Apr 15 Watch David Brooks: Humility is the central virtue, pride is the central vice By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch 7:01 Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 14 Netflix adds audio descriptions for visually impaired to ‘Daredevil’ and other shows By Justin Scuiletti "Daredevil," Netflix's newest original series that features blind lawyer Matt Murdock take to the streets as the eponymous protagonist, ironically didn't come prepared to aid blind fans in watching the blind hero. Continue reading
Apr 14 Artist layers ads and vintage cartoons like a decaying billboard By Twin Cities PBS Greg Gossel creates mixed-media art from pop culture imagery, typography, texture, found sigs and billboard scraps. Continue reading
Apr 14 Watch 9:21 Artist layers ads and vintage cartoons like a decaying billboard By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 13 ‘Austin City Limits’ founder Bill Arhos dies at age 80 By Anna Sillers Bill Arhos, founder of Austin City Limits, the longest-running music show in American television history, died on Saturday at the age of 80. Continue reading
Apr 13 Günter Grass, German novelist who probed Nazi past while hiding his own, dies at 87 By Leah Nagy Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author and social critic who grappled with the moral dilemmas of postwar Germany both on and off the page, died in Luebeck, Germany on Wednesday, April 13. He was 87 years old. Continue reading
Apr 13 Poet delivers a challenge: ‘change is not made by cowards’ By artsdesk Jonathan B. Tucker is the Youth Programs Coordinator for Split This Rock, a national nonprofit organized devoted provoking social justice through poetry. Listen to Tucker recite his poem "Live United" at the 2015 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Minneapolis. Continue reading
Apr 13 Watch 2:38 Jonathan B. Tucker recites his poem ‘Live United’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 4:28 Photographer Gordon Parks’ hunt for childhood friends reveals 1940s black life under segregation By PBS News Hour One of the most celebrated African-American artists of his time, Gordon Parks, is the subject of a photography exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that focuses on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s. WGBH's Jared… Continue watching