitors, 'What Would You Do?'
For many, the stakes and the scale of World War II are hard to fathom. It was a war fought around the world, against powerful, determined regimes in Europe and the Pacific; some 65 million people died.
View ArticleFor Would-Be Sundancers, Kickstarter Can Fuel Films
If you want to make a movie, you generally need a lot of money. And filmmakers have to be creative about raising it.Just ask the filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival, taking place this week in Park...
View ArticleFor Super Bowl Ads, More Social-Media Savvy
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View ArticleIn Moscow, Scandals Shake A Storied Ballet
It's a story right out of the movies: The artistic director of one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world is violently attacked. His attacker and the motive are shrouded in mystery. But...
View ArticleFamiliar Folks Make Up A Play's 'Good People'
How we end up in life has a lot to do with where we came from. That theory gets a good workout in the play Good People, from Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire. When the show was on Broadway...
View ArticleMore Than 50 Years Of Putting Kids' Creativity To The Test
This is the second in a three-part series aboutthe intersection of education and the arts.Let's start with a question from a standardized test: "How would the world be different if we all had a third...
View ArticleIn D.C., Art Program Turns Boys' Lives Into 'Masterpieces'
This is the third in a three-part series aboutthe intersection of education and the arts.Life Pieces to Masterpieces is an arts program that's not entirely about the art. It's an after-school program...
View Article'Venus And Serena': An Extraordinary Story, Told On Film
It's Cinderella plus Jackie Robinson times two. When Venus and Serena Williams burst onto the lily-white world of tennis, they changed the game and made history: They were sisters. From a poor...
View ArticleGeorges Moustaki, Who Wrote Songs For Edith Piaf, Dies
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View ArticlePlans For Smithsonian Museum 'Bubble' May Have Burst
Call it the Smithsonian's bubble problem. One of the Smithsonian museums — the Hirshhorn museum for contemporary art — came up with an ambitious new design to add more space: Why not build a giant,...
View Article'Me' Too: For Gru, Another Shot At Global Domination
There will be hits and misses at movie houses this summer, but it's a decent bet Despicable Me 2 will end up in the that-went-well column.The star, a would-be world-dominating supervillain named Gru,...
View ArticleToshi Seeger, Wife Of Folk Singer Pete Seeger, Dies At 91
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View ArticleComedian Hari Kondabolu On Diversity, Race And Burger King
Hari Kondabolu is a brainy comedian who cuts through the polite talk around race and gender. He's made a lot of key people laugh with his incisive anecdotes, including Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien and...
View ArticleLatino Buying Power Gets Movie Studios' Attention
One of the surprise movie hits this past weekend was almost entirely in Spanish. Instructions Not Included made an enormous amount of money per screen, more than $22,000, playing in fewer than 350...
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