Dec 15 Watch 8:26 Critics discuss their favorite books of 2023 By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet With the holidays upon us, you may be hunting for gifts for book lovers in your life. To help narrow down the list, Jeffrey Brown speaks to two NewsHour regulars for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch 7:24 Rush frontman Geddy Lee reflects on his music and life in a new memoir By Lisa Desjardins, Courtney Norris, Ethan Dodd The Canadian band Rush achieved big success across 40 years, from the 70s into the 2000s, driven by musicianship and eclectic, lyrical content. After the death of drummer Neil Peart in 2020, singer and bass guitarist Geddy Lee stepped away… Continue watching
Nov 01 What is Día de los Muertos? An expert explains the holiday celebrating loved ones who have died By Casey Kuhn and Mathew Sandoval, The Conversation The holiday is celebrated though ritual observations like constructing altars, or ofrendas, filled with offerings to the dead and decorating family gravesites to commune with the dead. Continue reading
Jul 28 Some small music venues kept rocking even after COVID shut them down. Here’s how they did it By Tim McPhillips When I.M.P. opened the Atlantis in April, it was the independent music production company’s fifth venue in greater Washington, D.C. It was also its smallest. The concert hall is a tribute to the original 9:30 club, a beloved and intimate… Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch 8:13 Critics share their picks for this summer’s most anticipated reads By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet It's summertime and the reading is easy. At least, we hope you’ll all get the time to enjoy books during vacation and travel. Jeffrey Brown is here to help and speaks to two big-time readers who offer some guidance. It’s… Continue watching
Jun 13 Watch 5:34 The legacy of Pulitzer-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy By Geoff Bennett Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy died Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Throughout his long career, he wrote novels that could be bleak and violent but that were also hailed for his beautiful prose. Some of his… Continue watching
May 26 Céline Dion cancels European tour dates ‘until I’m really ready to be back on stage’ By Associated Press A total of 42 European dates have been canceled, including stops in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Austria, England, Scotland and Ireland. Continue reading
Mar 22 What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion By Yasmeen Sami Alamiri The 2003 invasion of Iraq is a memory forever etched in the minds of millions of Iraqis who were living in and outside the country at the time. Years of war, followed by continued instability in the country, has cost… Continue reading
Feb 24 Images of ‘Black life, Black joy,’ are immortalized in historic Charlottesville portraits By Casey Kuhn, Rachel Liesendahl, Nicole Ellis A portrait exhibit at the University of Virginia aims to show a side of the Black community that gives a more complete view of the people going through Jim Crow segregation in the South – and to do so from… Continue reading
Jan 18 Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Sade chosen to join to Songwriters Hall of Fame By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Sade, Jeff Lynne, Glen Ballard, Teddy Riley and Liz Rose have been chosen to join the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Continue reading