Jul 30 Watch Soul musician Curtis Harding is ‘keeping with tradition’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 29 Indie band of high school ‘misfits’ on the truth of being young By Slavik Boyechko, Alaska Public Media “Life isn’t like a normal song, in 4/4 time,” says Grace Kari, a singer and banjo player with the band Gerygone and Twig. She and her fellow bandmates are self-proclaimed “misfits” who met during high school in Wasilla, Alaska. They… Continue reading
Jul 28 Weekly Poem: Marianne Boruch brings life to her ‘favorite cadaver’ By Victoria Fleischer When poet Marianne Boruch took a gross anatomy class at Purdue University, she was most interested in a woman who had been nearly 100 years old when she died. “For some reason, this figure, my favorite cadaver, just pushed me… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch Inside Garrison Keillor’s fabled world of ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 26 How well do you know ‘A Prairie Home Companion’? Take our quiz By Megan Thompson, Frank Bi Are you strong, good-looking and/or above-average? Could you make it in Lake Wobegon? Take NewsHour Weekend’s “A Prairie Home Companion” quiz in honor of the show’s 40th anniversary. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Letter by letter, turning Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ into a work of art By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 25 Watch Connecting strength and vulnerability of the creative brain By PBS News Hour Why have so many creative minds suffered from mental illness? Nancy Andreasen, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, has devoted decades of study to the physical differences in the brains of writers and other highly… Continue watching
Jul 25 Garrison Keillor on loving poetry ‘as clear statement’ By Victoria Fleischer In college, Garrison Keillor, the host of American Public media’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and “The Writer’s Almanac,” majored in poetry. After he wrote his papers and received his degree, he didn’t look at it again until decades later, when… Continue reading