Mar 19th, 2010 · A Jaguar driven by Britain's Queen Elizabeth between 2001 and 2004 is up for sale. A memorabilia dealer bought it after the Queen owned it, and now he's selling it. The car comes with some regal extras — including an armrest designed to hold the Queen's famous handbag.
Mar 11th, 2010 · After producing Band of Brothers in 2001, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg return to World War II with The Pacific, a 10-part historical miniseries beginning Sunday night on HBO. TV Critic David Bianculli reviews the series, which examines the Pacific theater of operations.
Mar 8th, 2010 · The Connecticut Huskies basketball team beat No. 6 Notre Dame on Monday in the semifinals of NCAA's Big East tournament. UConn surpassed its own mark set from Nov. 9, 2001, to March 11, 2003.
Mar 5th, 2010 · In 2001, Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Monster’s Ball, directed by Marc Forster. The award made her the first African-American woman to win an Oscar in this category. Berry is both a biracial beauty in an integrated era and a performer who has demonstrated her ability across a range of characters.
Mar 5th, 2010 · Trumpeter, flugelhorn player and vocalist Stacy Rowles was a fixture on the Los Angeles jazz scene and played regularly in all-female jazz groups the Jazzbirds and Maiden Voyage. This program from 2001 is presented as a tribute to Rowles, who died last year. She brings along bass player Todd Warrington and joins Marian McPartland for trio renditions of "Emily," "Prelude to a Kiss" and "Time After Time."
Mar 4th, 2010 · Novelist Barry Hannah died earlier this week. A native of Mississippi, Hannah won the William Faulkner Prize for his 1972 novel Geronimo Rex. Today, we remember the Southern author, who appeared on Fresh Air in 2001.
Feb 20th, 2010 · In 2001, CNN acquired a vast stash of audiotapes from a house in Kandahar that once belonged to Osama bin Laden. The tapes, bin Laden's personal collection, provide a rare glimpse into the minds and lives of al-Qaida militants.
Feb 19th, 2010 · The FBI announced Friday that it has formally closed one of its most controversial investigations: the inquiry into the 2001 anthrax attacks. They say that an Army researcher, Bruce Ivins, mailed envelopes with the toxin to politicians and news organizations, adding that he acted alone.