Jul 18 From painting overpasses to stadiums, a graffiti artist on his evolving art form By Frank Carlson For more than 30 years, Los Angeles-based artist RISK has been creating colorful murals on everything from highway overpasses -- known as “heavens” -- to dilapidated buildings, walls, trains and buses. He recently joined eight other graffiti artists to paint… Continue reading
Jul 17 Broadway and cabaret actress Elaine Stritch dead at 89 By Joshua Barajas Cabaret legend and Broadway mainstay Elaine Stritch died in her Michigan home Thursday from natural causes, her publicist confirmed. The brassy performer was 89. Continue reading
Jul 17 African-American hero soars to the mantle of Captain America By Joshua Barajas Marvel Comics revealed Wednesday that Sam Wilson, known in the comic books as the African-American winged superhero Falcon, will now don the red, white and blue Captain America costume. Continue reading
Jul 16 Poll: What are your Emmy predictions? By Victoria Fleischer, Frank Bi There's less than six weeks to binge watch all your favorite television shows before the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences decides which ones take home an Emmy statue. The nominations were announced last week and the ceremony is… Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch Meet the new U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright By PBS News Hour Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright was recently named the U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. In this NewsHour encore piece, we traveled to the author’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2011 to listen to Wright read his work… Continue watching
Jul 15 Comic series of absurd tragedies racks up one final catastrophe By John Rosman, OPB Since July 2011, almost like clockwork, Portland illustrator Ben Dewey produced three comics a week for his off-beat comic Tragedy Series. Over the last three years he has cultivated a modest, loyal following, but that audience is about to get… Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch Portland illustrator Benjamin Dewey on his web-comic 'Tragedy Series' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 15 Marvel's hammer-wielding Thor is now a woman By Joshua Barajas Announced on the ABC talk show "The View," the unidentified actress will take on the role of cosmic defender from her male predecessor. According to a Marvel press release, the current Thor is no longer "worthy" to wield Mjolnir, the… Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Nadine Gordimer, 90, Nobel-winning novelist who spoke out against apartheid By PBS News Hour Nadine Gordimer has died at the age of 90 at her home in Johannesburg. The Nobel Prize-winning writer and anti-apartheid activist used her pen to write damning indictments of South Africa's racial segregation. We look back at Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s 1987… Continue watching