Jul 25 Garrison Keillor on loving poetry 'as clear statement' By Victoria Fleischer In college, Garrison Keillor, the host of American Public media’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and “The Writer’s Almanac,” majored in poetry. After he wrote his papers and received his degree, he didn’t look at it again until decades later, when… Continue reading
Jul 25 I sing the book old-fashioned: Printing Whitman's masterpiece by hand By Cat Wise The Arion Press in San Francisco is one of the country’s last fine book printers creating limited edition, handmade books using centuries-old letterpress printing equipment. Continue reading
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