Jun 09 Watch Garden Roots of Emily Dickinson's Poetry Paul Solman reports on a new show in New York that attempts to recreate the green spaces that inspired the writings of famously-reclusive poet Emily Dickinson. Continue watching
Jun 08 Conversation: Spoleto Festival USA Making 34th Appearance in Charleston By Tom LeGro For 17 days and nights every spring in Charleston, South Carolina, theaters, churches and outdoor spaces are home to opera, theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music. Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch As World Cup Begins, Social Turmoil in Cape Town As Cape Town, South Africa, prepares to host eight World Cup soccer matches, Jonathon Miller of Independent Television News reports on the drugs, poverty and gangs that lie in the shadows of the city's soccer stadium. Continue watching
Jun 07 Positive Signs in the Housing Market? Tamp Down That Excitement By Dante Chinni Measuring the health of the U.S. economy continues to be a dodgy game. Witness last week's job numbers that were nowhere as good as many had hoped. But a more complicated measure of improvement may be the U.S. housing… Continue reading
Jun 07 Weekly Poem: 'Attention' Philip Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2008 for his book of poems, "Failure." He is the founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York. Schultz's latest book, "The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems,"… Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Microfinancing Gives Housing Hope to Residents of Kenya's Slums Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on new efforts to help poor residents of Nairobi's crowded, unsanitary slums find adequate housing through entrepreneurship and microfinancing. Continue watching
Jun 04 Adventures of Art Critic Barbara Pollack in 'The Wild, Wild East' By Tom LeGro The first time art critic Barbara Pollack went to China in 2004, she says the art scene reminded her of the wild, wild west: there were some brave pioneers and a general sense of lawlessness -- no established rules or… Continue reading