Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 -0500Attorney David Dow has spent his career representing inmates who have been sentenced to death. Despite his efforts, many of his clients have been executed — and most of them were guilty. In his new memoir,
The Autobiography of an Execution, Dow details what it's like to become emotionally involved with the people living on death row.
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:24:00 -0500Out 'n' In, the latest album from Empirical, is a tribute to the late musician Eric Dolphy. The record contains six original pieces that adopt Dolphy's style and adaptations of two songs from his album
Out to Lunch!
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:42:00 -0500Temple Grandin is one of the world's greatest animal behaviorists. She is also autistic — and has put that to work for her. Grandin has written several books on animals, including
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. This weekend, HBO will premiere a made-for-TV movie based on her life.
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:40:00 -0500Luc Besson's latest action fantasy,
From Paris With Love, stars John Travolta as an FBI agent and Jonathan Rhys Myers as a diplomat trying to stop a terrorist attack in Paris. The story moves at warp speed — and it doesn't skimp on thrills.
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 -0500Comedian Aziz Ansari has appeared on HBO's
Flight of the Conchords, ABC's
Scrubs and MTV's
Human Giant. Nowadays he stars opposite Amy Poehler on NBC's workplace comedy
Parks and Recreation.