arts & entertainment
Joy essential ingredient in party music from rural El Salvador
The chanchona band, Los Hermanos Lovo trace their roots back to rural El Salvador, and they're all about the party.
What 'SpongeBob' does to kids' attention spans
A new study from the University of Virginia found that viewing "SpongeBob Square Pants" immediately impaired attention spans among 4-year-olds.
'Contagion': How real life could imitate art
According to an epidemiologist, the deadly pandemic virus in the blockbuster film "Contagion" could happen in real life.
Update of '9/11' documentary revisits firefighters ten years later
In honor of 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Jules and Gedeon Naudet recently remade their 2002 documentary, re-interviewing some of the firefighters from the first film.
Classical composers create monuments to 9/11 in music
The tragedy of 9/11 expressed through the works of classical composers, who create 'portable sites of public memory.'
Opera singers go east, to China
The future of opera may be in China, where new opera houses are being built, jobs are appearing, and opera singers are learning Chinese.
Iconic civil rights painting moves to Oval Office
President Obama installs Norman Rockwell's iconic painting, depicting the 1960 integration of the New Orleans school system, outside the Oval Office.
TV game show for deported immigrants pushes boundaries
A Dutch TV game show is giving rejected asylum seekers the chance to win nearly $6,000 to start a new life after they are deported.
Saving Haiti's art and culture
Haiti's art is in peril after the earthquake ravaged churches and other homes of Haiti's cultural heritage -- saving that art could help with the country's recovery.
Food art: Oreo cookie portraits and bread embroidery
Artist Judith Klausner creates intricate Victorian-style cameo portraits carved out of Oreo cream, and old-fashioned hand-cross-stitch designs with Chex cereal.
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