Andrei Codrescu News Today

Romanian-born filmmaker and UNCSA professor Julian Semilian pays homage to his friend and artistic mentor, longtime NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, in his new documentary "Fish Have No Psychiatrists: A Day with Andrei Codrescu."

The 26th annual RiverRun International Film Festival, which takes place April 18-27, will host a bevy of talented filmmakers, some who have attended before and others for the first time.

Its finally Mardi Gras day and the festivities will kick off bright and early. Zulu and Rex both parade early in New Orleans. Catch them both on the NOLA.com Parade Cam sponsored by NewOrleans.com.

Its finally Mardi Gras day and the festivities will kick off bright and early. Zulu and Rex both parade early in New Orleans. Catch them both on the NOLA.com Parade Cam sponsored by NewOrleans.com.

WWB staff members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're most looking forward to in 2024.

The map of national museums is enriched with a new fixed point, a premiere. The Dolj County Council and the "Alexandru and Aristia Aman" County Library are inaugurating, on Friday, September 29th, the Museum of the Romanian Book and Exile, which has been set up in the Dianu House, an architectural monument in the city of Craiova built at the beginning of the 20th century.

If Columbo made a message for Romanian state TV, and no one remembers it — did it actually happen?

"Wild Muse: Ozark Nature Poetry" is another project edited by Phillip Douglas Howerton, an apparently indefatigable professor of English at Missouri State University, whose useful and surprising anthology, "The Literature of the Ozarks," was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2019.

Tomorrow is Christmas Day, one of the most joyous on the Christian calendar. But over the years, assorted Scrooges in the media use the holiday as an occasion to badmouth Christmas or Christianity itself, or to lamely use Christmas as a left-wing political talking point.

Tomorrow is Christmas Day, one of the most joyous on the Christian calendar. But over the years, assorted Scrooges in the media use the holiday as an occasion to badmouth Christmas or Christianity itself, or to lamely use Christmas as a left-wing political talking point.