Apr 16 2018 Pulitzer Prizes go to #metoo coverage, Kendrick Lamar and more By Alison Thoet The winners of the annual Pulitzer Prize awards in journalism and the arts were announced Monday, and coverage of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the resulting #metoo fallout led the way with a joint win for the Public Service Prize… Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch 7:36 Landscape photographer races to finish decades of work By PBS News Hour Oregon photographer Christopher Burkett is best known for producing large-format film prints of American landscapes, some of the highest resolution color photographs ever created without computer technology. But he only has a limited supply of the materials, which have been… Continue watching
Apr 14 Milos Forman, Oscar-winning director, dies at 86 By Anthony McCartney, Associated Press Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose movies "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus" won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died Saturday. He was 86. Continue reading
Apr 13 Watch 5:34 This political insider’s thriller novels predicted U.S. election interference A foreign country attempts to influence the outcome of an American election -- before the 2016 election, it was the plot of a new novel by Ohio's Democratic Party chairman. Now David Pepper returns with a second book,"The Wingman," which… Continue watching
Apr 13 Watch 7:19 David Hockney thinks you should take a longer look at life By Jeffrey Brown It's a kind of album of family and friends, but the pictures are large paintings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For a new exhibit called "82 Portraits and One Still Life," renowned artist David Hockney tried to… Continue watching
Apr 13 3 of Meg Wolitzer’s favorite books about the lives of women By Elizabeth Flock Meg Wolitzer didn't mean to write a novel of the #MeToo movement. But her latest, "The Female Persuasion," explores issues around power, sexual assault, feminism and how women relate. Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch 3:26 Working-class people need to be seen, says Jamaican-born writer Nicole Dennis-Benn Nicole Dennis-Benn says she never could have become a writer if she had stayed in Jamaica -- that took living in the U.S. and encouragement from her wife. But returning to the land of her birth, she was confronted with… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 5:52 This former Ethiopian music star is getting a late-life encore in the U.S. By PBS News Hour Once a music star in Ethiopia, Hailu Mergia moved his life to Washington, D.C., more than 35 years ago. But while today he can often be found behind the wheel of a taxi, he also has returned to performing his… Continue watching
Apr 11 Journalist Dan Egan annotates a page of ‘The Death and Life of the Great Lakes’ By Elizabeth Flock The quagga mussel is a small but dangerous invasive species in Lake Michigan. Dan Egan explains why in an annotated page of his book "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes."… Continue reading
Apr 11 A poet’s field notes, ‘ending in a deportation’ By Jennifer Hijazi In his new collection, poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s imagery and dream-like phrases allow him to speak of his immigration status in a way he hadn’t been able to before. Continue reading