Poetic License
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is not only a Maya Angelou book but a line from what poem? Get your AP literature on as former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads clues about poetic book titles.
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The Best Piece of Trivia You Learned This Week: Pizza Hut Edition
True or false: before 2012, Pizza Hut was the largest purchaser of kale in the US, but they only used it as garnish for their salad bars.
Everything Old is New Again
For the final round all answers in this game contain the letters "n-e-w" or "o-l-d" in order. What term did Hugh Hefner coin for the large portrait stuck in a magazine? Hint: it's not a centerf-new.
'The Only Ones' Puts A Heartbreaking Spin On Dystopia
Veteran rock critic Carola Dibbell ventures into fiction with The Only Ones, a tale of an unconventional family in post-pandemic America. Critic Jason Heller says calls it "heartbreakingly beautiful."
The 'Empire' Touch: A Cookie By Any Other Name
Fox's freshman series Empire finished its first season with an action-packed often baffling finale that underscored how much fun it is, even when it doesn't make sense.
Poet Valerie Nieman Publishes "Hotel Worthy" (Press 53)
Award-winning poet and novelist Valerie Nieman has a new collection of poems.
Hotel Worthy is set for publication by Press 53 on March 20th, and the launch party will be held at Scuppernong Books on Tuesday, March 31st (7:00pm). Of Nieman's poetry, former Poet Laureate Laureate of North Carolina Joseph Bathanti has said, "Nieman knows the names of things, how those things piece together how they sunder and while she refuses to lie, her truths are exquisite."
Nieman is a professor of Creative Writing at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro and has held writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council.
Does Fox's 'Empire' Break Or Bolster Black Stereotypes?
The hip-hop drama ends its first season Wednesday as a huge hit, thanks to black viewers. But NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says it also has sparked a complex debate over TV stereotypes.
At RiverRun Festival, Filmmakers Come From Across The State And The Globe
An annual downtown Winston-Salem film festival is less than a month away.
'The Mechanical' Will Make Your Clockwork Pulse Pound
Ian Tregillis' new novel is the start of a series, set in an alternate 1926, that follows a robot's search for humanity against a backdrop of science, philosophy and a grand struggle between empires.
France Considers A Ban On Overly Skinny Models
Proposed legislation would criminalize the use of underweight models and ban online sites that glorify anorexia and other eating disorders.