Serves 2 "You can make a simple onion soup any time, but adding the word gratinée means that you have added some bread and a thick broiled cheese topping. I use a good Gruyère or Emmentaler cheese for this. Serving this dish in traditional French ...
Director Jeffrey Palmer reflects on the process behind "N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear" and Momaday's enduring impact on Native American and Indigenous Communities. From the beginning, we felt overwhelmed by the task of telling someone’s life story and what to include and ...
Warren "Wawa" Snipe, one of the ASL interpreters in "Becoming Helen Keller," raps under a genre he calls "Dip-Hop," or hip-hop through Deaf eyes. With Dip-Hop, Snipe wants to bridge the gap between the Deaf and hearing communities. "Deaf musicians are here. Don't ignore us."
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“Esa es Rita Moreno. La nuestra," said my maternal grandmother Ada Loubriel into the cassette recorder. It was 1976, and I, a precocious 10-year-old documentarian, was recording my family watching a dubbed Spanish version of "West Side Story" on TV in the Puerto Rican urbanización of San Gerardo. ...
This piece was written by poet and activist Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio on January 13, 2020 in response to the proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, a sacred dormant volcano in Hawai‘i. “Maunakea has inspired a mighty wave of protectors to ...
I’ve been legally blind since birth. Ever since I can remember, Helen Keller has been etched in my brain. Like many disabled people, I’ve lived under the shadow of Helen Keller. With the exception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who had polio, she’s the most famous ...
"The Sun is Warm: Nagasaki, 1948," and "Dancing with Martha Graham" are from the poetry collection, “Love and Kumquats,” by Kathi Wolfe, courtesy of BrickHouse Books. Helen Keller was in Nagasaki in 1948 in the aftermath of World War II and the atomic bomb. In ...
A rare glimpse into Le Guin's private life as a writing group collaborator, friend and poet Over dinner a few months ago with some musician and writer friends outside of Portland, a conversation about songwriting turned into a conversation about poetry, which led me to ...
Helen Keller is a historical figure known worldwide, but many remember her as 7-year-old DeafBlind girl at a water pump. She recounted this moment from her youth in her first autobiography, “The Story of My Life,” later made famous by the book’s stage and screen ...
American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller examines one of the 20th century’s human rights pioneers in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The new documentary rediscovers the complex life and legacy of author and activist Helen Keller (1880-1968), who was deaf and blind since childhood, ...
