Whatever the jury, at the 70 th Cannes Film Festival, decided were the films worthy of its top prizes, the festival, which concluded this past week, seemed like a cinematic scrum between the past present and future tenses of storytelling our film critic Harlan Jacobson reports from Cannes.

Next weekend the Tony Awards will be celebrating Broadway, but according to theater critic Michael Bourne, not all of the best shows were nominated.

The 72nd U.S. Women's Open Championship is coming to New Jersey in mid July. The USGA held its media day at Trump National Bedminster Wednesday. The day included a clinic for young girls featuring three of the top players on the women's tour, reigning U.S. Open Champ Brittany Lang, 2007 U.S. Open Champion Cristie Kerr and the current world number one ranked player Lydia Ko. The U.S. Women's Open Champion runs from July 13th through July 16th. WBGO's Doug Doyle gives us an audio postcard from the

On YouTube there's a thriving genre in which woodworkers, mechanics, chefs and other makers document the step-by-step process behind their creations. WBGO’s Jon Kalish went to Waterford, Maine where Gardner Waldeier has been entertaining viewers from the workshop attached to his 18th Century farmhouse. Click above to hear Jon's feature on Bus Huxley's.

Theater critic Michael Bourne selects this season's best musicals. Click above to hear Michael's picks.

Drug users desperate to kick the habit are now turning to some New Jersey police departments for help. Brick Township police chief James Riccio says about 150 drug users showed up at police stations in Brick and Manchester Township since the Heroin Addiction Response program was launched in January “These people have reached that bottom I guess and want the help. The first few came in. I guess they tested the waters to see that we were actually telling them the truth. We weren’t trying to set

On the morning of April 19 th , 1995, Kathy Sanders dropped off her grandchildren at the daycare center located in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Hours later her life would change forever. “Twenty-two years ago, the morning of the bombing, I became a victim. I didn’t have any choice. When I began to pray for the men who killed my grandchildren, I don’t know what it did for [Timothy] McVeigh or [Terry] Nichols but it began to change my life.” Kathy Sanders found

It’s time for the theater awards. Theater critic Michael Bourne looks at the nominees for Best New Play on Broadway. Click above to hear his choices.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful 1982 painting of a skull brought $110.5 million at Sotheby’s yesterday, to become the sixth most expensive work ever sold at auction. There were gasps in the crowd when the auction ended. According to various reports, only 10 other works have broken the $100 million mark. The painting, “Untitled," was forged from oil stick and spray paint and had been expected to sell for $60 million. The New York Times reported at least four bidders on the phones and in the room

The city of Newark recently celebrated the opening of the Shani Baraka Women’s resource center for women in crisis, to provide emergency services for women affected by domestic violence. The center has a personal connection to both the city itself and its mayor. “You never think your going to be that person you never think your going to be that woman.” 28-year-old Newark native Christina Bright is a domestic violence survivor, she says she hopes the center will be able to reach those women who