Mar 24 Watch 4:52 Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti laments changing San Francisco By PBS News Hour Ninety-six-year-old Lawrence Ferlinghetti settled in San Francisco in the 1950s, where he opened the City Lights bookshop and publishing house. But today San Francisco is better known as a central hub of the tech boom than of countercultural creativity. Jeffrey… Continue watching
Mar 24 When music is medicine for kids coping with cancer By Laila Kazmi, KCTS Amongst the smells of medicine and sounds of hospital equipment, four year old Allistaire escapes to a sense of normalcy, playing with instruments and enjoying music just as she does at home. Continue reading
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Mar 24 Calling all journalism students: Join a Facebook chat with chief correspondent for arts and culture Jeffrey Brown By Nora Daly Journalism students will have the opportunity to learn from PBS NewsHour's chief correspondent for arts and culture Jeffrey Brown in a Facebook chat on Tuesday, March 31, from 2-3 p.m. EDT. Continue reading
Mar 23 Dead Japanese poets make great collaborators By Ashira Morris Matthew Rohrer's new collection, "Surrounded by Friends," collects poems written in collaboration with famous writers, daily life and inanimate objects. Continue reading
Mar 21 Community in uproar after Lima mayor orders destruction of public murals By Carey Reed On orders from Lima's mayor, and much to the dismay of the city's artistic community, municipal workers began covering up murals in the historic downtown district of Peru's capital last week. Continue reading
Mar 20 Watch 6:59 Bringing the theater of the Supreme Court to the stage By PBS News Hour To research his latest role, actor Edward Gero had to go to court: the Supreme Court. His character? Real-life Justice Antonin Scalia. But the new play “The Originalist” is more than a portrait of the famously combative leader of the… Continue watching
Mar 20 Watch 3:57 How a wheelchair challenge mobilized a high school to become more accessible By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 20 Canvases bloom in this show of French paintings By Alexis Cox Opening Saturday, “Van Gogh, Manet, and Matisse: The Art of the Flower” traces the evolution of the floral still life genre from the late 18th century to the early 20th century, in the first major U.S. exhibition of it's kind. Continue reading
Mar 19 Watch Memoir marks the moment when parent and child roles are reversed By PBS News Hour George Hodgman left a fast-paced life as an editor in Manhattan for small town Missouri to care for his elderly mother. Judy Woodruff sits down with Hodgman to discuss his poignant memoir of caretaking, “Bettyville.”… Continue watching