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Carole King to be honored with Obama-hosted show, Gershwin Prize

2013-05-17 12:49:00

Carole King seems to have fans in high places: The singer-songwriter's life will be staged with an eye toward Broadway, and next week her oeuvre will be honored at the White House. Officials announced Friday that President Obama will host a star-studded...

The men who would be Gatsby

2013-05-13 06:00:00

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of a handful of actors who have portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tragic protagonist “The Great Gatsby” in film and TV over the last 87 years. Warner Baxter, who won the best actor Oscar as the Cisco Kid in the...

reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker

2013-05-01 03:05:07

Frank Capra's 'The Donovan Affair' gets a live soundtrack

2013-04-26 05:00:00

Frank Capra is best known for the three films for which he won the directing Oscar — 1934's "It Happened One Night," 1936's "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" and 1938's "You Can't Take It With You" — and the ultimate Christmas flick, 1946's "It's a...

How to make the most of a trip to the nation's capital

2013-03-17 00:00:00

A spring break in the nation's capital is a rite of passage for some families, but if the airfare from the West Coast to the East has stretched your vacation budget, take heart. Many places are free, thanks to government funding (although the sequester...

Fay Kanin dies at 95; screenwriter was former Academy president

2013-03-27 22:00:00

Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95. In a writing career that spanned more than four...

2012 National Recording Registry selections unveiled

2013-03-21 05:00:00

This post has been updated. See note below for details. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is no longer just the rock album that has logged more weeks than any other on Billboard’s national album chart nor merely the one acid...

Review: 'Oz the Great and Powerful' a rough slog on the yellow brick road

2013-03-07 16:07:00

Sometimes sweet, sometimes scary, sometimes sour, "Oz the Great and Powerful" is a film that doesn't know its own mind. A partially effective jumble whose elements clash rather than cohere, this solid but not spectacular effort stubbornly refuses to catch...

Great and powerful? Recalling the original ‘Wizard of Oz’ [Photos]

2013-03-08 10:02:09

California lawmaker to present bill revoking cellphone unlocking ban

2013-03-06 10:16:00

California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) said Wednesday that she plans to introduce a bill that would lift the ban on consumers unlocking their cellphones. "The ban on unlocking cellphones puts consumers in the back seat when it comes to...

White House: Consumers should be able to unlock smartphones

2013-03-04 11:19:00

The White House said Monday that consumers should be able to unlock their smartphones, and that it would support legislation to make such adjustments legal. The Obama administration said consumers deserve the flexibility to unlock their smartphones as...

Proponents of cellphone unlocking ask the White House for help

2013-02-18 13:14:00

Proponents of cellphone unlocking are trying to gain the White House's support through a petition drive, but they face a couple of non-trivial hurdles. First, they have until Saturday to reach 100,000 signatures — the new threshold the Obama...

This Library of Congress photo shows Peck with his staff near Washington, D.C. in 1862.

2013-04-10 00:00:00

Bassett was born in Derby. He was appointed U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti in 1869, making him the first black diplomat for the United States, according to the .

2013-02-12 00:00:00

Carole King, right, joined by Alicia Keys at a recent salute in Hollywood to King's music, will receive the Library of Congress' 2013 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

2012-12-13 09:43:24