Jan 04 Watch 4:03 Theater on a canal? Avant-garde productions immerse audiences, cut costs By PBS News Hour Site-specific theater, a growing art form that immerses audiences into productions, has become a tool for some producers to save money by defraying pricey traditional staging. NewsHour Weekend's Zachary Green reports on a show playing from a particularly unconventional site… Continue watching
Jan 02 Paramount offering free 'Selma' screenings for Selma residents By Ruth Tam Two weeks after the film's limited Dec. 25 release, Paramount Pictures is offering free screenings of "Selma" to its namesake's residents. Continue reading
Jan 01 Watch Journalist given exclusive access shares stories of trapped Chilean miners By PBS News Hour The 2010 Chilean mine collapse attracted attention far beyond South America, but only one journalist was given exclusive rights to their story. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Hector Tobar, author of “Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried… Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch 10:58 What does 2014 promise for the year to come? By PBS News Hour What will history say about 2014? As the year comes to a close, Hari Sreenivasan gets insight from Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, Helena Andrews of The Washington Post and Evan McMorris-Santoro of Buzzfeed, who take stock of 2014 and… Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch 7:33 Two film critics take a look at 2014's best movies By PBS News Hour What movies are likely to be remembered long after 2014 ends? From a cinematic meditation on growing up, to a stirring portrait of the civil rights movement, film critics Dana Stevens of Slate and Mike Sargent of Pacifica Radio join… Continue watching
Dec 31 The artists we lost in 2014 By Victoria Fleischer As the hours tick down to 2015, here at Art Beat we offer a final look at some of the artists we lost over the last year, whose lives and legacies are worth another goodbye. Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch 7:41 Ebola, Ferguson and Derek Jeter make high schoolers' #MyZeitgeist videos By PBS News Hour A contest sponsored by PBS Newshour Extra and Google asked students to create a digital mash-up looking back at 2014. Judy Woodruff talks with three high schoolers who entered the #MyZeitgeist competition about deciding what events made their year-in-review videos… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 8:24 Bestselling authors share their favorite books of 2014 By PBS News Hour What did our favorite authors read this year? Jeffrey Brown asks novelist Ann Patchett and business writer Daniel Pink for their top recommendations of 2014, including a young adult novel written in verse and a book about humanity’s place in… Continue watching
Dec 30 Authors Ann Patchett and Daniel Pink talk what makes a great book By PBS News Hour Ann Patchett, author of "This is the Story of a Happy Marriage" and Daniel Pink, author of "To Sell is Human," sat down with Jeffrey Brown in Washington's Politics and Prose bookstore to talk about the factors that make a… Continue reading
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