Jan 28 To everything there is a season: Folk singer and activist Pete Seeger dies at 94 By Victoria Fleischer Pete Seeger, the legendary folk musician who helped spearhead the American folk revival, died Monday night in New York City at the age of 94 from natural causes. Across more than seven decades, he inspired scores of singer-songwriters, activists and… Continue reading
Jan 28 Folk music pioneer and life-long activist Pete Seeger dies at 94 By News Desk Pete Seeger, the songwriter behind the anti-war ballad "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," co-writer of "If I had a Hammer," and constant contributor to the landscape of American folk music since the 1940s, died Monday at the age of… Continue reading
Jan 27 Quentin Tarantino sues Gawker over leaked film script By Zachary Treu Film director Quentin Tarantino filed a copyright lawsuit against blog network Gawker Media and others for "allegedly facilitating the dissemination of copies" of "The Hateful Eight," an unproduced screenplay that was leaked to the public last week, according to Te… Continue reading
Jan 27 Weekly Poem: Peter Cole writes about why we read poetry By Victoria Fleischer Peter Cole thinks of all poetry as translation. "Writing one's own poetry, you're translating a nonverbal experience or a less than articulate experience into something much more articulate," he told Art Beat. In addition to writing his own, Cole translates… Continue reading
Jan 27 Daft Punk got ‘Lucky’ at the 2014 Grammys By Victoria Fleischer Daft Punk swept the stage Sunday night at the 56th Grammy Awards. The duo took home many of the coveted awards, including record of the year for "Get Lucky" and album of the year for "Random Access Memories." But the… Continue reading
Jan 24 Watch Juan Gelman, Argentine poet who fought against a military junta, dies at 83 By Jeffrey Brown, PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 24 Remembering Argentine poet Juan Gelman By Victoria Fleischer "The moment he died in Argentina, the entire country came to a halt. It understood that part of its soul had left," Ilan Stavans told chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown. Stevens is a writer and a professor of Latin American… Continue reading
Jan 24 Remembering Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, with windowpanes of words By Lorna Baldwin Walk around Dumfries, Scotland and you'll see poems in the windowpanes -- faint etchings in some and bold black markings in others. A few are the surviving work of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, etched into the glass centuries ago. Continue reading