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  • Wichita State's PR team has taken every opportunity to benefit from the media crush around the school's unexpected run to the Final Four.
    A PR Person's How-To Guide For Spinning College Sports
    It's been a busy week in college basketball, complete with a Cinderella, a gruesome injury and a head coach's exit. We wonder: How do colleges spin the unpredictable news of sports?
  • Chuck Whiting and His Rowdy Friends
    Western swing band premieres new album, new name
    If you want to hear Kalamazoo band Chuck Whiting and His Rowdy Friends, Friday night at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum might be your last chance.…
  • Solar Panels at Western Michigan University - file photo by WMUK
    Making sustainability a habit
    A Western Michigan University graduate student is working on a project she hopes will dramatize the costs of not saving energy. The project was one focus…
  • Secretary Napolitano Finishes Up At Homeland Security
    Friday is Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's last day on the job. She is leaving Washington, and will become president of the University of California system at the end of the month.
  • Allan Sherman released three albums between October 1962 and August 1963.
    Hello Muddah, Hello Drama: The Brief Bloom Of Parodist Allan Sherman
    Sherman worked a tight niche: classic songs rewritten to tickle a Jewish audience's funny bone. A new biography, Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman, explains how the performer's 1960s crossover fell in line with a collective awakening to ethnic identity in America.
  • Chinese pianist Fei-Fei Dong, 22, performs at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. The Juilliard School graduate student is among six musicians chosen for the final round.
    The Cliburn Competition After Van
    Founded in 1962, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition continues this year without the presence of its iconic namesake. But organizers and contestants believe the contest — as well as its high standards and ability to boost careers — will remain.
  • Images from posters made by relatives show 10 of the 12 young people kidnapped in broad daylight from a bar in Mexico City on May 26. No one has claimed responsibility for the brazen abduction.
    Mass Kidnapping Puts Mexican Legal System On Trial
    Mexico City has largely been spared the drug violence in other parts of the country. But a brazen daylight abduction of 12 young people from a Mexico City bar is putting the spotlight on one of the capital's roughest neighborhoods, and putting the popular mayor on the defensive.
  • Afghanistan presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, earlier this year.
    Afghanistan, Pakistan Struggle To Find Common Ground
    Relations between the two countries have long been problematic but seemed to be turning a corner a few months ago. Now, they are at it again: After a series of diplomatic miscues, each country is accusing the other of hindering peace talks with the Taliban.
  • The Steinway Musical Instruments factory in Queens, N.Y.
    Why Steinway Is Likely To Be Sold To A Hedge Fund Manager
    Steinway Musical Instruments is on the auction block and a mystery bidder, rumored to be hedge fund manager John Paulson, appears to have the winning bid at $458 million. Ilya Marritz explains why the fairly healthy company is seeking a buyout in the first place.
  • Shacochis Spans Generations In 'The Woman Who Lost Her Soul'
    In his new book, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, Bob Shacochis returns to Haiti, but also takes the reader across continents and generations. The 700-page book has been compared to the work of Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and Norman Mailer.
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