Mar 22 How female musicians amplify each other when the industry won’t By Laura Santhanam While the exclusion of female artists, songwriters and producers has always been a reality in Nashville and beyond, some see it as having gotten worse in recent decades. Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch 6:23 A culinary tradition for the Persian new year By Jeffrey Brown Nowruz, the Persian holiday celebrating the new year, is observed in Iran and parts of Western and Central Asia. It marks the first day of the vernal equinox. Najmieh Batmanglij, author of eight cookbooks on Iranian cuisine that are widely… Continue watching
Mar 21 Watch 2:57 The blacklist that rising screenwriters want to be on By Steve Goldbloom Franklin Leonard is the founder of The Black List, a website that aims to connect potential screenwriters with filmmakers. The site allows users to upload their screenplays and earn ratings from the site’s community, with the possibility of seeing their… Continue watching
Mar 20 WATCH: ‘Artists are our only hope,’ T Bone Burnett says in critique of big tech By Joshua Barajas Award-winning producer, songwriter and musician T Bone Burnett made a fire-and-brimstone rebuke against big tech “surveillance capitalists” last week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, saying Silicon Valley is destroying humanity. Continue reading
Mar 19 ‘Shame takes our bodies away from us’: Read an annotated page from ‘The Power’ By Elizabeth Flock Though Naomi Alderman's "The Power" was written years before the #MeToo movement exploded, it explores similar themes of power dynamics in sexuality and the shame that sexual violence can leave behind. Continue reading
Mar 18 Watch 8:29 Shunned by country radio, female artists in Nashville are looking to break through By Jeffrey Brown, Frank Carlson The proportion of female voices on country radio has been dropping in recent years, amid “long-held beliefs” that male singers drive larger audiences and greater ad revenue. But not everyone in Nashville buys into that theory. Jeffrey Brown reports on… Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch The juvenile justice system answers kids’ trauma with punishment, reporter says By Steve Goldbloom "There are literally...teenagers wasting away behind bars because adults can't figure out how better to serve them," says Ko Bragg, a reporter in Jackson, Mississippi, who focuses on how the media covers juveniles charged as adults. She says that experience… Continue watching
Mar 18 5 songs to convert any friend into a K-pop fan By Joshua Barajas Tamar Herman, a K-pop columnist at Billboard, shares five songs that can get anyone excited about K-pop, including one she calls “one of the best songs of the 21st century.”… Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch 6:39 Dawoud Bey on photography as a ‘transformative experience’ By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe For decades, Dawoud Bey has been considered one of the country’s foremost street photographers, known for capturing the everyday lives of black Americans with a deep intimacy. Recently, Bey has shifted his focus to the historical, with an exploration of… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch 2:55 How a scientific approach to crayons yields this artist’s photorealistic portraits By Jackie Shafer, WOSU With his series of crayon works, Ohio artist Christian Faur is not only creating photorealistic portraits out of art supplies traditionally relegated to children, but he’s also making the crayons from scratch. Jackie Shafer of WOSU in Columbus has this… Continue watching