Jul 09 Min Jin Lee annotates the first page of her bestselling book ‘Pachinko’ By Elizabeth Flock "Pachinko" opens with the startling line: "History has failed us, but no matter."… Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch 6:33 Artist communities thrive along the disappearing Salton Sea By Christopher Booker, Mori Rothman California’s Salton Sea was once hailed as a miracle in the desert. Located about 40 miles south of Palm Springs, it’s the state’s largest inland body of water. But today, the sea is no longer the early 20th century fishing… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch 6:01 Memphis youth carry on the legacy of Stax Records soul music By Saskia de Melker, Lauren Knapp Stax Music Academy is located on the site of the original Stax Records studio in historic Soulsville, which many legendary musicians -- including Aretha Franklin, Memphis Slim, and Booker T. Jones -- called home. It aims to nurture the next… Continue watching
Jul 06 Watch 8:30 Dave Chappelle on comedy in the #MeToo moment: ‘We’re all figuring this out’ By Jeffrey Brown Dave Chappelle doesn't think audiences "want to pay to see somebody worried about the repercussions of what they say." A comedian who made a name for himself as one of the smartest and sharpest comedians around, Chappelle's latest comedy sets… Continue watching
Jul 06 Watch Dave Chappelle sing the PBS NewsHour theme song By Dan Cooney Comedian Dave Chappelle sat down recently for an interview with the PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about his career in comedy, his four Netflix specials and the boundaries of humor. He also sang this. Continue reading
Jul 06 ‘Choose the important over the urgent,’ and more writing advice from Min Jin Lee By Elizabeth Flock "I have published two novels in 22 years, and I have tried very hard to focus on things that matter most to me — craft and themes — rather than focusing on the things that seem pressing at the time,"… Continue reading
Jul 05 Claude Lanzmann, director of ‘Shoah,’ dies at age 92 By Lori Hinnant, Associated Press Director Claude Lanzmann, whose 9½-hour masterpiece "Shoah" bore unflinching witness to the Holocaust, has died at 92. Continue reading
Jul 04 Watch 5:46 Why Mister Rogers was ‘the least likely TV star of all time’ Millions loved Fred Rogers and his neighborhood. Filmmaker Morgan Neville watched the iconic PBS show as a kid, and then rewatched it as an adult. He found something worth celebrating, a voice that he says he doesn't hear in our… Continue watching
Jul 04 UK police investigating 6 assault claims against Kevin Spacey By Associated Press Five of the alleged offenses took place in London between 1996 and 2008, and the sixth in the western English city of Gloucester in 2013. Continue reading
Jul 03 Watch 5:46 Kevin Young intertwines personal and public history in ‘Brown’ As a writer, editor and archivist, Kevin Young is a poet actively engaged with the world. In his new collection, "Brown," Young draws heavily on his boyhood in Topeka, Kansas, tying it in large and small ways to the wider… Continue watching