Jul 17 PBS History Detectives Think They May Have Found a Rock & Roll 'Holy Grail' Bob Dylan plays a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar for the first time on stage as he performs at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965 in Newport, R.I. Photo by Alice Ochs/ Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images. It's… Continue reading
Jul 17 A Rock & Roll 'Holy Grail' History Mystery What happened to the guitar that Bob Dylan used to 'go electric?' In tonight's season premiere, History Detectives Elyse Luray and Wes Cowan carefully unravel the missing guitar mystery. Continue reading
Jul 17 Watch History Detectives Think They May Have Found a Rock Treasure PBS History Detectives Think They May Have Found a Rock & Roll Treasure… Continue watching
Jul 17 The Daily Frame By Molly Finnegan JO!: Africa to America and A Dance Odyssey performs at the 2012 Concert of Colors at Max Fischer Music Center in Detroit, Mich. Photo by Paul Warner/Getty Images. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch Obama's Shift on Gay Marriage Lucrative for Campaign From California, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on how President Obama's public endorsement of same-sex marriage triggered a flood of support from the gay community -- which is now providing campaign support both in votes and in fundraising. Continue watching
Jul 16 Corralling the Gay and Lesbian Vote By Spencer Michels Community activists attend a San Francisco fundraiser in June, raising money for one of the city's two major gay and lesbian Democratic clubs. Photo courtesy Reese Aaron Isbell. More than 30 years ago -- June of 1982 to be exact… Continue reading
Jul 16 How Important is the Gay and Lesbian Vote for the Upcoming Election? A gay pride and an American flag hang from a shoulder bag during a demonstration outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in 2011 in San Francisco, Cal. Photo by Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images. "This didn't happen in Nashville." That's… Continue reading
Jul 16 Weekly Poem: 'Quarantine' By Tom LeGro Eavan Boland is one of Ireland's most prominent poets. Her poems often examine the lives of women, looking at larger cultural issues through the lens of the details of everyday life. She's published more than 10 books of verse, most… Continue reading
Jul 16 The Daily Frame Dancers with the STREB Extreme Action Company perform on top of London's city hall as part of Sunday's "One Extraordinary Day" performances celebrating the Olympics. Continue reading
Jul 13 Conversation: What Makes Some Arts Buildings Successful and Others Not? By Tom LeGro Anyone paying attention to American cultural life has noticed a boom of art-centered buildings in cities across the country. A new study by the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago takes what it builds as the first systematic… Continue reading