Arts Jun 17 Philip Schultz Finding Success After ‘Failure’ The accolades came later in life for New York-based poet Philip Schultz. He was 63 when he won the Pulitzer, already the author of five published books of poems, which never broke into the mainstream.
Arts Jun 16 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Maurice Hines Makes Return to ‘Sophisticated Ladies’ Performer and choreographer Maurice Hines had mostly retired his dancing shoes, until an opportunity came knocking at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage.
Politics Jun 16 Wednesday: President Obama to Meet With BP Executives for First Time People at a bar in Grand Isle, Louisiana, watch President Barack Obama's address to the nation about the oil spill disaster. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. President Obama will meet with BP executives at the White House on Wednesday,…
Arts Jun 14 Monday on the NewsHour: Laurence Fishburne Jeffrey Brown talks to actor Laurence Fishburne about playing Thurgood Marshall in a play now at the Kennedy Center.
Arts Jun 14 As North Korea Returns to World Cup, Filmmaker Recounts ‘Underdog’ 1966 Team North Korea's national soccer team is something Gordon knows a lot about -- it took him four years to be granted access to make his first film, "The Game of Their Lives," a profile of North Korea's 1966 World Cup…
Arts Jun 14 Weekly Poem: ‘Sick’ Philip Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2008 for his book of poems, "Failure." He is the founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York. Schultz's latest book, "The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems,"…
Arts Jun 11 Conversation: Jean-Michel Cousteau Jean-Michel Cousteau recently went to the Gulf of Mexico with a team of divers to examine the damage being caused by the BP oil spill disaster. He's the son of the late Jacques Cousteau and the author of a new…
Arts Jun 09 World Cup Song by Shakira Stirs Controversy This year's World Cup song, "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)," has stirred sentiment among South Africans, many of whom were outraged because FIFA selected a non-African, Colombian pop star Shakira, to write the song and perform lead vocals.
Arts Jun 08 Conversation: Spoleto Festival USA Making 34th Appearance in Charleston For 17 days and nights every spring in Charleston, South Carolina, theaters, churches and outdoor spaces are home to opera, theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music.
Arts Jun 04 Adventures of Art Critic Barbara Pollack in ‘The Wild, Wild East’ The first time art critic Barbara Pollack went to China in 2004, she says the art scene reminded her of the wild, wild west: there were some brave pioneers and a general sense of lawlessness -- no established rules or…