Hello, Vietnam [with audio]

The General Nelson M. Walker was first named the U.S.S. Admiral H. T. Mayo, a naval ship built in 1945 that weighed nearly 10,000 tons and carried up to 5,000 troops at a haul to and from ports during World War II…

Big screen to the small screen

“Masterpiece Theatre”Sunday 9pm, PBS The barometer for classy TV is about to get downright hip, as Agent Scully herself, Gillian Anderson, comes on board as the new host of “Masterpiece […]

New year, new shows

"Cashmere Mafia"Thursday 10pm, ABC If this new lady-centric drama feels a bit like "Sex and the City," that’s because it is. The show is produced by "Sex"’s Darren Star and […]

Tattoo you

Jason Keefer spent a lot of time meditating while Ben Miller stood over him, guiding the apparatus that punched hundreds of tiny holes in his neck—almost two hours, in fact.

Britta’s bees [with video]

Britta-Lena Lasko had just wrapped her master's thesis for the Brooks Institute of Photography—a documentary project following women in Maine's fishing industry that cast her into the ocean on clam diggers and sea urchin diving boats—and was sharing the results in an exhibit in Maine when she began speaking with a museum curator about bees.