Arts

With the release of 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' and the recent season finale of 'Downton Abbey,' actress Maggie Smith is in our spotlight this week on Screen Time.

"This Diamond Ring" by Gary Lewis and the Playboys was No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart 50 years ago Wednesday.

A new exhibit from the Walker Art Center makes the case that Minnesota is a hotbed of inventive and creative design -- including things like the Honeycrisp apple.

MPR News with Kerri Miller kicked off a words and language series with University of Minnesota Etymologist Anatoly Liberman.

Jessica Bennett, a journalist covering gender and culture for Time and The New York Times, recently wrote about punctuation in digital communication.

Waverly was one of four small towns picked for a stop on the Gentlemen of the Road tour.

On loan from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, the show at the American Swedish Institute features couture designs that depict the work of Nobel laureates.

Bo Diddley's first single quickly moved to the top of the R&B chart and launched his career.

"When I heard about the sad demise of Leonard Nimoy, I felt a sense of loss and sadness entirely disproportionate to the death of someone I'd never met," writes Elizabeth Graham on NPR.org.

A gala concert and an open house launch a month of celebrations for the new Ordway Concert Hall in St. Paul.

Participants in winter sports are predominantly white, but the National Brotherhood of Skiers has been trying to change that for 42 years.

Nimoy's son, Adam, says the actor died Friday morning in Los Angeles of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Our special guest host is Nike Kadri, who plays First Fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Guthrie Theater.

On this week's Friday Roundtable, our guests shared their stories as immigrants in the United States and how it compared to the experience portrayed on the show.

The band formed around 1970 in Scotland where American soul and R&B were quite popular in the local clubs. The band's name was inspired by a friend.

John Coltrane's acclaimed album "A Love Supreme" is considered by many to be among the greatest jazz albums of all time.

This week, the Art Hounds take in portraits of blues musicians, a performance of Scheherazade by the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and a play about art in the days of cavemen.

"I'm thinking little projects like this can make a difference," he said. "Maybe someone that never gets into nature will see something and feel something."

For Screen Time this week, Kerri and Stephanie chat about the Oscars.