Jul 14 Why John Oliver takes ‘Downton Abbey’ personally By Anne Azzi Davenport In his new program, "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver," the former "Daily Show" member is blowing his comic whistle on the media, politicians and even the American public when it is not paying attention the way he thinks it… Continue reading
Jul 14 Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer dies at 90 By Margaret Myers Nadine Gordimer, a South African Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote about the oppression in her country during the apartheid era, has died at the age of 90. Continue reading
Jul 14 Weekly Poem: Mark Bibbins reads ‘Breakout Session’ By artsdesk "They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re Full" was published in March 2014. Mark Bibbons' other collections include "The Dance of No Hard Feelings" and "Sky Lounge," for which he received a Lamba Literary Award. Continue reading
Jul 13 Maestro Lorin Maazel, celebrated conductor, is dead at 84 By News Desk Conductor, composer and former child prodigy Lorin Maazel, died on Sunday at his home in Virginia. Continue reading
Jul 12 End of an era: Last surviving member of the Ramones is dead By Elisabeth Ponsot The last surviving original member of the punk band the Ramones, Tommy Ramone, has died. He was 65. Continue reading
Jul 11 Filmmaker ponders married life after ‘112 Weddings’ By Anya van Wagtendonk In a new film, documentarian and sometime-wedding videographer Doug Block revisits nine couples whose weddings he captured over the course of two decades. He wanted to answer two questions: what did you expect marriage to be going into it, and… Continue reading
Jul 10 Watch Graffiti artists take to the streets of Brazil to combat violence against women By PBS News Hour Brazilian street artists used the spotlight of the World Cup to highlight a problem close to home. Special correspondent Sophia Kruz of Detroit Public Television reports on a movement in Brazil to spread awareness of domestic violence through the art… Continue watching
Jul 10 Mentally ill shackled and neglected in Africa’s crisis regions By Victoria Fleischer Robin Hammond had never considered the long-term mental health effects on the Africans whose stories of war, famine and conflict he had covered for 12 years as a documentary photographer. But on a 2011 reporting trip to Sudan, he witnessed… Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch Why ‘Doctor Zhivago’ was dangerous By PBS News Hour When Boris Pasternak finished his novel “Dr. Zhivago” in 1956, Soviet authorities refused to publish the tale of an individual’s struggle amid the Russian Revolution. A new book, “The Zhivago Affair,” tells the story of how Pasternak’s novel came to… Continue watching