Neda Pourang

Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.

Where do memories come from?

Where were you when Los Angeles attacked San Francisco? Did you serve on the U.S.S. Castro? Did you fight in the battle of Van Nuys? Painter Sandow Birk spent five years documenting his imaginary civil war between Northern and Southern California, creating epic battle paintings, spot-on propaganda posters and a ...

Earlier this year a movie was released on DVD telling the story of a forgotten American war — the civil war between the people of northern and Southern California. The movie imitates a Ken Burns documentary, but it’s obviously fictional. The premise and the visuals are based on ...

Oscar season steers our collective attention-even more of it than usual-to the godlike pantheon of Hollywood celebrities. Neda Pourang talked to a film editor who cut an Oscar-winning documentary and then went looking for his moment in the sun.