Mar 03 Watch 6:57 Filmmakers who exposed military sexual assaults turn camera to colleges By PBS News Hour A new film called "The Hunting Ground" offers a disturbing look at sexual assault at colleges around the country. Producer Amy Ziering and director Kirby Dick previously examined the widespread crisis of sexual assault in the U.S. military in their… Continue watching
Mar 03 Artist builds a wind-powered soup-serving soil-testing kitchen in Philadelphia By Joel Wanek, KQED For one week in 2011, North Philadelphia residents could see a windmill atop the roof of a formerly abandoned building. Test tubes of soil floated in the downstairs window of what was advertised as "Soil Kitchen," a place where you… Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch 5:47 Artist Amy Franceshini wants to confuse you … and that's a good thing By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch Pint-size percussionists learn music with Led Zeppelin hits By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, a Kentucky-based nonprofit that provides free music education to 7 to 14-year-olds children shared a video of the Louisville Leopard Percussionists performing a medley of Led Zeppelin tunes. Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch 5:33 Unsolved crimes that obsess police inspire writer Richard Price By PBS News Hour Richard Price’s new book, “The Whites,” centers around the criminals who get away and the police who get obsessed with catching them. Price, who has written eight novels and for the TV show “The Wire,” talks with Jeffrey Brown about… Continue watching
Mar 02 Richard Price breaks down his writing process By Anna Sillers Richard Price’s most recent book “The Whites,” centers around the criminals who get away with awful crimes and become obsessions for the police first assigned to their case. Writing under his pseudonym Harry Brandt, Price names these criminals after the great… Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch 2:40 Author Richard Price reads from his novel 'The Whites' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch 5:19 Author Richard Price breaks down his writing process By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 02 How to contemplate climate change when you have two kids under age 4 By artsdesk Listen to Hoa Nguyen read “No Sleep” from her collection, “Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008.”… Continue reading
Feb 28 Stolen Picasso painting recovered by New Jersey officials By Carey Reed Authorities alleged the person who sent the package falsely completed the customs declaration, labeling the item a holiday "art craft" worth 30 euros and including a cheeky message: "Joyeux Noel" (Merry Christmas). Continue reading