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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Artist Natasha Nicholson makes contemporary cabinets of curiosity, but not simply to gaze at – they are her world. Nicholson lives inside her own art, highly curated rooms in an old storefront in Madison, Wisconsin.

Her solo show that reproduces her ENTIRE studio space is at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eddie Lenihan is the author of “The Other Crowd,” a book about the tradition of fairies in Ireland.  From his home in County Clare, he says that Irish fairies are violent and dangerous and that people believe in them still.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brenda Peterson talks with Jim Fleming and reads several selections from “The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World”.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

No one expected the latest inspiration: "Ed Gein: The Musical."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Gilmour decided to let his son, Jesse, drop out of school, provided that he agree to watch three movies a week with his father. He talks about this experience.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Film critic & scholar Emanuel Levy grew up on the movies.  In Israel they had no television and so his parents would take him to the movies once or twice a week.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Cavicchi spent three years talking to his fellow  Bruce Springsteen fans. The result is a book called “Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.

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