May 12 Going to the World Cup? Do the Diski By Tom LeGro As if soccer fans need help getting excited about the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the nation's tourism office has created the Diski -- a dance to commemorate the tournament, the first ever on the continent. Continue reading
May 12 OK Go’s Damian Kulash Lends Us a Hand By Tom LeGro Early on during Jeffrey Brown's interview with OK Go lead singer Damian Kulash, a light went out. Kulash, having spent months working on a video featuring a giant Rube Goldberg machine, applied some percussive maintenance on it and fixed the… Continue reading
May 11 Trying to Strike a Chord with Fans, One Recycling Bin at a Time By Arts Desk On Earth Day, Art Beat profiled two companies who are almost as devoted to environmentalism as they are to producing and playing music. Here are two more groups who have changed their operations to be more green while encouraging others… Continue reading
May 10 Weekly Poem: ‘Light’ By Tom LeGro C.K. Williams has published many books of poetry, including "Repair," which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, "The Singing ," which won the 2003 National Book Award, and "Flesh and Blood," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize in 1987. Continue reading
May 10 Lena Horne Dies at Age 92 By Tom LeGro Groundbreaking singer, performer and film star Lena Horne died Sunday night in New York at the age of 92. Horne, the first African American to sign a long-term contract with a major film studio, broke down racial barriers, most memorably… Continue reading
May 10 Watch Remembering Groundbreaking Jazz Icon, Actress Lena Horne Legendary jazz singer and actress Lena Horne, who broke racial barriers in the entertainment industry, died Sunday in New York at age 92. Jeffrey Brown takes a look back at her career. Continue watching
May 07 OK Go Goes Out on Its Own By Tom LeGro Chances are you've seen one of Ok Go's music videos. The quirky productions, shot on the cheap, have been viewed tens of millions of times on YouTube and launched the band into popularity. Continue reading