Apr 23 What questions do you have for Bryan Cranston of ‘Breaking Bad’ fame? By Tracy Wholf On Thursday, PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown will sit down for an interview with actor Bryan Cranston, currently starring in "All the Way" on Broadway in New York City. Continue reading
Apr 23 To be or not to be, four hundred and fifty By Justin Scuiletti Today’s the day of poet Shakespeare’s birth Four hundred fifty years would be his age. With celebrations all around the Earth It is a fact that “all the world’s a stage” In honor of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, enjoy these facts… Continue reading
Apr 22 PHOTO: Latin American leaders stand guard at Gabriel Garcia Marquez By News Desk Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos stood guard Monday in Mexico City, Mexico at the honoring ceremony for Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Hundreds waited outside the Palace of Beautiful Arts in Mexico City… Continue reading
Apr 21 Nintendo’s Game Boy turns 25 By Justin Scuiletti It was more or less muscle memory: put in a fresh pair of double-A batteries, slide in the square, gray cartridge of your favorite game into the open slot, then flip on the little power switch on the top. Continue reading
Apr 21 100-foot-tall steel horses pay tribute to Scotland’s equine past By Lorna Baldwin The massive horse heads tower over the landscape, glinting in the sun or glistening in the rain, depending on what the ever-changing Scottish skies have in store. Named "The Kelpies," the 100-foot tall, 300-ton structures officially opened to the public… Continue reading
Apr 21 Student reporters honored as #NextGen public media producers By Thaisi Da Silva What do an eighth grade news anchor from Newark, N.J., a three-time student Emmy winner from Michigan and Montana's Journalist of the Year scholarship winner all have in common? These students, along with eight other youth journalists from across the… Continue reading
Apr 21 Weekly Poem: Yusef Komunyakaa reads ‘I Am Silas’ By artsdesk Yusef Komunyakaa's poem "I Am Silas" 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, the Smithsonian's National Poetry Gallery commissioned 12… Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch Remembering Gabriel Garcia Marquez, storyteller who resonated with readers around the world By PBS News Hour Spanish-language author and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez drew worldwide admiration for the poetic style and magical realism of his many novels and stories. Marquez died Thursday in Mexico City at the age of 87. Hari Sreenivasan talks to writer… Continue watching
Apr 18 Writers remember Gabriel Garcia Marquez By Justin Scuiletti #GabrielMarquezGarcia and #LatinAmerica in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/EN3VuRlSU3— Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) April 18, 2014 Many took to the Internet Thursday and Friday to post tributes Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate,… Continue reading