Arts and Entertainment
Arts advocate critical of Obama's Turnaround Arts Initiative for select U.S. schools
President Barack Obama's administration rolled out a new program that seeks to turn around underperforming schools by integrating the arts into the core curriculum of each school. But a former federal education official and arts advocate said it's the wrong approach to funding arts education.
British show runner describes thought process behind hit reboot of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes has been reborn in a series that debuts its second season this weekend on PBS. Steven Moffat, the man who reinvented Doctor Who and made it into a hit, is also behind the Holmes reboot and provides insights on what makes Sherlock Holmes work. The new season premiers on Sunday....
As Kentucky Derby nears, horse racing in America reaches a crossroads
The audience for horse racing in the United States is declining. According to insiders, even the sport's strongest supporters are loathe to recommend racing to their friends as something worth spending time on. But there are ideas for embracing technology that some hope will turn the sport's fortunes....
Craft brewers seeing surge of popularity among U.S. beer drinkers
The U.S. beer market is stable, not really growing, not really shrinking. But a specific subset of that market, the craft beer market, is seeing tremendous growth. It's part of an increasing American culture of buying local -- supporting businesses in your own back yard....
Recession hitting 'cultural creatives' especially hard
While the recession seems to loosening its grip on the U.S. economy, but one group isn't seeing it. The cultural creatives, small businesspeople like photographers, architects and graphic designers have seen their ranks thinned by 20 to 30 percent and are still waiting for the bounce back....
Internet making linear TV outdated, in favor of on-demand programming
While television most likely won't disappear anytime soon, younger viewers are watching more programming online. Exclusive programming for online television streaming services Hulu and Netflix has some wondering if television is becoming outdated. ...
Titanic history preserved in letters
It's been little more than a week since the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912. Edward Kamuda, who runs the Titanic Historical Society, shared some of the memories of Titanic survivors he had corresponded with since childhood....
Teen raps about financial responsibility
Las Vegas teen Syretha Shirley won a contest for her song about using a debit card instead of a credit card and resisting pressure to buy expensive items....
Julian Assange starts talk show while under house arrest
Despite being under house arrest, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is still making headlines. Assange debuted his talk show, The World Tomorrow, Tuesday on Russian television. The first episode is available online and features an interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. ...
Singapore trying to encourage spontaneity to change economy in buttoned up country
Singapore is known for being a country of limits. People know one way to act -- and that's conservatively. But in recent years, as competition has intensified, the city-state's government has tried to transform its economy. But it's run into a problem: most of its people don't know how to be creative....- European artists protest budget cuts by destroying their art, including at museums
- Lawsuit seeks to place limits on fair use appropriation of others' work in art
- VIDEO: The Passover story, recounted through shadow dance
- Eyebrows raised as Kickstarter touts its increased funding of the arts
- Pop-up Kimchi shop in Germany seeks to help people understand diversity
- New York art exhibit explores how we talk to objects
- Scientists show off their profession in tattoos
- Jesse Eisenberg discusses his new work, the off-Broadway play 'Asuncion'
- Russia's underground artists have new target: Putin
- Mexico's political cartoonists fight drug war
- Mo Willems remembers author Maurice Sendak
- BBC reporter who stayed in Libya through civil war releases new book
- Remembering Maurice Sendak, author of "Where the Wild Things Are," dead at 83
- New book looks at opportunity presented as U.S. car-centric culture falters
- New book recalls British Empire's attempt to intervene in Afghanistan
- Steven Greenblatt wins Pulitzer for non-fiction
- Popular British author given challenge of writing new 'James Bond' book
- Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander on their 'New American Haggadah'
- George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' resonated with Ukrainian refugees
- New novel puts comedic spin on terrorist attack
- Mark Duplass discusses the Hollywood trend of writing for the lovable losers
- 'Dark Shadows' the big hit among weekend's new releases
- New PBS movie based on journal kept by World War II POW
- Avengers dominating box office pre-sales this weekend
- New releases: 'Safe,' 'Pirates: Band of Misfits' highlight new offerings this weekend
- Digging into movie ratings: What makes an 'R' movie and a 'PG-13' one
- Nazi version of 'Titanic' gaining renewed attention as anniversary approaches
- 'Bully' rating controversy shows inner workings of movie ratings system
- New releases this weekend include a 'flat' Titanic 3D and a 'sweet' American Reunion
- Town where 'The Hunger Games' movie District 12 scenes were filmed put up for sale
- 'Black metal' musician elected to Greek Parliament with anti-immigrant political party
- Computer programmers new rockstars of music world
- Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes talks about the influence of the Rolling Stones
- Legendary bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs dead at 88
- Looking back on Bruce Springsteen's rise to superstardom
- Bands and music fans from around the world converge at SXSW
- San Francisco group brings back mixtape popularity
- Tweets about Chris Brown fuel discussion of the perception of domestic violence
- Grammy Awards expecting protests, but be on the lookout for this act
- Russian songwriter feeds pro-, anti-Putin crowds
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