Jun 29 Watch 7:31 Willy Vlautin on spotlighting working-class American life in his novels and music By Jeff Brown, Mary Fecteau Novelist Willy Vlautin built his career writing about people on the edges of the American dream: working-class families, lonely alcoholics, and those struggling to make ends meet in the fast-changing American West. He’s also a musician, telling his stories through… Continue watching
Jun 29 WATCH: Music industry legend Clive Davis remembered in funeral with Springsteen, Dionne Warwick By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press Kenny G played a mournful sax solo, Jennifer Hudson's voice soared and Bruce Springsteen spoke glowingly at the funeral Monday for music legend Clive Davis, as pop royalty honored a man who championed so many of their careers. Continue reading
Jun 26 Watch 5:57 Black Opera Project celebrates resilience and richness of the Black American experience By Anne Azzi Davenport, Nadya Ellerhorst Imagine a world 400 years in the future, where a young woman is forced into exile after discovering she carries a rare gene linked to extraordinary power and immortality. That's the premise of a new opera opening in Cincinnati. PBS… Continue watching
Jun 26 Heat catches Europe's fashion industry unprepared as models face the sun in fur and wool By Thomas Adamson, Associated Press The most coveted accessory at the Paris Fashion Week shows this week was not a bag, a sneaker or a watch. It was an ice pack. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch 5:42 America's oldest hospital preserves the nation's history of medicine and health care By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport There's a new museum in Philadelphia, but its building and mission date back to before this country was founded. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown went to see how the past and present meet at the Pennsylvania Hospital Museum. It's part… Continue watching
Jun 25 David Clayton-Thomas, powerhouse lead singer of brass rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies at 84 By Hillel Italie, Associated Press Clayton-Thomas was a onetime street fighter and petty thief from Canada who briefly became a rock superstar. Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch 7:15 Walter Isaacson on what he calls 'The Greatest Sentence Ever Written' By Judy Woodruff, Lorna Baldwin Ahead of America's 250th anniversary, author Walter Isaacson has turned his attention to a single sentence in the Declaration of Independence. Judy Woodruff spoke with Isaacson about the enduring power of those words and his new book, "The Greatest Sentence… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 3:21 Music industry titan Clive Davis, who turned artists into stars across genres, dies at 94 By Nick Schifrin, Jackson Hudgins The music industry lost a titan on Monday. Clive Davis, who nurtured artists across nearly every major genre for more than half a century, has died at the age of 94. Nick Schifrin reports. Continue watching
Jun 22 Clive Davis, music industry starmaker, has died at 94 By Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Maria Sherman, Associated Press Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry's most powerful figures, launching or resurrecting the careers of such superstars as Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys, has died. Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch 4:56 Derrick Adams celebrates the joy of the Black American experience through art By Jared Bowen, GBH As the rainbow array outside Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art suggests, artist Derrick Adams is accentuating the positive. He celebrates contemporary Black life and culture, depicting leisure, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Jared Bowen of GBH Boston recently sat… Continue watching