Aug 30 Watch 3:44 For creating travel memories, Russell Banks prefers words to images By PBS News Hour Novelist and poet Russell Banks used to feel guilty about not taking pictures to document his trips. Now, he doesn't even bring a camera with him, believing that visually recording an experience would effectively remove him from it. In contrast,… Continue watching
Aug 30 Column: A trans singer makes a 'most precious' sacrifice By David Kroman, Crosscut.com For Julian Morris, music and song writing has been a refuge as he's struggled with his sexual identity. He knew once he started taking hormones to transition to a male body, his voice would change. Making the decision to give… Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch 5:05 Painting a vibrant picture of Brooklyn in the tumultuous 1970s By PBS News Hour “Another Brooklyn,” by Jacqueline Woodson, is not a typical coming-of-age novel. It takes place in Brooklyn in the 1970s, an environment in which drugs were ubiquitous, white flight was on the rise and young girls of color relied on each… Continue watching
Aug 29 Gene Wilder, star of comedies 'Blazing Saddles' and 'Young Frankenstein,' dies By Larisa Epatko For anyone who’s heard the “Oompa Loompa” song or Frankenstein pronounced as “Fronkensteen,” Monday's news of actor Gene Wilder’s death cuts deeply. Wilder died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at age 83. Continue reading
Aug 29 Poet explores the explosive potential of the bikini By Mary Jo Brooks Caitlin Doyle tries to use language in a way that prompts readers to let down their guard and enter a poem for the visceral pleasure of the sounds. Continue reading
Aug 25 Watch 7:00 100 years later, National Park Service lands still grant us 'breathing space' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 23 A perfect marriage of light and sound turns caverns and bridges into art By Rocky Mountain PBS To create art that exists outside the traditional white box of gallery space, this husband and wife team use light and sound as their paint, and old buildings or rock formations as their canvases. Continue reading
Aug 22 For Hayes Carll, it's 'all for the sake of the song' By Mike Fritz Hayes Carll has come a long way since his days of playing for brawling shrimpers in Texas. His latest album, "Lovers and Leavers," uses the loss of love (a recent divorce) and love for his son as motivation for lyrics that are… Continue reading
Aug 22 A poet's history lesson on Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood By Anne Azzi Davenport Jacqueline Woodson, one of America's premier writers of young adult and children's literature, is out with her second novel for adults called "Another Brooklyn." It's set in the Brooklyn borough of Bushwick, her childhood neighborhood, which becomes one of the… Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch 25:01 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Aug. 21, 2016 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Aug. 21, emergency workers go door-to-door searching for survivors of this week’s floods on the Gulf Coast, and the Justice Department decides not to renew its contracts with private prisons. Later, learn about the FDA… Continue watching