Apr 07 40 years ago, people took a chance on ABBA By Joshua Barajas Video by YouTube user mozpiano2 Forty years ago Monday, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA stepped on stage during the Eurovision Song Contest to take a risk that eventually led to their international superstardom. Donning silver platforms and… Continue reading
Apr 07 Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney ‘put on a show’ in nine-decade career By Justin Scuiletti Mickey Rooney, a Hollywood legend whose acting career spanned nine decades across film, television and stage, died Sunday night from natural causes at his North Hollywood home at the age of 93. Rooney, born Joseph Yule Jr. in Brooklyn,… Continue reading
Apr 07 Weekly Poem: Steve Scafidi Jr. reads ‘Portraits of Abraham Lincoln with Clouds for a Ceiling’ By artsdesk Steve Scafidi Jr.'s poem "Portraits of Abraham Lincoln with Clouds for a Ceiling" is published in "Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present." In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War,… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch Steve Scafidi Jr. reads ‘Portraits of Abraham Lincoln with Clouds for a Ceiling’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 06 Author and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen is dead at 86 By News Desk Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen died at his home on in Sagaponack, N.Y. of leukemia on Saturday. He was 86. Matthiessen was known as a novelist and non-fiction writer as well as for his work as an environmental activist and American… Continue reading
Apr 05 Subway rider reads original poem By PBS News Hour Elizabeth Meriwether was approached by Madeline Schwartzman on the subway and asked to write a poem. Here she reads “Outpouring of My Emotion?”… Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch Subway poetry project connects NYers By PBS News Hour Madeline Schwartzman’s mission is connect people in what she sees as an increasingly individualized society. Every day as she travels by subway Madeline asks fellow commuters to write a poem in her notebook. Some refuse, some accept, and now more… Continue watching
Apr 04 20 years after his death, Kurt Cobain still sings for the underdogs By Victoria Fleischer On April 5, 1994, the life of Kurt Cobain ended abruptly with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His band Nirvana, which had only months earlier released its third studio album, In Utero, redefined 1990s rock, establishing the raw,… Continue reading
Apr 03 Watch 12:04 New play depicts drama of Mideast peacemaking at ‘Camp David’ By Anne Azzi Davenport Continue watching
Apr 03 What does a medieval literature scholar read into ‘Game of Thrones?’ By Victoria Fleischer The land of Westeros may seem far off for fans of “Game of Thrones,” but as season four of HBO’s show successful is gearing up to start on Sunday, Art Beat learned it may not be as distant as one… Continue reading