Jun 24 Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' sells for more than $2 million By Ariel Min The handwritten manuscript for Bob Dylan’s 1965 classic “Like a Rolling Stone” sold Tuesday for more than $2 million at Sotheby’s rock and roll auction. Continue reading
Jun 24 Building musical instruments from Detroit's wreckage By Roy Feldman, WTVS Detroit Public Television Reclaim Detroit is a nonprofit organization that dismantles vacant buildings to re-use their materials. That’s music to the ears of Michigan luthier Gary Zimnicki, who is using reclaimed floorboards and ceilings to craft ukuleles and mandolins. Filmmaker Roy Feldman from… Continue reading
Jun 23 Weekly Poem: Nick Lantz reads 'Fork with Two Tines Pushed Together' By Victoria Fleischer Nick Lantz has written three books of poetry. He won the Bread Loaf Writers Conferences Bakeless Prize for his first collection, "We Don’t Know We Don’t Know," and the Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry for his second collection, "The Lightning… Continue reading
Jun 22 Erbil Citadel in Kurdistan among new UNESCO heritage sites By Vic Pasquantonio The newly-designated sites include both cultural and natural-made landmarks. Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch Rubik's Cube's mystique remains 40 years later By PBS News Hour In a classic Rubik’s Cube, twenty-six cubes are designed to interlock and rotate around an axis that can be shuffled 43-quintillion ways. It couldn’t be simpler invention, but for most of us, the Rubik's Cube poses a daunting task. This… Continue watching
Jun 21 Watch Auction for 18th century viola starts at $45 million By PBS News Hour An 18th century viola by Antonio Stradivarius, the famed Italian lute-maker, is up for auction at Sotheby's starting at $45 million. The old stringed instruments, known as "Strads" are praised for their masterful craftsmanship. But a French researcher who blindfolded… Continue watching
Jun 21 Violinmaker uses CT scans, 3D lasers to hone craft By Connie Kargbo Brooklyn violinmaker Samuel Zygmuntowicz has been crafting stringed instruments for about 30 years, and is increasingly using modern tools like computerized tomography and 3D laser vibration scans to perfect his instruments. Continue reading