Wide Angle’s new mini-series Women, War & Peace challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. Wide Angle begins this dialogue on the changing nature of war, with a panel discussion on “The Changing Face of War”. Watch.
Governor Jon Corzine answers your questions about New Jersey’s government, economy, and other topics. Steve Adubato of Caucus NJ and Inside Trenton hosts. Corzine on the Line is a quarterly Q&A conducted by the Governor live on Thirteen. Watch now.
For the first time in years, This Old House heads to Brooklyn for an NYC renovation, starting on-air January 24 at 7:00 pm. A 104-year-old row house in the Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood will convert from a boarding house to a 3-family home. See the project progress in real time here.
Devorah Sperber is a visual artist who uses thread spools and everyday items to represent pixels of well-known images. Her work explores the links between art, science and technology. In this “SundayArts Process”, she demonstrates the making of a large-scale piece, and discusses the tricks of perception in viewing it. Watch.
*Obama shuts Guantánamo
*Global warming in Antarctica
*Women of the World: watching Oprah in Syria
*Iraq: The art of war
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* Unemployment surges in Britain
* Layoffs around the world
* Young workers hard hit in Australia
* Stemming the flow of smuggled goods in Gaza’s tunnels
* Jordan’s revolution for working women
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One of ballet’s greatest director/choreographers of all time, George Balanchine, was born on this day, 105 years ago. Balanchine’s work has been frequently seen and cited on Thirteen and PBS; you can watch an interview with him from the early ’60s from our USA Arts archives, and more.
At the southern tip of NYC, hundreds of mysterious rock sculptures share a beach with the gulls and the waves. Watch the artist at work.
On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that access to abortion services is a fundamental right. By establishing that women can terminate a pregnancy during its first two trimesters, the Supreme Court reversed a century of anti-abortion legislation in the US. Now, with states across the U.S. passing regulations [...]
Bill Moyers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who spent months traveling across America in the run-up to an historic election to discover what events in our nation’s past can tell us about the future.
