Mar 13 Photo: Spinning records in Aleppo, Syria By News Desk Mohammad Mohiedine Anis, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his gramophone in Aleppo's formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighborhood. Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch poet Susan Howe read this Dickinson poem on life and death By Elizabeth Flock Leading contemporary poet and Dickinson scholar Susan Howe breaks down "There's a certain Slant of light," one of Emily Dickinson's most-beloved poems. Continue reading
Mar 12 Immigration tensions seep into South by Southwest music fest By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press The trendsetting South by Southwest music festival is all about the next big thing, but the heated politics of the moment is stealing the show. Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch 5:41 Need to escape reality? Step into infinity with Yayoi Kusama By PBS News Hour At the Hirshhorn Museum, visitors are lining up to experience Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's world of whimsy, color, shapes and a peek into the beyond. Jeffrey Brown tells us why this new exhibit is currently the toughest ticket in Washington,… Continue watching
Mar 10 Photo: ‘Make Mosul great again’ By News Desk A Norwegian volunteer medic writes "Make Mosul Great Again" on the base of a destroyed Islamic State billboard in west Mosul. Iraqi forces are advancing into west Mosul, part of an offensive to retake the city in March 2017, some… Continue reading
Mar 10 Author Colum McCann recommends what to read and listen to this weekend By Elizabeth Flock Irish author Colum McCann, who wrote the National Book Award-winning "Let the Great World Spin" and "TransAtlantic," shares his perfect afternoon. Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch 3:00 She wanted to express her love for her dad. It took 300 pages of writing By PBS News Hour Kelly Corrigan’s dad always used to tell her she was going to write the “great American novel.” At age 36, she was diagnosed with cancer, and soon after, her father got the same bad news. The prognosis unleashed a panic… Continue watching
Mar 09 Photo: Celebrating Holi, the Spring ‘festival of colors’ By News Desk Students at the Institute of Management Studies play with colors to celebrate Holi, on March 9, in Noida, India. Holi is a Hindu spring festival in India and Nepal, also known as the "festival of colors" or the "festival of… Continue reading
Mar 09 This photographer chronicles Pennsylvania’s forgotten industrial towns and people By Elizabeth Flock Photographer Niko J. Kallianiotis chronicles Pennsylvania’s forgotten coal towns and people. After the presidential election, his work took on special resonance. Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch Finding Emily Dickinson in the power of her poetry By PBS News Hour Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and finds a less reclusive… Continue watching