Jul 25 'Giants' take to the streets of Liverpool, England By Justin Scuiletti The French street theater company Royal de Luxe are marking 100 years since the start of World War I in a larger than life way. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch How Garrison Keillor's relationship to poetry changed over time By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 24 Blues musician John Németh gets 'greasy' in Memphis By Frank Carlson The first gigs that blues musician John Németh played were not in darkened, smoke-filled dives near the muddy banks of the Mississippi River, but at bright luncheons in Boise, Idaho for the religious group Catholic Daughters of America. Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch Blues musician John Németh gets 'greasy' in Memphis By Frank Carlson, Ariel Min Continue watching
Jul 23 Photographer creates unique family portraits by asking strangers to touch By Victoria Fleischer If you're being approached by a photographer with a large, antique-looking camera, who is asking you to pose with a stranger, it's probably Richard Renaldi. The photographer traveled around the country for his project "Touching Strangers,” the book of which… Continue reading
Jul 23 Taking the Batman out of the shadows By Justin Scuiletti, Joshua Barajas When the “Bat-Man” first appeared, he did so from the shadows, clad in a vampiric cowl with slits for eyes, long, sharp ears and a cape with bat-like wings. That was in 1939, in the pages of Detective Comics No. Continue reading
Jul 22 Painted fences unite community in Austin neighborhood By Galia Farber and Eve Tarlo, KLRU Rigel Thurston says he lives by a simple motto: "Beauty will save the world." The 33-year-old realtor is now painting that sentiment -- taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot" -- on fences along Lamar Boulevard in north Austin, Texas,… Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch Graffiti art gives abandoned Miami stadium a second life By PBS News Hour In the early 1960s, a Cuban architect who had fled to South Florida designed the Miami Marine Stadium, an ambitious structure that hosted concerts, boat races, religious services and political rallies. But the city decided to abandon the venue when… Continue watching
Jul 21 Weekly Poem: Jennifer Michael Hecht riffs off iconic poems By Victoria Fleischer In her book “Who Said,” Jennifer Michael Hecht is in conversation with a wide variety of poems, from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” to the beginning of Dante’s “Inferno” and John Keats' “Ode to Autumn.”… Continue reading