Sep 30 Watch Violinist Joshua Bell: Music should be part of everyone’s educational diet By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 30 Grammy-winning violinist Joshua Bell delights masses at DC subway concert By Victoria Fleischer, Anne Azzi Davenport Back in 2007, pedestrians hurried by without realizing that the busker playing at the entrance to a Washington, D.C., Metro stop was none other than the Grammy-winning Joshua Bell. Today, Bell set up at the entrance of Union Station, but… Continue reading
Sep 30 Off-the-grid Alaskan fabric artist dips silk into glacial mud By Alaska Public Media For silk artist Wendy Smith-Wood, living “nearly” off the grid on a remote homestead in Alaska has been a double-edged sword for her art. The cabin that her husband built by hand sits in a “stunningly beautiful” valley near the… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch One Alaskan artist makes unpredictable patterns with silk By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch Authors take aim at Amazon over fight with publisher Hachette By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 29 Weekly Poem: Sam Taylor struggles to speak Chinese By Andrew Troast We've taken our environment for granted for centuries and now we're at a point of "crisis." That is the driving theme in “Nude Descending an Empire,” the new collection by Sam Taylor published in August, which he was inspired to… Continue reading
Sep 28 Hush falls on Atlanta Symphony Hall as musicians remain locked out By Carey Reed The Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has canceled its concerts until Nov. 8, following a breakdown in contract negotiations between musician unions and management, and the resulting lockout of musicians. Continue reading
Sep 25 Paramedic training, poetry change lives for California youth with few options By Cat Wise EMS Corps is relatively new Alameda County program that trains young men from disadvantaged backgrounds how to be EMTs. For a community where unemployment and incarceration rates are among the highest in the nation for men of color, the program… Continue reading
Sep 25 Drones to soar into movie making with new FAA permits By Joan Lowy, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to announce Thursday that it is granting permits to seven movie and television production companies to fly drones, an important step toward greater use of the technology by commercial operators, said attorneys… Continue reading