Independent journalist Tom Roston checks in and writes about the world of documentaries in his column, Doc Soup. Have you seen Four Christmases yet? It's the big holiday comedy that's plastered on every billboard and on a constant trailer loop — you probably feel like you have already...

This week in SundayArts news: learn more about Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s current season, see the photographs of Catherine Opie at the Guggenheim, the piano playing of Jonathan Biss comes to Carnegie Hall, and check out Art and China’s Revolution at the Asia Society.

Catherine Opie’s show at the Guggenheim, which provides an overview of this important photographer’s work since 1991, would be a required pit stop on any visual-arts lover’s tour at any time of the year. But place it against all the hoopla surrounding California’s Proposition 8, and the survey acquires further...

Not all of the advice given by financial experts Janet Bodnar and Pam Shortal made it into my story tonight. Here are some other tips they gave that didn’t make it to air but could still be useful to many families:Be Age Appropriate. A 3-year-old isn’t going to remember...

When is a cartel not a cartel? When it has to ask for "help" to get a handle on prices. That's the situation faced by OPEC, otherwise known as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. In my interview with John Kilduff, energy analyst at MF Global, John told me that...

Today seems like a good day to practice a little relational aesthetics, which I suspect arguably has its roots in this holiday (or any holiday gathering, for that matter). Just ask Pierre Huyghe (Season 4) and Rirkrit Tiravanija for a second opinion. Happy Thanksgiving and getting! addthis_url...

A textile cone hunts other snails. Its proboscis contains a harpoon, loaded with a powerful venom called conotoxin. It paralyzes its prey so it can be sucked from its shell and devoured. Other cone shells have developed a venom that's effective for hunting vertebrates, like fish.

EXCLUSIVE: Choreographer Helen Pickett during the making of Laurie Simmons’s The Music of Regret (2006) at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio, New York. Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as “living objects‚” animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored...

The Election Connection blog will be on hiatus for the next two weeks, as we take a break for the holidays and get ready for the inauguration and transition.

Zero is a portrait of aimless twenty-something men struggling with broken dreams, and unable to let go of the crushes and grudges they've carried since high school. Despite an energetic lead, the production and the plot fail to move beyond the limited ambitions of the characters. Photo/Nan Coulter Reviewed by Ilana...

The Federal Reserve is on track to pump about $3 trillion into the banking and financial system. Eventually, that money has to come back out of the system. What then? It appears the Fed is already thinking about that to a degree. That explains why the Fed is not buying assets directly....

A comedy of mistaken identity and love unfolds onstage at the critically-acclaimed Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's Twelfth Night.

(Photo by Robin Holland) This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with author Michael Pollan about America’s problematic food policies and what citizens might do for their –- and the nation’s –- health. Pollan said: “I'm not a puritan about food and I'm not a zealot about it, and...

(Photo by Jason Houston) We'd like to thank Lisa M. Hamilton for sharing her photo essay, "The Transformation", with THE MOYERS BLOG. We invite you to respond below. Please note that the views and opinions expressed by Lisa M. Hamilton are not necessarily the views and opinions held by...

(Photo by Robin Holland) Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below. Michael Pollan's Food For Thought By Michael Winship The writer and activist Michael Pollan has no interest in becoming Barack Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture, thank you very much, even though there are a lot of...