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From left, Huda Attar and her daughters, Eslah and Shorook, in the kitchen baking. Huda is teaching Eslah how to make <em>knafeh</em>, a Middle Eastern dessert consisting of a thin noodle pastry stuffed with cheese, soaked in syrup and topped with pistachios.

A Daughter Bakes A New Connection With Family During Ramadan

At home in Ohio during the pandemic, photographer Eslah Attar is using newfound family time to learn from her mother and sister how to bake traditional desserts ahead of Eid al-Fitr.

<strong>Just Say Noah:</strong> Jonah Hill and his three young charges (Landry Bender, left, Kevin Hernandez and Max Records) stumble into trouble when a drug buy goes sideways.

With This Sitter, The Kids Are Better Off Alone

A selfish slacker (Jonah Hill) finds himself baby-sitting some nightmare kids — on a night where he'd rather be out with a girl. Andrew Lapin says comedy, like baby-sitting, is clearly harder than it looks.

Say goodbye to the red Netflix envelope, which the company is phasing out in favor of a new DVD delivery service called "Qwikster."

Netflix Won't Send You DVDs Anymore; Now They'll Come From 'Qwikster'

Netflix has decided to spin off its DVD rentals into the new service "Qwikster." Will this really fix its customer-dissatisfaction problems and restore peace?

<em>Chicago Tribune</em> columnist Clarence Page says if old wounds are holding you back from going to your high school reunion, you're missing out.

Why High School Reunions Are Good For You, Really

When high school reunions roll around, people come up with all kinds of excuses not to attend. But Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page says that regardless of how difficult your high school experience was, reunions can actually be therapeutic.

It's a given that professional athletes need regular coaching to keep them at the top of their game. Why then, asks surgeon Atul Gawande, shouldn't doctors and teachers use coaches?

Athletes Have Coaches. Why Not Everyone Else?

Coaches regularly pace the sidelines of football fields and push vocalists to do their best. But surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande says that professionals in all fields — not just sports and music — could benefit from regular coaching.

<p>Matt Marek, 9, climbs to the top of a structure on the roof of the 600,000-square-foot City Museum, a former shoe factory turned avant-garde museum in St. Louis, Mon. Bob Cassilly, the museum's founder, died in late September.</p>

Bob Cassilly Remembered: Part Sculptor, Part Kid

A driving force behind City Museum in St. Louis, the sculptor created spaces that invite adults and children to interact with his creations. He died in late September, working on a massive project he called Cementland.

On Wednesday, the Library of Congress announced that Philip Levine would be the next poet laureate of the United States.

New Poet Laureate Philip Levine's 'Absolute Truth'

"The truth of poetry is not the truth of history," according to the new poet laureate of the United States. Philip Levine's work is most famous for an urban perspective that began with a youth spent working in Detroit's automobile factories.

Kennedy Center fellow Reem Kassem recently used her Kennedy connections to help organize an outdoor arts festival in Alexandria, Egypt.

World Art Managers Find New Funding Models In D.C.

Cultural diplomacy usually comes in the form of a traveling art show or celebrity visit, but this summer the Kennedy Center is engaging in a deeper kind of diplomacy; a fellowship program that provides training for arts managers from around the world.

Gilbert Gottfried, seen here roasting Hugh Hefner in late September 2001, has gotten in substantial hot water more than once over jokes he made that others considered "too soon."

Irony In The Post-9/11 Age: Comedy And Tragedy As 'Very Strange Roommates'

Neda Ulaby reports that for all that comedy has faced since Sept. 11, reports that irony would fizzle out turned out to be greatly exaggerated. Comedy, like anything else, adapts.

Christine Lagarde is the first woman to hold the position of director of the IMF.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Women Of The World

The Newsweek editor looks at how women helped bring about peace in Liberia; how they're changing the state of marriage throughout Asia; and the rise of Christine Lagarde to the top of that notoriously male-dominated institution, the International Monetary Fund.

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