2011 June | Here & Now

The city of Derry, once a flash point during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, was the setting for the latest meeting of the Forum for Cities in Transition, looking at how to bridge ethnic gaps in cities around the world. We speak with a peace professor on how to soothe ethnic tensions.

From Radiohead to Volcano Choir.

Amazing and intimate photos document a different side of one of the most dangerous prisons in the country: a hospice program run by inmates, for inmates. See the slideshow.

Be careful what you tweet. Your 140-character comments could become part of a mass media advertising campaign, the basis for a book, or even a television series.

The Stanley Cup is back in Boston. The Bruins took game seven of ice hockey’s NHL championship, beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0. The Bruins came back from a 3-2 deficit to win the best of seven series in Vancouver.

It’s an odd cast of characters, ranging from a New York Times reporter, who covered the Black Panthers, to a convicted bank robber and the publisher of Hustler Magazine. But a new book gathers them together as First Amendment heroes. Read an excerpt.

Seven-term congressman Anthony Weiner is resigning because of the scandal over lewd photos he has admitted to sending to several women online.

From the Lickets to Calexico.

Woody Allen’s time-twisting new film, “Midnight in Paris,” transports the audience as well as main character, Gil, into 1920s Paris, where literary, artistic, and musical figures all congregated. Gil rubs elbows with Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso and Cole Porter.

We hear your thoughts on healthcare reform, one of the last Fuller Brush door-to-door salesmen, and get an update on Wallow the calf, who was born as the Wallow fire approached its ranch.

Americans are expected to donate $300 billion to charities this year, some of that to the thousands of cancer charities. But Time Magazine’s Bill Saporito found that in some cases almost none of that money goes towards research. He recommends looking closely at websites like Charity Navigator and Guidestar before you donate.

In the latest sign of trouble in the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, the Pakistani army is denying a report in today’s New York Times, that a Pakistani army major was among the five people arrested for helping the C.I.A. find Osama Bin Laden.

What do you say to someone suffering from a life-threatening illness? Cancer Survivor Bruce Feiler says steer clear of “you look great” and other clichés.

Phil Campbell, Ala. was devastated by a tornado in April. This weekend, Phil and Phyllis Campbells from around the world will travel to the town to help in the rebuilding efforts. See a slideshow of the town right after the hurricane hit.

From the Dropkick Murphys to Jeff Beck.

The Fuller Brush man was an icon in the 1940s and 50s, selling personal and home cleaning products door to door. Norman Hall says he’s the last Fuller Brush man in San Francisco, and he still wears a bow tie on the job.

Jay Asher’s teen novel, “Thirteen Reasons Why,” about a high school suicide, continues to touch a nerve four years after it came out. On Jay Asher’s website, readers are still writing about it, some saying the book saved their lives.

With tomorrow’s full lunar eclipse, Boston hockey fans believe the planets are aligned for a Boston Bruin victory tomorrow night in the decisive game 7 of the Stanley Cup, even if it’s played on the Vancouver Canuck’s home ice.

During the Arab spring this year, governments in Egypt and Syria were able to cut off their citizens from the Internet and mobile phone networks. Now the U.S. government is financing technologies for dissidents to circumvent these communication black-outs.

The Labor Department recently reported that unemployment among older workers is at its highest level since 1948. We meet one older worker who beat the odds, and the boss who hired him.