Meet Walter Winchell, the newspaper columnist, radio commentator and television personality who pioneered the fast-paced, gossip-driven, politically charged journalism that dominates today. At his peak, his audience was 50 million.
As a young boy growing up in ahupuaa o Niu, now known as Niu Valley, Nainoa Thompson would go to Maunalua Bay with a family friend, Yoshi Kawano. “And we would go fishing. And that’s where my love for the ocean started, through fishing,” Thompson remembers. In this interview from August 2015, Master Navigator Nainoa Thompson discusses sailing the Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hokulea, on a voyage around the world to raise awareness about the importance of taking care of our earth and the ocean that he loves.
Feels Good Man is the story of how artist Matt Furie, creator of a once-benign comic character named Pepe the Frog, fought an uphill battle to reclaim his iconic creation from those who turned it into a symbol of hate. Feels Good Man is a thought-provoking, wild ride through an Internet that transformed an unlucky cartoon frog, and then the rest of the world.
Join Kelly Corrigan as she sits down with the famed actress and entrepreneur Jennifer Garner, who shares her story on how she found “the most optimistic work in the world” – and how it isn’t acting.
As Vivien and Mark prepare for a trip to India, Jake gets a hot tip. Helen and Natalie reach crisis points with their partners.
See what happens when idle gossip escalates out of control and starts to affect people’s lives. When historian Maggie Cole gives a radio interview in about life in her picturesque fishing village of Thurlbury, England, she flippantly reveals the guarded secrets and indiscretions of the townsfolk – upsetting life in Thurlbury.
GRAMMY Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell presents an intimate recital from his home in upstate New York, featuring guest artists Larisa Martínez, Jeremy Denk, Peter Dugan and Kamal Khan.
GREAT PERFORMANCES Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2020 is a starry tribute celebration of the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners. The program features archival music clips and acceptance remarks from the honorees and the artists they have influenced, including Chicago, Public Enemy, Roberta Flack, Philip Glass, Isaac Hayes, John Prine and others.
INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAIʻI Election 2020 features State Senate District 25, on the eastern tip of Oʻahu, including the communities of Hawaii Kai, Portlock in East Honolulu and Waimānalo, Kailua, Enchanted Lake and Maunawili in Windward Oʻahu.
This is the third of four specials in which outstanding HIKI NŌ graduates from the Class of 2020 gather together to discuss their HIKI NŌ experiences and how they feel the skills they learned from HIKI NŌ will help them in college, the workplace and life.