World Jun 15 Reporting from Cuba, a place frozen in time yet full of potential Deciding to go to Cuba was the easy part, for all the obvious reasons: the history, the politics, the culture, the place, the fact of it being — the cliché is true — so close and yet so far away.
Arts Jun 10 Son of migrants, Juan Felipe Herrera to become first Latino U.S. Poet Laureate He’s the son of migrant workers and today Juan Felipe Herrera becomes the next U.S. Poet Laureate, the first Latino to hold the position. Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown met Herrera at the place where it all started.
Arts Feb 20 Reporter’s Notebook: the difficulty of getting to Timbuktu For these trips, these stories, we calibrate the details so finely – the days away, the money spent, the interviews to be done, the shots we have to get, the places we have to get to. Take out one thing…
Poetry Feb 02 Poet W. S. Merwin recites ‘Rain Light’ among the lush palms at his Maui home W. S. Merwin reads his poem "Rain Light" from his home in Hawaii.
Arts Jan 30 ‘Isn’t that Keanu Reeves?’ and other phrases overheard at Sundance Despite the hoopla and the frenzied celebrity sightings, Sundance is still about the films. But what happens to all these movies after Sundance?…
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…