‘Style Rookie’ Tavi Gevinson Plays Not My Job

Tavi Gevinson’s fashion blog, The Style Rookie, is a must-see Web destination. She’s been invited to runway shows all over the world and has written for and been profiled in magazines like The New Yorker and French Vogue. Oh, and by the way, she started blogging at age 11 … which was four years ago. [...]

Singer-Songwriter Rosanne Cash Plays Not My Job

It’s tough to have a famous parent, really hard to go into the same business, and almost impossible to create a brilliant career in your own right … but that’s exactly what singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, has done. We’ve invited Cash to play a game called: “Man, you sing a lot better [...]

In Iowa, Obama Backers Seek To Rekindle Enthusiasm

President Obama’s campaign is gearing up in the early states ahead of the 2012 election. In Iowa, Obama supporters are hoping to recapture at least some of the enthusiasm that catapulted a young senator from Illinois to victory in the state’s leadoff caucuses four years ago. On a chilly evening, a handful of volunteers are [...]

‘Unconquered’ Explores An Isolated Amazon Tribe

The 7 billion people on this planet have never been so connected. People in Shanghai can communicate instantaneously with people in Sioux City — which makes it all the more remarkable that there still exists a few thousand people in the Amazon rain forest who have never had contact with modern civilization. In 2002, National [...]

New Roving Science Lab Charts A Course For Mars

It’s time to go back to Mars. Once every two years, the orbits of Earth and Mars are aligned just right, so it’s possible to send a spacecraft from here to there. That special time is now. NASA’s latest mission is the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). It’s another six-wheeled rover, but much larger than the [...]

Art Therapy Nonprofit Improvises In New Economy

Part of a monthlong series Every Monday, Mario Barela heads to a domestic violence shelter on the west side of Phoenix to teach children of abused women how to drum. Their instruments are old paint buckets. They circle up in the cafeteria of the shelter as Barela leads. (For the safety of families residing there, [...]

At LAPD, Predicting Crimes Before They Happen

Capt. Sean Malinowski of the Los Angeles Police Department does his crime-fighting in front of a computer screen. He’s in the LAPD’s Real Time Analysis and Critical Response Division, located in a new crime data and analysis center in downtown Los Angeles. Malinowski is tracking two crimes that just occurred in south Los Angeles. Patrol [...]

With Paula Deen, It’s Not Really About The Pie

When I heard Paula Deen was coming to town, the image that leaped to mind was a fried cheesecake, deep-fried. She actually makes this! At a time when it’s trendy to take things out of food (think: gluten-free, sodium-free, fat-free), Paula Deen unapologetically puts it all back in. She loves all that stuff we’re told [...]

Black Friday Frenzy Sparks Violence At Some Stores

Shoppers flooded stores across the country today as the holiday shopping season officially got under way and people rushed to grab Black Friday deals on electronics, toys and other merchandise. More than 9,000 people waited outside Macy’s Herald Square in New York City on Thursday night ahead of the midnight opening, according to The Associated [...]

Even Lawmakers Ask: Does Anyone Like Congress?

It’s long been the case that only a minority of Americans approves of the job Congress is doing. But last month things hit a new low: For the first time ever, a CBS News-New York Times poll showed Congress’ approval rating had plunged to a single digit — 9 percent. And following this week’s failure [...]