Tag: arts & entertainment
Motown playlist: Supremes and Temptations 50 years on
Motown Records marks the 50th anniversary since Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations began making music history....
Musician K'Naan on the hope and hopelessness of Somalia
Somali-Canadian musician and writer K'Naan recently returned from Somalia, where he saw the ravages of famine and war, but also found hope for the future....
What PETA hopes its .XXX porn site will do for animal rights
The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is trying to use porn stars and pornography to campaign for animal rights....
Broadway play imagines Martin Luther King's last moments
A new Broadway play called "The Mountaintop" imagines Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s private moments in his hotel room in the hours leading up to his death. ...
Ry Cooder: These times call for a different kind of protest song
Ry Cooder's new album, "Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down," is a protest shout against the out-of-control banks and the efforts to disenfranchise the poor. ...
John Hodgman interviews George R.R. Martin
George R. R. Martin is the author a series of fantasy books which was recently adapted for the acclaimed HBO show "A Game of Thrones."...
Netflix to customers: Stop renting DVDs
The DVD-rental company Netflix has split into two companies -- a strategy possibly designed to move people away from their DVD-rental business....
Ron Suskind defends book about Obama administration
Ron Suskind's book "Confidence Men," depicts the Obama White House as dysfunctional, with mean, misogynistic economic advisers undermining a clueless president at every turn....
Mexico's political cartoonists fight drug war
Political cartoonists in Mexico have started a campaign to educate people about the violence of the drug war in their country, which has claimed well over 40,000 lives....
New fall TV season: Sorry men, it's a woman's world
Women take the lead in new primetime sitcoms this fall, and men are more goofy, incompetent, and powerless than ever before....
