Poking Fun At The 'Stuff White People Like' In a new book based on his popular blog, Christian Lander tracks the trends and tendencies of white people, from fair-trade organic coffee to vintage T-shirts.
Artist Gives Old Saints New Faces There are exactly 103 roads named after Catholic saints in Los Angeles. J. Michael Walker has spent eight years exploring these roads and avenues, researching their namesake saints and finding connections with the people who inhabit them.
PBS Launches An ABCs Offensive With New Shows Television is no longer considered the enemy of education. In the past couple of years, PBS has made a big push to develop shows that help kids prepare to read — but are the kids watching?
At Beijing Olympics, Photographers Shine Olympic photographers rely on talent, technology and strategic positioning to capture images that become signature moments of the games. Making those pictures happen in a fast-moving track event is a special challenge.
Waterboarding At Coney Island: The Thrill That Chills It might not be surprising that waterboarding, the controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning, would become the subject of satire. But it was shocking to many when artist Steve Powers created an attraction called the Waterboard Thrill Ride.
Finding Beijing's Not-So-Hidden Art Treasure A few years ago a handful of renegade artists staked their claim just outside Beijing, away from the eye of the authorities. Now 798, as the area is called, is a bustling arts zone supported by the Chinese government.
A Cross-Country Road Trip Back In Time In the summer of 1973, photographer Stephen Shore set out on a quintessential American adventure. Now, 35 years later, his journey has become the focus of a book titled <em>A Road Trip Journal</em>. It reflects an America when gas was about 43 cents a gallon.
Experts Uncover A Painting Van Gogh Covered Up A work by Vincent Van Gogh was recently uncovered at a museum in the Netherlands. But it wasn't lost in some dusty corridor, it was hidden under the paint of another Van Gogh. Scientists found it by using a giant X-ray machine.
For Artists, Craigslist Is Both Medium And Message Los Angeles-based collaborators went to the online bulletin board for inspiration — then took to the streets to ask Angelenos what Craigslist has done for them.
French Architect Has Designs On Vegas Desert One of France's most famous architects is making his mark in Paris and other cities, despite his talent for designing buildings that disappear into the landscape. Earlier this year, Jean Nouvel won the Pritzker Prize, architecture's top honor. His next project could take him to Las Vegas.
