Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for ?The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,? while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for ?Shadow Country.?
Eli Broad, the philanthropist whose gift financed a new contemporary-art building this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is planning to build another exhibition space for his vast collection.
?60 Minutes? on CBS has been the most-watched program in the nation the last two weeks ? including the full episode on Sunday devoted to Steve Kroft?s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama.
Even before the full board of New York City Opera learned that its proposed savior, Gerard Mortier, was saying goodbye, its chairwoman had turned to a man known in the arts as a turnaround specialist.
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Sunday's elections in Venezuela will be a key test for President Hugo Chvez a year after voters defeated his effort to change the constitution, and the socialist leader isn't missing a beat as he campaigns for his allies. Breaking into song at rallies,
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Santa battles the Illuminati, Skrulls invade chimneys and werewolves defend Christmas in this year's Marvel Digital Holiday Special, which debuted Wednesday. And that's just the start of the mayhem that Marvel Comics will unleash online this year,
Robert Wyatt has collaborated with Hot Chip re-working three of their tracks; and the songs will be released as a free EP download next month. Wyatt's vocals will now appear on Hot Chip tracks 'Made In The Dark', Whistle For Will' and 'We're Looking For
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