Sunday Morning

It happened last week … the deaths of three people from very different walks of life. Designer Iris Apfel died Friday. The New York-born Apfel, who once called herself a “geriatric starlet,” rose to fame in the 1950s and ’60s as an interior designer, including on a number of White …

Just outside of our nation’s capital, amid Virginia’s rolling hills and picturesque stone walls, is a place that time seems to have forgotten, the place Sheila Johnson calls home. She came here in 1996 to find refuge. At the time, BET (Black Entertainment Television), the company she and her then-husband …

Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated necks … all well-known characteristics of an Amedeo Modigliani masterpiece. Less well known? The brains behind that brush. At the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, curators and conservators are using new technologies to unearth old secrets from beneath the canvas. Their findings are part of the …

Across America, the message is loud and clear: 35 years after the talk radio revolution, “on the air” is still often an exercise in “off the rails.”  Correspondent Jim Axelrod asked industry expert Brian Rosenwald, “In 2022’s America, what’s the nature of talk radio? Is it any different than it’s …

Exploring Washington, D.C.’s newest museum, Planet Word, you might think you’ve entered an amusement park, and in some ways, you have! “Underlying everything is a sense of fun,” said Planet Word’s founder and CEO, Ann Friedman. “It’s a museum built on ideas, and then turned into experiences.” But the fun …

Can we still laugh at the humor of comic Louis C.K., knowing he’s been accused of exposing himself to women he worked with? “A woman saying yes to a date with a man is literally insane and ill-advised. ‘Yeah, I’ll go out with you, alone, at night.’ ‘What are you, …

Broadway theaters have been dark since March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In all, 31 shows shut down, including “Hadestown” at the Walter Kerr Theatre, illuminated now only by the traditional ghost light. When might theatres re-open with no need for masks? Actress Jennifer Garner recently posed that question …

In “The Vanishing Half” (Riverhead Books), the new novel by Brit Bennett (author of the New York Times bestselling “The Mothers”), twin sisters living in the Deep South in the 1960s choose separate lives as one secretly passes for White. Read an excerpt below. The morning one of the lost …

Nate ‘n Al’s Delicatessen in Beverly Hills, which has served show-biz folk like Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner for 75 years now, is closed this week. It’s just few of blocks away from where Brooks hosts his weekly lunch; that is also suspended for now, as are millions of other …

At Bill Bensley’s new luxury tented camp inside the largest rainforest in Cambodia, guests enter the property by racing down one of the longest ziplines in Asia.  Correspondent Ben Tracy asked, “What is the response from guests when they show up and realize they get to zipline into the hotel?” …