Five stories that have North Texas talking: PBS icons chopped and remade, a new energy doc and more.
Julia Child was something of a revolutionary, as a chef and as a human. Author Bob Spitz in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday. (Child herself was on in 2000.) However of a renegade Ms. Child proved to be, this particularly autotuned homage via PBS Digital Studios鈥� Icons Remixed series is like a souffle of contradictions. It鈥檚 hard to believe this woman would ever 鈥渁uto鈥� anything.
The latest subject of the series feels more natural, especially for us children of the 鈥�80s: It鈥檚 a bright, synthy map to Reading Rainbow by John Boswell (). It sounds exactly like floating away via the magic power of books with LeVar Burton after Sesame Street. the new video for Morning Edition.
(There was a band called Reading Rainbow, until it in 2011, citing fear of a cease and desist letter from PBS and, also, 鈥淐arrie Brownstein [Portlandia, Sleater-Kinney] didn鈥檛 like it.鈥� This tragedy aside, their song 鈥溾�� is really worth a minute.)
- This just in: The United States federal government needs more money. Where can they get it? By taxing the value of health insurance provided to employees! Because, as of now, the U.S. skips the most revenue by not doing so. One economist from MIT says the fed storehouse would gain something like $250 billion if we treated health insurance like wages. Face palm. []
- The energy discussion has become so politicized, it鈥檚 easy to forget that the continued existence of our species depends on conservation. Not to mention how fascinating geology and natural power can be. That鈥檚 why Harry Lynch made, a documentary about how our energy economy is moving from coal and oil to new technologies. He鈥檚 on 鈥楾hink鈥� today at noon, as the in Dallas tonight. See the trailer below.
- OK, Dallas, with your Margaret Hunt Hill Instagramming and your special fold-out bridge-worship newspaper sections. It鈥檚 time for Fort Worth to get a new bridge, too. The West Seventh Street Bridge is just beginning. Concrete for the eighth arch is slated to be poured today. []
- Is Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway bluffing, or does his recent ambiguous announcement mean he plans to run for mayor? At what might be considered a rally on Monday, Caraway admitted he鈥檚 鈥渃onsidered running for governor鈥� but 鈥渢hat鈥檚 not good enough.鈥� []
