Nov 05 Twister finds its hot spot in the Toy Hall of Fame By Joshua Barajas Twister — the hot spot! — joined the Super Soaker water gun and the puppet as the 2015 inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame. Continue reading
Nov 05 Why I call New Orleans the ‘most African city’ in the U.S. By Danielle Miles If you took all of the African-ness away from New Orleans, there would be very little left. Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch Jeff Daniels brings show business home to small-town Michigan By PBS News Hour Early on in his acting career, Jeff Daniels and his wife decided they would take a risk: leave New York and return to the small town of Chelsea, Michigan, to raise their family. There, the TV and movie star built… Continue watching
Nov 04 WATCH: Jeff Daniels shows his folk-country roots with original song By Mary Jo Brooks Jeff Daniels has appeared in more than 50 Hollywood movies and won an Emmy for his portrayal of a news anchor in the HBO series "The Newsroom" -- but he is also a prolific songwriter. Continue reading
Nov 04 How novelist John Irving picked his literary heroes By artsdesk Irving's new book "Avenue of Mysteries" introduces a mix of vivid characters into a narrative that combines realism and magic, he told the NewsHour's chief arts and culture correspondent Jeffrey Brown. Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch Why John Irving calls himself an ‘old-fashioned’ writer By Corinne Segal Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch Why novelist John Irving’s latest protagonist is a fiction writer By PBS News Hour In novelist John Irving’s new book, “Avenue of Mysteries,” a poor child in Mexico picks up books from out of the trash and grows up to be a prominent American writer. Irving joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss what distinguishes his… Continue watching
Nov 03 Artists with developmental disabilities team up to create life-size board game By WOSU In an exhibit at the Cultural Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio, artists living with developmental disabilities transformed a gallery into a life-size board game called “Superland."… Continue reading
Nov 03 What a scent called ‘cheesy vomit’ taught me about artificial flavor By Corinne Segal The museum, which opened last week with an interactive "flavor lab" in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, explores the history of how flavor is produced and maps the beginnings of what we call "artificial flavor."… Continue reading