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Top Picks: 'The Adventures of Tintin,' Philip Glass's opera 'Satyagraha,' and moreBruce Springsteen mixes genres on a new album, Cooking Light reveals the 41 most common cooking mistakes, Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' offers a more male-based cast, and more top picks.
Top Picks: A tribute to John Williams, exploring a 'Frozen Planet,' and moreSteve Martin tweets about 'The Da Vinci Code' and the Super Bowl, Nada Surf banishes the March blues, the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C. includes a preview by Ken Burns, and more top picks.
Cities are banking on the artsOnce the first thing to be cut in a time of recession, the arts are proving their worth.
Top Picks: Tenor Salvatore Licitra, the miniseries 'On Death Row,' and more top picksSinger/songwriter Amos Lee and his band craft a funky, acoustic EP, composite sketch software creates images of literary characters, Hipcycle lets you be trendy and green, and more top picks.- Top Picks: Woody Allen's 'Manhattan,' an all-star blues concert, and more top picksOne website shows Google and Twitter's first days on the Internet, saxophonist and composer Tim Berne releases a new album, 'American Masters' celebrates jazz legend Cab Calloway, and more top picks.
India reinvents its vibrant colorsExports revived India's iconic hand-block textile industry in the 1970s; now labor and water woes threaten it.- Top Picks: Oscar-nominated shorts, Paul McCartney's new album, and moreA photography series shows the artist behind the famous image, Chip Taylor & the Grandkids create a charming album for all ages, 'American Experience' profiles Clinton, and more top picks.
Woody Guthrie, in an age of 'Occupy'On his centennial, tributes pour in for a man who made complex social issues deceptively simple through song and championed the downtrodden.- Top Picks: New works by da Vinci, the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, and moreDion releases new songs, StoryCorps tells the tale of a couple who met because of a wrong e-mail address, filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman explains why Black History Month should be a relic of the past, and more top picks.
Charles Dickens at 200How would the social reformer who gave us Oliver Twist and Tiny Tim have viewed the 'Occupy' movement and Arab Spring? A look at Dickens's enduring legacy.- Top Picks: SiriusXM's 'The Loft,' Maggie Smith on 'Downton Abbey,' and moreTime for Kids' new book shows kids how to solve science mysteries, Karimba's new CD makes listeners want to get up and dance, Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical 'Phantom of the Opera' records a performance for its anniversary, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Blu-ray, Michael Feinstein's musical journey, and moreLena Dunham's film 'Tiny Furniture' is a lively movie with sharp dialogue, PBS examines a little-known civil rights activist, film critics rank a list of the greatest movies ever, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: A breakout British star, bears in the wild, and moreThe best of the 'Thin Man' series get re-released, a board game that everyone wins is available for family time, 2012 myths are debunked, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Examining the Wild West, an opera on Anne Boleyn, and more'Moneyball' features a great performance by Brad Pitt, jazz duo Charlie Haden and Hank Jones release a beautiful collection of hymns and spirituals, a video shows breathtaking views of Ho Chi Minh City and the traffic inside it, and more top picks.- Fantasy goes darkAs new franchises replace 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' a grimmer, more apocalyptic tone haunts the story line.
Teaching on the runLife lessons from a 100-mile expedition in the Indian desert.
