The MTV Video Music Awards In Pictures: Lady Gaga Is Not Herself

The MTV Video Music Awards are always ridiculous. By that I mean that they are intended to be ridiculous. They are meant to have one big moment — Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift forgiving Kanye West in song, Madonna and Britney Spears kissing, whatever — and the rest is just sort of … [...]

Why Did I Watch Fourteen Hours Of The Weather Channel? I’m Not Sure.

If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that I spent all day Saturday watching The Weather Channel. It started very early in the morning when I woke up nervous and headed out to the living room. The hurricane hadn’t even made landfall yet, but they already had a guy on the beach who [...]

Grant Achatz: The Chef Who Couldn’t Taste

This interview was originally broadcast on March 3, 2011. A typical 23-course meal at Chicago’s Alinea restaurant might include olive oil lollypops, sweet potatoes skewered by smoking cinnamon sticks, strips of bacon hanging from a stainless steel bow, and pheasant tempura-fried with apple cider, impaled on a flaming oak leaf. Alinea, which opened in 2005, [...]

Powell Isn’t Sure He’ll Support Obama In 2012 Race

It was a big story when former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. So it’s news that this weekend on CBS-TV’s Face the Nation, Powell said he hasn’t decided if he will vote for the president in 2012. “Just as was the case in 2008, [...]

Tiny Gems: Irish Stories That Sparkle And Charm

Ireland makes storytellers. Perhaps it is the land itself, isolated from the rest of Europe, bound by the sea, wet by the passing rains, green fields, blue mountains, so sparsely populated in places that the sheep outnumber the people. Or perhaps the Irish stories are born out of the history of the place — the [...]

New Center for OKC Homeless

Oklahoma City is taking a major step in its ten year plan to end homelessness in the metropolitan area.

Irene: Wet, Deadly And Expensive, But No Monster

The storm that had been Hurricane Irene crossed into Canada overnight but wasn’t yet through with the U.S., where flood waters threatened Vermont towns and New Yorkers feared a commuting nightmare as their transit system, shut down ahead of the storm, was slowly restored. The storm left millions without power across much of the Eastern [...]

Simple Things To Do To Lessen Back-To-School Stomach Bugs

As kids head back to class the dreaded back-to-school bugs begin to spike. Sniffles and sneezes are inevitable, but there are also stomach bugs. And parents may never have considered how one part of the morning routine may increase their children’s odds of getting an upset stomach. It’s the packing of lunch with just typical [...]

‘Comedy Person’ Wyatt Cenac Does News For Laughs

Are dogs racist? Why is TV the best roommate you’ll ever have? Those are some of the questions comedian Wyatt Cenac addresses in his new DVD and CD of stand-up comedy, Wyatt Cenac: Comedy Person. Cenac is best known for his work on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, where he goes out into the field [...]

‘Land Bank’ Knocks Out Some Foreclosure Problems

Cities have been tearing down crumbling, vacant houses for decades. The money for municipal demolition bills usually comes out of city budgets, but in Cleveland the housing crisis has started to change that equation. Bill Beavers has lived on Cleveland’s Dove Street since 1967. But on a frecent sunny morning, Beavers is sitting on a [...]