Mar 19 Around the Nation Roundup Here's a selection of art and culture reports from local public broadcasting stations and national producers. Continue reading
Mar 18 For Musician Erin McKeown, the Sweet Sound of Independence Erin McKeown is ten years into her career as a solo singer/songwriter. She's one of many impacted by the changing music industry. As fans buy fewer CDs and download more files, independent artists -- musicians who don't depend on major… Continue reading
Mar 17 An Unseen Modern China, Now On-Screen at the MoMA Inside China, the country at the heart of our new, global economy, one director is projecting a very different view of what modernization looks like in real human terms. Continue reading
Mar 16 Charles Moore’s Photographs Helped Spur Fight Against Racial Injustice By Arts Desk Charles Moore, a photographer whose images helped to enlighten the nation to the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s, died at the age of 79. According to his daughter, he died from natural causes in Palm Beach Gardens,… Continue reading
Mar 15 Weekly Poem: ‘July in Washington’ By Tom LeGro "July in Washington" is from Robert Lowell "Collected Poems" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003). Lowell, who died in 1977, is best known for his volume "Life Studies," "but his true greatness as an American poet lies in the astonishing variety… Continue reading
Mar 15 Actor Peter Graves Dies at Age 83 By Tom LeGro Peter Graves, who starred in the hit television series "Mission: Impossible" as well as the "Airplane" films, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 83. Continue reading