Sep 24 Amtrak Residency offers 24 writers a desk during a long train ride By Victoria Fleischer For some, writing is best tackled in solitude. For others, linguistic discoveries are best made with a little ambient noise in the background. Today, Amtrak named 24 writers who will get free access to the sounds of human chatter and… Continue reading
Sep 23 Dallas artist creates rainbows with 60 miles of thread By Alison Jardine, KERA Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe makes physically imposing and yet nebulous sculpture of thread stretched between points on the ceiling and points on the floor. He creates a multifaceted geometric shape, the color changing like a rainbow as the viewer’s eye… Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch 'Obsessive' artist builds sculptures out of 40 miles of sewing thread By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 22 'Lion King' musical makes history as top-grossing production of all time By Sarah Corapi In the world of box office hits, one title now reigns supreme. Disney’s stage musical adaptation of “The Lion King” has raked in over $6.2 billion in its 17-year run. Continue reading
Sep 22 Weekly Poem: Carl Adamshick writes for the 'mysterious other' By Victoria Fleischer Carl Adamshick has been writing poetry seriously for 20 years and in most of the time he found himself with shorter poems. That’s what you’ll find if you pick up his first collection, “Curses and Wishes,” which won the Walt… Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch Should public lands be a natural setting for extreme sports? By PBS News Hour When an iconic geological landmark outside Moab, Utah, became the site of an extreme rope-swing, it captured the attention of the Bureau of Land Management. Officials are proposing a ban on rope sport activities at Corona Arch to evaluate the… Continue watching
Sep 19 What's your favorite Ken Burns film? By News Desk As "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" wraps tonight on PBS, we were wondering, out of the 25 films Ken Burns has created, which would you recommend if you could only pick one?… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch Utah archaeological site becomes protest site in federal land dispute By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 18 Preserving the ancient ruins of Utah's Nine Mile Canyon By Merrill Schwerin In 2000, massive natural gas reserves were discovered on the plateau above Nine Mile Canyon in Utah, an area with thousands of archaeological sites and more petroglyphs than anywhere else in the lower 48 states. That energy boom has created… Continue reading
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