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What’s Up This Week Around the Mall

“Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian” is a major two-city exhibition with shows opening concurrently in Washington, D.C. and NY

Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur.

What’s Up From the Smithsonian

Photographic keepsakes, garden paintings from the maharajahs and Fritz Scholder’s Indian identity on canvas

The Greensboro Woolworth's Lunch Counter, desegregated by a 1960 sit-in, anchors a wing of the renovated museum.

From the Castle: History Ahead

A renovated National Museum of American History opens up American history and culture to millions of visitors

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Fake Radio War Stirs Terror Through US: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds turns 70

Seventy years ago, Orson Welles whipped millions of Americans into a martian-crazed panic with a radio play adaptation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds

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Last-Minute Costume Ideas

Answers to Last Week’s Sesame Street Quiz

*SPOILER ALERT* We will be posting answers to our Sesame Street quiz throughout the week. Miss it? Check out our video before we spoil some of the fun

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Sesame Street Redux and Jim Henson’s Fantastic World

Watch “Around the Mall” bloggers sit down and talk with a few old friends from Sesame Street

Vintage pop-up book.

What’s Up

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Deep Sea 3-D: Even a Four-Eyes Can Have Fun

A review of Deep Sea 3-D by a 3-D movie skeptic

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Bill Viola: The Mind’s Eye

Puerto Rican government created posters to promote pro-democracy films

What’s Up

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Newcomers

Two new key additions to our staff

"Science on a Sphere" illustrates satellite data on multiple aspects of the ocean.

From the Castle

Deep Science

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