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This year's Perseid meteor shower may be hard to see because it coincides with a so-called supermoon. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Caltech professor Mike Brown about the dueling celestial events.

Neil LaBute’s play, The Shape of Things, is a modern retelling of the fall of man.After a chance meeting in a museum, Evelyn, a sexy, aggressive artist,…

The Republican National Convention isn't only about politics, it seems. One young staffer used the stage this morning to ask his girlfriend to marry him. Photographers were on hand.

Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella is on Broadway for the first time. The beloved musical with its signature songs “Impossible,” “In My Own Little…

A pair of film makers from Florida has explored the history of the Vietnam War from an interesting perspective: surfing.Today on the Best of Our…

Henry Bloch – the 'H' in H&R Block – has donated his art collection to a museum, but he found a way to keep enjoying the works at home.

A summer program at Rice University aims to get more women working in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM for short.

The writer behind five screenplays and several theater productions, his new play is called –Lobby Hero— and opens March 13 at Playwrights Horizons. He also wrote, directed and acted in the Oscar nominated –You can Count on Me,— which came out last year. The screenplay for that movie recently won Best Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America and is up for an Oscar in the same category. It is also an Oscar contender in the category of Best Actress in a Leading Role (played by Laura Linney). Other movies hes worked on include –The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle— and –Analyze This.—

Each year, at the American Library Association's mid-winter meeting, the winners of the most prestigious prizes for children's books are announced: the Caldecott Medal for picture book, and the Newbery Award.

Obsessed — and confounded — by the roller-coaster economy? To help you understand our frazzled financial situation, Laura Conaway offers three books that cover everything from the Great Depression to the "dazzling world of derivatives."