My name is Junious Brickhouse. In Urban Artistry I serve as the founder and executive director. When we first startedthe Urban Artistry project, I was simply a mentor of a few people, few talented people. And now I help maintain the day-to-day [operations], and I’m the motivator and I’m the proud guy who sits back and watches everyone […]
As you walk along it, you can see your own reflection among the names [inscribed on it]. And, this actually has a psychological effect on people, as they think about what lifeis all about. How fragile, life can end. My name is Jan Scruggs. I’m the president and founder of the Vietnam VeteransMemorial. I am actually so […]
My name is Azad Naficy, I go by the name Azad Right. I’m from Los Angeles and I’m a song writer, producer, artist. Azad is actually my real first name. It means freedom in Farsi and it’s something my parents didn’t have. My father Majid Naficy is a well known poet from the Iranian community. He’s also […]
Some health clubs offer a kind of exercise called AntiGravity Yoga. MARIE BICE: “When I first saw people hanging upside down from hammocks and calling it yoga, I kinda thought they were crazy. But it ended up being a lot of fun, and just the swinging, and it felt very playful.” Yoga student Marie Bice says AntiGravity Yoga has been good […]
For the past thirty years, Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles has been selling comic books to adults and children. EVAN CRAY: “I just like holding the pages and reading it.” The look of comics has changed little. But store owner Ryan Liebowitz says something new is happening. RYAN LIEBOWITZ: “In the last year or so, we’ve seen a […]
One of America’s oldest museums is the National Museum of Health and Medicine near Washington. It opened 150 years ago as the Army Medical Museum during the Civil War. Now, it has a new building for its collection. Jim Curley organizes the historical objects, like microscopes from the 1860s. JIM CURLEY: “What I find so significant is, […]
Bonobos live deep in the forest of the African Congo. Bonobos look like chimpanzees, but are a completely different species. Sally Coxe heads the Bonobo Conservation Initiative. SALLY COXE: “Chimpanzees have a male-dominated society, whereas bonobos are matriarchal. The females are in charge. They have a more egalitarian and cooperative society than chimpanzees, and they are the only primate […]
Boston native Steve Davis is a key member of the SpaceX team that made history earlier this year by becoming the first private company to fly to the International Space Station. The California-based company reached another milestone this month by successfully launching its first cargo supply mission to the orbiting lab on behalf of NASA. […]
Many sports teams use mascots to get people excited at games. “I am the Wild Cat. I learned a lot just about how to develop my personality and I think that will really help me.” Jesse King is a high school student. Frank Vespe works full time for a professional baseball team. He also helps train […]
Hundreds of birds fly in a sunny blue sky. The only sounds are their calls and the soft noise of water flowing through tall grasses. Below, dark green alligators move silently, like part of the Earth come alive. This is the Everglades – ten thousand square kilometers of low, watery land in Florida. The area is nicknamed “river […]