Arts Jan 26 That time I ended up in a womb with a baby and other virtual reality ‘immersions’ This was in the New Frontier exhibition that’s showcasing a new world of virtual reality technology and its use in filmmaking. There was plenty of video game-like ‘immersion,’ Filmmakers are beginning to think through how to tell a complex story…
Arts Jan 23 Reporter’s Notebook: Back at Sundance Chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown returns to Sundance to report on several stories for the NewsHour on the state of independent filmmaking.
Arts Sep 18 Tracking rhinos and elephants with Maasai rangers Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya is a small success story in a much larger catastrophe. Rangers for the Big Life Foundation track elephants and rhinos, looking for signs of poachers and responding quickly to reports of danger, or worse,…
Arts Sep 16 Surrounded by baby elephants in Kenya, including one ‘troublemaker’ Well, this is unusual: I am standing in the middle of a dozen or so elephants, one running his trunk up my chest toward my face, another giving me a bump in the rear end. One does not do this…
World Jul 17 As stigma against gays in Uganda spikes, so do HIV risks While the United Nations has reported optimistic news about controlling the global epidemic of HIV and AIDS, Uganda’s infection rates are growing. Public health officials say the trend is partially tied to stigma faced by at-risk groups like gay men…
Arts Jul 02 What drives Willie Nelson to keep singing and traveling Country legend Willie Nelson, 81, is still on the road. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Nelson to talk about the burst of songwriting behind his new album, “Band of Brothers,” controlling his temper and how he stays fit on tour.
Arts Mar 20 Breakfast with the ‘cabinet maker’: Building political change in Myanmar Over breakfast with Maung Hla Thaung, a woodworker and designer, we talk about the political situation in Myanmar today and his work as a longtime opponent of the military regime. This is a man building furniture and, he hopes, political…
Arts Mar 18 Will the ancient Buddhist temples of Bagan turn into Disney World? In Myanmar, some scholars worry that Bagan -- the former capital of a powerful kingdom in medieval times -- will be turned into a kind of theme park. Or that it will be "loved to death," as has been the…
Arts Mar 17 Is culture at risk in Myanmar? We are in Myanmar to report on a country opening up to the world, politically, economically, and culturally. A ruthless military dictatorship clamped down on all opposition, prohibited free expression, and kept the country closed off and shrouded in a…