“RuPaul’s Drag Race” begins its 10th season on television this month. The successful VH1 game show features contestants who compete for cash prizes and the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar.” RuPaul Andre Charles talks to Nancy Giles about why he started dressing in women’s clothes, heels and makeup, and explains the power of a man performing in drag. Source

In her native country, all you need to say is her first name – Tarsila – for people to recognize the woman known as “the Picasso of Brazil.” But Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is little-known in North America, despite her revolutionary art. Faith Salie visits an exhibition (now showing at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art) of Tarsila’s “cannibalist” paintings, which took the tropes of Western European art and turned them into something extremely Brazilian. Source

In this web exclusive, RuPaul, renowned as a celebrity drag queen, talks about his mother (a “rebel”), his father (the “life of the party”), his sisters (who were his universe growing up), and why he describes himself as “an introvert masquerading as an extrovert.” Source

In this web exclusive, RuPaul, star of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” expresses his devotion to Judge Judy – and hears via Nancy Giles a special message for RuPaul from the lady in black robes herself. Source

In this preview of a profile to be broadcast on “Sunday Morning,” the drag queen and host of VH1’s hit show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” tells Nancy Giles how he answers critics of what he terms his calling. Source

Virginia native Lucy Dacus cut her first album as a project in music school. It was a hit with critics and got her a record deal. Just last week, she released “Historian,” the highly anticipated follow-up to her debut album. Source

Virginia native Lucy Dacus cut her first album as a project in music school. It was a hit with critics and got her a record deal. Just last week, she released “Historian,” the highly anticipated follow-up to her debut album. Source

Virginia native Lucy Dacus cut her first album as a project in music school. It was a hit with critics and got her a record deal. Just last week, she released “Historian,” the highly anticipated follow-up to her debut album. Source

Chef Chad Robertson, known as the “bread whisperer,” graduated from the Culinary Institute of America with a dual degree in culinary and pastry arts, meeting his future wife and business partner along the way. The couple worked and trained throughout France then returned to the U.S. where they opened San Francisco’s popular Tartine Bakery. Source

After the fall of Saigon in 1975, more than a million desperate people fled Vietnam. Many escaped in small boats, including Vietnamese immigrant Lauren Vuong. Now a successful attorney, she’s accomplished a lot in the four decades since then but one goal remained elusive: finding and thanking the men who rescued her at sea. Don Dahler reports. Source