Editors' Picks
How IMAX Pulled Spaceflight Down to Earth
The 1985 film that famously revealed the lives of astronauts in zero gravity returns to the big screen
Kon-Tiki Sails Again
A new film recreates the epic voyage—and revives the controversy over its legendary leader, Thor Heyerdahl
The Greatest R&B Singer Who Never Existed
How the make-believe alter ego of an imaginative teen in the 1970s won him the fame he always dreamed of 40 years later
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The blues and rock musician shares stories of his wild past and his concerns for the future.
March 01, 2009
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher
February 2009 | By Anika Gupta
Surprising, inspiring and outstanding titles for youngsters and the grownups that read to them
December 19, 2008
| By Kathleen Burke
Franklin Roosevelt's fourth inaugural, which was less than 600 words long, focused on the perils of isolationism
January 2009
| By Anika Gupta
December 2008 | By Anika Gupta
Wild turkeys gobble on cue
November 2008
| By Anika Gupta
A Q&A with Bobby Sanabria, musician, composer and professor of Latin jazz
September 15, 2008
| By Robin T. Reid
October 2008 | By Anika Gupta
Scientists discover insect-eating bats may help sustain forests
October 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Before TV came on the scene, presidential candidates relied on campaign songs for negative advertising
October 2008
| By Anika Gupta
The Moab Music Festival features world-class music in an unparalleled natural setting
August 27, 2008
| By Jamie Bernstein
William Chadwick, Jr. and a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration witness the first recorded underwater volcano eruption.
September 2008
| By Anika Gupta
August 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Bo Diddley's beat changed the course of rock music. And his lyrics evoked a history that reached all the way to Africa.
August 2008
| By Ned Sublette
A 2,500-year-old Greek historical play remains eerily contemporary
June 17, 2008
| By Catherine Rampell
July 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher
From bebop to hip-hop, nobody alive has done more for American music than Quincy Jones
March 2008
| By Lyndon Stambler
Love Song
June 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Paying tribute to America's first black opera
January 30, 2008
| By Marian Smith Holmes
How The Phantom of the Opera led me to a long-lost musical treasure in Paris
March 2008
| By Michael Walsh
The key to the rise of the Romans, the Mongols—and the U.S.? Ethnic diversity, Chua says in a new book
February 2008
| By Jess Blumberg
Ode to a Federal Entitlement
October 2007
| By Jess Blumberg
Young Talent
April 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Seeger Singalong
January 2008
| By Jess Blumberg
Songs to Live By
March 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher
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