Apr 20 Full list of 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism and the arts By News Desk The Pulitzer Prizes for works of journalism and the arts produced in 2014 were announced Monday -- with magazines officially eligible for the first time. Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch 6:25 Singer Rhiannon Giddens taps America's deep musical roots By PBS News Hour Rhiannon Giddens has studied opera and fronted a Grammy-winning old-time string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Now her debut solo album, produced by T. Bone Burnett, showcases her range and celebrates the musical influence of American women like Odetta, Patsy… Continue watching
Apr 15 Rhiannon Giddens performs 'Julie,' a song inspired by a slave's story By Frank Carlson, Mike Fritz Singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is the first to admit she's big into history, and in particular the history of the South and the Civil War. Continue reading
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