Jul 14 For the young acolytes of maestro Lorin Maazel, the show goes on By Margaret Warner Margaret Warner narrates "Peter and the Wolf" Sunday at the Castleton Festival. Photo courtesy of The Castleton FestivalWhen I was asked to narrate Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf at the Castleton Music Festival this year, I was… Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Nadine Gordimer, 90, Nobel-winning novelist who spoke out against apartheid By PBS News Hour Continue watching
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