Apr 01 Devote a slab of your day to our Pet Rock live stream By Joshua Barajas The concept for the easy, cheap pet sprung out of bar conversation with friends. But the product was an overnight success, selling 1.5 million rocks over a period of months for $3.95 apiece. Continue reading
Apr 01 Jeffrey Brown’s advice for young journalists? Expect the unexpected. By Nora Daly PBS NewsHour’s chief correspondent for arts and culture Jeffrey Brown addressed questions from student journalists in a Facebook chat. Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch 6:40 Why Scott Simon shared his mother’s death with an unseen audience By PBS News Hour Scott Simon is known as the voice of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, but he also gained an audience when he used Twitter to document his mother’s final days. His 140-character observances of the life and death of his mother led… Continue watching
Mar 31 Watch 5:03 How African musician Salif Keita went from social outcast to international superstar By PBS News Hour Salif Keita is known today as the "golden voice" of Africa, but in his youth he was an outcast, unaccepted by his community because he was born with albinism. Turning to music as an outlet, Keita rose to be one… Continue watching
Mar 31 From industrial to creative, re-branding Sacramento with artful dumpsters By KVIE The southeastern quadrant of Sacramento is an industrial community that has seen many industries come through: mining, truck farming, recycling. Now, a group that advocates for the community has decided to re-brand it by asking artists to paint dumpsters. Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch 3:05 From industrial to creative, rebranding Sacramento with artful dumpsters By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 31 Will Jay-Z’s new music streaming service help artists? By Sarah McHaney Entering a market cramped with competition, music mogul Jay-Z has launched Tidal, a new music streaming service owned by artists themselves in the United States. Continue reading
Mar 30 Watch Documentary chronicles the ‘resistance movement’ against cancer By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 30 Ken Burns and Siddartha Mukherjee on adapting ‘Cancer’ from page to screen By Kyla Calvert Mason At a time when documentaries are getting more attention from mainstream moviegoers, Ken Burns, the documentarian behind epics including “The Civil War," “Baseball” and two dozen other films, says the best advice he can offer aspiring filmmakers may seem like… Continue reading
Mar 30 Poet writes unflinchingly about self-inflicted violence and women By artsdesk Sarah Rose Nordgren reads "The Performance" from her debut collection, "Best Bones." When she wrote the poem, she was thinking about self-inflicted violence and women. Continue reading