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  • Performance artist Hillary Carlip collects discarded shopping lists. She imagines their authors, transforms herself into them, and goes shopping. In one case, she even created an online dating profile for her character.
  • Syrians seem unimpressed with this year's Nobel Peace laureate — the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international chemical weapons watchdog that is currently working in Syria to catalogue and destroy the Syrian army's stockpiles of poison gas. In the words of one activist in Damascus, reaction "ranges from pure anger to disillusion to sarcasm to black comedy."
  • A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
  • Commentator Clancy Sigal was a sergeant in the American army of occupation in Germany, the only Jew in his unit. He remembers vividly his visit to the Nuremberg Trials.
  • What happens when fans stop talking about a show that used to be their favorite? Take American Idol, for example. Last week's finale was way down from last year's finale. It was the first time a finale did not reach the 20-million mark.
  • For decades, Jamie Lynn Stevenson could never re-create her great-grandmother's walnut meringue cookies. But with some help from pastry chef and cookbook author Gesine Bullock-Prado, she finally solves the baking mystery.
  • Salvant explores the quaint art of jazz singing, but with her own aesthetic idiosyncrasies intact. Her toolbox contains anywhere from a rich, husky voice to one that tiptoes theatrically, girlishly.
  • In 1971, Motown founder Berry Gordy created MoWest, a California label that would last only two years before being dismantled. A new anthology documents this odd and little-known chapter in Motown's history.
  • Apparently, there's no shortage of people who make misguided choices for wedding processions, father-daughter dances, cake-cuttings and everything in between. Hear five of the worst choices for wedding music, as chosen by you.
  • Twitter says it is testing out the feature internally before rolling it out to Twitter Blue subscribers. It will allow users to edit tweets several times within 30 minutes of posting them.
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