The opera stage is filled with tragic characters who have lost touch with reality—one of the best-known examples being Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, seen in Mary Zimmermann’s new Met production earlier this season with the high-flying soprano Natalie Dessay.
But, as Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez tells it in his new book The Soloist, out [...]
While the national press speculates over Barack Obama’s relationship with his controversial former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Moyers goes beyond the national brouhaha and will engage the pastor in conversation on Friday, April 25 at 9 p.m.; at 10 p.m. the interview will be online.
Yesterday, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, the area hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Senator John McCain called the response to Katrina “a perfect storm” of mismanagement by federal, state and local governments, and promised the people of New Orleans “never again.” Democrats immediately criticized McCain’s 20-minute news conference –The Democratic [...]
Next week in Nature’s “Superfish,” Rick Rosenthal searches far and wide for the opportunity to swim with the greatest gamefish in the sea — billfish.
Do you have special memories of time you’ve spent at the ocean — or in it? Have you had a memorable close encounter with marine life? Nature wants to know about it.
Can poor children get the same shot at college as those on the opposite end of the economic scale, or will rich students always have the advantage? As rejection and acceptance letters arrive in the mail, see who comes closer to achieving their dreams. This week NOW on PBS shares a year-long investigation of an [...]
On the 18th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, NASA released breathtaking new telescope images of galaxies colliding. NewsHour has an online slideshow of the images.
The Korea Society just opened a new exhibition, Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic, a collection of photographs by award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris. The collection documents the concert by the New York Philharmonic orchestra in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on February 26, 2008.
Thirteen teams up with NY Times writer and bestselling author Mark Bittman–he’ll be doing live webcasts here on thirteen.org, starting April 27, 2008. You can ask your questions here, and he’ll answer them live during the webcast.
New research indicates that ancient Americans valued dogs not just for their companionship and work ethic, but for spiritual reasons too. Hundreds of prehistoric canines — along with jewelry and other valuables — have been found buried with humans in tombs along the Arizona-New Mexico border. According to a report by National Geographic News:
“[D]ogs in [...]
Isiah Thomas is just one of a long line of New York sports characters who have fallen on both sides of the hero/villain divide. This great episode of New York Voices from June 2003 delved into the paragons and pariahs of New York sports. Narrated by Vincent Pastore from the Sopranos.
