Feb 15 On HIV/AIDS, poet challenges you to not look away By Corinne Segal Today is the 258th day that Michael Broder has published a poem on HIV. The online collection, titled HIV Here & Now, is a yearlong project by Broder to publish one poem a day leading up to June 5,… Continue reading
Feb 13 Watch 1:53 New museum takes visitors inside Jimi Hendrix's 1960s London pad By Phil Hirschkorn Considered one of the greatest guitarists in rock 'n' roll history, Jimi Hendrix, who was from Seattle, amassed a following in London before he became famous in the U.S. Now, London officials have turned his last residence into a museum. Continue watching
Feb 12 Watch 7:06 Restoring hope by repairing violins of the Holocaust By PBS News Hour At a music shop in Israel, a violinmaker has been collecting stringed instruments once owned by inmates of Nazi concentration camps. Largely silent for seven decades, they now speak for horrors of the Holocaust as part of a project called… Continue watching
Feb 12 Exiled Syrian artist Tammam Azzam paints haunting images of his destroyed homeland By Corinne Segal After completing "Storeys," a large-scale abstract painting project based on photographs from Syrian cities, Tammam Azzam has seen enough: buildings gutted by bombs, empty streets, a sense of stillness. Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch 2:52 'Billy On The Street' on the art of the ambush By PBS News Hour You may know him as "Billy On The Street" but there's more to comedian Billy Eichner than meets the eye. He gives his Brief but Spectacular take on the most difficult person he knows: himself. Continue watching
Feb 11 Watch 6:55 What it's like to call the world's largest refugee camp home By PBS News Hour Established by the U.N. in 1991 to house Somalis fleeing their civil war, the Dadaab refugee camp complex in eastern Kenya has grown into the largest in the world. Some call it a humanitarian disaster, but to its half-million residents,… Continue watching
Feb 11 How life in the wild becomes stunning landscape photography By Gretchen Frazee How do you capture in one frame, the landscape of Yellowstone’s geysers, the majesty in the peaks of the Mount Denali, or the vast expanse of the Grand Canyon?… Continue reading
Feb 11 Stay in a life-size replica of a Van Gogh painting for $10 a night By Corinne Segal Ever wanted to live inside a Van Gogh painting? Here's your chance, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Continue reading
Feb 10 Watch 6:26 Steelworkers' stories of disappearing jobs come to life onstage in 'Sweat' By PBS News Hour “Sweat,” a new play by Lynn Nottage, is a humorous and harrowing look at the decline of the Rust Belt in modern America. Inspired by stories from Reading, Pennsylvania -- once home to one of the richest corporations in the… Continue watching
Feb 10 These Chinese cities begin life with empty streets and skyscrapers By Kai Caemmerer Some of China's newly constructed urban areas, not yet fully populated, have earned the name "ghost cities."… Continue reading