International Women's Media Foundation Presents 2018 Courage In Journalism Awards
by A.A. Cristi - October 25, 2018
The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) today honored several outstanding female journalists at the 2018 Courage in Journalism Awards luncheon at Cipriani 42nd Street. This year's honorees included news agency JINHA founder, Zehra Do?an, U.S. freelance photojournalist, Meridith Kohut, un...
NBC Picks Up NEW AMSTERDAM For Full Season
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 10, 2018
NBC has picked up 'New Amsterdam' for a full season, according to Variety....
HBO to Debut STOLEN DAUGHTERS: KIDNAPPED BY BOKO HARAM
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 02, 2018
This past May marked the first anniversary of the release of 82 of the 276 Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped in 2014 from a school in Chibok, Northern Nigeria, and hidden in the vast Sambisa forest for three years by Boko Haram, a violent Islamic insurgent movement....
Topher Grace Among Those Cast in THE HOT ZONE with Julianna Margulies
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 13, 2018
National Geographic, Fox 21 Television Studios and Scott Free Productions today announced the cast joining previously announced Julianna Margulies ('The Good Wife,' 'ER') in THE HOT ZONE, based on the eponymous international best-seller by Richard Preston. Noah Emmerich ('The Americans'), Liam Cunni...
SURVIVORS Documentary About Overlooked Heroes Of 2014 Ebola Outbreak Comes To POV
by Tori Hartshorn - September 10, 2018
The 2014 Ebola outbreak is remembered as one of the most widely feared epidemics in recent memory. As the virus spread through West Africa, hysterical media reports outside the region fanned the flames of anxiety. However, according to Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, the “role that locals p...
PBS's POV Series Presents the Documentary SURVIVORS
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 24, 2018
The 2014 Ebola outbreak is remembered as one of the most widely feared epidemics in recent memory. As the virus spread through West Africa, hysterical media reports outside the region fanned the flames of anxiety. However, according to Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, the “role that locals p...
Golden Globe and Emmy Award Winner Julianna Margulies Tapped for National Geographic Scripted Series THE HOT ZONE
by Tori Hartshorn - July 26, 2018
Golden Globe and Emmy Award Winner Julianna Margulies Tapped for National Geographic Scripted Series THE HOT ZONE...
PBS Series POV Releases Schedule for 31st Season
by Macon Prickett - July 03, 2018
Produced by American Documentary, Inc., POV is public television's premier showcase for nonfiction films. Since 1988, POV has been the home for the world's boldest contemporary filmmakers, celebrating intriguing personal stories that spark conversation and inspire action. Always an innovator, POV di...
PBS' POV Releases Full Schedule for 31st Season Kicking Off June 18
by Macon Prickett - June 13, 2018
PBS series POV kicks off its 31st Season with the national TV debut of the acclaimed documentary feature film QUEST this Monday, June 18 at 10 PM. POV is the longest-running independent documentary series on American television. Screeners and interviews available now. POV films have won 37 Emmy® Aw...
Internationally-Renowned South African Artist William Kentridge Brings Exhibit To MOAD MDC
by Stephi Wild - April 25, 2018
The renowned and recently revamped Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at Miami Dade College (MDC) will present More Sweetly Play the Dance, a video installation by the internationally-renowned South African artist William Kentridge. More Sweetly Play the Dance encircles viewers in a procession of movin...
PBS Series POV Announces 31st Season Including BILL NYE: SCIENCE GUY, DARK MONEY, & More
by Macon Prickett - April 11, 2018
The creative, fighting spirit is alive and well in 2018. The newest slate of documentary films from PBS television series POV arrives this June with a lineup of empowering and moving stories about the strength of art and activism. From scientists setting out to save the planet to hip-hop artists c...
MOAD MDC To Open Renovated Galleries With New Exhibitions, New Mission And New Identity
by Julie Musbach - March 28, 2018
Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College (MOAD) will inaugurate its newly renovated galleries with two outstanding exhibitions, By the People: Designing a Better America and This Situation, a work by the acclaimed British-German artist Tino Sehgal. The reopening of MOAD's facility in the histo...
SELWYN AND GABRIEL Come to Alexander Upstairs
by A.A. Cristi - March 20, 2018
After sold out performances in September 2017, Selwyn & Gabriel returns to the Alexander Bar....
Alexander Upstairs Announces SELWYN AND GABRIEL
by Julie Musbach - March 20, 2018
After sold out performances in September 2017, Selwyn & Gabriel returns to the Alexander Bar....
Discovery Shines a Light on Three Deadly Viruses and Their Potential for Catastrophic Outbreaks in INVISIBLE KILLERS
by Tori Hartshorn - February 21, 2018
Discovery Shines a Light on Three Deadly Viruses and Their Potential for Catastrophic Outbreaks in INVISIBLE KILLERS...
Discovery's INVISIBLE KILLERS Premieres March 29 on Discovery and Science Channel
by Macon Prickett - February 21, 2018
Viruses have shaped our health and our history, and, despite all the tools of modern medicine, they continue to kill millions of people every year. Influenza, smallpox, and Ebola are among the three most lethal viruses ever to have plagued mankind. Each has taken a devastatingly large toll on the hu...
The Kitchen Presents Marianna Ellenberg's PAWEL & EBOLA
by Julie Musbach - January 25, 2018
The Kitchen presents Marianna Ellenberg's Pawel & Ebola, a new play that tells the story of the imagined offspring of neurologist and famed hysteric -photographer Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot in order to examine trauma and how notions of hysteria have been projected onto women from fin-de-si cle France ...
The Kitchen Announces Winter 2018 Season
by Julie Musbach - December 18, 2017
The Kitchen, founded in 1971, has continued to serve as an important catalyst for a broad community of groundbreaking artists working across disciplines. In today's landscape, where contemporary artists and arts institutions are collaborating in new ways and generating new contexts for the continuin...
Country Star Hunter Hayes to Headline Dana's Angels Research Trust Gala Benefit & Concert
by BWW News Desk - November 11, 2017
Five-time Grammy nominee, CMA Award Winner for New Artist of the Year in 2012 and the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Country Artist in 2015, Hunter Hayes is bringing his incredible talent and energy to headline the Dana's Angels Research Trust Gala Benefit and Concert at the Palace Theatre ...
Country Star Hunter Hayes to Headline Dana's Angels Research Trust Gala Benefit & Concert
by BWW News Desk - September 13, 2017
Five-time Grammy nominee, CMA Award Winner for New Artist of the Year in 2012 and the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Country Artist in 2015, Hunter Hayes is bringing his incredible talent and energy to headline the Dana's Angels Research Trust Gala Benefit and Concert at the Palace Theatre ...
Stevie Wonder, Green Day, and More to Headline Global Citizen Festival
by Julie Musbach - August 08, 2017
International advocacy organization Global Citizen today announced that headliners Stevie Wonder, Green Day, The Killers, The Lumineers and featuring The Chainsmokers will perform at the 2017 Global Citizen Festival, the annual free-ticketed event on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City on ...
OFJCC Palo Alto presents Hollywood Actors, World Musicians, and More This Fall
by A.A. Cristi - August 08, 2017
The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center of Palo Alto proudly presents the stellar line-up for its Fall 2017-2018 Arts & Dialogues series, featuring world-renowned musicians, artists, and a host of fascinating thinkers, doers, and innovators. Beginning in September and continuing through December, ...
2017 Global Citizen Festival Headlined by Stevie Wonder, Green Day, The Killers, The Lumineers and Featuring The Chainsmokers
by A.A. Cristi - August 01, 2017
International advocacy organization Global Citizen today announced that headliners Stevie Wonder, Green Day, The Killers, The Lumineers and featuring The Chainsmokers will perform at the 2017 Global Citizen Festival, the annual free-ticketed event on the Great Lawn in Central Park,New York C...
Dr. Sylvanus Ayeni Releases News Book 'Rescue Thyself'
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2017
Why has foreign aid failed to alleviate poverty and promote development and economic growth in Africa?...
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2017
Why has foreign aid failed to alleviate poverty and promote development and economic growth in Africa?...
Actor Jeffrey Wright, Artist Carrie Mae Weems to be Honored by National Youth Charity
by A.A. Cristi - April 26, 2017
Celebrities and other luminaries will converge on Gotham Hall in Manhattan as award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright and acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems are honored by The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis), a nationally recognized, Harlem-based nonprofit and youth development organization, as it heads ...
by A.A. Cristi - April 26, 2017
Celebrities and other luminaries will converge on Gotham Hall in Manhattan as award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright and acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems are honored by The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis), a nationally recognized, Harlem-based nonprofit and youth development organization, as it heads ...
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