Arts Sep 16 Thursday on the NewsHour: Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock recently performed with several of the musicians from his album, "The Imagine Project," at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Here's an excerpt of the song "Space Captain" performed with Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks.
Arts Sep 13 Weekly Poem: ‘Antietam’ Sandra Beasley is the author of "I Was the Jukebox," winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Theories of Falling," winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize.
Arts Sep 08 ‘Parallel Currents’ Showcases a Poet’s Collection of Latin American Art Entering Ricardo Pau-Llosa's home in Miami, visitors can't help but feel they've stepped into an art museum. From the kitchen to his high-ceilinged study, nearly every inch of his place is covered with works by contemporary of Latin American artists.
Science Sep 08 Wednesday: BP Releases Report on Gulf Spill; Obama to Propose Economic Plans In a 193-page report posted on its website Wednesday, British oil company BP partly blamed itself for the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill, as well as companies Transocean and Halliburton and a…
Arts Sep 07 Weekly Poem: ‘Watching the Towers Go Down’ Peter Balakian is the author of many books, including a new volume of poems, "Ziggurat," just published by University of Chicago Press, and "June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000."…
Arts Sep 03 Conversation: From Book to Stage to Screen, Lawrence Wright’s ‘My Trip to Al-Qaeda’ Lawrence Wright is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11." His documentary on the subject, "My Trip to al-Qaeda," premieres on HBO next week.
Arts Aug 31 Tuesday on the NewsHour: 5 Years Later, Revisiting Katrina and a New Orleans Musician Five years after Hurricane Katrina, jazz musician Michael White is back in New Orleans, but his old neighborhood is still mostly empty. In the years since Katrina he's experienced a personal and musical "rebirth" -- another New Orleans tradition.
Arts Aug 30 Weekly Poem: ‘Watcher’ Natasha Trethewey has written three collections of poetry: "Domestic Work," "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Native Guard," which won the "2007 Pulitzer Prize. Her latest book, "Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast," is a mix of prose and poetry.
Arts Aug 27 Conversation: Nicholas Carr’s ‘The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains’ Jeffrey Brown talks to Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," which looks through the lens of neuroscience to see how the Internet shapes our brains.
Arts Aug 23 Weekly Poem: ‘My God’ Sandra Beasley is the author of "I Was the Jukebox," winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Theories of Falling," winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize.