Sep 18 Tracking rhinos and elephants with Maasai rangers By Jeffrey Brown Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya is a small success story in a much larger catastrophe. Rangers for the Big Life Foundation track elephants and rhinos, looking for signs of poachers and responding quickly to reports of danger, or worse,… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch 4:47 Preserving the ancient ruins of Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Ken Burns captures complicated portraits of ‘high-voltage’ Roosevelts By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 17 From marriage equality advocate to materials scientist, MacArthur Foundation names 21 new ‘geniuses’ By Victoria Fleischer What do a civil rights lawyer, a graphic memoirist and an environmental engineer have in common? They are all 2014 MacArthur Fellows. Continue reading
Sep 16 Turning negative space into a plea for environmental respect By Eric Schultz, NJ State of the Arts When one of Pat Brentano's neighbors in her upscale suburban town of Westfield, New Jersey, cut down 21 mature trees to build a gigantic house, Bretano was horrified. She used her anger as a channel for her creative work; Endangered… Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch One artist warns the public with cut-outs of 33 endangered birds By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 16 Surrounded by baby elephants in Kenya, including one ‘troublemaker’ By Jeffrey Brown Well, this is unusual: I am standing in the middle of a dozen or so elephants, one running his trunk up my chest toward my face, another giving me a bump in the rear end. One does not do this… Continue reading
Sep 15 Weekly Poem: Saeed Jones composes a ‘Prelude’ to one Boy’s coming-of-age By Anya van Wagtendonk Poet Saeed Jones explores themes of gender and masculinity, sex and violence, power, history and memory in his debut poetry collection, “Prelude to Bruise.” Crafted over the course of nearly five years, the book narrates the development of a figure… Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch ‘New York’s Picasso’ removed from iconic eatery after legal dispute By PBS News Hour After more than 12 hours of careful maneuvering, workers at New York's Four Seasons restaurant removed "Le Tricorne," a nearly-century old Picasso tapestry painting. The move follows a legal dispute between the building's owner and the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Continue watching
Sep 12 Oh say did you know these 7 facts about The Star-Spangled Banner? By Dave Sloan We're all familiar with Francis Scott Key’s "The Star-Spangled Banner," especially as a ritual opening at our county's favorite sporting events. To celebrate 200-year anniversary, Art Beat shares seven little known facts about the anthem. Continue reading