This Saturday’s Reel 13 Indie movie (airs at 11:10 p.m. on Saturday, May 24) is not about music per se, but director and star Matt Dillon loaded his soundtrack with rare Cambodian music from the 60s and 70s, from stars of the day. Read more…
How much do you love your dog? A California-based biotech startup is banking that for some pet owners the bond they share with their dog is worth a $100,000 bid on the chance to clone it.
Living in New York City, the line between public and private space blurs. The photographers in an NYPL exhibit called ‘Eminent Domain’ address that line, a line crossed regularly by city dwellers turned inadvertent voyeurs. Watch SundayArts segment…
Meet Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, a cellist currently studying at the Julliard School of Music. Learn about her musical upbringing in Iceland, hear how she discovered her passion for the cello in a place as unlikely as Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and watch her perform “Prelude in E-flat” from J.S. Bach’s A Suite of Dances.
At the end of World War II, undercover agents from the US and the Soviet Union engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture Hitler’s elite scientists and cutting edge technology. Now you can join the chase by watching the full episode of Secrets of the Dead.
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, his doctors said Tuesday, a challenging health diagnosis for the iconic American political figure, the last surviving of the four famed Kennedy brothers. Malignant gliomas, like Kennedy’s, are the most common type of adult brain cancers, inflicting some 9,000 Americans a year, according to NewsHour.
In case you didn’t know, Staten Island is actually a pretty green place. In fact, New York’s least densely-populated borough is set to build the city’s first green police precinct.
Television commercials are probably as good an indicator of a society’s cultural health as any. And anyone looking for proof of the cachet that opera once maintained in American life would do well to consider these commercials, which Rice Krispies ran in the 1960s.
On May 19, 1935, British soldier T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as “Lawrence of Arabia,” died in England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash. Read more about Lawrence on the site of a PBS doc from 2003:
In a presidential campaign there’s a lot of competition to raise a lot of money, and this year’s heated election comes with a trail of earnings comparisons and reports of lobbying ties–see a few good open sources.
