Search results for

In today's Unger Report, humorist Brian Unger concludes that the entertainment business, long derided for poisoning society, can no longer compete with reality's prescription-strength toxins. Is Washington, D.C. beating Hollywood at its own game?

Hitting the theaters this weekend? Mark Jordan Legan, with the online magazine Slate, has this week's Summary Judgment on the following weekend movie releases — The Heartbreak Kid, The Seeker and My Kid Could Paint That.

Artist Chuck Close is the subject of a new book and a portrait in dance. He has been called "the most methodical artist that has ever lived in America" and the "reigning portraitist of the Information Age."

The broadcast is over, but the show continues all day on our blog.

Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is creator of The 99, an Islamic-themed superhero comic about 99 teenagers. Each of the youngsters has their own blessed stone providing him or her with a super-power. Al-Mutawa talks about the comics, based on one of the 99 traits of Allah.

British writer Doris Lessing, 87, is the of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. Also, Timothy Noah, with the online magazine Slate, offers a humorous take on the "race" for the Nobel Peace Prize.

What do Sting, Dan Fogelberg and Rush drummer Neil Peart all have in common? They've just made Blender magazine's list of rock's worst lyricists. Blender's senior critic John Dolan talks about some of his favorite bad lyricists.

Eight years before the National Museum of African American History and Culture even opens its doors, patrons can pay a virtual visit. The museum's director, Lonnie Bunch, talks about the launch of the long-awaited cultural museum on the Web.

Hang out in Bryant Park all day, or at least swing by the blog.

Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report talks about his book I Am America (And So Can You!). Colbert targets race, religion, sports and the American family as well as more mundane topics like breakfast cereal and the Hollywood blacklist.