Jul 27 Honoring a Modern Chicago Landmark as an ‘Urban Vision’ By Molly Finnegan When the construction of Chicago's Marina City reached completion in 1964, it was an architectural and social icon for the city -- and beyond. Continue reading
Jul 26 Weekly Poem: Two from ‘Newspaper Blackout’ For Austin Kleon, an exercise for breaking writer's block developed into a method for creating poetry. Using a marker and a copy of the New York Times, Kleon blacks out words to reveal the ones he likes. Continue reading
Jul 23 Conversation: Lisa Cholodenko, Director of ‘The Kids Are All Right’ By Molly Finnegan At the center of the new film "The Kids Are All Right" is a loving, average family: two kids and two parents. In fact, two moms, Jules and Nic, played by Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. When their older daughter… Continue reading
Jul 21 Around the Nation Roundup By Molly Finnegan Here are some of this week's arts and culture headlines from public broadcasters around the nation. Continue reading
Jul 20 Weekly Poem: ‘July in Washington’ By Tom LeGro Back in March, we were excited to give attention to the Poetry Foundation's DC Poetry Tour, a multimedia tour that reveals our nation's capital through the eyes of its great poets. It seems more appropriate now to highlight the tour… Continue reading