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When Oprah Winfrey was first asked the question, the talk-show queen was left tongue-tied.

 

Gerardo José Granados, 34, a Salvadoran who attended Nativity Church in Burke and currently teaches illustration in Barcelona, Spain, received exciting news via a late night text message from his mother back in Arlington.“My mom just told me that my artwork is on its way to Pope Francis,” Granados said.

St. Frances Academy in Baltimore has removed the name of its "Drs. Camille and Bill Cosby Community Center" after Bill Cosby was convicted April 26 on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. The letters on the building came down the same day.

Do you have any job openings? Twenty-two employers in the Washington area answered that question for job seekers at the first Community Job Fair at Good Shepherd Church in Alexandria April 28.

Although a healthy curiosity can lead to new discoveries, too much curiosity can open the door to dangerous things that harm the soul, Pope Francis said.

Feared as disease carriers, all dogs are banished from a Japanese city by its formidable and corrupt mayor (voice of Kunichi Nomura) and exiled to the aptly named Trash Island. When the mayor's 12-year-old orphaned ward (voice of Koyu Rankin) arrives, searching for his deported pet (voice of Liev Schreiber), he's aided in his poignant quest by a quartet of other formerly pampered pooches (voices of Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban and Jeff Goldblum) and by the street mutt (voice of Bryan Cranston) with whom they have allied themselves in their struggle for survival.

A generally endearing animated slice of history, this comedy-tinged drama follows the adventures of the plucky canine who became an honorary noncommissioned officer in the Army thanks to his feats of derring-do during World War I. Adopted by a young soldier (voice of Logan Lerman) doing basic training in his hometown of New Haven, Conn., the formerly hungry, homeless pooch becomes the mascot of the 26th Infantry "Yankee" Division and especially bonds with two of his new master's closest buddies (voices of Jordan Beck and Jim Pharr).

Directed by Ken Carlson, this uplifting documentary follows Dr. Thomas Catena as he lives and works with the people of the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan.