NY teacher's Holocaust train rescue project subject of book
Friday, 7 October 2016, 15:32
Last update: about 10 years ago
An upstate New York teacher's effort to reunite Jewish survivors of a Nazi concentration camp train with the U.S. soldiers who rescued them is told in a newly published book. "A Train Near...
Bon Iver delivers offbeat, self-conscious art
Thursday, 6 October 2016, 16:54
Last update: about 10 years ago
Some weirdness pervades the release of "22, A Million," the third album by Bon Iver - symbols, images and liner notes that feel like they're fraught with meaning. Some of it might be...
In 'Deepwater Horizon,' an ecological disaster's human toll
Thursday, 6 October 2016, 15:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
The name Deepwater Horizon is synonymous to most with environmental catastrophe and corporate negligence. For Mike Williams, who survived the April 2010 oil-rig explosion by plunging into the Gulf of...
Naya Rivera shares why timing is everything in her new book
Thursday, 6 October 2016, 15:32
Last update: about 10 years ago
Naya Rivera writes about a number of personal subjects in her new book, "Sorry Not Sorry," but says one of the hardest was the death of her "Glee" co-star Cory Monteith, who died of a drug...
Beyonce tour programmer Kwiz brilliantly explores blackness
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 16:53
Last update: about 10 years ago
It seems odd to describe the discussion of the black experience in America a "hot topic" - after all, the examination of the African-American experience has been explored for hundreds of years in some...
'Amanda Knox' pulls back the curtain on a media circus
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 15:58
Last update: about 10 years ago
Amanda Knox stares into the camera, coolly contemplating how she became a figure of global fascination. "I think people love monsters. And so when they get the chance, they want to see them. It's...
History of slavery in NY examined through runaways notices
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 15:31
Last update: about 10 years ago
They were field hands, cooks, musicians and blacksmiths. Some were "well made," others lame. A few showed ritual tribal scarring from their native Africa, others bore scars inflicted by their masters....
Amos Lee hones sweet spot he found a long time ago
Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 16:51
Last update: about 10 years ago
Amos Lee, "Spirit" (Republic/John Varvatos Records) Amos Lee continues to deliver the kind of laid-back, soulful sound that has set his work apart for years. He just keeps getting better at...
A Holocaust denier is brought to justice in 'Denial'
Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 15:55
Last update: about 10 years ago
Based on Deborah Lipstadt's book "History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier," the film depicts when the unapologetically anti-Semitic historian David Irving brought a libel suit...