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Top Picks: The digital magazine Marvelous, 'Gravity' on DVD and Blu-ray, and moreA new app compiles clips from documentaries by Ken Burns, writer Mitch Horowitz details how the idea of thinking positively took the US by storm, and more top picks.
Visitors take vibrant new rolesMuseums are no longer telling visitors to stand back and don't touch 鈥� they're asking for their participation.
Top Picks: NBC's Olympic Gold Map of athletes' training facilities, Sting's Broadway play preview, and more'Frontline' examines the intersection of teenagers and social media, food historian Rae Katherine Eighmey explores Abraham Lincoln's life through regional food, and more top picks.
Top Picks: 'Captain Phillips' on DVD and Blu-ray, PBS's celebration of Britain's National Theatre, and moreJazz singer Gregory Porter's new album is funky and irresistible, graphic designer Brock Davis captures whimsical still lifes with his iPhone, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Musician Dave Van Ronk's memoir, Capitol Records' remastered Beatles albums, and moreCBS celebrates the anniversary of the Beatles' 'Ed Sullivan' appearance, PBS honors Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker's birthday with a two-hour tribute, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The FoodieTV app, Greg Kot's Staples Singers biography, and moreActor Christopher Plummer portrays John Barrymore for PBS as part of the 'Great Performances' series, 'James Bond' writer Ian Fleming gets his own series for BBC America, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The Discovery Channel's scripted series 'Klondike,' the Everly Brothers tribute album 'Foreverly,' and moreThe documentary 'Salinger,' which explores the life of the mysterious 'Catcher in the Rye' author, airs on PBS, Leonard Maltin's new movie guide will prep you for awards season, and more top picks.
A new stage for playwrightsPlaywrights are increasingly staging their shows on their terms as networking via social media and more creative approaches give them the ability to take control of their work.
Top Picks: PBS's documentary on '1964,' a Fred Astaire album, and morePhotographer Kirsty Mitchell brings viewers to a world of flowers and wooded glades in her series 'Wonderland 2009-2014,' comedian Paul F. Tompkins has his friends portray famous authors in The Dead Authors Podcast, and more top picks.
A workout tribe for city dwellersThe November Project, a no-fee grassroots workout group that meets early in the morning, has spread from its home city of Boston to other locations like San Diego, Denver, and even Canada.
Top Picks: The Super Deluxe box set of 'The Velvet Underground & Nico,' this year's Annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast, and more'Downton Abbey' returns for a fourth season on PBS, PBS's 'American Masters' examines the life of prolific composer Marvin Hamlisch, and more top picks.
A surprise hidden in a phone boxPhone boxes, now often deserted, are the subject of a Massachusetts art project where artists create works inside their interiors.
Top Picks: The Royal Opera House's 'Nutcracker' at your movie theater, Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon's Beatles book 'All the Songs,' and more'Once' troubadour Glen Hansard's new album 'Drive All Night' recalls Springsteen and Van Morrison, PBS's 'How Sherlock Changed the World' examines the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on police work, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The Nobel Peace Prize Concert, AOL's New York City Ballet documentary, and moreJazz musician Ben Allison tries something new with his genre on the album 'The Stars Look Very Different Today,' the children's book 'Songs from a Journey with a Parrot' has kids read and sing, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Our staff selects the best of holiday musicFrom Nick Lowe's folksy 'Quality Street' to Mary J. Blige's refreshing take on winter standards, here's some new music worth checking out this holiday season.
Thanksgiving by the numbersFrom the amount of airline passengers flying home the history of the president pardoning a turkey, use these facts about Turkey Day to entertain your tablemates at dinner this year.
Top Picks: Thanksgiving Day TV, Benjamin Moore's color app, and moreHBO's sports retrospective looks at how athletics can cross race, gender, and class lines, the American Chemical Society's site has tips on Thanksgiving cooking as well as facts about the science behind it, and more top picks.
Top Picks: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' on DVD and Blu-ray, an opportunity to save a turkey, and morePBS airs the films 'Indian Relay' and 'Young Lakota' to celebrate Native American Heritage Month, Oliver Stone's 'JFK' arrives on Blu-ray with new features and footage, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Hugh Jackman in 'Oklahoma!,' Arcade Fire's 'Reflektor,' and moreThe Smithsonian Channel takes viewers through the entire day of J.F.K.'s assassination, the film 'Rising From Ashes' tells the story of a group of cyclists training for the Olympics, and more top picks.
Once a fraud, now a masterpieceThe tech age in which we live enables experts to determine more quickly when a newly found painting is indeed the long-lost work of a master.
