Nov 19th, 2008 · Arts critic Clive Barnes died Wednesday. During the 1960s and 1970s, the British-born Barnes exercised significant influence over New York theater and dance as a critic for The New York Times. He became a New York Post critic in 1978.
Sep 22nd, 2008 · How do we live with the knowledge that death comes to all? Julian Barnes mixes memoir with philosophy as he zigzags briskly through the scientific, religious and emotional significance of living finite lives.
Apr 17th, 2008 · Canadian singer-songwriter Tim Barnes had "a blitzkrieg of ideas" when he set out to make his new CD, A Few Selfish Sketches. He wrote all the songs and recorded the entire album in just two weeks for the RPM Challenge and found his biggest hurdle was just making sense of all the sounds in his head. A Few Selfish Sketches is a cozy collection of lo-fi folk-pop songs, with Barnes playing all the instruments. It features the inspired opening track, "Badum."
Apr 13th, 2008 · The new facility looks like a nineteenth-century barn, but is filled with audio and video presentations. The visitor center cost about $125 million and offers a dozen galleries -- with one devoted to each day of the 1863 Pennsylvania battle.
Mar 20th, 2008 · Borders is exploring the possibility of putting itself up for sale. It's having a hard time fending off competition from No. 1 book store chain Barnes and Noble, the Wal-Mart book aisle and online book sellers. Borders' stock price has fallen 66 percent since last year.
Aug 28th, 2007 · Struggling Gateway computer is being purchased for $710 million by Acer, a Taiwan-based computer maker. Gateway was a rising power in the computer industry in the early 1990s. It was started by college dropout Ted Waite in his father's South Dakota barn back in 1985.
Aug 16th, 2007 · A weathered barn on the tip of Cape Cod is home to a century-old school where Norman Rockwell and other iconic painters honed their talents. Now, the Hawthorne School of Art is up for sale, and is likely to be truned into housing plots.
Dec 6th, 2006 · Earlier this year, scientists went into a dark barn in New Jersey, trapped some bats, and stuck them next a magnetic coil. Then, they tagged the flying mammals with a tiny electronic tag, and freed them -- 20 miles from their home roost. The researchers then watched to see if the bats could find their way home. The goal: to see if bats can use invisible magnetic fields to navigate in the dark. NPR's John Nielsen has the answer.