Aug 17 Watch 3:39 What Calvin Trillin learned from his college writing course By PBS News Hour As a longtime writer for The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin was less interested in directly explaining why what he was writing was important than in just telling a good story. Trillin offers his Brief but Spectacular take on some of… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch 2:07 A surfing contest where everyone doggie paddles By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, four-legged waveriders take part in a unique surf competition. Special correspondent Laura Klivans of KQED reports, with video by Serginho Roosblad. Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch Archeologists dig up France’s ‘mini Pompeii,’ a Roman town frozen in time by fire By PBS News Hour There’s an archaeological race against time underway in France as archaeologists work to save artifacts from a site dubbed as a “mini Pompeii.” This discovery of these 2,000-year-old Roman ruins is being called perhaps the most important of its kind… Continue watching
Aug 14 After Charlottesville, people share poems to grieve, resist and understand By Elizabeth Flock Poet Nicole Sealey reads her poem, "In Defense of 'Candelabra with Heads.'"… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch 3:34 What to do when you realize classic books from your childhood are racist By PBS News Hour Do you have an old children’s book you love? Well, there’s a good chance that it might be racist, says kids’ author Grace Lin. She offers her humble opinion on how you can keep loving your favorite classics while acknowledging… Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch 5:00 This Baltimore school helps girls step up for college By PBS News Hour "Step," a new documentary, follows students from the Baltimore Leadership School for Girls, an institution with the primary goal of 100 percent college acceptance. But that's not their only success. Girls at the school channel their strengths into practicing step,… Continue watching
Aug 10 Watch 2:36 How this artist turned bad karma into raw honesty By PBS News Hour Artist and poet G Yamazawa grew up Asian-American and Buddhist in the southern Bible Belt, where he often felt as though he didn't belong. But insecurity transformed into a love for the stage and performance. G Yamazawa gives his Brief… Continue watching
Aug 10 Watch 2:43 A postcard from where Alaska’s oil industry and wilderness meet By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, oil started flowing down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline 40 years ago. Every summer, thousands of workers file through Deadhorse, Alaska, an operations center for the oil field, including postal worker Les Dunbar. Eric… Continue watching
Aug 10 In long-lost play, the author of ‘Peter Pan’ spoofs ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the mystery genre By Elizabeth Flock The play will be published this week in the Strand Magazine, a quarterly mystery magazine that has previously unearthed and published works by John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Heller, and H.G. Wells. Continue reading
Aug 09 Should museums be able to sell their art? This museum says its future depends on it By Dayana Morales Gomez The Berkshire Museum has drawn criticism for planning to auction some of its most prominent art pieces, including several by beloved painter Norman Rockwell. Continue reading