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
Jul 21 Watch Graffiti art gives abandoned Miami stadium a second life By PBS News Hour In the early 1960s, a Cuban architect who had fled to South Florida designed the Miami Marine Stadium, an ambitious structure that hosted concerts, boat races, religious services and political rallies. But the city decided to abandon the venue when… Continue watching
Jul 21 Weekly Poem: Jennifer Michael Hecht riffs off iconic poems By Victoria Fleischer In her book “Who Said,” Jennifer Michael Hecht is in conversation with a wide variety of poems, from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” to the beginning of Dante’s “Inferno” and John Keats' “Ode to Autumn.”… Continue reading
Jul 18 Watch From painting overpasses to stadiums, a graffiti artist on his evolving art form By Frank Carlson Continue watching
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