Photography exhibit explores America's communities
Friday, September 26, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) — Known and respected as a documentary photographer, Catherine Opie catches the people and moments we all might miss as we race through our lives — an empty highway, a lesbian couple, street corner shrines, a lone surfer.
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16 violins rescued from Holocaust play again
Thursday, September 25, 2008
JERUSALEM (AP) — Sixteen violins found in Nazi concentration camps and abandoned Jewish communities after World War II have made music together for the first time in a concert outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
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New Mozart piece of music found in French library
Monday, September 15, 2008
PARIS (AP) — A French museum has found a previously unknown piece of music handwritten by Mozart, a researcher said Thursday. The 18th century melody sketch is missing the harmony and instrumentation but was described as important find.
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Mining the past
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Prehistoric treasures in Texas soil
In the popular mind, the field of archeology instantly evokes images of far-off, exotic places: the mysterious pyramids of Egypt, Italy’s ancient city of Pompeii, and Peru’s Lost City of Machu Picchu. The U.S., in all of its modern, commercialized glory, usually doesn’t make the list, but it should.
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