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- Top Picks: 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' the Fly Fishing simulator app, and moreJames Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury star in 'Driving Miss Daisy,' the cookbook 'Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream' lets you make flavors like black sesame at home, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: The Digitech TRIO Band Creator, the movie 'While We're Young,' and moreThe Receiver's album 'All Burn' features music so chill that you'll play it when you turn on the air conditioner, the PBS program '1913: Seeds of Conflict' shows a time when Jews and Arabs lived near each other with more peaceful relations, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: The Netflix series 'Dragons: Race to the Edge,' the music streaming application Spotify, and moreJoy Williams' album 'Venus'Â is a touching, deeply felt portrait of an unbreakable spirit, Genieveve's EP 'Show Your Colors' showcases Company of Thieves' incandescent singer, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: Eilen Jewell's album 'Sundown Over Ghost Town,' PBS's 'Tales From the Royal Wardrobe,' and moreThe Milan Expo showcases innovations in agriculture, dialogue about food policies, and fun cultural events, the National Geographic Channel program 'Anne Frank's Holocaust' explores new information about concentration camps and rare photographs, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: The Roadtrippers app, FIFA Women's World Cup coverage, and moreDelta Spirit lead singer Matt Vasquez is rousing on the new album 'Into the Wide,' the app GateGuru eases the nuisance of navigating a new airport or catching a connecting flight, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: The program WorldWide Telescope, the book 'The Third Plate,' and moreNational Geographic Channel's miniseries 'American Genius' looks at some of history's most famous rivalries, the Milk Carton Kids' third album 'Monterey' features an innovative approach, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: The Weather Station's 'Loyalty,' the PBS documentary 'Homefront,' and moreThe new Netflix series 'Chef's Table' features six delectable portraits of culinary maestros, the National Geographic Channel's 'Driving America' looks at America's love affair with the automobile, and more top picks.
- Tiny house owners search for an urban roostThe pared-down simplicity of tiny homes has come to embody many things: an oasis in a stormy economy, DIY ingenuity, green living, and, in some cities, the answer to homelessness.
- Top Picks: Alabama Shakes' album 'Sound & Color,' the film '1971,' and moreThe National Memorial Day Concert returns on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington , D.C., Van Morrison's new duets album is his best in years, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: Philip Kerr's book 'The Lady from Zagreb,' the TV program 'American Ballet Theatre: A History,' and moreA 'NOVA' episode titled 'Lethal Seas' looks at the effect of the increase in carbon emissions on our oceans, Ludovico Einaudi proves to be a musical mixologist on the album 'Taranta Project,' and more top picks.
- Top Picks: Sufjan Stevens' album 'Carrie & Lowell,' 'Selma' on DVD, and moreUndersea explorer Bob Ballard investigates the wreck of a German submarine in NOVA/National Geographic's 'Nazi Attack on America,' Andrew Grant Jackson's book '1965' describes the year in which radio was broadcasting breakthroughs in music at an unprecedented clip, and more top picks.
- Tony Awards nominees 2015: Here's what made the cutMusicals 'An American in Paris' and 'Fun Home' received multiple nods, while the plays 'Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two' and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' also made the list. Check out what else could be a winner this year.
- Top Picks: National Geographic's 'Hubble's Cosmic Journey,' You + Me's album 'Rose Ave.,' and moreCalexico's album 'Edge of the Sun' is the band’s most melodic fusion to date of indie rock and mariachi sounds, the Smithsonian Channel's 'Boomtowners' looks at the effect of the oil boom in Montana and North Dakota, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: The 'Independent Lens' film 'The Homestretch,' Dwight Yoakam's 'Second Hand Heart,' and moreThe 'NOVA' program 'The Great Math Mystery' explores the importance of math in everything from music to flowers, Jane Weaver's voice is as welcome to the ear as a downy pillow on her album 'The Silver Globe,' and more top picks.
- Top Picks: PBS's 'Inside the Court of Henry VIII,' Tobias Jesso Jr.'s album 'Goon,' and moreThe Oscar-nominated movie 'The Imitation Game' features a deeply felt performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, 'The Wrecking Crew' goes deep on one of music history’s coolest chapters, and more top picks.
- SXSW floods Austin with ideas, celebs – and cashThe SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, included everything from an app, Meerkat, that lets users stream live video to the Web and a Saudi Arabian princess, Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al-Saud, speaking about empowering women.
- Top Picks: 'Wolf Hall' on PBS, Slate's new podcast 'Whistlestop,' and moreLondon duo Public Service Broadcasting has created perhaps the most compelling record of the year so far with 'The Race for Space,' Robben Ford's 'Into the Sun' casts shade over most blues albums, and more top picks.
- #Muslims4Lent join in º£½Ç´óÉñ fast for solidarityWhat began as a simple gesture of appreciation quickly grew into an international interfaith campaign that has gone viral over social media. Thousands of Muslims are now participating in #Muslims4Lent, pledging to fast alongside º£½Ç´óÉñs in a show of solidarity and respect.
- Top Picks: James McMurtry's album 'Complicated Game,' the movie 'Little White Lie,' and more'The Breakfast Club' returns to movie theaters for a brief engagement, Courtney Bartnett sings anecdotal stories with a deadpan delivery on 'Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit,' and more top picks.
- Canada Goose jackets invade trendy city streetsPatched jackets from Canada Goose have conquered urban cool centers from New York to temperate Milan, Italy. The Canada Goose company is the biggest fashion success story to come out of Canada since Lululemon commandeered the yoga pant market.