Mother Teresa, Gene Autry, Katharine Hepburn on Upcoming US Stamps

WASHINGTON, DC.- Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year. Joining them will be Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer and Adm. Arleigh Burke. Other new stamps will honor the Negro baseball leagues, the Sunday funnies and the Hawaiian rain forest, the Postal Service announced Wednesday. The post office releases a series of commemorative stamps every year, honoring people, places and institutions. These [...]

New Frank Gehry Designed Theater Set for 2012 Opening in NYC

NEW YORK, NY.- A nonprofit theater selling tickets for just $20 is bringing one of the world’s most renowned architects to New York’s pricey theater district. An arts center designed by Frank Gehry and originally intended for ground zero will anchor a new complex that will also include apartments with some low-income housing, a hotel, a cafe and a bookstore, the city announced Tuesday. Despite the recession, the $800 million, 59-story Signature Center “is an example of how our city [...]