Education Jun 06 A Brief But Spectacular take on teacher burnout The nation is in the midst of a teacher shortage, and at the end of another school year, burnout is causing many more teachers to call it quits. Micaela DeSimone is a 6th-grade English teacher in a charter school in…
Arts Jun 17 A Brief But Spectacular take on finding independence while birdwatching Virginia Rose, who has been using a manual wheelchair for more than 40 years, knows how difficult it can be to enjoy nature as a disabled person. With her organization "Birdability," Rose finds ways to increase access to nature for…
Arts Jun 07 Singer-songwriter Syd’s Brief But Spectacular Take on her path to being an artist Singer-songwriter Syd is one of the pioneering and most prominent voices to sing about same-sex relationships in R&B music. She has now released solo music after working with hip-hop collective Odd Future, and her own Grammy-nominated band The Internet. Syd…
Arts May 11 A Brief But Spectacular take on the power of documentary filmmaking As wildfires continue to rage in the western United States, we look at how these increasingly common events are affecting the people in the midst of them. Lucy Walker is a documentary filmmaker whose most recent work, "Bring Your Own…