Dec 29 French designer Pierre Cardin is dead at 98 By Associated Press France’s Academy of Fine Arts says Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98. Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch 6:52 Two critics on the shows and movies that got us through 2020 By Jeffrey Brown Even though most theaters remain closed, a regular lockdown conversation starter begins with “so what have you been watching?” Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times and Ann Hornaday from the Washington Post help Jeffrey Brown sort out the year’s… Continue watching
Dec 28 ‘Trick Mirror’ is our January book club pick By Courtney Vinopal Our January pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour’s book club with The New York Times, is Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.”… Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch 4:38 2020 in Review: vaccine hesitancy, elective surgeries and medical caregiving By PBS NewsHour NewsHour Weekend’s Connie Kargbo joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss some of her most impactful work from 2020: necessary ‘elective’ surgeries being suspended during the pandemic due to hospital overflow; vaccine hesitancy; and how aging caregivers, at risk for COVID, ask… Continue watching
Dec 27 2020 in review: Stories you may have missed and why they matter By Molly Enking It’s been decades since one world event has dominated the news cycle so completely. We lost more than 1.75 million people globally and more than 330,000 in the U.S. to COVID-19. Here’s a list of some other events that shook the… Continue reading
Dec 25 Watch 6:41 ‘Ma Rainey’s’ director on celebrating artists now gone Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, called the mother of blues, helped expand the universe of American music. Director George C. Wolfe talks to Jeffrey Brown about the new film about her life, based on the play by August Wilson, and how it… Continue watching
Dec 24 3 films that inspired Ling Ma’s ‘Severance’ By Ling Ma When writing “Severance,” author Ling Ma drew inspiration from various sources, including several films. Continue reading
Dec 23 Watch 5:57 Dancer Misty Copeland’s graceful steps are halted by the pandemic Misty Copeland has been a major star in American cultural life for much of the last decade. As principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, she became the first Black woman to achieve that position in the company’s 75 year… Continue watching
Dec 23 The 101 songs you turned to in 2020 By Joshua Barajas, Lizz Bolaji We asked our readers which songs helped them survive a strange and devastating year. Some tracks offered an escape. Some infused joy and despair. Continue reading
Dec 18 How ‘The Walking Dead’ and a Terrence Malick film inspired this writer’s first book By Courtney Vinopal “I thought I could somehow bridge the two,” Ling Ma recently told the PBS NewsHour of her novel "Severance." “What if Terrence Malick directed a zombie B movie and this was the voiceover? Would that be in bad taste?”… Continue reading