Ahead of his 100th birthday, celebrate the life and career of legendary actor Dick Van Dyke. Known for iconic roles in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and his classic CBS sitcom, he has ...

PBS has stopped airing Harvard English professor emerita Elisa F. New’s show, “Poetry in America,” after emails released by the House Oversight Committee last month revealed close ties between New, ...

Economic concerns continue to be a top priority for Americans. In a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll, 57% of respondents say they disapprove of the job President Trump is doing on the economy and just 36% ...

A lot of people get crafty at Christmas, including kids who pretend they’ve been good all year. But there’s something about the holidays that speaks to the scrapbooking, card-making, popcorn-stringing ...

The weather dictates our everyday life. What we wear to work, to school. Even our plans months and years out revolve around the weather, from a long-awaited vacation to picking the perfect wedding ...

No one ever went wrong throwing together a piano, some upbeat songs and a bunch of kids wondering whether the show really must go on. It’s a mainstay of musical theater. It just doesn’t always happen ...

On the cusp of turning 100 Saturday, TV legend Dick Van Dyke gets the “American Masters” treatment in the new PBS film “Starring Dick Van Dyke” (9 p.m. Friday, WQED-TV). The two-hour documentary ...

Arkansas will become the first state in the country to drop its affiliation with PBS after the Arkansas Educational Television Commission voted Dec. 11, 2025, to end its contract with the national ...

Dick Van Dyke has spent decades making audiences smile – but a new documentary marking the Hollywood legend’s 100th birthday takes an unabashed look at the struggles he faced behind the scenes.

More than 60 years after their first encounter, Karen Dotrice still remembers her first meeting with Dick Van Dyke. “He was bending over, and the first thing I saw was his backside because he was ...

Chris DeLine, owner of Razzle Dazzle Music & Movies, stocks shelves with DVD and BluRay disks as he gets the store ready for a Dec. 1 opening at Lindale Mall in northeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...