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Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903) is a 12-minute film that em...
Martin Scorsese is a legend of a director — and he's also a great film teacher, a man who balances a passion for the medium with a deep knowledge of its history. Delivering this year's installment of...
Patricia Volk is an essayist, novelist and memoirist. She recounts her exper...
Patricia Volk's mother was beautiful in a way that stopped people on the street. Strangers compared her to Lana Turner and Grace Kelly. She was stylish and vain: Her beauty and its preservation...
Laura Linney and Alan Alda star in The Big C, now in its fourth season on Sh...
From a young age, Laura Linney knew what she wanted to do with her life: act. There was no question.She was a drama nerd in high school, and went onto Juilliard to study theater. But film acting was...
Caitlin Rose's newest album is titled The Stand-In....
"Pink Champagne," a song on Caitlin Rose's second album The Stand-In, presents Rose's voice in its sparest purity and veiled shrewdness. She sends her voice skyward, the notes as buoyant and light as...
Gail Godwin, whose latest novel is Flora, has been a finalist for the Nation...
Gail Godwin says one of the inspirations for her new novel, called Flora, is Henry James' ghost story The Turn of the Screw. Both stories take place in isolated old houses, and both revolve around...
In one of the stories that Grandpa Hari Chopra told to his grandson Ashok Kumar Malhotra, a young Buddhist monk has lived a life of reverence and self-discipline but after twelve years still has not...
Free Screening of Artist Café: Orazio Salati Friday, May 3rd at 5:00pm at the Art Mission & Theater   See local painter Orazio Salati in an all-new episode of Artist Caf...
Poems submitted to OFF THE PAGE by 29 of our listeners -- an anthology of the air.  Click on a poet's name and read them here. Every poet needs to find a "voice" -- not merely...
Premieres March 31st! Sundays at 2:00pm on WSKG TV Cooking with Julie Taboulie is an inspiring culinary exploration into the wonderful World of Lebanese and Middle Eastern Cuisines. This half...
There really is a place called Arcadia.  It is a region of the presently-troubled nation of Greece, and for centuries its name has been synonomous with beauty, tranquility and the "...