Feb 23 Good night for 'Birdman' and 'Budapest,' but no big winners at last night's Oscars By Victoria Fleischer At last night’s 87th annual Oscar ceremony, all eight best picture nominees went home with at least one award. Continue reading
Feb 22 Photos: Oscar gets red carpet-ready for the Academy Awards By News Desk The 87th Academy Awards is set to take place Sunday, Feb. 22 presented at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif. In the days and hours leading up to the ceremony, workers meticulously prepare for Hollywood's biggest night of the… Continue reading
Feb 22 Jazz legend Clark Terry dies at 94 By Rebecca Lee Legendary jazz trumpeter and composer Clark Terry, who played alongside jazz greats such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington over a 70-plus year career, died on Saturday. He was 94. Continue reading
Feb 21 Watch 7:36 Praise for the printed page: Will Amazon leave French bookstores in peril? By PBS News Hour In France, even though the price of books was fixed years ago to prevent price differentiation, some worry the country's thousands of bookstores may now be in jeopardy as more customers flock to online retailers, such as Amazon. The online… Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch 6:18 How poet W.S. Merwin found paradise by planting palm trees By PBS News Hour In the late 1970s, the renowned poet W.S. Merwin bought three acres of an old pineapple plantation in Hawaii -- a “paradise lost,” where little would grow due to deforestation and chemicals leftover in the soil. Little by little, he… Continue watching
Feb 20 Urban explorer reveals an abandoned world, frozen in time By Victoria Fleischer Urban explorer Andre Govia is "addicted to decay." He visited 900 locations in 22 countries. While confronting the hazards of trespassing in derelict buildings, he photographed abandoned hospitals, hotels, theme parks and mansions. Continue reading
Feb 20 Reporter's Notebook: the difficulty of getting to Timbuktu By Jeffrey Brown For these trips, these stories, we calibrate the details so finely – the days away, the money spent, the interviews to be done, the shots we have to get, the places we have to get to. Take out one thing… Continue reading
Feb 20 8 things you didn't know about this year's Oscar nominees By Ruth Tam Which film featured a fake baby? Who wanted her character to die of in the midst of filming? Find out before Sunday's Oscars. Continue reading
Feb 19 Watch 5:16 Diva Deborah Voigt on the 'lonely business' of opera that led to addictions By PBS News Hour Opera performer Deborah Voigt has starred on some of the world’s great stages, rising to be one of the most prominent singers of her generation. But she’s also made headlines for her figure, which has sometimes stopped her from portraying… Continue watching
Feb 19 Quiz: Match the critic's snark to the Oscar-nominated film By Joshua Barajas Ahead of the 87th Academy Awards this Sunday, can you guess which Oscar-nominated film these critics' reviews praised or bashed this past year?… Continue reading